Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000)
Autore di The History Man
Sull'Autore
A professor of English literature and American studies who has published numerous critical works, Malcolm Bradbury is also a novelist whose protagonists are academics who make muddles of their personal and professional lives. He maintains that his main concern is to explore problems and dilemmas of mostra altro liberalism and issues of moral responsibility. The targets of Bradbury's satires include intellectual pretension, cultural myopia, and official smugness. His protagonists are largely sympathetic, if comic, failures at mastering their own fates in a world of absurd rules and regulations. His major novels include Eating People Is Wrong (1959), Stepping Westward (1965), and The History Man (1975). This last, a novel of intellectual and political conflict at an English university in the late 1960s, was made into a successful television minidrama. More recent novels include Rates of Exchange (1983) and Cuts (1987). (Bowker Author Biography) Malcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist, & satirist. His many books include "Rates of Exchange", which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, & "The Modern American Novel". (Publisher Provided) mostra meno
Opere di Malcolm Bradbury
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 (Penguin Literary Criticism) (1976) — A cura di — 347 copie
New Writing {sets} 3 copie
The Collected Works Volume One: Rates of Exchange, The History Man, and Stepping Westward (2018) 2 copie
The American novel and the nineteen twenties (Stratford-upon-Avon studies) (1971) — A cura di — 2 copie
The Collected Works Volume Two: Cuts, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go, and Doctor Criminale (2018) 1 copia
Furling the Flag, Part 2 1 copia
Furling the Flag, Part 1 1 copia
The Expatriate Tradition in American Literature (British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Pamphlets) (1982) 1 copia
Composition 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry (2001) — Collaboratore — 251 copie
Scenes from Provincial Life and Scenes from Metropolitan Life (1950) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 48 copie
Great Interviews of the 20th Century: F Scott Fitzgerald by Michel Mok (2007) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Bradbury, Malcolm
- Nome legale
- Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
- Data di nascita
- 1932-09-07
- Data di morte
- 2000-11-27
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St Mary's parish churchyard, Tasburgh, Norfolk, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Groot-Brittannië
- Luogo di nascita
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Sheffield, Groot-Brittannië
Norwich, Groot-Brittannië - Istruzione
- University College, Leicester (BA|1953)
Queen Mary College, University of London (MA|1955)
University of Manchester (Ph.D|1962)
West Bridgford Grammar School - Attività lavorative
- novelist
critic
academic
journalist
screenwriter
professor - Organizzazioni
- University of Birmingham
University of East Anglia - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (1991)
Knight Bachelor (2000)
Pipe Smoker of the Year (1997) - Agente
- Curtis Brown
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Nifty Fifties (1)
Booker Prize (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 62
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 5,253
- Popolarità
- #4,747
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 44
- ISBN
- 271
- Lingue
- 15
- Preferito da
- 14