An appointment with Somerset Maugham: and other literary encounters
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1. Verfasser: Costa, Richard Hauer (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: College Station Texas A & M University Press ©1994
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Beschreibung:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index
pt. 1 - The troubling case of Somerset Maugham - Prologue: Abiding gods -- - Somerset Maugham and the Driffield position -- - Maugham's "partial self": the "unexpected view" on the way to Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Ilych" -- - The wages of notoriety -an update -- - pt. 2 - The dismantling of favor - Prologue: In deepest regions -- - H.G. Wells and the Palimpsest of time -- - The anxiety of confluence -- - Conrad Aiken and the "Tom" catastrophe -- - Ground rule for "marginal" memoir: being heard but not seen -- - The sentence(ing) of Edmund Wilson -- - The "burrowing" of literary moles: Turgenev and Flaubert -- - The triumph of Richard Ellmann -- - Friendship, Francini, and the Triestine Joyce -- - pt. 3 - The serious business of comedy, innocence, and homage to the Hemingways - Prologue: Lucky Jim and Johnny come lately -- - Laughing with the early Kingsley Amis -- - Dorothy Parker: nothing sacred -- - The custodianship of Mary Hemingway -- - Edith Wharton's age of innocence -and mine -- - pt. 4 - The consul and other notations from underground - How I "discovered" Under the volcano -- - Pietà, Pelado, and "the ratification of death": the ten-year evolvement of Malcolm Lowry's Volcano -- - The ordeal of Margerie Lowry -- - Writing as failed therapy: Tennessee Williams and James Baldwin -- - Cheerless books that cheer -- - Notes form a dark heller: Bob Slocum and the underground man -- - Afterword - "Our last man of letters" and other legacies
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 227 pages)
ISBN:0585173966
9780585173962

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