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Four Contemporary Novels : Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, V. S. Naipaul.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1983Copyright date: ©1983Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773560857
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Four Contemporary NovelsDDC classification:
  • 823/.914/09
LOC classification:
  • PR881 .M43 1983
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Angus Wilson: Diversity, Depth, and Obsessive Energy -- 2 Brian Moore's Grammars of the Emotions -- 3 John Fowles's Variations -- 4 V.S. Naipaul: Clear-Sightedness and Sensibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Four Contemporary Novelists offer accounts of the fiction of Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, and V. S. Naipaul. The author has charted the development of each writer; identified dominant themes, controlling techniques, and informing sensibility; explained what each has tried to accomplish and compare theory to practice; provided an appropriate context for appreciation and evaluation of all parts of each canon; and made qualitative discriminations.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Angus Wilson: Diversity, Depth, and Obsessive Energy -- 2 Brian Moore's Grammars of the Emotions -- 3 John Fowles's Variations -- 4 V.S. Naipaul: Clear-Sightedness and Sensibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Four Contemporary Novelists offer accounts of the fiction of Angus Wilson, Brian Moore, John Fowles, and V. S. Naipaul. The author has charted the development of each writer; identified dominant themes, controlling techniques, and informing sensibility; explained what each has tried to accomplish and compare theory to practice; provided an appropriate context for appreciation and evaluation of all parts of each canon; and made qualitative discriminations.

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