The novelist at the crossroads and other essays on fiction and criticism.
- Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press [1971]
- xi, 297 p. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
The novelist at the crossroads.--Waiting for the end: current novel criticism.--Towards a poetics of fiction: an approach through language.--Choice and chance in literary composition: a self-analysis.--Graham Greene.--The uses and abuses of omniscience: method and meaning in Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie.--The Chesterbelloc and the Jews.--Objections to William Burroughs.--Samuel Beckett: some ping understood.--Hemingway's clean, well-lighted, puzzling place.--Assessing H. G. Wells.--Utopia and criticism: the radical longing for Paradise.--Post-pill Paradise Lost: John Updike's Couples.--Crosscurrents in Modern English criticism.
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English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century