Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski,9780783800738

Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski

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ISBN13: 9780783800738
ISBN10: 0783800738
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-03-01
Publisher(s): Twayne Pub
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Summary

The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day.

Each volume includes:

-- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought

-- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays

-- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries

-- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series

-- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments

-- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews

-- A name and subject index

Table of Contents

General Editor's Note xi(2)
Publisher's Note xiii(2)
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1(46)
BARBARA TEPA LUPACK
REVIEWS
47(72)
The Painted Bird Everybody's Victim
47(3)
ELIE WIESEL
Poor Boy Spreads His Wings
50(2)
ANNE HALLEY
[Review of] The Painted Bird
52(5)
ROBERT COLES
Steps Keys on a Ring
57(2)
HUGH KENNER
Out of the Fires
59(4)
STANLEY KAUFFMANN
A Moralist's Journey into the Heart of Darkness
63(3)
MARTIN TUCKER
Being There Jerzy Kosinski: On Still Being There
66(4)
WILLIAM KENNEDY
The Fabrication of a Culture Hero
70(5)
JOHN W. ALDRIDGE
The Devil Tree Pulp-Fiction Style, Pop-Psychology Jargon, and a Genuinely Sadistic Imagination
75(3)
ROBERT ALTER
Last Brave Wish to Try Everything
78(2)
GEOFFREY WOLFF
New Tree, Old Roots [Review of Revised and Expanded The Devil Tree]
80(7)
BARBARA TEPA LUPACK
Cockpit Jerzy Kosinski Working Out Past Imperfections
87(4)
JONATHAN BAUMBACH
[Review of] Cockpit
91(3)
IVAN SANDERS
Blind Date Love and Death in New Jerzy
94(3)
ARNOST LUSTIG
[Review of] Blind Date
97(3)
DANIEL J. CAHILL
Passion Play The Aging Kosinski Knight, Questing on the Polo Field
100(2)
JEROME KLINKOWITZ
Kosinski's Hero Rides On
102(3)
WILLIAM KENNEDY
When Going Is the Goal
105(2)
STEFAN KANFER
Pinball Grand Guignol with Music
107(2)
BENJAMIN DEMOTT
Trebles
109(2)
STEFAN KANFER
The Hermit of 69th Street The Annotated "Roman a Tease"
111(2)
JOHN CALVIN BATCHELOR
Kosinski's Mask behind the Mask
113(6)
LARRY McCAFFERY
INTERVIEW The Psychological Novelist as Portable Man
119(12)
GAIL SHEEHY
ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
131(118)
Jerzy Kosinski: Retreat from Violence
131(11)
DANIEL J. CAHILL
Jerzy Kosinski: The Painted Bird and Other Disguises
142(11)
GERALD WEALES
Horatio Algers of the Nightmare
153(8)
ELIZABETH STONE
The Romance of Terror and Jerzy Kosinski: Cockpit
161(10)
JACK HICKS
Blind Date: The Resurgence of Relationships
171(14)
PAUL BRUSS
Vision and Violence in the Fiction of Jerzy Kosinski
185(9)
PAUL R. LILLY JR.
Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski
194(14)
JEROME KLINKOWITZ
Chance Encounters: Bringing Being There to the Screen
208(13)
BARBARA TEPA LUPACK
The Kosinski Conundrum
221(15)
STEPHEN SCHIFF
Kosinski's War
236(13)
JAMES PARK SLOAN
ORIGINAL ESSAYS
249(42)
Cockpit, Blind Date, and Passion Play: Kosinski's Novel Cycle
249(20)
NORMAN LAVERS
Is There Any History in It? The Fiction of Jerzy Kosinski
269(11)
THOMAS S. GLADSKY
Jerzy Kosinski in Fact: A Master Fabricator's Nonfiction
280(11)
JEROME KLINKOWITZ
Index 291

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