Voices and Visions: Selected Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761821687)

A selection of essays and reviews published over the past twenty-five years in the Berkshire Eagle, Chicago Review, the Chicago Tribune, Magill's Literary Annual, The World & I, and other journals and collections, Voices and Visions offers engaging discussions of a wide range of modern and contemporary American and European writers. Highlights include: discussions of the posthumous reputations and publications of Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and Ralph Ellison; extensive examinations of the work of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, E.L. Doctorow, John Updike, and Susan Sontag; introductions to the work of Czeslaw Milosz, Milan Kundera, and Salman Rushdie; essays on Cynthia Ozick, Richard Stern, John Ashbery, and Jamaica Kincaid; shorter reviews of books by John Irving, Erica Jong, Aharon Appelfeld, and Jiri Weil; a history of the Chicago novel, and a selection of reviews of the work of contemporary Chicago authors such as Leon Forrest, Bette Howland, Michael Anania, Charles Dickinson, and Harry Mark Petrakis.

Author: Bernard F. Rodgers
ISBN-10: 0761821686
ISBN-13: 9780761821687
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2001
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d