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Author: Kate Charlton-Jones ,
DeWitt Henry ,
Monica Yates
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Imprint: The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.90cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.449kg
ISBN: 9780817358594
ISBN 10: 0817358595
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 29 February 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Kate Charlton-Jones offers views of the work of Richard Yates that differ in important ways from earlier interpretations and evaluations of this much under-appreciated writer. All great writers like Yates deserve to have their work read from a variety of viewpoints and sets of values. No serious study of Yates the writer and man will be complete without reading Dismembering the American Dream by Charlton-Jones. Martin Naparsteck, author of Richard Yates Up Close: The Writer and His Works Richard Yates is finally getting some of the recognition for his literary gifts that this master has long deserved, and Kate Charlton-Jones s study of Yates s writing is among the most serious, lucid, insightful treatments Yates will ever get. Charlton-Jones avoids the cheap psychologizing that Yates leaves open to facile interpreters, and instead writes with rare intelligence and taste about this gifted writer s life and career, delving into his subtleties with perception and style. I was enlightened and educated by reading it, and I recommend it highly. Steven Goldleaf, coauthor of United States Authors Series: Richard Yates and editor of The New York Stories
The close reading of Yates's fiction is enhanced and enabled by an awareness of how his own turbulent and unhappy life was explored and reflected in his work. Charlton-Jones's research is impressive, as is her ability to apply it in a focused and acute way. Enthusiasm for her subject occasionally undermines the authority of her critical voice, with the occasional slip into a conversational tone. But Dismembering the American Dream is an impressive piece of scholarship, redeeming Yates from misunderstanding and neglect. -Times Literary Supplement
Author Information
Kate Charlton-Jones read English literature at New Hall, Cambridge, before becoming a teacher in London. She returned to academia after having three children. Novelist and memoirist DeWitt Henry is a professor of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College, USA. He is the author of Safe Suicide and the editor of Sorrow’s Company: Great Writers on Loss and Grief. He was a founding editor of the literary journal Ploughshares. Monica Yates, a daughter of Richard Yates, lives near Flint, Michigan, with her husband and four children.
