This biography traces the formative years of one of America's most celebrated and influential authors. The first of a projected three-volume life, it examines Hemingway's midwestern childhood, his journalistic apprenticeship, and his experiences as a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during World War I.
In this biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, and letters, to show the life and the artistic achievement of one of 20th-century America's most complex literary figures and to reveal Faulkner as powerful, vulnerable and real.
This collection of 15 essays surveys the work of some of the major British and Irish dramatists since 1960. Included are four dramatists - Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter Nichols - who began writing plays before 1960, and whose work has since continued to develop.
In this volume of essays the author casts new light on aspects of the writer's life and tackles his writings from a critical angle. Evelyn Waugh emerges as a diffident artist and sensitive recorder of the 1920s. This book looks at both Waugh's private and public lives.
This study of Peter Ackroyd rejects the postmodern label previously attached to the author. It provides a consideration of all Ackroyd's writing to date, from his poetry and critical thought, to his novels and biographies.
First appeared in the New Yorker , these autobiographical writings by Mencken recall memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.
This text introduces modernity, postmodernism and postmodernity through a series of debates between prominent thinkers in literary theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It explores this topic through thinkers who are at odds, considering the wider implications of postmodern thought.
Traces how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. This work examines the causal factors or motives for murder - ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology.
This volume makes available Glyn Jones's short stories and includes:the nine stories from The Blue Bed ; the 12 stories in The Water Music ; the nine stories in Welsh Heirs ; and the three stories collected for the first time in Selected Poems . Also provided is a critical analysis.
Contemporary American Fiction introduces the work of a range of American authors, all of whom can be said to engage with postmodernism.