Background
Newman, Charles Hamilton was born on May 27, 1938 in St. Louis. Son of Charles H. and June (Toney) Newman.
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The Promise-keeper traces the fortunes of Sam Hooper, a young executive of impeccable cool and elegance. Hooper falls on his own sword but not before he tangles with a web of marvelous characters, his liberated married mistress, and her autistic spouse, his Negro maid who turns out not to be, assorted financial wizards lucratively regulating human folly, a retinue of rebels and pompous poets heralding in new doomsday, a psychiatrist and best of all an eccentric loan mariner bravely circumnavigating the globe in successively smaller boats, who's hilarious journey should finally sink all such visionary voyagers in the deep. The promise keeper is a book full of incidents and fun, delightful diversions, extraordinary happenings - all orchestrated with intelligence and style
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"Inflation affects literary occupations and preoccupations quite as much as it does financial scrip." Starting from this premise, Charles Newman ventures forth on an irreverent, wide-ranging discussion of the "Post-Modern" attitude in fiction, culture, and sensibility. Newman questions the "revolutionary" claims of avant-garde novelists and literary theorists, but he is no less critical of the arguments of neoconservatives, neorealists, and advocates of "moral fiction." Newman argues that neither of these groups has confronted the unprecedented break with tradition entailed by an economics and culture of inflation. A combination of cultural critique, literary criticism, economic forecast, and historical jeremiad, The Post-Modern Aura is finally a positive statement, celebrating "The Act of Fiction" and suggesting how the forces which have been devaluing it might be overcome.
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editor author English educator
Newman, Charles Hamilton was born on May 27, 1938 in St. Louis. Son of Charles H. and June (Toney) Newman.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Yale University, 1960; postgraduate, Balliol College Oxford (England) University, 1960-1962.
Instructor English, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1964-1965;
assistant professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1965-1968;
associate professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1968-1973;
professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1974-1975;
professor, chairman writing seminars, Johns Hopkins University, 1975-1977;
Professor of English department, Washington University, St. Louis, since 1985. Director coordinating county literature magazines National Endowment for Arts, Washington, 1968-1974. Director Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, since 1976.
Fellow Institute Humanities University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989. Blue Mountain Foundation, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, 1991, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, 1992.
(A New York Times bestseller and one of the Times's 100 "N...)
(The Promise-keeper traces the fortunes of Sam Hooper, a y...)
( "Inflation affects literary occupations and preoccupati...)
(His first book, published in the U.S. in 1966. An autobio...)
(Three short novels. His fourth book.)
(His second book.)