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American Isherwood by Chris Freeman (2015, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-100816683638
ISBN-139780816683635
eBay Product ID (ePID)201607709
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAmerican Isherwood
SubjectGeneral, American / General, Literary, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, LGBT
Publication Year2015
TypeTextbook
AuthorChris Freeman
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height2 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-028192
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal823/.912
Table Of ContentContents Foreword: Outside the Frame Stephen McCauley Introduction: An American Outsider James J. Berg and Chris Freeman Part I. A Single Man and Los Angeles Culture in the 1960s 1. A Single Man and the American Maurice Lois Cucullu 2. Labor of Love: Making Chris & Don Tina Mascara and Guido Santi 3. Working through Grief in the Drafts of A Single Man Carola M. Kaplan 4. Writing the Unspeakable in A Single Man and Mrs. Dalloway Jamie Carr 5. A Whole without Transcendence: Isherwood, Woolf, and the Aesthetics of Connection William R. Handley 6. Ford Does Isherwood Kyle Stevens 7. A Real Diamond: The Multicultural World of A Single Man James J. Berg and Chris Freeman Part II. The Religious Writer 8. Isherwood and the Psycho-geography of Home Victor Marsh 9. Isherwood and Huxley: The Novel as Mystic Fable Robert L. Caserio 10. Down Where on a Visit?: Isherwood's Mythology of Self Rebecca Gordon Stewart 11. A Phone Call by the River Paul M. McNeil 12. "Give me devotion . . . even against my will": Christopher Isherwood and India Niladri R. Chatterjee 13. Spiritual Searching in Isherwood's Artistic Production Mario Faraone Part III. A Writer at Odds with Himself in Cold War America 14. Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward Benjamin Kohlmann 15. Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years Peter Edgerly Firchow 16. The Celebrity Effect: Isherwood, Hollywood, and the Performance of Self Lisa Colletta 17. A Writer at Work: The Isherwood Archive Sara S. Hodson 18. Pulp Isherwood: Cheap Paperbacks and Queer Cold War Readers Jaime Harker 19. Not Satisfied with the Ending: Connecting The World in the Evening to Maurice Joshua Adair Acknowledgments Contributors Index
SynopsisNovelist, memoirist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writings. Known for his crisp style and his camera-like precision with detail, Isherwood gained fame for his Berlin Stories , which served as source material for the hit stage musical and Academy Award-winning film Cabaret . More recently, his experiences and career in the United States have received increased attention. His novel A Single Man was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film; his long relationship with the artist Don Bachardy, with whom he shared an openly gay lifestyle, was the subject of an award-winning documentary, C hris & Don: A Love Story ; and his memoir, Christopher and His Kind , was adapted for the BBC. Isherwood's colorful journeys took him from post-World War I England to Weimar Germany to European exile to Golden Age Hollywood to Los Angeles in the full flower of gay liberation. After the publication of his diaries, which run to more than one million words and span nearly a half century, it is possible to fully assess his influence. This collection of essays considers Isherwood's diaries, his vast personal archive, and his published works and offers a multifaceted appreciation of a writer who spent more than half of his life in southern California. James J. Berg and Chris Freeman have brought together the most informative scholarship of the twenty-first century to illuminate the craft of one of the singular figures of the twentieth century. Isherwood, the American, emerges from the shadow of his English reputation to stake his claim as a significant force in late twentieth-century American culture whose legacy continues in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Joshua Adair, Murray State U; Jamie Carr, Niagara U; Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State U; Niladri Chatterjee, U of Kalyani, India; Lisa Colletta, American U of Rome; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Mario Faraone; Peter Edgerly Firchow; Rebecca Gordon Stewart; William R. Handley, U of Southern California; Jaime Harker, U of Mississippi; Sara S. Hodson, Huntington Library; Carola M. Kaplan, California State U, Pomona; Benjamin Kohlmann, U of Freiburg, Germany; Victor Marsh, U of Queensland; Tina Mascara; Stephen McCauley; Paul M. McNeil, Columbia U; Guido Santi, College of the Canyons, California; Kyle Stevens, Brandeis U., Novelist, memoirist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writings. Known for his crisp style and his camera-like precision with detail, Isherwood gained fame for his Berlin Stories, which served as source material for the hit stage musical and Academy Award-winning film Cabaret. More recently, his experiences and career in the United States have received increased attention. His novel A Single Man was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film; his long relationship with the artist Don Bachardy, with whom he shared an openly gay lifestyle, was the subject of an award-winning documentary, Chris & Don: A Love Story; and his memoir, Christopher and His Kind, was adapted for the BBC. Isherwood's colorful journeys took him from post-World War I England to Weimar Germany to European exile to Golden Age Hollywood to Los Angeles in the full flower of gay liberation. After the publication of his diaries, which run to more than one million words and span nearly a half century, it is possible to fully assess his influence. This collection of essays considers Isherwood's diaries, his vast personal archive, and his published works and offers a multifaceted appreciation of a writer who spent more than half of his life in southern California. James J. Berg and Chris Freeman have brought together the most informative scholarship of the twenty-first century to illuminate the craft of one of the singular figures of the twentieth century. Isherwood, the American, emerges from the shadow of his English reputation to stake his claim as a significant force in late twentieth-century American culture whose legacy continues in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Joshua Adair, Murray State U; Jamie Carr, Niagara U; Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State U; Niladri Chatterjee, U of Kalyani, India; Lisa Colletta, American U of Rome; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Mario Faraone; Peter Edgerly Firchow; Rebecca Gordon Stewart; William R. Handley, U of Southern California; Jaime Harker, U of Mississippi; Sara S. Hodson, Huntington Library; Carola M. Kaplan, California State U, Pomona; Benjamin Kohlmann, U of Freiburg, Germany; Victor Marsh, U of Queensland; Tina Mascara; Stephen McCauley; Paul M. McNeil, Columbia U; Guido Santi, College of the Canyons, California; Kyle Stevens, Brandeis U., This collection of essays considers ChristopherIsherwood's diaries, his vast personal archive, and his published works,offering a multifaceted appreciation of a writer who spent more than half ofhis life in southern California. The editors have brought together the mostinformative scholarship of the twenty-first century to illuminate the craft ofone of the singular figures of the twentieth century.
LC Classification NumberPR6017.S5Z628 2014
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