Cheuse Listening to the Page

Adventures in Reading and Writing
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-50446-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheuse, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Getting Started; or, Two Thousand Books
Part 1. Reading
1. Writing It Down for James: Some Thoughts on Reading Toward the Millennium
2. Books in Flames: A View of Latin American Literature
3. The Lost Books
4. Hamlet in Haiti: Style in Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World
5. Traces of Light: The Paradoxes of Narrative Painting and Pictorial Fiction
6. Truth as Fiction: Or, the Tail of the Monstrous Peacock
7. The Consolation of Art
Part 2. Rereading
8. You Can Read Wolfe Again
9. Stories of Deep Delight
10. Of Steinbeck and Salinas
11. The Return of James Agee
12. Mario Vargas Llosa and Conversation in the Cathedral: The Question of Naturalism
13. Where Is She Going? Where Has She Been?: Elizabeth Tallent's "No One's a Mystery'' and the Poetry of Female Initiation
14. A Wintry Saga
15. Bernard and Juliet: Romance and Desire in Malamud's High Art
16. Fitzgerald's Christmas Carol, or the Burden of "The Camel's Back''
17. A Note on Landscape in All the Pretty Horses
18. Rereading Traven
Part 3. Writing
19. Confessions of an Ex-Minimalist
20. On the Contemporary
21. Of the Making of Books
22. Voices: A Conversation

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Cheuse is a fiction writer, a long-time critic, and the book commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He is the author of eight books including The Grandmothers'Club, The Light Possessed, The Tennessee Waltz and Other Stories, and the memoir Fall Out of Heaven. He has written for many national publications and has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan, among other places. He currently serves as a member of the writing program at George Mason University.