White gloves of the doorman : the works of Leon Rooke
DVD-Video discs
xxi, 441 pages : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 23 cm + 1 DVD (58 min. ; 4 3/4 in.)
9781550966114, 1550966111
64344121
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
Includes DVD documentary: Tongue and groove: a portrait of Leon Rooke. Produced by Branko Gorjup ; directed by Paola Marino. 2004
"The one-hour documentary ... is set largely in the author's home and features readings by Leon Rooke and friends ... this DVD demonstrates the incomparable energy of Leon Rooke in performance and explores through conversation and commentary the defining qualities of his work"--Page xix
Title on DVD: Tongue and groove : a portrait of Leon Rooke