· The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews Vintage International: Author: Martin Amis: Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN: , Length: 4/5(5). The title of the book, The War Against Cliché, becomes most evident in his reviews of James Joyce's Ulysses and Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice. It was no accident that these two essays were placed side by side. Martin Amis' meaning here is that the writer must challenge stereotypical thinking and inherited societal prejudices and www.doorway.ru by: Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliché is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Kafka, Philip Larkin, Joyce, Waugh, Lowry, Nabokov, F. R. Leavis, V. S. Pritchett, William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess, Angus Wilson, Saul /5(63).
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews Martin Amis pp, Cape, £20 Buy it at a discount at BOL. Since Martin Amis asks readers "to keep an eye on the datelines which end these. The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, The War Against Cliche.: Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the preeminent novelist-critic of his generation. Always entertaining, with a razor-sharp wit and inimitable judgment, he expounds on a dazzling range of topics from chess, nuclear weapons, masculinity, screen censorship, to Andy. The War Against Cliché. "Amis is the best practitioner-critic of our day—just what Pritchett was in his prime.. We have here a literary critic of startling power, a post-literary-critical critic who, incorrigibly satirical, goes directly to work on the book.". " [An] antic, fiendishly witty and brilliant collection.".
In The War Against Cliché, Amis serves up fresh assessments of the classics and plucks neglected masterpieces off their dusty shelves. He tilts with Cervantes, Dickens and Milton, celebrates Bellow, Updike and Elmore Leonard, and deflates some of the most bloated reputations of the past three decades. The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews Vintage International: Author: Martin Amis: Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, ISBN: , Length: The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews Author: Martin Amis: Publisher: Random House, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects.
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