Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald (Understanding Contemporary British Literature)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (950 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 157003561X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Insightful reading of Fitzgerald's oeuvre As an editor and writer by profession and ardent fan of P. Fitzgerald who has read every work, including the letters, short stories and criticism, I thought I had as appreciative an understanding of her work as anyone. What a wonderful surprise, then, to come across this incisive study. Wolfe does an especially wonderful job elucidating Fitzgerald's deftness with metaphor and language, the subtle, nearly off-hand references and details that belie the incredible depth of her personal knowledge and fra. The Title is Inaccurate I turned to this book while preparing to lead a reading group on Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower--thus I've read only Wolfe's chapter on that book. I was not impressed! Wolfe does a decent job of flagging significant passages in the novel itself, but doesn't exert himself much beyond that--which is a shame, because to really understand The Blue Flower, it helps to know more about its subject, the poet Novalis, than Fitzgerald gives away. Wolfe's method seems to have been to read the novel and write down. riddled with errors, avoid terence dooley This book gets Penelope Fitzgerald's religion, husband, even the details of her American publication completely wrong, and there is at a rough count an error on every page, errors of fact scholarship and taste, and many political and literary rants expressing only Wolfe's opinions. The occasional insights among the very thorough plot summaries are small compensation. Who is this farrago for? Read the novels, wait for Hermione Lee's critical biography and better critical works. Avoid this book at all
He lives in suburban St. Louis. A former Fulbright lecturer in Poland and India, Wolfe has also taught at universities in Canada, New Zealand, Russia, Taiwan, and Australia. He has written books on Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Raymond Chandler, Yukio Mishima, William Gaddis, and the Twilight Zone television series. The author as well of Understanding Alan Bennett (University of South Carolina Press, 1999), Wolfe won the first Armchair Detective Award, for the best scholarly book in the mystery gen
Louis. He lives in suburban St. . About the Author Peter Wolfe is the Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has written books on Graham Greene, Jean Rhys, Raymond Chandler, Yukio Mishima, William Gaddis, and the Twilight Zone television series. The author as well of Understanding Alan Bennett (University of South Carolina Press, 1999), Wolfe won the first Armchair Detective Award, for the best scholarly book in the mystery genre, for Alarms and Epitaphs: The Art of Eric Ambler. A former Fulbright lecturer in Poland and India, Wolfe
In this survey of Fitzgerald's life and career, Wolfe explains how the British novelist brings resources of talent and craft, thought and feeling, courage and vulnerability, to the biographies and novels that have earned her renown. With readings of a broad range of her published works, including her final novel, The Blue Flower, Wolfe describes the unfolding of Fitzgerald's writing as a subtle, ongoing process. of her success to her style. Wolfe suggests that Fitzgerald's refusal to overplay effects and emoti