A Collection of Famous Last Letters
Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Reading A Collection of Famous Last Letters is similar to the experience of walking through any modem city park and discovering its dichotomous cast of characters: the inspired and the desperate; the wanting and the lacking; the about-to be's or the up-and-coming and the has-been's, the also-ran's, or worse, the never were's. In the center of this novel stands a great towering character, the biographer Culpepper who has spent the better part of his adult life memorializing the life-stories of these park-dwellers. But the biographer now demands his biography to be written- a search for the "straight line" - at any cost to secure his legacy in the pantheon of the famed and the infamous.
DOI: 10.25777/hfad-ck65
Author: Schneider, Gregory A.
Institution: Old Dominion University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6889537509
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