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Throughout The First Twenty Years Of His Career, Amis Used Bad Artists As Whimsical Characters, Or Antimodels, That Helped Identify His Artistic Preferences And Fictional Techniques. He Became Convinced That The Relationship Between An Artist And His Audience Was Reciprocal And That Both The Outer Audience And The Artist's Inner Circle Must Be Held Accountable For The Production Of Poor Literature. During The Last Twenty Years Of His Career, Amis No Longer Concerned Himself With Satirizing Bad Artists, But Instead Explored Ways Of Ameliorating Them. James Shows That The Development Of Antimodels As Fully Drawn Characters And Amis's Insistence Upon Reciprocity In The Writer-reader Relationship Demonstrate That He Was More Than Just A Comedic Writer, And Was Aware Of Himself As An Artist With Social Responsibilities.-- Book Jacket. Part I. 1946-1969: Exposing Flaws In Antimodels And Formative Influences. Exploring Critical Misinterpretations And The Roots Of Antimodels -- Lessons Of The Legacy, A Comparison With Wain, And The Development Of A Narrative Voice In Lucky Jim -- Defining The Self: Writing Against Dylan Thomas And Philip Larkin In That Uncertain Feeling -- Lessons In Story

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Author

Andrew James

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780773588448

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History