‘I’m the Pied Piper’: The Peculiar Appeal of Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson - Kirk Curnutt
Kirk Curnutt [+ ]
Troy University
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Kirk Curnutt is Professor of English at Troy University Montgomery. He is the author of a number of works of fiction and scholarly books including, most recently, Key West Hemingway (University Press of Florida, 2009), The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Cambridge University Press, 2007), A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Oxford University Press, 2004) and the forthcoming Reading Hemingway's To Have and Have Not: Glossary and Commentary (Kent State University Press, 2011).
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In this chapter, the author observes what are the qualities and characteristics that mad Brian Wilson an icon. To do so, Curnutt tries to answer the following question: What is the particular “something” that Brian Wilson is “symbolic of”?