Gore Vidal : writer against the grain

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Gore Vidal : writer against the grain

edited by Jay Parini

Columbia University Press, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Gore Vidal, known for such best-sellers as The City and the Pillar, Burr, Lincoln, and Myra Breckinridge, is a household name. The controversial Vidal ran for Congress in 1960, and set sparks flying with his public debates challenging William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer. Although one of America's most admired and prolific writers, Vidal has been steadfastly ignored or impugned by many critics. This is partly owing to the vast scope of his writings, which include more than twenty novels, half a dozen plays, dozens of screenplays, countless essays and book reviews, political commentary, and short stories; how do the critics approach such a writer? There has also been backlash against Vidal, whose radical polemics and undisguised contempt for those whom he has called "the hacks and hicks of academe" have hardly endeared him to the critical establishment.Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain is the first collection of critical essays to approach this important American writer in an attempt to rectify the unwarranted underestimation of his work. Jay Parini has drawn from the best of previously published criticism and commissioned fresh articles by leading contemporary critics to construct a comprehensive portrait of Vidal's multifaceted and memorable career. Writers as diverse as Harold Bloom, Stephen Spender, Catharine R. Stimpson, Richard Poirier, and Italo Calvino examine Vidal's work in their own highly individual ways, and each finds a different Vidal to celebrate, chide, recollect, or view close up. Also included is a recent interview with Parini in which Vidal discusses his career and his troubled relationship with the reviewers.The Vidal that finally emerges from these essays is a writer of undeniable weight and importance. As readers will agree, Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain establishes his rightful role as one of the premier novelists and leading critical observers of this century.

目次

Gore Vidal: A Chronology of His Works1. Jay Parini--Gore Vidal: The Writer and His Critics 2. Italo Calvino--Imagining Vidal 3. David Price--Williwaw: Gore Vidal's First Novel 4. Claude J. Summers--The City and the Pillar as Gay Fiction 5. Bernard F. Dick--Gore Vidal: The Entertainer 6. Robert F. Kiernan--The Vidalian Manner: The Judgement of Paris, Two Sisters, Kalki 7. Alan Cheuse--A Note on Vidal's Messiah 8. Heather Neilson--The Fiction of History in Gore Vidal's Messiah 9. Ray Lewis White--Vidal as Playwright: In Gentlest Heresy 10. William H. Pritchard--Vidal's Satiric Voices 11. Samuel F. Pickering--Living Appropriately: Vidal and the Essay 12. Robert Boyers--On Gore Vidal: Wit and the Work of Criticism 13. Thomas M. Disch--Vidal as Essayist: The Man Who Has Everything 14. Stephen Spender--Gore Vidal: Private Eye 15. Catharine R. Stimpson--My O My O Myra 16. James Tatum--The Romanitas of Gore Vidal 17. Harold Bloom--The Central Man: On Gore Vidal's Lincoln 18. Richard Poirier--Vidal's Empire 19. Louis Auchincloss--Babylon Revisited 20. Donald E. Pease--America and the Vidal Chronicles 21. Jay Parini--An Interview with Gore VidalNotes Selected Bibliography Contributors Index

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