Weinstein Professor Philip (Swarthmore College Usa)
Weinstein Professor Philip (Swarthmore College Usa) - Jonathan Franzen The Comedy Of Rage - Paperback
Weinstein Professor Philip (Swarthmore College Usa) - Jonathan Franzen The Comedy Of Rage - Paperback
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Description: Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and both published and private interviews Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life and art from his earliest fiction to his most recent novel Purity. Franzen's work raises major questions about the possibilities of contemporary fiction: how does one appeal to a wide audience of mainstream readers on the one hand while persuading connoisseurs on the other that one's fiction has staying power is high art? More acutely how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first two novels to the more generous comic stance of the later novels on which his reputation rests? Wrestling with these questions Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage unpacks the becoming of Franzen as a person and a writer from his ultra - sensitive Midwestern childhood through his heady years at Swarthmore College his marriage and the alienating decade of the 1990s up to his spectacular ascent and assimilation into pop culture as one of the literary figures of his generation. Weinstein joins biography and criticism in ways that fully respect their differences but that also grant that the work comes however unpredictably out of the life.
Title: Jonathan Franzen The Comedy Of Rage
Author(s): Weinstein Professor Philip (Swarthmore College Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501325557
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 10/6/2016
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and both published and private interviews Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life and art from his earliest fiction to his most recent novel Purity. Franzen's work raises major questions about the possibilities of contemporary fiction: how does one appeal to a wide audience of mainstream readers on the one hand while persuading connoisseurs on the other that one's fiction has staying power is high art? More acutely how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first two novels to the more generous comic stance of the later novels on which his reputation rests? Wrestling with these questions Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage unpacks the becoming of Franzen as a person and a writer from his ultra - sensitive Midwestern childhood through his heady years at Swarthmore College his marriage and the alienating decade of the 1990s up to his spectacular ascent and assimilation into pop culture as one of the literary figures of his generation. Weinstein joins biography and criticism in ways that fully respect their differences but that also grant that the work comes however unpredictably out of the life.
Title: Jonathan Franzen The Comedy Of Rage
Author(s): Weinstein Professor Philip (Swarthmore College Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501325557
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 10/6/2016
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
