"The publication of "Sophie's Choice," one of William Styron's greatest literary achievements, generated a new spark in the critical discussion of the author and is the main emphasis of the interview with Styron and one of the additional essays in this revised edition. The interview was conducted by Robert K. Morris; the essay on "Sophie's Choice" by Richard Pearce. Other essays include Jane Flanders on Styron's southern myth, Philip W. ..."
"In honor of the 80th birthday of one of the grandmasters of American experimental fiction, editor St phane Vanderhaeghe has gathered critical essays and appreciations by William Gass, John Barth, Bradford Morrow, Shelley Jackson, Kathryn Hume, Brian Evenson, Kate Bernheimer, Rick Moody, and many more along with prose and poetry by Coover himself."
"This issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction presents new Slovak fiction in translation, congregating such significant writers as Dusan Dusek, Brano Hochel, Michal Hvorecky, Jan Johanides, Daniela Kapitanova, Monika Kompanikova, and Dusan Simko, among others most of whom have never before been translated into English to form a literary portrait of contemporary Slovak identity, framed by traditionalism and yet striving to engage the ..."
"The Review of Contemporary Fiction was founded in 1981 to promote a vision of literary culture that is not limited to the immediately popular, and to ensure that important world writers outside popular attention continue to be written about and discussed. Editions P.O.L is perhaps the most innovative and important French publisher today, welcoming richly challenging and experimental literature into its fold to appear side by side with b ..."
"Does Fiedler not truly and commendably understand that the truth one tries to tell
about books is the truth one tells of oneself ? Once regarded as a kind of a
mythopoetic interdisciplinary rebel fusing sociology, anthropology, and myth
criticism, Fiedler now, in the very best sense, seems an old-fashioned humanist
who believes books are written by humans for humans and about humans. He
has no interest whatever in the theoretical r ..."
New American Gothic; 0 (Paperback or Softback) von IrvingMalin Paperback, 200 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2021 von Hassell Street Press ISBN-13: 978-1-01-507030-1, ISBN: 1-01-507030-2
"Don DeLillo's 1997 masterwork Underworld, one of the most acclaimed and long-awaited novels of the last twenty years, was immediately recognized as a landmark novel, not only in the long career of one of America's most distinguished novelists but also in the ongoing evolution of the postmodern novel. This collection of thirteen essays brings together new and established voices in American studies and contemporary American literature to ..."
A Goyen Companion(1st Edition) Appreciations of a Writer's Writer von Brooke Horvath, IrvingMalin, Paul Ruffin Hardcover, 204 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1996 von Univ Of Texas Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-292-73116-5, ISBN: 0-292-73116-7
"A writer's writer whom the New York Times Book Review hailed as "one of the great American writers of short fiction," William Goyen was the author of luminous novels, including Arcadio, The House of Breath, and Half a Look of Cain, as well as short story collections. During Goyen's lifetime, his work attracted a loyal body of readers whose numbers are steadily increasing with the posthumous publication or reissuance of several of his ma ..."
"This issue of the Review of ContemporaryFiction will feature excerpts from upcoming translations of Koreanliterature, along with a critical overview of the literary world in which theseworks were originally published."
"Contributors such as Stewart Home, China Miéville, and Maureen Freely pose difficult questions about the place of literature in contemporary Britain—where it's been, and where it's going.This issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction is, for the first time, devoted to—but not devotional toward—contemporary British fiction. Bringing together writers, literary critics, and academics with the aim of challenging fossilized approaches to B ..."
"The Review of Contemporary Fiction was founded in 1981 to promote a vision of literary culture that is not limited to the immediately popular, and to ensure that important world writers outside popular attention continue to be written about and discussed. An issue devoted to failure should be no issue at all. Instead, guest editor Joshua Cohen has failed at failure and assembled an unparalleled group of contributors for this specially t ..."
"The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization. The Review's aesthetic focus has been called many things—postmodern, experimental, avant-garde, metafictional, subversive—but in bringing this aesthetic to a wider audience it also seeks to expose the artificial barriers that exist between and within cultures. To this end, ..."
"This new volume is a collection of essays and poems on George Garrett's best-selling trilogy of Elizabethan England: "Death of the Fox, The Succession," and "Entered from the Sun." Contributors of the essays include Richard Betts, "'To Dream of Kings': George Garrett's "The Succession""; Nicholas Delbanco, ""The Succession" A Novel of Elizabeth and James"; Joseph Dewey, "'A Golden Age for Fanta-sticks': Imagination, Faith, and Mistery i ..."
New American Gothic; 0 (Hardback) von IrvingMalin Hardcover, 200 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2021 von Hassell Street Pr Sep 2021 ISBN-13: 978-1-01-425364-4, ISBN: 1-01-425364-0
"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations."
"From the contents: Memory and dream in Nabokov's short fiction (B. Wyllie). - Nabokov's approach to the supernatural in the early stories (J.W. Connoly). - Nabokov's Christmas stories (R.H.W. Dillard). - Art and marriage in Vladimir Nabokov's Music and in Lev Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata (N.W. Balestrini). - How they brought the bad news to Mints: Breaking the news (S.G. Kellman). - Alone in the void: Mademoiselle O (J.E. Rivers). - Na ..."
Nathanael West's Novels(1st Edition) (Crosscurrents: Modern Critiques) von IrvingMalin Hardcover, 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1972 von Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-0577-3, ISBN: 0-8093-0577-1
"Irving Malin, a frequent contributor to this series, has taken a new approach to West’s novels."
"To celebrate the publication of a revised translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, "Life: A User's Manual," as well as other debut Perec translations due in 2009, Dalkey Archive is reissuing one of the most popular issues of the "Review of Contemporary Fiction" in a newly expanded edition."
"Don DeLillo's 1997 masterwork Underworld, one of the most acclaimed and long-awaited novels of the last twenty years, was immediately recognized as a landmark novel, not only in the long career of one of America's most distinguished novelists but also in the ongoing evolution of the postmodern novel. This collection of thirteen essays brings together new and established voices in American studies and contemporary American literature to ..."