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16 produkter
Like Hot Knives to the Brain
James Ellroy's Search for Himself
Av Peter Wolfe
Häftad, 2006
649 kr
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Often more disturbing than entertaining, James Ellroy is an author who never shies away from the ugly or repellent. Eminent crime fiction scholar Peter Wolfe examines how Ellroy transcends the genres of pulp and neo-noir fiction to write stories that are both psychologically haunting and culturally …
Havoc in the Hub
A Reading of George V. Higgins
Av Peter Wolfe
Inbunden, 2007
1464 kr
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Havoc in the Hub brings to light the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, revealing the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious thought that underlies his 25 novels and numerous other works. Higgins's writing, fed by equal parts wit and sorrow, touches our senses, emotions, and …
Havoc in the Hub
A Reading of George V. Higgins
Av Peter Wolfe
Häftad, 2007
704 kr
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Havoc in the Hub brings to light the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, revealing the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious thought that underlies his 25 novels and numerous other works. Higgins's writing, fed by equal parts wit and sorrow, touches our senses, emotions, and …
Simon Gray Unbound
The Journey of a Dramatist
Av Peter Wolfe
Häftad, 2011
560 kr
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The work of English playwright Simon Gray (1936-2008) has always resisted ideological and stylistic labels. His artistic independence has also had an unwelcome side effect: It cost him the critical attention garnered by his peers. This book, the first monograph on Gray, examines his oeuvre from the …
Theater of Terrence McNally
A Critical Study
Av Peter Wolfe
Häftad, 2013
560 kr
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This first book-length work on Terrence McNally shows how his decades in the theater have refined his thoughts on subjects like growing up gay in mannish, homophobic Texas, Shakespeare's legacy in contemporary drama, and the life-giving power of forgiveness. McNally believes that the ability to …
Laden Choirs
The Fiction of Patrick White
Av Peter Wolfe
Häftad, 2014
427 kr
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In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller in America and Europe. Yet White is still not widely known or read, and few writers of today have …
Laden Choirs
The Fiction of Patrick White
Av Peter Wolfe
E-bok, 2014
597 kr
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In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller in America and Europe. Yet White is still not widely known or read, and few writers of today have …
In the Zone
The Twilight World of Rod Sterling
Av Peter Wolfe
Inbunden, 1997
485 kr
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The classic television show 'The twilight Zone' explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A twilight Zone episode moved us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking.
Henry Green
Havoc in the House of Fiction
Av Peter Wolfe
Häftad, 2017
691 kr
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By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity. Not so with Henry Green (1905-1973). He prefers uncertainty over reason and fragmentation over cohesion, and rarely lets the reader settle into a nice cozy read. Evil, he …
Terence Rattigan
The Playwright as Battlefield
Av Peter Wolfe
Inbunden, 2019
1384 kr
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The theatrical world Terence Rattigan built is vital but disturbing and uniquely constructed. His sentences are not impacted or fractured, and his plots usually obey a linear time sequence. Yet his realism isn't all that real. Though sentence by sentence, his dialogue sounds natural, the creative …
Understanding Alan Bennett
Av Peter Wolfe
Inbunden, 1999
515 kr
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A study of the actor, director, playwright and lyricist, Alan Bennett. Peter Wolfe demonstrates that Alan Bennett's success in many spheres was no fluke, and his theatrical eminence has always been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play ""Single Spies"" won the Oliver Award as …
Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald
Av Peter Wolfe
Inbunden, 2004
585 kr
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Peter Wolfe's study of Penelope Fitzgerald's canon illuminates writings he characterizes as possessing unerring dramatic judgment, a friendly and fluid style, and lyrical and precise descriptive passages. In this survey of Fitzgerald's life and career, Wolfe explains how the British novelist brings …
Dreamers Who Live Their Dreams
The World of Ross MacDonald's Novels
Av Peter Wolfe
Inbunden, 1976
160 kr
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