Albert Camus / editor, Steven G. Kellman, University of Texas at San Antonio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellman, Steven G, Author.

Contributor:

Kellman, Steven G., 1947- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights Albert Camus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960--Criticism and interpretation.

Camus, Albert.

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 328 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers original contributions, while also reprinting a sampling of some of the more trenchant earlier essays about the man and his work. Essays discuss the reception of Camus's oeuvre, themes that have inspired discussion, points of continuing controversy, and Camus's own reaction to his hostile critics. Also discussed is his most famous work, The Stranger.

Contents:

About this volume / Steven G. Kellman

Career, life, and influence. On Albert Camus / Steven G. Kellman

Biography of Albert Camus / Scott McLemee

The Paris review perspective/ Katherine Stirling for the Paris review

Critical contexts. Algeria's others / Christine Margerrison

Albert Camus and the metaphor of absurdity / Brent C. Sleasman

Albert Camus and W. G. Sebald : the search for home / Henry L. Carrigan, Jr

Albert Camus's critical reception : from celebration to controversy / Matthew H. Bowker

Critical readings. Camus's Hug / Philip Hallie

Silence follows : Albert Camus in Algeria / Robert Zaretsky

Caligula : Camus's anti-shaman / Patricia Hopkins

A reading of Albert Camus' La mort heureuse / George Strauss

Richard Wright's The outsider and Albert Camus's The stranger / Yoshinobu Hakutani

Is the absurd the problem or the solution? The myth of Sisyphus reconsidered / Avi Sagi

Space/place and home : prefiguring contemporary political and religious discourse in Albert Camus's The plague / John Randolph LeBlanc and Carolyn M. Jones

Camus's The fall : the dynamics of narrative unreliability / Amit Marcus

Pathologies of pride in Camus's The fall / Robert C. Solomon

The popular-ritual structural pattern of Albert Camus' La chute / Evelyn H. Zepp

A story of Cain : another look at "L'hôte" / Elwyn F. Sterling.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613665751

9781280688812

1280688815

9781587658785

158765878X

OCLC:

761874661