英国文学选读—KingsleyAmisandJohnOsborne.pptVIP

Kingsley Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) Kingsley Amis an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. His father is the English novelist Martin Amis. Biography Kingsley Amis was born south London and was educated at the City of London School, and St. Johns College, Oxford April 1941 where he read English. After only a year, he was called up for Army service in July 1942. After serving in in the Second World War, Amis returned to Oxford in October 1945 to complete his degree. Although he worked hard and got a first in English in 1947, he had by then decided to give much of his time to writing. In 1946, he was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1946 he became a lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea (1948–61). Amis achieved popular success with his first novel Lucky Jim, which is considered by many to be an exemplary novel of 1950s Britain. The novel won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction and Amis was associated with the writers labeled the Angry Young Men. Lucky Jim was the first British campus novel, setting a precedent for later generations of writers such as Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Tom Sharpe and Howard Jacobson. Angry Young Men is a journalistic catchphrase applied to a number of British playwrights and novelists from the mid-1950s. The phrase was originally used by British newspapers after the success of the play Look Back in Anger to describe young British writers, though it was derived from the autobiography of Leslie Paul, whose Angry Young Man was published in 1951. It has been used more generically, to refer to a young person who strongly criticizes political and social institutions. campus novel known as an academic novel, is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university. The genre in its current form dates back to the ea