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Joseph Heller |
| Anthony Fowles is the author of over twenty novels
and biographies. His is a professional writer's perspective
and this is the point of departure for this study, which seeks
to examine Joseph Heller's novels in their own terms. While
this necessarily involves taking account of such classic writers
and thinkers as Heller acknowledges and draws upon, the essential
concentration is upon Heller's own vision, architechtural craft
and above all, words on the page. Fowles shows clearly that
is far more to Heller's work than 'Catch 22' (although this
would be enough on its own) and that others of his novels will
endure. While shortcomings may be indicated, Fowles argues that
Joseph Heller at his best has extended the classic tradition
of English Literature. |
| Born in London and educated at the Universities of Oxford
and Southern California, Anthony Fowles has completed a full
length study of John Dryden and a study of Ford
Maddox Ford in this Greenwich Exchange Literary Series. |
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| "The style of [this series] has a pressure
of meaning behind it. Students should learn from that... If
art is about selection, perception and taste, then this is
it."
- Times Educational
Supplement |
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