Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000)
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A professor of English literature and American studies who has published numerous critical works, Malcolm Bradbury is also a novelist whose protagonists are academics who make muddles of their personal and professional lives. He maintains that his main concern is to explore problems and dilemmas of toon meer liberalism and issues of moral responsibility. The targets of Bradbury's satires include intellectual pretension, cultural myopia, and official smugness. His protagonists are largely sympathetic, if comic, failures at mastering their own fates in a world of absurd rules and regulations. His major novels include Eating People Is Wrong (1959), Stepping Westward (1965), and The History Man (1975). This last, a novel of intellectual and political conflict at an English university in the late 1960s, was made into a successful television minidrama. More recent novels include Rates of Exchange (1983) and Cuts (1987). (Bowker Author Biography) Malcolm Bradbury is a novelist, critic, television dramatist, & satirist. His many books include "Rates of Exchange", which was short-listed for the Booker Prize, & "The Modern American Novel". (Publisher Provided) toon minder
Werken van Malcolm Bradbury
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 (Penguin Literary Criticism) (1976) — Redacteur — 347 exemplaren
Inspector Morse: Set Eleven: The Wench Is Dead 6 exemplaren
New Writing {sets} 3 exemplaren
The Collected Works Volume One: Rates of Exchange, The History Man, and Stepping Westward (2018) 2 exemplaren
The American novel and the nineteen twenties (Stratford-upon-Avon studies) (1971) — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
The Collected Works Volume Two: Cuts, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go, and Doctor Criminale (2018) 1 exemplaar
Furling the Flag, Part 2 1 exemplaar
Furling the Flag, Part 1 1 exemplaar
The Expatriate Tradition in American Literature (British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Pamphlets) (1982) 1 exemplaar
Composition 1 exemplaar
The History Man [video recording] 1 exemplaar
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The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry (2001) — Medewerker — 251 exemplaren
Scenes from Provincial Life and Scenes from Metropolitan Life (1950) — Introductie, sommige edities — 48 exemplaren
Great Interviews of the 20th Century: F Scott Fitzgerald by Michel Mok (2007) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Bradbury, Malcolm
- Officiële naam
- Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
- Geboortedatum
- 1932-09-07
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2000-11-27
- Graflocatie
- St Mary's parish churchyard, Tasburgh, Norfolk, England, UK
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Groot-Brittannië
- Geboorteplaats
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Sheffield, Groot-Brittannië
Norwich, Groot-Brittannië - Opleiding
- University College, Leicester (BA|1953)
Queen Mary College, University of London (MA|1955)
University of Manchester (Ph.D|1962)
West Bridgford Grammar School - Beroepen
- novelist
critic
academic
journalist
screenwriter
professor - Organisaties
- University of Birmingham
University of East Anglia - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Commander, Order of the British Empire (1991)
Knight Bachelor (2000)
Pipe Smoker of the Year (1997) - Agent
- Curtis Brown
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Nifty Fifties (1)
Booker Prize (1)
Prijzen
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 62
- Ook door
- 13
- Leden
- 5,253
- Populariteit
- #4,747
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 44
- ISBNs
- 271
- Talen
- 15
- Favoriet
- 14