James Purdy - Life of a Contrarian Writer

Zusatztext Snyder presents Purdy as an artist well worth knowing and appreciating...Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. Informationen zum Autor Michael Snyder is the author of John Joseph Mathews: Life of an Osage Writer, which was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in non-fiction, and Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Twentieth Century. An expert on gay literature and Native writers, Snyder is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. Klappentext This is the first biography of a gay American novelist, story writer, and playwright who in the early 1960s was considered a major talent and whose work was praised by Jonathan Franzen, Susan Sontag, Langston Hughes, and Tennessee Williams. Zusammenfassung This is the first biography of a gay American novelist, story writer, and playwright who in the early 1960s was considered a major talent and whose work was praised by Jonathan Franzen, Susan Sontag, Langston Hughes, and Tennessee Williams. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Mystery of Purdy Ch. 1: Hicksville, Ohio Ch. 2: A Day after the Fair Ch. 3: The Nephew Ch. 4: Dream Palaces Ch. 5: The Running Sons Ch. 6: The Professor Ch. 7: James Purdy Begins Ch. 8: Success Story Ch. 9: Threshold of Assent Ch. 10: The Mourner Below Ch. 11: Maggoty Urgings Ch. 12: The Sun at Noon Ch 13: Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys Ch. 14: Elijah Thrush Ch. 15: Solitary Confinement Ch. 16: Lighting Out Ch. 17: On Glory's Course Ch. 18: Color of Darkness Ch. 19: The Acolytes Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Assistant Teaching Professor Michael (University of Oklahoma) Snyder, Michael Snyder, Michael (Assistant Teaching Professor Snyder, Snyder Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9780197609729
• ISBN: 978-0-19-760972-9
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form