The novelist at the crossroads
Subtitle: and other essays on fiction and criticism.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The novelist at the crossroads.; title: Waiting for the end: current novel criticism.; title: Towards a poetics of fiction: an approach through language.; title: Choice and chance in literary composition: a self-analysis.; title: Graham Greene.; title: The uses and abuses of omniscience: method and meaning in Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie.; title: The Chesterbelloc and the Jews.; title: Objections to William Burroughs.; title: Samuel Beckett: some ping understood.; title: Hemingway's clean, well-lighted, puzzling place.; title: Assessing H. G. Wells.; title: Utopia and criticism: the radical longing for Paradise.; title: Post-pill Paradise Lost: John Updike's Couples.; title: Crosscurrents in Modern English criticism.