
Henry Green
Havoc in the House of Fiction
Peter Wolfe(Author)
McFarland & Co Inc (Publisher)
Published on 30. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-1-4766-7111-6 (ISBN)
Description
By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity. Not so with Henry Green (1905-1973). He prefers uncertainty over reason and fragmentation over cohesion, and rarely lets the reader settle into a nice cozy read. Evil, he suggests, can be as instructive as good. Through Green's use of paradoxical and ambiguous language, his novels bring texture to the flatness of life, making the world seem bigger and closer. We soon stop worrying about what Hitler's bombs have in store for the Londoners of Caught (1943) and Back (1946) and start thinking about what they have in store for each other. Praised in his lifetime as England's top fiction author, Green is largely overlooked today. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of his work for a new generation of readers.
Reviews / Votes
"Henry Green (1905-73) is a writer's writer. He has endured severe reverses of popularity and familiarity, more than once going from high visibility, thanks to praise by significant critics, to almost complete eclipse. This study, built on close readings of Green's major novels, analyzes why Green is so easily overlooked and offers multiple reasons for Green's rightful place alongside Joyce, Woolf, and Eliot.... One leaves this study with a thorough knowledge of Green's oeuvre and full insight into his mastery of high modernism, including stream-of-consciousness, distorted time signatures, and fractured perceptions...recommended"-Choice.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-7111-6 (9781476671116)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Peter Wolfe is a curators' professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The author of more than 20 books, he has also taught in Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, Russia, Poland and Australia.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations viii
Preface
One. Learning How to Listen, What to Listen For
Two. Nowhere to Hide in the Combat Zone
Three. Co-Existing with the Rigmarole
Four. Straight to Sorcery Blindness
Living
Party Going
Five. The Home Fires
Caught
Loving
Back
Six. Perplexed Establishments
Concluding
Nothing
Doting
Conclusion: Waiting for the Shoe to Drop
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations viii
Preface
One. Learning How to Listen, What to Listen For
Two. Nowhere to Hide in the Combat Zone
Three. Co-Existing with the Rigmarole
Four. Straight to Sorcery Blindness
Living
Party Going
Five. The Home Fires
Caught
Loving
Back
Six. Perplexed Establishments
Concluding
Nothing
Doting
Conclusion: Waiting for the Shoe to Drop
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index