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John Irving


Portrait of John Irving

Works by John Irving


Open the pdf below for a list of works by John Irving that was compiled by the Center for the Book at the NH State Library.

Books by John Irving Available at Shapiro Library (selected)


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Criticism and Interpretation: Books (selected)


Criticism and Interpretation: Articles (selected)


Epstein, J. (1983). Why John Irving is so Popular. In S. R. Gunton & J. C. Stine (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 23). Detroit: Gale. (Reprinted from Commentary, 1982, June, 73[6], 59-63). 

Harter, C. C. (2003). And James R. Thompson. The World According to Garp: Life As a Doomed Effort at Reclassification. In J. Witalec (Ed.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 175). Detroit: Gale. (Reprinted from John Irving, pp. 74-102, 1986, Boston, Mass.: Twayne).

Hill, J. B. (1986). John Irving's Aesthetics of Accessibility: Setting Free the Novel. In D. G. Marowski & R. Matuz (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 38). Detroit: Gale. (Reprinted from in The South Carolina Review, 1983, Fall, 16[1], 38-44).

Page, P. (1995). Hero Worship and Hermeneutic Dialectics: John Irving's A prayer for Owen Meany. Mosaic : A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 28(3), 137-156. 

Priestley, M. (1983). Structure in the Worlds of John Irving. In S. R. Gunton & J. C. Stine (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 23). Detroit: Gale. (Reprinted from Critique Studies in Modern Fiction, 1981, 23[1], 82-96). 

Reilly, E. C. (1999). Understanding John Irving. In J. W. Hunter & D. A. Schmitt (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 112). Detroit: Gale. (Reprinted from Understanding John Irving, pp. 1-13, 1991, University of South Carolina Press).

Shostak, D. (1994). The Family Romances of John Irving. Essays in Literature, 21(1), 129.

Shostak, D. (2003). Plot as Repetition: John Irving's Narrative Experiments. In J. Witalec (Ed.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 175). Detroit: Gale. (Reprinted from Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 1995, Fall, 37[1], 51-70). 

The World According to Garp. (2003). In J. Witalec (Ed.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 175). Detroit: Gale. 

Biographies (selected)


Irving, John (1942-), An Introduction to. (1999). In J. W. Hunter & D. A. Schmitt (Eds.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 112). Detroit: Gale. 

Irving, John, 1942- (2005). Literature Online Biography.

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