Kingsley Amis
Subtitle: Antimodels and the Audience
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Apr 18, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780773541368
Description: "Throughout the first twenty years of his career, Amis used bad artists as whimsical characters, or antimodels, that helped identify his artistic preferences and fictional techniques. He became convinced that the relationship between an artist and his audience was reciprocal and that both the outer audience and the artist's inner circle must be held accountable for the production of poor literature. During the last twenty years of his career, Amis no longer concerned himself with satirizing bad artists, but instead explored ways of ameliorating them. James shows that the development of antimodels as fully drawn characters and Amis's insistence upon reciprocity in the writer-reader relationship demonstrate that he was more than just a comedic writer, and was aware of himself as an artist with social responsibilities."-- Book jacket.
Notes: Source title: Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience