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Author : Peter Feeney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Blind Bitter Happiness written by Peter Feeney and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedy based on articles published in Metro magazine about a boy growing up in New Zealand in the 1970s.
Author : Peter Feeney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869502843
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Blind Bitter Happiness written by Peter Feeney and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Mars-Jones
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Blind Bitter Happiness written by Adam Mars-Jones and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Mars-Jones shares his views on subjects as diverse as Gore Vidal; Martin Amis; Ian McEwan; gay fiction; queer politics; fear of the bomb; Marc Almond; and his mothers.
Author : Ian Jack
Publisher : Granta Magazine
ISBN 13 : 9780903141024
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Children written by Ian Jack and published by Granta Magazine. This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to be that lost personality in a vanished time, a child? This issue describes the rearing, loving, loathing, and fearing of children, and includes some remarkable evocations of being a child. Jayne Anne Phillips, Blake Morrison, Adam Mars-Jones, David Mamet, Todd McEwen, Allan Gurganus, Leila Berg, and more.
Author : Dennis Altman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226016054
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Global Sex written by Dennis Altman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Sex is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasure—as well as ideas about gender, political power, and public health—are framed, shaped, or commodified by a global economy in which more and more cultures move into ever-closer contact.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480330
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan written by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a thorough overview of Ian McEwan's fiction, articulating his place in the canon of contemporary fiction.
Author : Ed. Mohit K. Ray
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126908325
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English written by Ed. Mohit K. Ray and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended To Serve The Academic Needs Of The Students Of English Literature, The Companion Is An Ultimate Literary Reference Source, Providing An Up-To-Date, Comprehensive And Authoritative Biographies Of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Journalists And Critics Ranging From Literary Giants Of The Past To Contemporary Writers Like Peter Burnes (1931-2004), Anthony Powell (1905-2000), Patrick O Brian (1914-2000), Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), Grace Nicholas (1950- ) And Douglas Adams (1952-2001). Over The Last Few Decades English Literary Canon Has Become Relatively More Extensive And Diverse. In Recognition Of The Significance Of The New Literatures In English, Special Emphasis Has Been Given On The Writers Of These Literatures. In Addition, The Indian Writers Writing In English Have Been Given A Prominent Place In The Book, Thereby Making It Particularly Useful For The Students Of Indian English Literature. The Companion Is Unique Of Its Kind As It Gives A Broad Outline Of The Story And Not Merely A Brief Account Of The Plot Structure Of A Literary Work So As To Enable The Students To Have A Fairly Good Idea Of The Story. Likewise, Before Getting Down To The Writings Of An Author, The Companion Provides An Invaluable And Authoritative Biographical Note Believing That An Author S Biography Facilitates Proper Understanding Of His/Her Contributions.On Account Of Its Clear And Reliable Plot Summaries And Descriptive Entries Of Major Works And Literary Journals And Authentic Biographical Details, The Companion Is A Work Of Permanent Value. It Is Undoubtedly An Indispensable And Path-Breaking Handy Reference Guide For All Those Interested In Literatures In English Produced In The United Kingdom, The United States, Canada, Australia, Africa, The Caribbean, India And Other Countries.
Author : Irena Księżopolska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021891
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Ian McEwan written by Irena Księżopolska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a discussion of seven “canonical” novels by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, Atonement, On Chesil Beach), introducing radical new readings, which are offered not as ultimate and conclusive “solutions” of the textual puzzles, but as possibilities to engage with the text creatively, to enrich the critical consensus and restore interpretative freedom to the readers. This project formulates a strategy of “inclusive reading” – an approach to the text that does not seek to reduce it to a single interpretation, and yet is comprehensively informed through the analysis of the primary text, critical discussion, authorial comments and the context of the composition. Each reading demonstrates the metafictional structure of the texts, indicating that McEwan’s works may be treated as invitations to roam within their worlds, examining the multiple frames of their structure and the meanings generated thereby. All the chapters attend to submerged, repressed, or deliberately masked voices. The Cement Garden is seen as a multi-layered dream, with a shifting hierarchy of dreamers; The Comfort of Strangers is viewed as an inverted metafiction, with insubstantial characters corrupting more complex heroes; The Child in Time is read as Stephen’s book written for his dead daughter; The Innocent as a memory narrative of Leonard who refuses to notice Maria’s role as a spy. In Black Dogs the over-exposure of unreliability is studied as a screen for personal trauma; in the analysis of Atonement Briony’s claim to authorship is questioned and Cecilia is suggested as an alternative narrative agent. Finally, examining On Chesil Beach, both characters’ voices are reconstructed in search of the superior narrative power, which in the end is seen to be elusive, as the text seeks to undermine the hierarchy of voices.
