Richard Pearce's "Stages of the Clown" (1970/1971)

Carbondale, Illinois, US: Southern Illinois University Press (book, essay), 1970/1971.
8.5" x 5" x 0.875", 166 pages, hardcover in dust jacket, ISBN 0-8093-0449-X.

Stages of the Clown: Perspectives on Modern Fiction from Dostoyevsky to Beckett by Richard Pearce, as published by Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, Illinois, US) and Feffer & Simons, Inc. (London, England) in 1970 [shown is the 2nd printing from 1971]. Preface by Harry T. Moore. Designed by Andor Braun. 

This contains the chapter “The World Upside Down II: William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch and Nabokov’s Lolita”, pp. 84-101.

This copy was acquired from Between the Covers (Gloucester City, New Jersey, US).

Not in Maynard & Miles. Not in Shoaf. Not in Schottlaender.

Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Stages of the Clown
• 2. Transformation: Dostoyevsky's Idiot and Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'
• 3. The Alazon: The Theme of Intrusion in Great Expectations and The Trial
• 4. Faulkner's One Ring Circus: Light in August
• 5. The World Upside Down I: Flannery O'Connor
• 6. The World Upside Down II: William Burroughs's Naked Lunch and Nabokov's Lolita
• 7. Harlequin: The Character of the Clown in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King and John Hawkes's Second Skin
• 8. Which Way Is Up?: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Günter Grass's Tin Drum, and Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
• 9. The Incarnate Word Was Never Known to Laugh
• Selected Bibliography
• Index