Mr. Bowen's aim is to place in perspective the enormous range of Colum's work, as has not been done before, and to assess critically its literary and historical position. Drawing upon his intimate knowledge of Colum's writings, Bowen rates Colum's plays as something less than the masterpieces they were thought to be, and he gives a valuable ...
Best known for her historical novels--"The Last of the Wine "(1956), "The King Must Die "(1958), "The Bull from the Sea "(1962), "The Mask of Apollo "(1966), and "Fire from Heaven "(1969)--Mary Renault's works have often appeared to readers as collateral reading to Greek literature. She is, doubtless, one of the most creative historical novelists ...
This volume collects three of Lawrence's books of travel writing on Italy: TWILIGHT IN ITALY (1916), SEA AND SARDINIA (1921), and ETRUSCAN PLACES (1927). Immensely enjoyable narratives, they also offer a fascinating perspective on Lawrence's lifelong interest in Mediterranean civilization.
Henry James is often thought of as having lived a life of total absorption is his craft, a life without significant external events. But James was a man upon few experiences and observations were lost. After a restless transatlantic childhood and a brief residence in France, he settled in England, where he became a travelled and sociable writer. ...
Hailed by critics as one of the more con-troversial of contemporary American authors, Flannery O'Connor has been de-scribed as the most extreme Christian dualist since Dostoevsky. In this first full-length study of O'Connor's work, Brown-ing explores the implications of O'Con-nor's situation as a Roman Catholic in the South in the 1950s. From this ...
Can the novel survive in an age when tales of historical figures and contemporary personalities dominate the reading lists of the book-buying public? Naomi Jacobs addresses this question in a study of writers such as William Styron, E. L. Doctorow, and Robert Coover, who challenge the dominance of nonfiction by populating their fictions with real ...
The discovery of a "lost" manuscript by H. G. Wells is an exciting literary event, and the publishers of the Crosscurrents Modern Fiction series are proud to present the first publication of Wells's "The Wealth of Mr. Waddy." A study of H. G. Wells's correspondence reveals that as early as October 1898 he was discussing this new "comic" novel, and ...
In this illuminating study of the grotesque and black comedy, Mr. Pearce traces the classic clown tradition in the works of Beckett, Flannery O'Connor, Kafka, Faulkner, William Burroughs, Nabokov, Gunter Grass, and other modern writers. The "stages" of the title refer to the historical development and concept of the clown from classical to modern ...
The pursuit of the American Dream, supposedly shaped by the edenic promises of the American land, has engaged our writers from the beginning, and much of our literature has come out of the national literary experience thus expressed. This collection of nineteen original, unpublished essays written for this book is particularly relevant today, when ...
Eleven critics here discuss the main themes in Singer's novels and short stories as well as examine in depth his works that have been translated into English--the novels "Satan in Goray, The Family Moskat, The Magician of Lublin, The Slave, The Manor, In My Father's Court, "and a short story "Gimpel the Fool." Each of the contributors, well-known ...
From the new and interesting viewpoint of the milieu of the 1930s and the eras of English literary and political history which preceded and followed that decade, Elton Smith examines the special signifi-cance of the works of C. Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, and W. H. Auden. In his view the 1930s were for the angry young men ...
In spite of the fact that Wells produced more than fifty widely read and varied novels, he has long been relegated to the back shelf of literature. This first critical study to investigate thoroughly Wells's role as a creative artist provides a reassessment of Wells as a major novelist in the perspective of twentieth-century literature, comparing ...
The certainty that deep down we are all "schlemiels "is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public. In this unique, revised history of the "schlemiel, "Sanford Pinsker uses psychological, linguistic, and anecdotal approaches, as well as his considerable skills as a spritely ...
This collection of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, most of it not previously published, has been made as a "gathering in memory of William Van O'Connor," distinguished American scholar, writer, critic, and frequent contributor to this series, who died in 1966. Like O'Connor, the contributors are all men of letters associated with American ...
Donald L. Kaufmann, omitting much of the private drama of the man, has written the first objective evaluation of the writer. According to Mr. Kaufmann, Mailer has undergone a reverse in his views of violence and has discovered "justi-fiable violence." Mr. Kaufmann here traces how this theory of violence develops in the fiction and how it ...
In this companion volume to his "Minor British Novelists," " "a previous book in this series, Charles Alva Hoyt has brought together eight original, unpublished essays on eight American novelists: Charles Brockden Brown, John William De Forest, Charles Chesnutt, James Branch Cabell, John Dickson Carr, Nathanael West, Flannery O'Connor, and Edward ...
A twentieth-century "poetics," this book brilliantly investigates the question of fiction "versus "nonfiction and the structure of ideas in literary criticism. Roberts finds a parallel and overlapping concept-structure behind the word poetry, and suggests that the idea of literature critics have today is a combination of such patterns of meaning. ...
A book by an historian about an historian is unique in this series. However, the sub-ject of this study is not limited to the category of historian: Toynbee is also a religious thinker, a political and social philosopher, even a poet, a man of ideas, and a prolific writer. His volumes range over a multitude of subjects, including world affairs, ...
Harry T. Moore, major biographer and pi-oneer in Lawrence scholarship, character-izes this book as "altogether one of the truly fine critical and expository volumes on the man whom so many major critics now re-gard as the outstanding English writer of this century." The 27 essays in this book are divided into 8 parts: An introductory section; ...
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