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Defiant Desire: Some Dialectical Legacies of D.H. Lawrence

Book by Kingsley Widmer; Southern Illinois University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Desire In Literature, Dialectic, English Fiction--German Influences, Lawrence, D. H--(David Herbert)--1885-1930--Criticism And Interpretation, Negation (Logic) In Literature, Negativity (Philosophy) In Literature, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm--1844-1900--Influence

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...Murdoch ," Twentieth Century Women Novelists , ed. Thomas F. Staley, London: Macmillan, 1982 , p. 16-38. 38. Martin Amis, London Fields New York: Crown, 1989 , p. 131. 39. D. H. Lawrence, The Collected Letters , ed. Harry T. Moore New...
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Every Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings

Book by John Rodden; University of Texas Press, 2006

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Orwell, George--1903-1950--Criticism And Interpretation--History, Orwell, George--1903-1950--Influence, Orwell, George--1903-1950--Political And Social Views

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...74, 79. 44. Ibid.., 76. 45. Amis, The Road to Airstrip One, 292. 46. Kingsley Amis, interview by Clive James, New Review...252-255. See also Philip Gardner, Kingsley Amis (Boston: Twayne, 1981), 13- 22, rqq...
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Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful: Alcoholism, Addiction and Early Recovery

Book by Chris McCully; Jessica Kingsley, 2004

Subjects:

Alcoholics--Biography, Alcoholics--Rehabilitation, Mccully, C. B--Diaries

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

The problem with a drunks oblivion is that it doesnt last. I think it was Kingsley Amis who wrote (Im paraphrasing from memory) that a hangover had two components, the physical and the metaphysical, and of the two...
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Contemporary British Fiction

Book by Nick Bentley; Edinburgh University Press, 2008

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English Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Fiction--21st Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Diedrick, James, The Fiction of Martin Amis: Patriarchy and its Discontents...Diedrick, James, Understanding Martin Amis , 2nd edn (Columbia, SC: University...Keulks, Gavin, Father and Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis and the British Novel...
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Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community

Book by Kenneth Womack; Palgrave, 2002

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American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, College Stories, American--History And Criticism, College Stories, English--History And Criticism, Community In Literature, English Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Ethics In Literature, Literature And Society--English-Speaking Countries, Satire, American--History And Criticism, Satire, English--History And Criticism, Universities And Colleges In Literature

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...Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990. Amis, Kingsley. An Interview with Kingsley Amis. Interview with Dale Salwak. Contemporary Literature 16 1975 : 1 18. Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim . 1954. New York: Penguin...

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Journal Articles on: kingsley amis

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Facing the Thing: The Green Man, Psychoanalysis and Kingsley Amis

Journal article by Robin Sims; Critical Survey, Vol. 19, 2007

Subjects:

Amis, Kingsley--Criticism and interpretation, Amis, Kingsley--Influence, Amis, Kingsley--Works, English postmodern literature, 1965---Criticism and interpretation, English postmodern literature, 1965---Works, Lacan, Jacques--Criticism and interpretation, Lacan, Jacques--Influence, Lacan, Jacques--Works, The Green Man (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, The Green Man (Novel)--Influence

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...Green Man, Psychoanalysis and Kingsley Amis. by Robin Sims A range of texts...seems less convincing. (8.) Kingsley Amis, The Green Man (London: Penguin...tree-devil (John McDermott, Kingsley Amis: An English Moralist (Basingstoke...
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Amis, Kingsley, and Martin Amis: Amis and Son: Two Literary Generations

Journal article by Alan Brownjohn; Biography, Vol. 32, 2009

Subjects:

Amis and Son: Two Literary Generations (Biography)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Amis, Kingsley, and Martin Amis: Amis and Son: Two Literary Generations. by Alan Brownjohn Amis and Son: Two Literary Generations. Neil Powell. London: Pan Macmillan, 2008. 448 pp. 20 pounds sterling. This is "a volume which is not...
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Big-time Shakespeare and the Joker in the Pack: the Intrusive Author in Martin Amis's Money

Journal article by Robert Duggan; Journal of Narrative Theory : JNT, Vol. 39, 2009

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Books

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...footsteps in becoming a writer, as Martin Amis follows those of his father Kingsley Amis, and in inheriting a family pub is a suggestive...friend of Martins father, the novelist and poet Kingsley Amis, whom Martin met while growing up. The name...
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Philip Larkin and Lucky Jim

Journal article by Janice Rossen; Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 22, 1998

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Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism

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...remains Copyright 1999, The Literary Estate of Sir Kingsley Amis. It is here reprinted by kind permission of Jonathan...London, on behalf of the Literary Estate of Sir Kingsley Amis, to all of whom I express my gratitude. An edition...
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The Simple Excellence of Peter Porter

Journal article by Clive James; Critical Survey, Vol. 18, 2006

Subjects:

Australian poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Porter, Peter--Criticism and interpretation, Porter, Peter--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...walkers in our educated city of an essential discovery. The volume featured three poets: Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes and Peter Porter. I knew who Kingsley Amis was; there were whole passages of Lucky Jim that I could recite from memory, and very...

