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James Wood

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: October 31 1965

James Douglas Graham Wood is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist. He is currently Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.
Wood advocates an aesthetic approach to literature, rather than more ideologically-driven trends in academic literary criticism.
Wood is noted for coining the genre term hysterical realism, which he uses to denote the contemporary conception of the "big, ambitious novel" that pursues vitality "at all costs." Hysterical realism describes novels that are characterized by chronic length, manic characters, frenzied action, and frequent digressions on topics secondary to the story.

James Wood

4/5 ( ratings)

Born: October 31 1965

James Douglas Graham Wood is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist. He is currently Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.
Wood advocates an aesthetic approach to literature, rather than more ideologically-driven trends in academic literary criticism.
Wood is noted for coining the genre term hysterical realism, which he uses to denote the contemporary conception of the "big, ambitious novel" that pursues vitality "at all costs." Hysterical realism describes novels that are characterized by chronic length, manic characters, frenzied action, and frequent digressions on topics secondary to the story.

Books from James Wood

The Myth of Sisyphus

4.2/5 ( ratings)

How Fiction Works

The Golovlyov Family

Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager

Upstate

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Nearest Thing to Life

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Book Against God

3.1/5 ( ratings)

The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Novels 1956–1964: Seize the Day / Henderson the Rain King / Herzog

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Upstate

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Stories from Greek Mythology (Illustrated)

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Collected Stories

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Circuits & Slippers

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Ploughshares Summer 2016 Guest-Edited by Claire Messud & James Wood

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Tomato Container Gardening: How to Grow Tomatoes in Small Spaces

3.7/5 ( ratings)

EAT, HEAL & BE MERRY: Stories of People Who Healed The All-Natural Way