Research Catalog

Title

Auden at work / edited by Bonnie Costello and Rachel Galvin.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Costello, Bonnie
• Galvin, Rachel Judith, 1975-

Description

xi, 309 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This collection of essays from a distinguished, international group of scholars offer a portrait of W.H. Auden's creativity, tracing the process of thinking and creation in one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century. The essayists look in fresh ways at this canonical author's composition process and artistic virtuosity, and at the astonishing breadth of his interests and activities. Critics have long acknowledged Auden's 'second thoughts' with regard to religion and politics, yet few have considered how much re-thinking and revision are essential characteristics of Auden's writing process more broadly. His notebooks and drafts serve as a fascinating, multifaceted laboratory for his literary experiments. Even after his writing had seen publication, Auden never stopped revising it. The essays also explore the cross-pollinations in the genesis of his works: how theater collaboration, wartime activities, film work, travelling, teaching, and reviewing shaped his literary oeuvre. They uncover neglected episodes that affected his artistic choices, and overlooked archives full of surprising revelations about his writing practice. The essays also explore manuscript evidence that shows the formal experimentation of one the great versifiers of modern poetry. "--

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Auden, W. H (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFD 15-4370

ISBN

• 9781137452924 (hardback)
• 1137452927 (hardback)

LCCN

2015012339

OCLC

903423507

Title

Auden at work / edited by Bonnie Costello and Rachel Galvin.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Costello, Bonnie, editor.

Galvin, Rachel Judith, 1975- editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-4370