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Author_Bernard F. Rodgers Jr.
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- ISBN 9780761821687
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2001
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A selection of essays and reviews published over the past twenty-five years in the Berkshire Eagle, Chicago Review, the Chicago Tribune, Magill's Literary Annual, The World & I, and other journals and collections, Voices and Visions offers engaging discussions of a wide range of modern and contemporary American and European writers. Highlights include: discussions of the posthumous reputations and publications of Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and Ralph Ellison; extensive examinations of the work of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, E.L. Doctorow, John Updike, and Susan Sontag; introductions to the work of Czeslaw Milosz, Milan Kundera, and Salman Rushdie; essays on Cynthia Ozick, Richard Stern, John Ashbery, and Jamaica Kincaid; shorter reviews of books by John Irving, Erica Jong, Aharon Appelfeld, and Jiri Weil; a history of the Chicago novel, and a selection of reviews of the work of contemporary Chicago authors such as Leon Forrest, Bette Howland, Michael Anania, Charles Dickinson, and Harry Mark Petrakis.
Bernard F. Rodgers, Jr. is Vice President and Dean, Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
