The Isherwood Century : Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood
by James J. Berg (Editor), Chris Freeman (Editor)
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"Best known for Goodbye to Berlin - the inspiration for the Tony and Oscar award-winning musical Cabaret - Christopher Isherwood has always been considered both a literary and a gay pioneer." "In The Isherwood Century, editors James J. Berg and Chris Freeman have gathered twenty-four essays and interviews on Christopher Isherwood's life and work. The volume, the first of its kind on Isherwood, offers a fresh, in-depth view of the author, his literary legacy, and his continuing show more influence."--Jacket. show lessTags
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A superb anthology of essays that portray Christopher Isherwood both insightfully and humanely. Reading this collection helps make the author a person who is more than merely a gay writer, but a friend , mentor, and a great gay human being.
FYI Review - This book of essays contains the following:
-Foreword by Armistead Maupin
-Introduction: The Isherwood Centry by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
Part I. Meeting Isherwood
1. Who Is Christopher Isherwood? by Katherine Bucknell
2. Isherwood in Los Angeles by Dan Luckenbill
3. In the Blink of an Eye: Evolving with Christopher Isherwood b Stathis Orphanos
4. Ish circa 1959-1963 by Michael S. Harper
5. Reading from Isherwood's Letter circa 1959-1963 by Michael S. Harper
6. Gay Isherwood Visits Straight Riverside by Robert Peters
7. My Isherwood, My Bachardy by Carolyn G.Heilbrun
8. "Write It Down or It's Lost": Isherwood as Mentor by James P White
Pat II Artist and Companion
9. A Life Open to Art by Don Bachardy
10. Portrait of an Artist show more as Companion: Interviews with Don Bachardy by Niladri R Chaterjee
11. Frankenstein: The True Story: The Artist as "Monster" by Katharine M. Morsberger and Robert E. Morsberger
12. Pool in Rocks by the Sea: Isherwood and Bachardy by Edmund White
13. Deathwatch by Donald N Mager
Part III. The Writer in Context
14. Aunt Mary, Uncle Henry, and Anti-Ancestral Impulses in The Memorial by James Kelley
15. In a Populous City: Isherwood in the Thiries by Antony Shuttleworth
16. The Dog beneath the Schoolboy's Skin: Isherwood, Auden and Fascism by William Ostrem
17. Documentary Dilemmas: Shifting Fronts in Journey to a War by Marsha Bryant
18. Strategically Minor: Isherwood's Revision of Forster's Mythology by Stephen da Silva
19. A Single Man, Then and Now by David Garnes
20. Isherwood and the Violet Quill by David Bergman
Part IV. Finding a Path
21. Christopher under the Wishing Tree by P. Shneidre
22. Christopher Isherwood in Jail by David Garrett Izzo
23. "Always Dance": Sex and Salvation in Isherwood's Vedantism by John McFarland
24. The Path That Leads to Safety: Spiritual Renewal and Autobiographical Narrative by Mario Faraone
25. "The Wandering Stopped": An Interview with Christopher Isherwood by Carola M, Kaplan show less
-Foreword by Armistead Maupin
-Introduction: The Isherwood Centry by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
Part I. Meeting Isherwood
1. Who Is Christopher Isherwood? by Katherine Bucknell
2. Isherwood in Los Angeles by Dan Luckenbill
3. In the Blink of an Eye: Evolving with Christopher Isherwood b Stathis Orphanos
4. Ish circa 1959-1963 by Michael S. Harper
5. Reading from Isherwood's Letter circa 1959-1963 by Michael S. Harper
6. Gay Isherwood Visits Straight Riverside by Robert Peters
7. My Isherwood, My Bachardy by Carolyn G.Heilbrun
8. "Write It Down or It's Lost": Isherwood as Mentor by James P White
Pat II Artist and Companion
9. A Life Open to Art by Don Bachardy
10. Portrait of an Artist show more as Companion: Interviews with Don Bachardy by Niladri R Chaterjee
11. Frankenstein: The True Story: The Artist as "Monster" by Katharine M. Morsberger and Robert E. Morsberger
12. Pool in Rocks by the Sea: Isherwood and Bachardy by Edmund White
13. Deathwatch by Donald N Mager
Part III. The Writer in Context
14. Aunt Mary, Uncle Henry, and Anti-Ancestral Impulses in The Memorial by James Kelley
15. In a Populous City: Isherwood in the Thiries by Antony Shuttleworth
16. The Dog beneath the Schoolboy's Skin: Isherwood, Auden and Fascism by William Ostrem
17. Documentary Dilemmas: Shifting Fronts in Journey to a War by Marsha Bryant
18. Strategically Minor: Isherwood's Revision of Forster's Mythology by Stephen da Silva
19. A Single Man, Then and Now by David Garnes
20. Isherwood and the Violet Quill by David Bergman
Part IV. Finding a Path
21. Christopher under the Wishing Tree by P. Shneidre
22. Christopher Isherwood in Jail by David Garrett Izzo
23. "Always Dance": Sex and Salvation in Isherwood's Vedantism by John McFarland
24. The Path That Leads to Safety: Spiritual Renewal and Autobiographical Narrative by Mario Faraone
25. "The Wandering Stopped": An Interview with Christopher Isherwood by Carola M, Kaplan show less
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- The Isherwood Century : Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood
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- The title of this volume fits its subject to a tee. There was so much about Christopher Isherwood that felt centurial in scope: from his re-modernist concern for the enjoyment of his readers to his trailblazing commitment to ... (show all)telling the truth, even when it proved unflattering. -Foreword, Armistead Maupin
In January 1941, the writer Christopher Isherwood was living in Los Angeles, but his mind was in Europe. Feeling distant from the war on the Continent and ambivalent about himself as a pacifist and a writer, he wrote in his d... (show all)iary: "I must really try to keep this journal more regularly. It will be invaluable to me if I do. Because this year is going to be on the most decisive periods on the twentieth century - and even the doings and thoughts of the most remote and obscure people will reflect the image of its events. That's a hell of a paragraph to start off with. Why are we all so pompous on New Year's Day? Come off it - you're not Hitler or Churchill Nobody called on you to make a statement. As a matter of fact, what did you actually do?" -Introduction
The Anglo-American novelist Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) is popularly known through the musical Cabaret, which was revived in London a few years ago and recently reopened in New York to great acclaim. Cabare... (show all)t was inspired by Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a group of loosely associated pieces of semiautobiographical short fiction, based on Isherwood's life in Berlin during 1930 and 1931. The Berlin stories have been a chief sorce of Isherwood's fame partly because they describe a period and place in modern history that has proven to be of incalculable and horrible significant. -Who Is Christopher Isherwood?, Katherine Bucknell - Canonical DDC/MDS
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