Isherwood on writing /

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Author / Creator:Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986.
Imprint:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
Description:xviii, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6674920
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Other authors / contributors:Berg, James J.
ISBN:9780816646937 (alk. paper)
0816646937 (alk. paper)
9780816646944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816646945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Editor's Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The American Isherwood
  • Part I. A Writer and His World, 1960
  • Influences
  • Why Write at All?
  • What Is the Nerve of Interest in the Novel?
  • What Is the Nerve of Interest in the Novel? (continued)
  • A Writer and the Theater
  • A Writer and the Films
  • A Writer and Religion
  • A Last Lecture
  • Part II. The Autobiography of My Books, 1963-65
  • All the Conspirators, The Memorial
  • The Berlin Stories
  • The Dog Beneath the Skin, The Ascent of F6, On the Frontier
  • Prater Violet
  • The World in the Evening
  • Down There on a Visit
  • Part III. Lecture Notes
  • A Writer and His World
  • Influences
  • Why Write at All?
  • What Is the Nerve of Interest in the Novel?
  • What Is the Nerve of Interest in the Novel? (continued)
  • A Writer and the Theater
  • A Writer and the Films
  • A Writer and Religion
  • A Last Lecture
  • Writers of the Thirties
  • The Novel As Experience
  • A Personal Statement
  • Voices of Novelists and Dramatists: Modern
  • What Is a Novel?
  • The Novel and the Novelist
  • Editor's Notes
  • Index