Madness of Art

Interviews with Poets and Writers

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Robert Phillips

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Hardback

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This work includes insightful interviews with eigth masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, and Marya Zaturenska. Taken from a passage by Henry James, the title speaks to the ""madness"" that drives our greatest works of creativity.Robert Phillips questions his interviewees about their work methods, daily lives, influences, sources of inspiration, relationship to other literary figures, response to critics, choice of genre, and reasons for writing.

Author Biography:

Robert Phillips is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston. He has published numerous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and editions of literary works, including The New Selected Poems of Marya Zaturenska, also published by Syracuse University Press.

Release date Australia

March 30th, 2003

Author

Robert Phillips

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

221

Dimensions

161x238x20

ISBN-13

9780815607830

Product ID

3717966

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