Understanding Alan Sillitoe / Gillian Mary Hanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanson, Gillian Mary, 1943-

Series:

Understanding contemporary British literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sillitoe, Alan--Criticism and interpretation.

Sillitoe, Alan.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 197 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1999]

Summary:

Known primarily for his novels Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Sillitoe has written more than fifty books over the last forty, years, including novels, plays, and collections of short stories, poems, and travel pieces, as well as more than four hundred essays. In this comprehensive study of the major novels and short stories, Hanson reveals Sillitoe's artistic influences and the dominant thematic concerns of his works.

Hanson begins her analysis with an account of Sillitoe's early life and his beginnings as a writer during the war years in Nottingham. She carefully examines such literary influences as D. H. Lawrence, Victor Hugo, Robert Tressell, Israel Joshua Singer, and Robert Graves.

Focusing on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner; Men, Women, and Children; Her Victory; Leonard's War; and Snowstop, Hanson also considers four dominant themes found throughout Sillitoe's work.

Contents:

The making of a writer

Literary touchstones

Sillitoe and the new existentialism

The search for identity in Sillitoe's love stories

"Out of a mind" : a necessary madness in Sillitoe's "thought adventures"

Sillitoe's defiant women

Past and present.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-191) and index.

ISBN:

157003219X

OCLC:

37688272