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From Then Into Now is the first study of William Kennedys famous Albany novels that provides both a close analysis of each novel and describes the integrated nature of the cycle of novels.
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FROM THEN INTO NOW: WILLIAM KENNEDY'S ALBANY NOVELS
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Christian Michener
Scranton: University of Scranton Press
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1998 by University of Scranton Press
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Michener, Christian, 1963 From then into now: William Kennedy's Albany novels / by Christian Michener. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-940866-70-6 (hc). - ISBN 0-940866-71-4 (pbk.) 1. Kennedy, William, (1928- - Knowledge - New York (State) -Albany. 2. City and town life in literature. 3. Cities and towns In literature. 4. Albany (N.Y.) -In literature. 1. Title. PS3561.E428Z79 1997 813'. 54-dc2197-36308
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
vii
Chapter One
From Then Into Now: The Albany Cycle
1
Chapter Two
Keeping Legs Alive: The Mythicization of Jack Diamond
21
Chapter Three
The Presence of the Absence of Fathers in Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
55
Chapter Four
Existential Struggles in an Eschatological World: The Myth of Francis Phelan
95
Chapter Five
The Arches of Love, The Banner of Blood: The Mysteries of Love and History in Quinn's Book
159
Chapter Six
Unearthing the Future of the Phelans
197
Chapter Seven
Back Where He Started
237
Chapter Eight
The Albany Novels of the Albany Cycle
271
Appendix
Daniel Quinn's Celtic'Disk
287
Works Cited
289
Index
293
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Portions of Chapter Three appear in altered form as "Martin Daugherty's Victories in Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" in PLL: Papers on Language and Literature 31.4 (1995): 406-29.
PERMISSIONS
I am also pleased to acknowledge the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
From QUINN'S BOOK by William Kennedy. Copyright 1988 by WJK, Inc. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin books USA Inc.
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CHAPTER ONE FROM THEN INTO NOW: THE ALBANY CYCLE
It may be commonplace to describe the voice of a writer as "unique," but it would be difficult to find a more appropriate description for the work of William Kennedy, an author who could be situated with ease in numerous twentieth century literary traditions, either American or international, and who could just as easily be shown not to fit squarely in any tradition at all. Kennedy's work as a whole, with its collection of repeated characters and its use of a common setting, has most often been compared to that of William Faulkner; Kennedy himself is an admitted admirer of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez, an admiration evident in the magical nature of many of Kennedy's settings and characters; the nature of these very characters as working-class, less-than-honorable heroes evokes in turn comparisons to Theodore Dreiser or maybe Raymond Carver; in the stories themselves it would be difficult to find more direct allusions to any writer other than James Joyce, a consummate modernist novelist; and in an era celebrating the voices of numerous cultural traditions within the American literary experience, Kennedy contributes one of his own in the voice he gives to Irish (Catholic)-Americans.You could, in short, situate Kennedy as an important
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member of any of these literary traditions, and yet in doing so you would simultaneously reveal that no one tradition adequately describes him. Kennedy's "unique" voice embraces and yet transcends literary categories and forebears to shape a room all his own in contemporary American letters.
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