Author : Norman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004651632
The essays in this volume investigate origins and identities of individuals and groups in French literature from the seventeenth century to the present, as well in French literature in general. They show how, as France developed a national identity through its literature, individuals of various origins searched for their own identities and often called into question not only traditional identities, but also the very literary means of creating them.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 1968
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Lewis M. Dabney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691016719
Edmund Wilson, who helped shape American literary culture from the early 1920s through the mid '60s, is still a presence a century after his birth. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums in Wilson's centenary year, 1995, at the Mercantile Library in New York and at Princeton University. Assembled and edited by Lewis Dabney, the book shows the intellectual voices of a younger generation interacting with veterans who knew Wilson and his times.
Author : Richard Hauer Costa
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 1980-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815601630
For the eminent American literary critic Edmund Wilson, Upstate New York was home. Richard Hauer Costa's biography of Wilson's final years, from 1962 to 1972, in Talcottville, NY, combines the literary, the political, and the domestic in an engaging portrait of Wilson as "squierarchical, Dickensian, benevolent." Costa shows us a very personal, accessible man as he tells us about Wilson's opinions, literary and otherwise, his likes and dislikes, his almost spiritual link to Talcottville, his failing health in his final years, his habits (moviegoing) and idiosyncracies (sneakers). What emerges is a profile of Wilson not at all like the stern figure of academic biography. Also included are interviews Costa conducted after Wilson's death with noted Upstate novelist Walter D. Edmonds, Canadian writer Morley Callaghan, and Wilson's Upstate friend, Mary Pcolar.
Author : W. Speed Hill
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472109234
The newest volume in the distinguished annual
Author : Hershel Parker
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810127091
Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker’s history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by his intimate working relationships with great Melvilleans, dead and living. The first part is a mesmerizing autobiographical account of what went into creating his award-winning two-volume life of Herman Melville. Next, Parker traces six decades the persistent war New Critics have waged against biographical scholarship on Melville. American literary critics, he finds, impose New Critical theories of organic unity on Melville’s disrupted career even while truncating his body of work and minimizing his aesthetic interests. Parker celebrates the "divine amateurs" who use new technology to discover dazzling Melville stories and also lauds the writers of literature blogs as potential redeemers of academic and mainstream media reviewing. In the third part, Parker invites readers into his biographical workshop and challenges them with ambitious research assignments. Throughout this bold book, Parker seeks to reinvigorate the all-but-lost art of scholarly literary criticism and biography.
Author : Amanda Gailey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472052756
The first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre and its obscured role in shaping the American literary canon
Author : August Frugé
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 1993-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520914414
When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the largest, most distinguished university presses in the country, publishing more than 150 books annually in fields ranging from ancient history to contemporary film criticism, by notable authors from all over the world. August Frugé's memoir provides an exciting intellectual and topical story of the building of this great press. Along the way, it recalls battles for independence from the University administration, the Press's distinctive early style of book design, and many of the authors and staff who helped shape the Press in its formative years.
Author : David Greetham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136512802
Both an intellectual autobiography and a chronicle of the ideological and methodological upheaval in textual studies during the last two decades, this book presents provocative essays by one of the foremost textual scholars of our day. As founder and executive director of the interdisciplinary Society for Textual Scholarship, Professor Greetham has had the opportunity to observe and engage with the main players of the textual revolution during its most turbulent years and enlivens his account with revealing character sketches.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1969-10
Category :
ISBN :
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