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A Theological Position
Book by Coover, Robert
172 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1972
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Robert Coover
130 books395 followersRobert Lowell Coover was an American novelist, short story writer, and T. B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. He became a proponent of electronic literature and was a founder of the Electronic Literature Organization.
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November 16, 2013Only completionists read plays written by novelists.
I’ll give you four you-ess $$$$ if you are an experienced theatre=type person and are willing to tell me how successfully you might be able to pull off a performance of one or four of these Coover=plays. That is four you-ess $$$$.
First, The Kid ; bunch of western yahoos. By the setting it reminds you of Ghost Town ; by it’s climax and conclusion it reminds you of like a westernization of the cooverization of the Three Little (house=building) Schweine.
Second, Love Scene :: I will not kid you, this is the most explicit dramatization of the Super=Ego’s perverse injunction to ENJOY!!!! which you will ever encounter on the stage. Simply sublime. Zizek can suck it!!!!
Third (throw a turd), Rip Awake sucks. One=man plays are so nineteen seventies or something. Or maybe you need to have read that thing about Rip more recently than high=school. No matter ; never mind.
Fourth and final and TIT=ular, A Theological Position. Do I really need to give you a blurb for this one. Just put your dirty mind together with the title and you’ll know all you need. Also, it will make explicit why The Fabliaux are so important to all pantagruelian postmodernists.
I’ll give you four you-ess $$$$ if you are an experienced theatre=type person and are willing to tell me how successfully you might be able to pull off a performance of one or four of these Coover=plays. That is four you-ess $$$$.
First, The Kid ; bunch of western yahoos. By the setting it reminds you of Ghost Town ; by it’s climax and conclusion it reminds you of like a westernization of the cooverization of the Three Little (house=building) Schweine.
Second, Love Scene :: I will not kid you, this is the most explicit dramatization of the Super=Ego’s perverse injunction to ENJOY!!!! which you will ever encounter on the stage. Simply sublime. Zizek can suck it!!!!
Third (throw a turd), Rip Awake sucks. One=man plays are so nineteen seventies or something. Or maybe you need to have read that thing about Rip more recently than high=school. No matter ; never mind.
Fourth and final and TIT=ular, A Theological Position. Do I really need to give you a blurb for this one. Just put your dirty mind together with the title and you’ll know all you need. Also, it will make explicit why The Fabliaux are so important to all pantagruelian postmodernists.
July 29, 2018
Duct tape this one to your copy of P&D. It's four more Pricksongs in script format.
>Sex: yes
>Love: There's an attempt, but that's the point
>Myth: yes x3(4?)
>Folk Tales expanded: yes
xBaseball: nah
It's got four out of the five points on Mr. Coovers star, definitely worth reading even if the whole experience is U shaped on a pleasure graph.
>Sex: yes
>Love: There's an attempt, but that's the point
>Myth: yes x3(4?)
>Folk Tales expanded: yes
xBaseball: nah
It's got four out of the five points on Mr. Coovers star, definitely worth reading even if the whole experience is U shaped on a pleasure graph.
March 16, 2023
hawkes at least seems to have considered the requirements of staging technicalities in his plays, impossible to conceive of some of this being possible to put up there, and again, the special skills coover has on the page don't necessarily translate, but some laffs
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