Conversations with Jay Parini - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1496830784 ISBN 13: 9781496830784

Casa editrice: University Press of Mississippi, 2020

Riassunto

Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and John Steinbeck; novels; and literary and cultural criticism. This book contains the most important interviews with the former Guggenheim fellow; former Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford; and former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London.

Parini's work is valuable not just because of its high quality and intellectual range. Parini's life and writings often seem like a seminar table, with friends gathered, talking and trading stories. He has openly written poems in conversation with writers he knew personally: Robert Penn Warren, Gore Vidal, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He has, in his own life, kept an ongoing conversation with many literary friends over the years—Alastair Reid, Seamus Heaney, Anne Stevenson, Ann Beattie, Julia Alvarez, Peter Ackroyd, A. N. Wilson, and countless others.

These interviews offer a more comprehensive understanding of Parini's work as a poet, scholar, public intellectual, literary critic, intellectual historian, biographer, novelist, and biographical novelist. More importantly, these interviews will contribute to our understanding of the history of ideas, the condition of knowledge, and the state of literature, all of which Parini has played an important role in shaping.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Lackey is professor of English and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He has authored and edited nine books, mostly about the origins and evolution of the genre of biofiction. He is editor of Conversations with Joanna Scott, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University Press of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1496830784
• ISBN 13: 9781496830784
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 188
• Redattore: Lackey Michael
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile