Donald E. Morse

Thinking Intelligently about Science and Art: Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos and Bluebeard

Brian Friel

Csilla Bertha

Mária Kurdi

"the Work Has Value"

Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry

István Pálffy

A Small Nation's Contribution to the World contains a selection from the papers given at the 1989 conference of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, with Professor Robert Welch as Chairman. The conference, the first ever held in Eastern-Central Europe, convened in Debrecen, Hungary, chaired by Professor Istvan Palffy. This selection is broadly representative of the truly international nature of the conference - whose delegates came from every continent - and of the study of Irish literature today. It includes essays on Beckett, Joyce, Friel, Yeats, O'Casey, Parker, Clarke, Kinsella, Muldoon, Mahon, Banville, Brian Moore, Edna O'Brien, Swift and Edgeworth as well as on critical issues, such as: the uses of the fantastic in prose and drama, modernism and romanticism, Irish semiotics, social criticism in contemporary Irish poetry and. especially appropriate for the occasion, the relationship and influence of Hungary and Ireland on one another's literature.

Essays on Anglo-Irish Literature and Language

A Small Nation's Contribution to the World

This book is the first scholarly study to discuss all of Vonnegut's novels against the background of his other writing, events of the 20th century, and the vast array of Vonnegut scholarship. In his novels he speaks eloquently and succinctly for his generation of Americans--the central generation of 20th-century Americans--thus making him the representative 20th-century American writer. Morse discusses how Vennegut's novels reflect the major traumatic public and private events that have gone into imagining being an American during that century, including the Great Depression, World War II, the Bomb, Vietnam, the weakening of social institutions, the vicissitudes of marriage and family, divorce, growing old, experiencing loss, and anticipating death.

Imagining Being an American

The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut

Marshall B. Tymn

The 25 essays in this collection represent the best contributions to the Tenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and reflect contemporary criticism of the fantastic including both theory and practice. Some of the writers considered in this volume are Stephen King, Doris Lessing, Rudyard Kipling, Loren Eiseley, Mary Stewart, Bernard Malamud, Orson Scott Card, Toni Morrison, Henry James and Ray Bradbury. The book also critiques television personalities, film directors, and German and Hungarian visual artists. The essays probe the essential theme of the fantastic: the testing of the limits of civilization as writers and artists explore the hidden and the repressed.

Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

The Celebration of the Fantastic

Morse argues that Vonnegut deserves acclaim as a pre-eminent post-World War II American story-teller with a sharply critical, satiric vision, who against formidable odds retains his belief in the humanity of man and the sacredness of life. The Guide surveys a vast range of Vonnegut's published works, including all of his novels from Player Piano to Bluebeard. Complete with Chronology, Primary and Secondary Bibliographies, and Index.

Kurt Vonnegut

Donald E. Palumbo

Kálmán Matolcsy

Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre included horror, fantasy, mystery and the novelization of films, often published under pseudonyms. These twelve critical essays explore Holdstock’s varied output by displaying his works against the backdrop of folk and fairy tales, dissecting their spatiotemporal order, and examining them as psychic fantasies of our unconscious life or as exempla of the sublime. The individual novels of the Mythago Wood sequence are explored, as is Holdstock’s early science fiction and the Merlin Codex series.

Critical Essays on the Fiction

The Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock

Donald E. Morse

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