Conversations with Malcolm Cowley (Literary Conversations) - Hardcover

Thomas Daniel Young (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878052909 ISBN 13: 9780878052905

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 1986

Synopsis

This collection of twenty-one unabridged interviews puts us immediately in the company of one of the presiding literary figures of our times. This revered editor, poet, literary historian, and critic encapsulates seven decades of American literature in these conversations that took place between 1942 and 1985.

Full of insights and strong opinions, direct, salty, Cowley converses candidly with his interviewers about himself and about many subjects and personages that have shaped our national literature in the last century.

Throughout this volume Cowley gives vivid accounts of his close alliances with such widely diverse and individual authors as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, and Ken Kesey.

From these interviews emerges a literary man who inspires the reader's renewed admiration and gratitude. In the common bond uniting great authors Cowley sees the manifestation of a Republic of Letters with laws, intelligence, and confraternity. These magnificently articulate interviews leave little doubt that Cowley is its elder statesman.

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of interviews with Cowley over the long course of his career as literary critic documents his opinions on the study and teaching of writing, the role of literature, Faulkner, and U.S. intellectual history.

About the Author

Thomas Daniel Young (deceased) was Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878052909
• ISBN 13: 9780878052905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 277