Page Auden and Isherwood

The Berlin Years
1998
ISBN: 978-0-230-59898-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, eBook

Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art. The wide scope of this study, which ranges from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a richly detailed context for its account of two writers engaged in the process of self-definition.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Page, Norman

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates Acknowledgements Preface to the Paperback Edition Prologue: Looking for Berlin Two Young Englishmen Berlin: Places Berlin: Faces The Other Camera: Aspects of Weimar Cinema Writing about Berlin Epilogue: Goodbye to Berlin Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

NORMAN PAGE is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and has lectured in many parts of the world. His previous biographies include A.E. Housman: A Critical Biography and Tennyson: An Illustrated Life .