Author : E. Horton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137350202
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Crisis Fictions written by E. Horton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political credentials, at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project.
Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 162356350X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction written by Philip Tew and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British fiction? Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail. Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a 'heritage industry' during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural changes. Viewed from the perspective of more recent theorisations of crisis following both 9/11 and the 21st-century financial crash, this study makes sense of why and how writers of the 1980s constructed fictions in response to this decade's own set of fundamental crises.
Author : Thomas Harding
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639364463
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book The Maverick written by Thomas Harding and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld, from his struggles as an Austrian-Jewish refugee in London to his rise as a world-renowned literary figure. After arriving in London just before World War Two as a penniless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita, Double Helix, The Group, and The Hedgehog and the Fox, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, JD Salinger, and Edna O’Brien to Henry Miller, Harold Wilson, Saul Bellow, and Henry Kissinger. His role as publisher brought him into the orbit of influential figures such as George Bush, Ann Getty, Donald Trump, and LBJ. In this first biography, Thomas Harding provides a full, unvarnished, and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character. Throughout his long career, he was written about in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, and other publications. Was he, as described by some, the “greatest salesperson,” “the world’s best networker,” “the publisher’s publisher,” and “a great intellectual”? Was his lifelong effort to be the world’s most famous host a cover for his desperate loneliness? Who, in fact, was the real George Weidenfeld and how did he rise so successfully within the ranks of New York and London society? Drawing on author correspondence, internal memos, and other documents buried deep in the secret publishing files of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Harding crafts a portrait of the publisher's life that is inextricable from the efforts and intricacies of putting a book into the world. Structured around twenty books associated with George Weidenfeld, and intercut with explorations of contemporary concerns such as cancel culture, the right to publish, freedom of speech, and separating the art from the artist, The Maverick tells the captivating story behind the life of this iconic publisher.
Author : Joseph Brooker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748669043
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Literature of the 1980s written by Joseph Brooker and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates developments in fiction, poetry and drama to social change - from the new generation of London novelists such as Martin Amis and Ian McEwan to the impact of feminism in the writing of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669665
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 written by Dominic Head and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most current, wide-ranging, and accessible introduction on the post-war novel in Britain available.
Author : Meta Lander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Marion Graham; Or, "Higher Than Happiness." written by Meta Lander and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Novelists Since 1960 written by Merritt Moseley and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960.
Author : James Tate Hill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393867188
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir written by James Tate Hill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2021 A writer’s humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight—and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. When high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for C’s in his classes, he tried to escape the stigma by pretending he could still see. In this unfailingly candid yet humorous memoir, Hill discloses the tricks he employed to pass for sighted, from displaying shelves of paperbacks he read on tape to arriving early on first dates so women would have to find him. He risked his life every time he crossed a street, doing his best to listen for approaching cars. A good memory and pop culture obsessions like Tom Cruise, Prince, and all things 1980s allowed him to steer conversations toward common experiences. For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, his blurry peripheral vision would bring the world into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his apartment, he began to wonder if there was a better way.
Author : Saamdu Chetri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819926378
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Happiness written by Saamdu Chetri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains contributions from diverse perspectives and traditions that focus on reflections and happiness practices. It addresses diversity in happiness and eastern and western thoughts and practices by contributing authors from around the world from varied backgrounds. The book provides ample avenue for readers and researchers to broaden their horizons and deepen their understanding of various aspects of happiness culturally and conceptually. It opens opportunities for exploring and understanding how happiness can be practiced, experienced, taught, and learned in various contexts, thus assisting both educators and interested readers to create opportunities for themselves or their students to engage in diverse and creative happiness explorations. This book is a crucial resource for teachers, educators, students, and researchers involved in the science and practice of happiness. It enables them to find new avenues to understand happiness from different perspectives, understanding inner and outer spaces and other dimensions of happiness. It serves as an essential reference for academicians in related fields of psychology, such as cross-cultural, social, and developmental, as well as in the upcoming field of happiness studies.
