Voices and Visions : Selected Essays
Overview
A selection of essays and reviews published over the past twenty-five years in the Berkshire Eagle, Chicago Review, the Chicago Tribune, Magill's Literary Annual, The World & I, and other journals and collections, Voices and Visions offers engaging discussions of a wide range of modern and contemporary American and European writers. Highlights include: discussions of the posthumous reputations and publications of Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and Ralph Ellison; extensive examinations of the work of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, E.L. Doctorow, John Updike, and Susan Sontag; introductions to the work of Czeslaw Milosz, Milan Kundera, and Salman Rushdie; essays on Cynthia Ozick, Richard Stern, John Ashbery, and Jamaica Kincaid; shorter reviews of books by John Irving, Erica Jong, Aharon Appelfeld, and Jiri Weil; a history of the Chicago novel, and a selection of reviews of the work of contemporary Chicago authors such as Leon Forrest, Bette Howland, Michael Anania, Charles Dickinson, and Harry Mark Petrakis.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780761821687
- ISBN-10: 0761821686
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publish Date: December 2001
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.64 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.81 pounds
- Page Count: 284
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