Writers and Their Teachers / edited by Dale Salwak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salwak, Dale, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship--Study and teaching.

Authorship.

Mentoring of authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2023]

Summary:

By turns reflective, controversial, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

CONTENTS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

PART ONE School

1 Teachers We Remember: Gerrit Gouws J. M. Coetzee

NOTES

2 Mabel Morrill Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

3 Learning Curve Catherine Aird

4 A Way with Words Michael Scammell

5 Peter Way Andrew Motion

6 My Grandfather and My Other Teachers Ng˜ug˜ı wa Thiong'o

7 Il Miglior Fabbro George Howe Colt

PART TWO College

8 The Perilous Balance of Marvin Eisenberg Jeffrey Meyers

NOTE

9 W. Edward Brown: Many Years of Mentoring Jay Parini

10 David Milch and the Strategies of Indirection in Fiction William Logan

PART THREE Graduate School and After

11 My Doktorvater: Alvin Kernan Stephen Greenblatt

12 A Far Cry from Oxbridge Margaret Drabble

13 The Right Words Carl Rollyson

14 Remembering Allen Mandelbaum Paul Mariani

15 Sketch of a Professor: Roger Gilliatt Michael J. Aminoff

16 How Lucky I Was . . . Ann Thwaite

17 J. P. Stern: The Professor from Prague Daniel Johnson

18 George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent Robert Boyers

19 Class Struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford Dana Gioia

20 V. S. Naipaul, the Drill Sergeant Paul Theroux

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Salwak, Dale Writers and Their Teachers

ISBN:

9781350272279

OCLC:

1368049248