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Magazine Articles on: kingsley amis

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Letters of Kingsley Amis

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000

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Amis, Kingsley, English writers, Letters (Correspondence)

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Letters of Kingsley Amis. THE LETTERS OF KINGSLEY AMIS edited by Zachary Leader. HarperCollins, 1,028 pages...malicious, but not quite serious--or not in the case of "Amis." Kingsley Amis was Larkins oldest friend. Both born in 1922, they...
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Kingsley Amis versus Vladimir Nabokov

Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 269, November 1996

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Amis, Kingsley--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1901- (Contemporary period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nabokov, Vladimir--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Twentieth century--Literature

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Kingsley Amis versus Vladimir Nabokov by Donald Bruce...different from this low atavistic form. Kingsley Amis had in his critical writings no such...pre-eminently go on about Venice! Kingsley Amis comes more and more to resemble E. M...
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One Fraught Englishman: The Turbulent Life of Kingsley Amis

Magazine article by Christopher Hitchens; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 299, May 2007

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Books--Book reviews, The Life of Kingsley Amis (Book)--Book reviews

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...Englishman: The Turbulent Life of Kingsley Amis. by Christopher Hitchens THE LIFE OF KINGSLEY AMIS by Zachary Leader Pantheon In his 1991 Memoirs, Kingsley Amis stated roundly: "I have already...
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The Amis Country

Magazine article by David Yezzi; New Criterion, Vol. 25, April 2007

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Amis, Kingsley--Works, English poets--Works, Lucky Jim (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

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The Amis Country. by David Yezzi First of all: thats Kingsley not Martin, the author...biography, The Life of Kingsley Amis, reviewed in these pages...in The Anti-Egotist: Kingsley Amis, Man of Letters, Amis...
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They Think It's All Over: The Tradition of Lad-Lit, from Kingsley to Martin Amis, Reached Fever Pitch with the Insecure, Introspective Anti-Heroes of the 1990s. but Has the Genre Come to an End

Magazine article by Elaine Showalter; New Statesman, Vol. 131, August 12, 2002

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English literature, 1901- (Contemporary period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Popular culture--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of lad-lit, from Kingsley to Martin Amis, reached fever pitch...literature. Stretching from Kingsley to Martin Amis, lad-lit was comic...this essay, Martin Amis said: "What is this...traced the line between Kingsley and me and Nick Hornby...

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Newspaper Articles on: kingsley amis

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WAR OF THE WORDSMITHS; Family of controversy:From Left, Martin Amis, His Stepmother Elizabeth Jane Howard and Her Husband Kingsley Amis

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 11, 2007

Subjects:

Amis, Kingsley, Amis, Martin, Eagleton, Terry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Elizabeth Jane Howard and Her Husband Kingsley Amis. Byline: Geoffrey Levy THEY...Ideology: AnIntroduction, he flays Kingsley Amis for being a racist, antisemitic...attacks on Kingsley and Martin Amis? Kingsley would have been far morearticulate...
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The Poor Devils; It Was Britain's Most Successful Literary Dynasty: Sir Kingsley Amis, Chronicler of Human Foibles, and Martin, His Much-Hyped Millionaire Son. All Themore Ironic, Then, That a Year after Kinglsey's Death, His Ex-Wife Should Be Living in a Humble, One-Bedroom Flat, While Martin's Siblings Spiral Ever Deeperinto Poverty

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 21, 1996

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Amis, Kingsley, Amis, Martin

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Literary Dynasty: Sir Kingsley Amis, Chronicler of Human...time members of the Amis family have had to...It is here that Kingsley and Hillys elder...the end. Martin Amis is famously sensitive...she often wished Kingsley was on speaking terms...
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Amis Was Very Lecherous. More Promiscuous Than Anybody We'd Ever Met

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 13, 2006

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Amis, Kingsley

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...By Catherine Jones Western Mail Kingsley Amis drew widely on his experiences...tropical bird Catherine Jones reports KINGSLEY AMIS, billed as the finest comic novelist...Leader, the author of The Life of Kingsley Amis. According to the book, which...
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The Little Daughter That Martin Amis Just Forgot for 20 Years; How the Top Novelist of His Generation Is Coming to Terms with the Secret Child He Fathered

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 21, 1996

Subjects:

Amis, Kingsley, Amis, Martin

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...friends, first wife of the late Sir Kingsley Amis - joined a family lunch party at...only to Seale, Amis and Hilly. Amis himself was told he was Delilahs...Kilmarnock, whose 17-year marriage to Kingsley Amis ended in 1965, who advised her...
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Martin Amis' Fading Career, More Bashing of Terror War

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 28, 2003

Subjects:

Amis, Kingsley, Amis, Martin

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Martin Amis fading career, more bashing of terror...news the other day. It seems that Martin Amis attended the launch for Madonnas much...to reevaluate the work of his father, Kingsley Amis, a figure who knew all about the fickleness...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: kingsley amis

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Amis, Sir Kingsley

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AMIS, SIR KINGSLEY a mis, 1922 95, English novelist...Z. Leader, ed., The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000); biographies by P. Fussell...2007); G. Keulks, Father and Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British Novel...
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Amis, Martin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AMIS, MARTIN , 1949 , English novelist; son of Kingsley Amis . The younger Amis, who turned from literary journalism to fiction, invites comparison with his father through his choice of career and style. Often writing satire so bitterly sardonic...
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Angry Young Men

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...achievements. Included among the angry young men were the playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker and the novelists Kingsley Amis, John Braine, John Wain, and Alan Sillitoe. In the 1960s these writers turned to more individualized themes and...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Frank Kermode , and F. R. Leavis . The period was also marked by a number of highly individual novelists, including Kingsley Amis , Anthony Burgess , William Golding , Doris Lessing , Iris Murdoch , and Muriel Spark . Anthony Powell and Richard...
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Howard, Elizabeth Jane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HOWARD, ELIZABETH JANE see under Amis, Kingsley . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

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