The American-born English sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), known principally for his expressively modeled portrait busts, periodically returned to direct carving throughout his career, predomin...
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Critical Essay by Daphne Merkin
[Wild Oats] is about college—that haven of deferred responsibilities—and unrequited love and identity-crisis; in short, everything that goes along with b...
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Critical Essay by Anne Tyler
There's an immediacy to ["Wild Oats"] that is lacking in other, more distantly written college novels. The endless round of classes, overdue papers, ...
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Critical Essay by Josh Rubins
[Wild Oats is] a slight, imperfect, but wisely funny and eminently publishable first novel…. (p. 43)
[Billy's] nebbishly Galahad act, which owes rather ...
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Critical Essay by Blake Morrison
Wild Oats is at one level the archetypal campus novel, with the usual set-pieces (boring lectures, dope and drinking escapades, cheating and cramming), and one outsta...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Fender
Wild Oats looks at first like a late 1970s remake of The Catcher in the Rye. Once again it's the youth who act responsibly and the adults (in this case casualt...
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Critical Essay by Darryl Pinckney
When Wild Oats by Jacob Epstein appeared in 1979, I read it with pleasure. It seemed to me a typical first novel, very much in the American grain. Divorced parents, ...
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In the following essay, Wunscher praises the magical elements of Epstein's work, noting that their lack of dialogue provides a more pure cinematic experience.
Being about the same age as the...
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In the following excerpt, which was originally published in French in 1974 as part of Ecrits sur le cinema, Epstein expounds on the cinematic concepts of the closeup and the different means by which h...
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In the following essay, Abel examines narrative progression in several segments of The Fall of the House of Usher.
Jean Epstein's La Chute de la Maison Usher (1928) interests me for several ...
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In the following essay, Thiher acknowledges Epstein 's work as a significant precursor of the cinematic avantgarde movement.
It is surprising today to recall that French film producers once ...
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Question 1 of 10:
Dirk
was an artist before he was an actor. During this period he was taught by which famed sculptor?a)
Pablo
Picasso
(0)b)
Barbara
Hepworth
(0)c)
Jacob
Epstein
(0)d)
Henr...
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Jacob Epstein, Sir
Critical Essay by Daphne Merkin
Mr Suave: A DirkBogarde Quiz
