Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction by Wood, Michael

Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231050487)

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Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction by Wood, Michael

Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction

$105.00
Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction by Wood, Michael

Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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An engaging series of reflections on the literary landscape of our time--from the writings of Roland Barthes to those of Stephen King--Wood explores such issues as the shift of interest from novel to story, the blurring of the line between fiction and criticism, the persistence of the notion of paradise, the lure of horror, and the tendency of fiction both to reflect and to resist contemporary history. Wood casts his net wide: a brilliant dissection of Beckett's prose comedy is followed by an absorbing sequence of essays on Kundera, Calvino and García Márquez. Chapters on Toni Morrison and on Angela Carter lead us to chapters on Kazuo Ishiguro and Jeanette Winterson.

Author: Michael Wood
ISBN-10: 0231050488
ISBN-13: 9780231050487
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/12/1998
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.27w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/1998 pg. 80
By Michael Wood
By Michael Wood
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Michael Wood writes film and literary criticism for the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. He is Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English at Princeton University, a frequent teacher at the Middlebury Breadloaf School of English, and the author of many books, including America in the Movies (Columbia 1989).

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