Rhoda Sirlin

William Styron's Sophie's Choice

Crime and Self-Punishment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although Sophie's Choice by William Styron won the American Book Award for fiction, it met with some very mixed reviews. Some critics regarded the novel as bombastic and melodramatic-in short, a colossal failure. In William Styron's "Sophie's Choice," Rhoda Sirlin demonstrates that Sophie's Choice is Styron's most audacious, original, and artistically successful novel to date.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 223g
• ISBN-13: 9780761821823
• ISBN-10: 0761821821
• Artikelnr.: 28959059

Autorenporträt

Rhoda Sirlin is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queens College and New York City Technical College. She is also Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Against Sacred Silences: Holocaust Fiction and Anti-Semitism
Chapter 5 Sex in Mid-Century America: "A Nightmarish Sargasso Sea of Guilts
and Apprehension"
Chapter 6 Sophie's Choice: An American Voyage into the Mystery of Iniquity
Chapter 7 Conclusion
Chapter 8 Appendix: A Conversation with William Styron
Chapter 9 Works Cited
Chapter 10 Index