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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Isherwood century. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606248401 |
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| Named Person: | Christopher Isherwood; Christopher Isherwood |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James J Berg; Chris Freeman |
| ISBN: | 0299167003 9780299167004 0299167046 9780299167042 |
| OCLC Number: | 41835100 |
| Description: | xviii, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Illustrations -- Foreword / Armistead Maupin -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the Isherwood century / James J. Berg and Chris Freeman -- Who is Christopher Isherwood? / Katherine Bucknell -- Isherwood in Los Angeles / Dan Luckenbill -- In the blink of an eye: evolving with Christopher Isherwood / Stathis Orphanos -- Ish circa 1959-1963 / Michael S. Harper -- Reading from Isherwood's letter circa 1959-1963 / Michael S. Harper -- Gay Isherwood visits straight Riverside / Robert Peters -- My Isherwood, my Bachardy / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- "Write it down or it's lost": Isherwood as mentor / James P. White -- A life open to art / Don Bachardy -- Portrait of the artist as companion: interviews with Don Bachardy / Niladri R. Chatterjee -- Frankenstein: the true story: the artist as "monster" / Katharine M. Morsberger and Robert E. Morsberger -- Pool in rocks by the sea: Isherwood and Bachardy / Edmund White -- Deathwatch / Donald N. Mager -- Aunt Mary, Uncle Henry, and anti-ancestral impulses in The memorial / James Kelley -- In a populous city: Isherwood in the thirties / Antony Shuttleworth -- The dog beneath the schoolboy's skin: Isherwood, Auden, and fascism / William Ostrem -- Documentary dilemmas: Shifting fronts in Journey to a war / Marsha Bryant -- Strategically minor: Isherwood's revision of Forter's Mythology / Stephen da Silva -- A single man, then and now / David Garnes -- Isherwood and the Violet Quill / David Bergman -- Christopher under the wishing tree / P. Shneidre -- Christopher Isherwood in jail / David Garrett Izzo -- "Always dance": Sex and salvation in Isherwood's vedantism / John McFarland -- The path that leads to safety: Spiritual renewal and autobiographical narrative / Mario Faraone -- "The wandering stopped": An interview with Christopher Isherwood / Carola M. Kaplan -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman ; foreword by Armistead Maupin. |
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Abstract:
"Best known for Goodbye to Berlin - the inspiration for the Tony and Oscar award-winning musical Cabaret - Christopher Isherwood has always been considered both a literary and a gay pioneer." "In The Isherwood Century, editors James J. Berg and Chris Freeman have gathered twenty-four essays and interviews on Christopher Isherwood's life and work. The volume, the first of its kind on Isherwood, offers a fresh, in-depth view of the author, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence."--BOOK JACKET.
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