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Literary criticism has been called a story of reading. In what
conditions have the best critical stories been told? From Jenny
Uglow's account of literary journalism in the world of Henry
Fielding to Marjorie Perloff's praise for the impact of the
Internet on poetry publishing and reviewing, Grub Street and the
Ivory Tower gives lively case-histories of the commercial and
institutional contexts of writing about writing, with an emphasis
on the vexed but at best mutually beneficial relationship between
journalism and literary scholarship. Topics include the traffic
between universities and the wider literary world in the `long'
nineteenth century; the role of Blackwood's Magazine in the First
World War; Virginia Woolf's work as a literary journalist; the
early days of the London Review of Books; and the contested terrain
of book reviewing in contemporary Ireland. Most of the contributors
are scholars who also command a non-academic readership, as
reviewers and otherwise: among them Valentine Cunningham, Hermione
Lee, Karl Miller, Lorna Sage, and John Sutherland.
Many of these stores are now so famous from film and television
adaptations that they need no introduction. Roald Dahl is well
known as a master of the macabre and the unexpected in the
tradition of Saki, and this volume does not disappoint. He began
his literary career by writing about his own experiences in the RAF
during World War II but soon developed this talent in a series of
short-story collections. He is perhaps even more celebrated as an
author of children's books, but the best of his short stories
represent a claim for him to be numbered among the most remarkable
story writers of the 20th century. The present volume includes for
the first time all the stories in chronological order as
established by Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation
with the Dahl estate.
Literary criticism has been called a story of reading. In what
conditions have the best critical stories been told? From Jenny
Uglow's account of literary journalism in the world of Henry
Fielding to Marjorie Perloff's praise for the impact of the
Internet on poetry publishing and reviewing, Grub Street and the
Ivory Tower gives lively case-histories of the commercial and
institutional contexts of writing about writing, with an emphasis
on the vexed but at best mutually beneficial relationship between
journalism and literary scholarship. Topics include the traffic
between universities and the wider literary world in the `long'
nineteenth century; the role of Blackwood's Magazine in the First
World War; Virginia Woolf's work as a literary journalist; the
early days of the London Review of Books; and the contested terrain
of book reviewing in contemporary Ireland. Most of the contributors
are scholars who also command a non-academic readership, as
reviewers and otherwise: among them Valentine Cunningham, Hermione
Lee, Karl Miller, Lorna Sage, and John Sutherland.
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Essential Stories (Paperback)
V.S. Pritchett; Edited by Jeremy Treglown
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Introduction by JEREMY TREGLOWN
"In his daily walks through London," notes Jeremy Treglown in his
Introduction to this collection, "Pritchett watched and listened to
people as a naturalist observes wild creatures and birds. He knew
that oddity is the norm, not the exception." This finely attuned
sense, coupled with an understanding that nothing in life is
mundane, is what makes these stories so immensely enjoyable.
Drawing on a vast treasure chest of writings, Treglown has selected
sixteen of Pritchett's gems, including "A Serious Question," which
makes its debut in book form here. Featuring some of the best work
from a long career, this new compilation of Pritchett's brilliantly
compact stories illuminates his legendary skills.
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