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Understanding Alan Sillitoe Understanding Contemporary British Literature
author
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Hanson, Gillian Mary.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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157003219X
print isbn13
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9781570032196
ebook isbn13
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9780585322926
language
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English
subject
Sillitoe, Alan--Criticism and interpretation.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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PR6037.I55Z73 1997eb
ddc
:
823/.914
subject
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Sillitoe, Alan--Criticism and interpretation.
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Understanding Alan Sillitoe
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Understanding Contemporary British Literature Matthew J. Bruccoli, Series Editor
Understanding Kingsley Amis Merritt Moseley
Understanding Martin Amis James Diedrick
Understanding Julian Barnes Merritt Moseley
Understanding John Fowles Thomas C. Foster
Understanding Graham Greene R. H. Miller
Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro Brian W. Shaffer
Understanding John le Carr John L. Cobbs
Understanding Doris Lessing Jean Pickering
Understanding Iris Murdoch Cheryl K. Bove
Understanding Harold Pinter Ronald Knowles
Understanding Alan Sillitoe Gillian Mary Hanson
Understanding Arnold Wesker Robert Wilcher
Understanding Paul West David W. Madden
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Understanding Alan Sillitoe
Gillian Mary Hanson
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1999 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
03 02 01 00 99 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hanson, Gillian Mary, 1943 Understanding Alan Sillitoe / Gillian Mary Hanson. p. cm.(Understanding contemporary British literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 157003219X 1. Sillitoe, AlanCriticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PR6037.155Z73 1999 823'.914dc21 9733887
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Contents
Editor's Preface
vii
Preface
ix
Chapter One The Making of a Writer
1
Chapter Two Literary Touchstones
15
Chapter Three Sillitoe and the New Existentialism
26
Chapter Four The Search for Identity in Sillitoe's Love Stories
53
Chapter Five "Out of a Mind": A Necessary Madness in Sillitoe's "Thought Adventures"
82
Chapter Six Sillitoe's Defiant Women
120
Chapter Seven Past and Present
154
Notes
178
Bibliography
183
Index
192
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Editor's Preface
The volumes of Understanding Contemporary British Literature have been planned as guides or companions for students as well as good nonacademic readers. The editor and publisher perceive a need for these volumes because much of the influential contemporary literature makes special demands. Uninitiated readers encounter difficulty in approaching works that depart from the traditional forms and techniques of prose and poetry. Literature relies on conventions, but the conventions keep evolving; new writers form their own conventionswhich in time may become familiar. Put simply, UCBL provides instruction in how to read certain contemporary writersidentifying and explicating their material, themes, use of language, point of view, structures, symbolism, and responses to experience.
The word understanding in the titles was deliberately chosen. Many willing readers lack an adequate understanding of how contemporary literature works; that is, what the author is attempting to express and the means by which it is conveyed. Although the criticism and analysis in the series have been aimed at a level of general accessibility, these introductory volumes are meant to be applied in conjunction with the works they cover. They do not provide a substitute for the works and authors they introduce, but rather prepare the reader for more profitable literary experiences.
M. J. B.
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Preface
During the past four decades, Alan Sillitoe has written more than fifty books, including novels, short stories, poems, plays, and travel writing, as well as more than four hundred contributions to books and periodicals. This writer has always had a large reading audience in his native England and in other countries such as Germany, Russia, and Japan. He is also recognized in the United States, where more and more of his fiction is being read on university campuses and by the general reading public. His first two and still most widely read works are
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