Kingsley Amis : antimodels and the audience / Andrew James.
Kingsley Amis : antimodels and the audience / Andrew James.
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Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2013.
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G 2014/1420
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English
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xi, 280 p. : facsims. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Part I. 1946-1969 : exposing flaws in antimodels and formative influences. Exploring critical misinterpretations and the roots of antimodels -- Lessons of The legacy, a comparison with Wain, and the development of a narrative voice in Lucky Jim -- Defining the self: writing against Dylan Thomas and...
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Publisher
Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2013.
Place of Publication
Québec (Province)
Date Published
c2013.
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Throughout the first twenty years of his career, Amis used bad artists as whimsical characters, or antimodels, that helped identify his artistic preferences and fictional techniques. He became convinced that the relationship between an artist and his audience was reciprocal and that both the outer audience and the artist's inner circle must be held...
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Kingsley Amis : antimodels and the audience / Andrew James.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-264) and index.
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c2013.
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G 2014/1420
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74VKMXRW43p3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKMXRW43p3
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ISBN
0773541365
9780773541368
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828/.91409
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991021242569702626
