{"product_id":"seven-contemporary-authors-essays-on-cozzens-miller-west-golding-heller-albee-and-powers-9780292741997","title":"Seven Contemporary Authors: Essays on Cozzens, Miller, West, Golding, Heller, Albee, and Powers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas B. Whitbread\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e These seven critical essays, each on a twentieth-century novelist, are disparate in content, but all are concerned with the problem of evil and inhumanity and with the paradoxes of human existence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Each essay discusses a different author, but this independence of subject is resolved into a central theme through the interpretive approach followed by the seven critics. Each of the contributors presents his subject against the background of the current disillusionment and frustration of our age. Underlying each essay are undertones of the \"absurdity\" of life today for those who consider it thoughtfully, and the contrast between what men would like reality to be and what they actually find. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This unity of theme--the problem of evil, of inhumanity, of meaninglessness, the concern for the human being and his future--is developed in an interesting manner. It was exploited in different ways by the seven modern novelists discussed in the essays, and it is presented with different analytical techniques by the seven critics. Yet the reader senses the unity of feeling and purpose amid the diversity of fictional content and critical evaluation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Besdies the interpretive Introduction by Thomas B. Whitbread, the book contains the following essays: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e R. W. Lewis, \"The Conflicts of Reality: Cozzens' The Last Adam\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Alan Friedman, \"The Pitching of Love's Mansion in the Tropics of Henry Miller\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Roger D. Abrahams, \"Androgynes Bound: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e George Clark, \"An Illiberal Education: William Golding's Pedagogy\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Vance Ramsey, \"From Here to Absurdity: Heller's Catch-22\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Anthony Channell Hilfer, \"George and Martha: Sad, Sad, Sad\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Robert G. Twombly, \"Hubris, Health, and Holiness: The Despair of J. F. Powers\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592478998679,"sku":"9780292741997","price":2085.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780292741997.webp?v=1774977867","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/seven-contemporary-authors-essays-on-cozzens-miller-west-golding-heller-albee-and-powers-9780292741997","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}