Peter Wolfe

Gebundenes Buch

Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald

Beschreibung

Peter Wolfe's study of Penelope Fitzgerald characterizes her work as having unerring dramatic judgment, a friendly and fluid style, and lyrical and precise descriptive passages. In this survey of Fitzgerald's life and career, he explains how shet brings resources of talent and craft, thought and feeling, courage and vulnerability, to her writing.

Autor

Peter Wolfe is the Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A former Fulbright lecturer in Poland and India, Wolfe has also taught at universities in Canada, New Zealand, Russia, Taiwan, and Australia. He has written books on Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Raymond Chandler, Yukio Mishima, William Gaddis, and the Twilight Zone television series. The author as well of Understanding Alan Bennett (University of South Carolina Press, 1999), Wolfe won the first Armchair Detective Award, for the best scholarly book in the mystery genre, for Alarms and Epitaphs: The Art of Eric Ambler. He lives in suburban St. Louis.

Produktdetails

• Understanding Contemporary British Literature
• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 187mm x 141mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781570035616
• ISBN-10: 157003561X
• Artikelnr.: 13624406