Research Catalog

Title

White gloves of the doorman : the works of Leon Rooke / edited by Branko Gorjup.

Publication

Toronto : Exile Editions, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gorjup, Branko

Description

xxi, 441 p.; 23 cm. +

Alternative Title

• Works of Leon Rooke
• Tongue and groove : a portrait of Leon Rooke.

Subject

Rooke, Leon > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• DVD-Video discs.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes DVD documentary titled: Tongue and groove: a portrait of Leon Rooke, produced in 2004 by Branko Gorjup and directed by Paola Marino.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying videodisc: DVD video player or computer with DVD drive and decoding software.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Leon Rooke / Lawrence Naumoff -- Ill-fitting revolving chair / Tom McHaney -- What the Rooke said / Russell Brown -- Fat Leon / M.A.C. (Marion) Farrant -- On a leap year night in Havana, a man in a white suit who said he was Leon Rooke / Barry Callaghan -- The incomparable experience of hearing Leon Rooke / Anne Michaels -- Rooke's move / Russell Brown -- The performing artist : review / Kent Thompson -- This here Jasper is gittin ready to talk / John Metcalf -- Dangerous crossing : a reading of Leon Rooke's The birth control king of the Upper Volta / Simone Vauthier -- The only daughter on the road : a mourning rite of passage / Nicole Côté -- Breaking the reader's heart : meaning in Leon Rooke's The heart must from its breaking / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- In the path of Leon Rooke's sidestepping narrator : two views / Michèle Kaltemback -- Fabric of dreams, fabrication of dreams : A bolt of white cloth / Danièle Pitavy-Souques --^
• How much do I love thee, let me count the ways : postmodernity, language and love games in Leon Rooke's The guacamole game / Eva Darias-Beautell -- The working out of a voice : Rooke's Fat woman / Francesca Romana Paci -- Leon Rooke's Shakespeare's dog : a postmodern historiographic parody / Anna Pia De Luca -- Rooke's hooker : prolepsis, natural law, decentring in Shakespeare's dog / Michael H. Keefer -- Leon Rook works wonders : review / Joan Thomas -- A good baby : review / Rosemary Sullivan -- Novels and dreams : on Leon Rooke's A good baby / Douglas Glover -- When men have babies : the good father in A good baby / Peter Cumming -- Leon Rooke's political satires / Mike Matthews -- Voice, play, and performance in The fall of gravity / Neil Besner -- A word in appreciation of Leon Rooke's mustard cutting in The fall of gravity / Keath Fraser -- Foreword to The fall of gravity / Russell Banks -- Leon Rooke's Fat woman : on being delivered / Karen Mulhallen --^
• Lingering on the posted land : conversation with Leon Rooke / Branko Gorjup.

ISBN

1550966111

OCLC

• 1036177981
• SCSB-10859870

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library