Ebook: Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: 1946-1969: Exposing Flaws in Antimodels and Formative Influences; 1 Exploring Critical Misinterpretations and the Roots of Antimodels; 2 Lessons of The Legacy, a Comparison with Wain, and the Development of a Narrative Voice in Lucky Jim; 3 Defining the Self: Writing Against Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin in That Uncertain Feeling; 4 Lessons in Storytelling: Graham Greene, Modernism, and I Like It Here; 5 Experiments in Content: William Empson, Ambiguity, and Take a Girl Like You.