Writing for Balance: A Conversation with Doris Lessing

Earl G. Ingersoll has edited a collection of interviews with Doris Lessing, which OR Press will be publishing this spring. He teaches at SUNY College in Brockport, New York. Doris Lessing has published over 30 books, most recently African Laughter and The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches, both from HarperCollins 1992. She lives in London

Living on the Precipice: A Conversation with Edward Albee

An edited version of the Writers Forum interview dated February 5, 1981. Speaking with Edward Albee were Stan Sanvel Rubin, the current director of·the Forum; Adam Lazarre, the former Dean of Fine Arts; and Mark Anderson, who teaches Renaissance and contemporary drama

\u27Loosening the Emotional Knot \u27: A Conversation with Carolyn Forche

Poets Harriet Susskind and Stan Sanvel Rubin, speak with poet Carolyn Forche during a Writers Forum interview at the State University of New York College at Brockport on November 3, 1982. This interview was edited by Earl Ingersoll and Stan Sanvel Rubin

Waiting for the End: Gender and Ending in the Contemporary Novel

Waiting for the End examines two dozen contemporary novels as demonstrations of the continuing concern with the gender of ending in narrative. Traditional concepts of the role of ending came under question in the later twentieth century, as feminists began to argue that the structure of rising action and climax was patently masculinist. The effort to theorize alternatives to that structure was echoed by contemporary novelists, male as well as female, who sought to complicate conventional notions of ending. Often those complications of ending(s) have spoken to a growing awareness that ending in narrative is artificial and that plot structure and ending need to make gestures toward the reader\u27s sense that while narrative may end, what narrative attempts to represent will always evade the artifice of fiction.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/bookshelf/1009/thumbnail.jp

Filming Forster : The Challenges in Adapting E.M. Forster\u27s Novels for the Screen

By Earl G. Ingersoll, College at Brockport faculty emeritus. Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E. M. Forster\u27s novels. Rather than follow the older comparative approach, which typically damned the film for not being faithful to the novel, this project explores the interactive relationship between film and novel. That relationship is implicit in the title Filming Forster, rather than Forster Filmed, which would suggest a completed process. A film adaptation forever changes the novel from which it was adapted, just as a return to the novel changes the viewer\u27s perceptions of the film. Adapting Forster\u27s novels for the screen was postponed until well after the author\u27s death in 1970 because the trustees of the author\u27s estate fulfilled his wish that his work not be filmed. Following the appearance of David Lean\u27s film A Passage to India in 1984, four other film adaptations were released within seven years. Perhaps the most important was the Merchant Ivory production of Maurice, based upon Forster\u27s gay novel, published a year after his death. That film was among the first to approach same-sex relationships between men in a serious, respectful, and generally optimistic manner. --Back coverhttps://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/bookshelf/1380/thumbnail.jp

Conversations with Anthony Burgess

Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll [College at Brockport emeritus] and Mary C. Ingersoll.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/bookshelf/1090/thumbnail.jp