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The American Isherwood /
"Novelist, memoirist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writings. Known for his crisp style and his camera-like precision with detail, Isherwood gained fame for his Berlin Stories, which served as source material for the hit stage musical and Academy Award-winning...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword: Outside the Frame
- Introduction: An American Outsider
- PART I.A SINGLE MAN AND LOS ANGELES CULTURE IN THE 1960s
- 1 A Single Man and the American Maurice
- 2 Labor of Love: Making Chris & Don
- 3 Working through Grief in the Drafts of A Single Man
- 4 Writing the Unspeakable in A Single Man and Mrs. Dalloway
- 5 A Whole without Transcendence: Isherwood, Woolf, and the Aesthetics of Connection
- 6 Ford Does Isherwood
- 7 A Real Diamond: The Multicultural World of A Single Man
- PART II. THE RELIGIOUS WRITER
- 8 Isherwood and the Psycho-geography of Home
- 9 Isherwood and Huxley: The Novel as Mystic Fable
- 10 Down Where on a Visit? Isherwood's Mythology of Self
- 11 A Phone Call by the River
- 12 "Give me devotion ... even against my will": Christopher Isherwood and India
- 13 Spiritual Searching in Isherwood's Artistic Production
- PART III. A WRITER AT ODDS WITH HIMSELF IN COLD WAR AMERICA
- 14 Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward
- 15 Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years
- 16 The Celebrity Effect: Isherwood, Hollywood, and the Performance of Self
- 17 A Writer at Work: The Isherwood Archive
- 18 Pulp Isherwood: Cheap Paperbacks and Queer Cold War Readers
- 19 Not Satisfied with the Ending: Connecting The World in the Evening to Maurice
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
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- F
- G
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- I
- J
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