A Question of Quality: Popularity and Value in Modern Creative Writing

Book Overview

This collection of essays probes the values in a variety of authors who have had in common the fact of popularity and erstwhile reputation. Why were they esteemed? Who esteemed them? And what has become of their reputations, to readers, to the critic himself? No writer here has been asked to justify the work of his subject, and reports and conclusions about this wide variety of creative writers vary, sometimes emphasizing what the critic believes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087972143X
• ISBN13: 9780879721435
• Release Date: December 1980
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"