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Critical essays on Kingsley Amis / edited by Robert H. Bell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical essays on British literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amis, Kingsley--Criticism and interpretation.
- Amis, Kingsley.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 344 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Kingsley Amis
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, [1998]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Kingsley Amis in the Great Tradition and in Our Time / Robert H. Bell 1
- Essays and Articles
- Real and Made-up People / Kingsley Amis 23
- Kingsley Amis and The Situation of the Novel / Bernard Bergonzi 28
- The Modern, the Contemporary, and the Importance of Being Amis / David Lodge 40
- "No, Not Bloomsbury": The Comic Fiction of Kingsley Amis / Malcolm Bradbury 60
- The Language of Kingsley Amis / Norman MacLeod 76
- Appreciating Kingsley Amis / William H. Pritchard 103
- The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters / Paul Fussell 111
- Ending Up with Amis / Lawrence Graver 130
- Seriocomic Amis and True Comic Edge: Lucky Jim and You Can't Do Both / Robert H. Bell 141
- Traditional Comedy and the Comic Mask in Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim / Bruce Stovel 158
- What Are Little Girls Made Of? / Jeremy Treglown 170
- When the Curse Begins to Hurt: Kingsley Amis and Satiric Confrontation / D. R. Wilmes 176
- Looking Back on Lucky Jim / David Lodge 187
- Jim, Jake, and the Years Between: The Will to Stasis in the Contemporary British Novel / Keith Wilson 193
- Kingsley Amis / Patrick Swinden 205
- Entertaining Amis / William H. Pritchard 229
- The Old Devil / James Wolcott 237
- A Touch of Class / Terry Teachout 243
- Kingsley's Ransom / James Wolcott 257
- An Interview with Kingsley Amis / Dale Salwak 266
- The Curious Theodicy of Kingsley Amis / Lawrence Graver 281
- Kingsley and the Women / John McDermott 285
- Jake and Lolly Opt Out / John Updike 293
- The Old Devil / Gabriele Annan 296
- Kingsley and the Women / Hermione Lee 299
- Amis Lite / Charles McGrath 304
- Closing Time / David Lodge 309
- Kingsley Amis / V. S. Pritchett 315
- Amis Behavin' / William H. Pritchard 319
- Do Not Go Sober / James Wolcott 323
- London Times Obituary: Sir Kingsley Amis 327
- Can a Feminist (Still) Read Kingsley Amis? / Shari Benstock 332.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0783800398
- OCLC:
- 39713534
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