Bøger af Frederick Asals

Ten years in the making, Under the Volcano is the best-known work of writer Malcolm Lowry. This study offers an extended examination of individual drafts as the novel slowly developed and, in a final chapter, an appraisal of the implications of Lowry's revisions for the book as published.

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is Flannery O''Connor''s most famous and most discussed story. O''Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, of the confrontation of a family with violence and sudden death. More than anything else O''Connor ever wrote, this story mixes the comedy, violence, and religious concerns that characterize her fiction.This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author''s life, the authoritative text of the story itself, comments and letters by O''Connor about the story, critical essays, and a bibliography. The critical essays span more than twenty years of commentary and suggest several approaches to the story--formalistic, thematic, deconstructionist-- all within the grasp of the undergraduate, while the introduction also points interested students toward still other resources. Useful for both beginning and advanced students, this casebook provides an in-depth introduction to one of America''s most gifted modern writers.

Explores the dualities that inform the entire body of Flannery O'Connor's fiction. From the almost unredeemable world of Wise Blood to the climactic moments of revelation that infuse The Violent Bear It Away, O'Connor's novels and stories wrestle with extremes of faith and reason, acceptance and revolt.

A study of ""Under the Volcano"", the best-known work of writer Malcolm Lowry. Perhaps the last fictional masterpiece to emerge from the modernist movement, this work examines the individual drafts as the novel developed, and offers an appraisal of the implications of Lowry's revisions of the book.