Herman Wouk
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7658-0836-3 (ISBN)
Making extensive use of Wouk's personal papers and manuscripts as well as personal interviews with him, Beichman's focus is on the social and literary qualities of Wouk's work. In particular, he examines eight novels including War and Remembrance and The Winds of War; The Traitor, one of his three plays; and two moral tracts on Judaism. Wouk has written four more novels, including his latest, A Hole in Texas, his twelfth.
Beichman portrays Wouk as one of the few living novelists concerned with virtue, and sees his work as against the mainstream of contemporary American novelists. These, he argues, have eschewed such elements of the traditional novel as invention, coincidences, surprises, suspense, and a moral perspective more presumed than examined.
Arnold Beichman, currently a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and a regular columnist for the Washington Times, has taught at the Universities of Massachusetts, British Columbia, and Calgary. He has also written for Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and is the author of The "Other" State Department, Nine Lies about America, and CNN's Cold War Documentary: Issues and Controversy and co-author of Y.V. Andropov: A Political Biography.
1: Early Influences; 2: A Good Start: Aurora Dawn; 3: Caribbean Carnival: A Tragicomedy; 4: The Boys of Summer; 5: The Caine Mutiny: Authority versus Responsibility; 6: Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Marjorie Morningstar; 7: Youngblood Hawke: “Young Man from the Provinces”; 8: A Writer and His Ideas; 9: The Greatness: The War Novels; 10: Looking Forward: A Nonconclusion
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.8.2004 |
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Verlagsort | Somerset |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7658-0836-6 / 0765808366 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7658-0836-3 / 9780765808363 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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