Gore Vidal : writer against the grain / edited by Jay Parini.

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Other Authors: Parini, Jay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Gore Vidal : the writer and his critics / Jay Parini
  • Imagining Vidal / Italo Calvino
  • Williwaw : Gore Vidal's first novel / David Price
  • The city and the pillar as gay fiction / Claude J. Summers
  • Gore Vidal : the entertainer / Bernard F. Dick
  • The Vidalian manner : The judgment of Paris, Two sisters, Kalki / Robert F. Kiernan
  • A note on Vidal's Messiah / Alan Cheuse
  • The fiction of history in Gore Vidal's Messiah / Heather Neilson
  • Vidal as playwright : in gentlest heresy / Ray Lewis White
  • Vidal's satiric voices / William H. Pritchard
  • Living appropriately : Vidal and the essay / Samuel F. Pickering
  • On Gore Vidal : wit and the work of criticism / Robert Boyers
  • Vidal as essayist : the man who has everything / Thomas M. Disch
  • Gore Vidal : private eye / Stephen Spender
  • My o my o Myra / Catharine R. Stimpson
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  • (cont.) The Romanitas of Gore Vidal / James Tatum
  • The central man : on Gore Vidal's Lincoln / Harold Bloom
  • Vodal's Empire / Richard Poirier
  • Babylon revisited / Louis Auchincloss. America and the Vidal chronicles / Donald E. Pease
  • An interview with Gore Vidal / Jay Parini.