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9780911198171 Academic Inspection Copy

In an Iron Time

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  • ISBN-13: 9780911198171
  • Publisher: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By R.V. Cassill
  • Price: AUD $78.99
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  • Local release date: 28/09/2009
  • Format: Hardback (241.00mm X 159.00mm) 131 pages Weight: 7257g
  • Categories: Prose: non-fiction [DN]
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In this volume, R.V. Cassill has put together a collection of his own essays, which he refers to as "a personal, critical appraisal of the crisis of our time as it is reflected, primarily, in literature." As a writer and critic, he is concerned about the prevailing American view of art that equates excellence and quality with price and best-sellerdom. His primary concern is literature, the idolatry of "great books" that confuses literature as art with literature as print, but he also expresses anxiety about other forms of art: the parochial art museum that hopes its existence will cause culture to sift down from the top, and the foundation and government subsidy of the arts that cause all art forms to reduce themselves to an audience-performer relationship. Cassill digs deep into his own experiences in an attempt to pin down and search out answers to the crisis in the arts. His essays will provoke thought and discussion among all those who are concerned about eh present and future of the creative arts in America and will be of special interest to students of creative writing and of literature in general.
A prolific writer, Cassill has authored over 20 novels, including Clem Anderson (1961), The President (1964), The Goss Women (1974), Hoyt's Child (1976), Labors of Love (1980), and After Goliath (1985). In addition, his story collections include The Father (1965) and The Happy Marriage (1967), and in 1989 the University of Arkansas Press published his 650-page Collected Stories. Cassill's own life demonstrates extraordinary achievement emerging from an ordinary life of writing and teaching. Born in 1919 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, he studied art, but after Army service in the South Pacific during World War II, he turned his attention toward writing and publishing fiction. He has taught writing and literature at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Purdue, Columbia, Harvard, and most recently as professor emeritus of English at Brown. He currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island. Besides writing fiction, he has published a teaching text, Writing Fiction, and edited both the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. His honors include Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim fellowships.
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