Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books - Couverture rigide

Bradford, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1849546029 ISBN 13 : 9781849546027

Editeur : Robson Press, 2014

Synopsis

Novelists, poets, and playwrights live double lives. When they fall out with each other they seem to do so with great passion. This highly entertaining book looks at some of the most complex friendships and enmities in literary history and examines the dramatic effects on literature itself. Grudge matches covered here include Vladimir Nabokov against Edmund Wilson; Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Virginia Wolfe, and John Updike against each other; Ernest Hemingway's spectacular and very public falling-out with former friends Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas; Lillian Hellman against Mary McCarthy; plus many more.

Richard Bradford is professor of English and a senior distinguished research fellow at the University of Ulster.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Richard Bradford has published twenty-five books on various aspects of literature and culture. His work on poetry and poetics has been praised as offering new, groundbreaking perspectives on the nature of verse. More recently, he has specialised in literary biographies of writers such as John Milton, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe and Martin Amis. Bradford has also published an assessment of the current state of the British novel, and his book Is Shakespeare Any Good?, on how we evaluate the quality of literature, will be published by Blackwell in 2015. He has held academic posts at Oxford, the University of Wales and Trinity College, Dublin, and is currently Research Professor of English at the University of Ulster and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robson Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849546029
• ISBN 13: 9781849546027
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible