Writers and Their Mothers
Features contributions from a selection of world-famous authors and academics Includes some autobiographical and deeply personal meditations on the relationship between writer and mother, as well as studies on other writers' relationships with their mothers Features poems from renowned poets on their mothers
| ISBN: | 9783319683478 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 258 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Salwak, Dale |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 27.02.2018 |
| Schlagworte: | Andrew Motion British and Irish Literature Ian McEwan Jeffrey Meyers Margaret Drabble Martin Amis Maternal Motherhood Rita Dove William Golding |
Dale Salwak is Professor of English Literature at Southern California’s Citrus College, USA. His publications include Living with a Writer (Palgrave, 2004), Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature (2008) 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 .