Auden at Work

by Bonnie Costello (Editor), Rachel Galvin (Editor)

Overview

These essays from a distinguished, international group of scholars trace the process of thinking and creation in one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century. Archival and newly available materials reveal this canonical author's composition process and artistic virtuosity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137452924
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/31/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	309
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 12.30(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Foltz, Boston University, USA Lisa Goldfarb, New York University's Gallatin School, USA Susannah Yough-ah Gottlieb, Northwestern University, USA Emily Hyde, University of Pennsylvania, USA Daniel Jean, Université Paris Diderot, France Evan Kindley, Claremont McKenna College, USA Reena Sastri, Independent Scholar, UK Claire Seiler, Dickinson College, USA Tony Sharpe, Lancaster University, UK Hannah Sullivan, University of Oxford, UK Justin Quinn, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Michael Wood, Princeton University, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction; Bonnie Costello and Rachel Galvin
1. 'Still Doing It By Hand': Auden and the Typewriter; Hannah Sullivan
2. Auden's 1939 Journal: A Wartime Writer at Work; Rachel Galvin
3. Vehicles of the Ordinary: W. H. Auden and Cinematic Address; Jonathan Foltz,
4. Stages in Life's Way: Theatres of W.H. Auden; Daniel Jean
5. Auden and the Art of Illustration; Emily Hyde
6. A Marriage of True Minds: Collaborative Creativity in the Auden-Kallman Libretti; Reena Sastri
7. Setting Out for 'Atlantis'; Bonnie Costello,
8. The Fallen Empire; Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb
9. Shakespeare's Auden; Michael Wood
10. 'Thinking-Intuitive Types': Poetic Affinities in W.H. Auden and Paul Valéry; Lisa Goldfarb
11. Auden's Preoccupations: Education and The Orators; Evan Kindley
12. Auden's Cold War Fame; Justin Quinn
13. Auden and the Work of The Age of Anxiety; Claire Seiler
14. 'No Permission to be Idle': W.H. Auden's Work Ethics; Tony Sharpe
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Index