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Larry McCaffery

ラリー・マキャフリ

Rarī Makaffurī

別名: Lawrence F. McCaffery Jr.

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1946-05-13 (Dallas, Texas)
国籍
American
言語
English
居住地歴
Dallas, Texas → San Diego, California → Tokyo, Japan

経歴

職業
literary critic, editor, professor of English and comparative literature
活動期間
1976年〜2010年
所属
San Diego State University, American Book Review, Fiction International
影響を受けた人物
Robert Coover, William Gibson
影響を与えた人物
William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace
ノミネート
Pushcart Prize Nominee for Non-Fiction

学歴

Unknown
English and Comparative Literature
学位: PhD
期間: 不明
卒業年: 1975
国: United States
Dissertation on the works of Robert Coover

受賞歴

Pioneer Award
1994
対象作品: Towards the Theoretical Frontiers of 'Fiction:' From Metafiction and Cyberpunk through Avant-Pop
主催: Science Fiction Research Association
結果: 受賞
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Award
1992
対象作品: Japanese and American Postmodernist Interactions
主催: National Endowment for the Humanities
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Storming the Reality Studio

1991年 Science Fiction/Cyberpunk Anthology

A groundbreaking anthology linking cyberpunk and postmodern literature, featuring works by William Gibson and others.

cyberpunkpostmodernism

Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation

1993年 Fiction Anthology

Anthology defining the Avant-Pop movement.

avant-popcontemporary fiction

The Metafictional Muse

1982年 Critical Study

Analysis of works by Coover, Gass, and Barthelme.

metafiction

全著作

  • Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors (1995)
  • Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Authors (1990)
  • The Metafictional Muse: The Work of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme and William H. Gass (1982)
  • Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation (1993)
  • Storming the Reality Studio (1991)

作風・主題

文体
interview-based criticismpostmodern analysis
頻出モチーフ
cyberpunkavant-popmetafiction

評価・遺産

Literary critic who contributed to establishing postmodern literature and cyberpunk, elevating science fiction as a major genre.

大衆文化への影響

  • Mentioned in William T. Vollmann's Imperial
  • Appears in Raymond Federman's The Twofold Vibration

豆知識

  • Also studies Bruce Springsteen
  • Called the 'Guru of the Interview'