{"product_id":"r-crumb-literature-autobiography-and-the-quest-for-self-paperback","title":"R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Stephen Calonne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, as well as religious classics including biblical, Buddhist, Hindu, and Gnostic texts. Crumb's genius, according to author David Stephen Calonne, lies in his ability to absorb a variety of literary, artistic, and spiritual traditions and incorporate them within an original, American mode of discourse that seeks to reveal his personal search for the meaning of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eR. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self\u003c\/i\u003e contains six chapters that chart Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explore the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Calonne explores the ways Crumb develops concepts of solitude, despair, desire, and conflict as aspects of the quest for self in his engagement with the book of Genesis and works by Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, the Beats, Charles Bukowski, and Philip K. Dick, as well as Crumb's illustrations of biographies of musicians Jelly Roll Morton and Charley Patton. Calonne demonstrates how Crumb's love for literature led him to attempt an extremely faithful rendering of the texts he admired while at the same time highlighting for his readers the particular hidden philosophical meanings he found most significant in his own autobiographical quest for identity and his authentic self.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Stephen Calonne \u003c\/b\u003eis senior lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He is author of several works, including \u003ci\u003eWilliam Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Spiritual Imagination of the Beats\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDiane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions\u003c\/i\u003e; and biographies of Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller. Calonne is also editor of five volumes of uncollected Bukowski stories and essays as well as \u003ci\u003eConversations with Gary Snyder\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConversations with Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666733621350,"sku":"9781496831866","price":72.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/OWpEejFhRTZYa1M0QVNDcGZMSk5uZz09.webp?v=1779979822","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/r-crumb-literature-autobiography-and-the-quest-for-self-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}