Seven Contemporary Authors : : Essays on Cozzens, Miller, West, Golding, Heller, Albee, and Powers /

Seven Contemporary Authors : : Essays on Cozzens, Miller, West, Golding, Heller, Albee, and Powers / / ed. by Thomas B. Whitbread.

These seven critical essays, each on a twentieth-century novelist, are disparate in content, but all are concerned with the problem of evil and inhumanity and with the paradoxes of human existence. Each essay discusses a different author, but this independence of subject is resolved into a central t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Abrahams, Roger D.,
Clark, George,
Friedman, Alan,
Hilfer, Anthony Channell,
Lewis, R. W.,
Ramsey, Vance,
Twombly, Robert G.,
HerausgeberIn:
Whitbread, Thomas B.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1966
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • The Conflicts of Reality: Cozzens' The Last Adam
  • The Pitching of Love's Mansion in the Tropics of Henry Miller
  • Androgynes Bound: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts
  • An Illiberal Education: William Golding's Pedagogy
  • From Here to Absurdity: Heller's Catch-22
  • George and Martha: Sad, Sad, Sad
  • Hubris, Health, and Holiness: The Despair of J. F. Powers
  • Index

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