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Auden and Isherwood
Professor Norman Page
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Description for Auden and Isherwood
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 455.
Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf� It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art. The wide scope of this study, which ranges from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a richly detailed ... Read more
Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf� It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art. The wide scope of this study, which ranges from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a richly detailed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312211738
SKU
V9780312211738
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Ref
99-15
About Professor Norman Page
NORMAN PAGE is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and has lectured in many parts of the world. His previous biographies include A.E. Housman: A Critical Biography and Tennyson: An Illustrated Life.
Reviews for Auden and Isherwood
Norman Page's aims in writing this book were, as I believe, modest but very worthwhile. He intended to add to the store of information about this German chapter in British literary history. He intended that the information should be accurate, and purged of romantic and self-serving myths. Most importantly, he wanted to convience his readers that the Berlin years were ... Read more