“Madness of Art” William Styron Philip Larkin Joyce Carol Oates FINE HC DJ

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United States
ISBN
9780815607830
ISBN-13
9780815607830
ISBN-10
0815607830
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Publisher
Syracuse University Press
ISBN-10
0815607830
ISBN-13
9780815607830
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2394355

Product Key Features

Book Title
The Madness of Art : Interviews with Poets and Writers
Number of Pages
244 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Authorship, American / General, Literary, Composition & Creative Writing, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Robert Phillips
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-151304
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Robert Phillips has done a superb job. . . . I am filled with admiration for his knowledge, and for his ability to manage the moment.
Synopsis
Robert Phillips's conversational yet penetrating approach yields self-assessments that read like new essays by the writers themselves. Conducted over the course of twenty years, many of these pieces were first published in the Paris Review. Taken from a passage by Henry James, the title speaks to the "madness" that drives our greatest works of creativity. Phillips's interviews bring out this "madness" in its most important sense: the writers are seers and visionaries, whose works inspire us beyond the limits of reason. The conversations recorded in The Madness of Art attain that same level of inspiration and power. Phillips questions his interviewees about their work methods, daily lives, influences, sources of inspiration, relationship to other literary figures, response to critics, choice of genre, audience, and reasons for writing., Robert Phillips's conversational yet penetrating approach yields self-assessments that read like new essays by the writers themselves. Conducted over the course of twenty years, many of these pieces were first published in the Paris Review. Taken from a passage Henry James, the title speaks to the" madness" that drives our greatest works of creativity. Phillips's interviews bring out this "madness" in its most important sense: the writers are seers and visionaries, whose works inspire us beyond the limits of reason. The conversations recorded in The Madness of Art attain that same level of inspiration and power. Phillips questions his interviewees about their work methods, daily lives, influences, sources of inspiration, relationship to other literary figures, response to critics, choice of genre, audience, and reasons for writing., This work includes insightful interviews with eigth masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, and Marya Zaturenska.
LC Classification Number
PS221.P48 2003

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