By turns reflective, controversial, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.
By turns reflective, controversial, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Dale Salwak is Professor of English Literature at Southern California's Citrus College, USA. His 28 books include Living with a Writer (2004), Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature (2008), Writers and Their Mothers (2018), and studies of Kingsley Amis, John Braine, A. J. Cronin, Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym, Carl Sandburg, Anne Tyler, and John Wain. He is a recipient of Purdue University's Distinguished Alumni Award as well as a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a frequent contributor to the (London) Times Higher Education magazine and the Times Educational Supplement.
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Preface Notes on Contributors Part I School 1 Teachers We Remember: Gerrit Gouws J. M. Coetzee 2 Mabel Morrill Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 3 Learning Curve Catherine Aird 4 A Way with Words Michael Scammell 5 Peter Way Andrew Motion 6 My Grandfather and My Other Teachers Ngugi wa Thiong'o 7 Il Miglior Fabbro George Howe Colt Part II College 8 The Perilous Balance of Marvin Eisenberg Jeffrey Meyers 9 W. Edward Brown: Many Years of Mentoring Jay Parini 10 David Milch and the Strategies of Indirection in Fiction William Logan Part III Graduate School and After 11 My Doktorvater Stephen Greenblatt 12 A Far Cry from Oxbridge Margaret Drabble 13 The Right Words Carl Rollyson 14 Remembering Allen Mandelbaum Paul Mariani 15 Sketch of a Professor: Roger Gilliatt Michael J. Aminoff 16 How Lucky I Was . . . Ann Thwaite 17 J. P. Stern: The Professor from Prague Daniel Johnson 18 George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent Robert Boyers 19 Class Struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford Dana Gioia 20 V. S. Naipaul, the Drill Sergeant Paul Theroux
Preface Notes on Contributors Part I School 1 Teachers We Remember: Gerrit Gouws J. M. Coetzee 2 Mabel Morrill Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 3 Learning Curve Catherine Aird 4 A Way with Words Michael Scammell 5 Peter Way Andrew Motion 6 My Grandfather and My Other Teachers Ngugi wa Thiong'o 7 Il Miglior Fabbro George Howe Colt Part II College 8 The Perilous Balance of Marvin Eisenberg Jeffrey Meyers 9 W. Edward Brown: Many Years of Mentoring Jay Parini 10 David Milch and the Strategies of Indirection in Fiction William Logan Part III Graduate School and After 11 My Doktorvater Stephen Greenblatt 12 A Far Cry from Oxbridge Margaret Drabble 13 The Right Words Carl Rollyson 14 Remembering Allen Mandelbaum Paul Mariani 15 Sketch of a Professor: Roger Gilliatt Michael J. Aminoff 16 How Lucky I Was . . . Ann Thwaite 17 J. P. Stern: The Professor from Prague Daniel Johnson 18 George Steiner: Enchantment and Dissent Robert Boyers 19 Class Struggle: Donald Davie at Stanford Dana Gioia 20 V. S. Naipaul, the Drill Sergeant Paul Theroux
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