An appointment with Somerset Maugham : and other literary encounters /

""Now, just ask yourself," Maugham said without the least suggestion of a stutter, "wouldn't it be a dreadful world if pleasure ruled?" But pleasure has ruled Richard Costa's world - the pleasure of books and their writers. In this charming and insightful reminisce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Costa, Richard Hauer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1994.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Maugham, W. Somerset > (William Somerset), > 1874-1965 > Critique et interprétation.
1900-1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature.
English literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The troubling case of Somerset Maugham: Prologue: Abiding gods
  • Somerset Maugham and the Driffield position
  • Maugham's "partial self": the "unexpected view" on the way to Tolstoy's "Death of Ivan Ilych"
  • The wages of notoriety -an update
  • pt. 2. The dismantling of favor: Prologue: In deepest regions
  • H.G. Wells and the Palimpsest of time
  • The anxiety of confluence
  • Conrad Aiken and the "Tom" catastrophe
  • Ground rule for "marginal" memoir: being heard but not seen
  • The sentence(ing) of Edmund Wilson
  • The "burrowing" of literary moles: Turgenev and Flaubert
  • The triumph of Richard Ellmann
  • Friendship, Francini, and the Triestine Joyce
  • pt. 3. The serious business of comedy, innocence, and homage to the Hemingways: Prologue: Lucky Jim and Johnny come lately
  • Laughing with the early Kingsley Amis
  • Dorothy Parker: nothing sacred
  • The custodianship of Mary Hemingway
  • Edith Wharton's age of innocence -and mine
  • pt. 4. The consul and other notations from underground: How I "discovered" Under the volcano
  • Pietà, Pelado, and "the ratification of death": the ten-year evolvement of Malcolm Lowry's Volcano
  • The ordeal of Margerie Lowry
  • Writing as failed therapy: Tennessee Williams and James Baldwin
  • Cheerless books that cheer
  • Notes form a dark heller: Bob Slocum and the underground man
  • Afterword: "Our last man of letters" and other legacies.

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