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The purpose of this series is to promote the study of writing in
the English language through the introduction of the major figures
writing in English throughout the ages. They provide an analytical
and historical framework for understanding their subjects. Ford
Madox Ford is increasingly recognized as one of the most
significant novelists of the 20th century. His development as a
writer is traced, and cogent analysis of his major works like "The
Good Soldier" and "Parade's End" is provided, whilst attention is
drawn to lesser works that have been unjustly neglected. Anthony
Fowles deals even-handedly with the intense friendship and pivotal
artistic collaboration between Ford and Joseph Conrad.
In this comprehensive review of Joseph Heller's work, Anthony
Fowles challenges the notion that the masterpiece 'Catch-22' is the
sum of Heller's achievement. Fowles presents and analyses Heller's
novels alongside each other and makes the case for their intrinsic
and enduring interest.
The position of Raymond Chandler in the pantheon of American
letters has long been subject to much debate. Naturally imbued with
a literary sensibility Chandler helped to revolutionise the crime
genre, bringing to it a colourful, hard edged vernacular allied to
a modern social commentary. Through the figure of private eye,
Philip Marlowe, Chandler created a contemporary knight errant whose
not so picturesque adventures trudging the mean streets of Los
Angeles helped to vividly define the moral dilemmas of a dark,
uncertain post-war world. And yet - can The Big Sleep, Farewell, My
Lovely and Lady in the Lake be considered 'literature'? Author
Anthony Fowles - who freely admits to writing half-adozen
'sub-Chandlerian' thrillers - brings to the discussion both the
detached eye of the professional critic and the sympathetic
understanding of the practitioner. It is a background which allows
Fowles to make a balanced, finely-nuanced contribution to the
ongoing Chandler debate, refusing to relegate the noir master to
the wilderness of 'genre writer' but equally avoiding outlandish
claims of literary pre-eminence. In circumventing the pitfalls and
simplicities of 'either/or', Fowles places Chandler's achievements
in a fully-realised context, enabling the reader to appreciate more
deeply the peculiar strengths and limitations of the prose lyricist
of the American mid-century.
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