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Lord Gnome's Literary Companion

Author : Francis Wheen
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859840450
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Lord Gnome's Literary Companion written by Francis Wheen and published by Verso. This book was released on 1994 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His review has got to be 'in' by mid-day tomorrow ... at about 9 pm his mind will grow relatively clear, and until the small hours he will sit ... skipping expertly through one book after another and laying each one down with the comment, 'God, what tripe!' ... Then suddenly he will snap into it. All the stale old phrases--'a book that no one should miss', 'something memorable on every page'--jump into their places like iron filings obeying the magnet. Thus did George Orwell, writing forty years ago in Confessions of a Book Reviewer, describe the labours of a typical literary hack. Precious little has changed over the intervening decades; the servility of the satirical magazine Private Eye. Lord Gnome's Literary Companion assembles, in thematic order, the best of these columns to present an astringent, rude and funny survey of publishers and the published.

H, V., & O

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719052958
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book H, V., & O written by Sandie Byrne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.' Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation made gothic, this collection of essays explores an emerging globalgothic that is simultaneously a continuation of the western tradition and a wholesale transformation of that tradition which expands the horizons of the gothic in diverse new and exciting ways.Globalgothic contains essays from some of the leading scholars in gothic studies as well as offering insights from new scholars in the field. The contributors consider a wide range of different media, including literary texts, film, dance, music, cyberculture, computer games, and graphic novels. This book will be essential reading for all students and academics interested in the gothic, in international literature, cinema, and cyberspace.

The American Popular Novel After World War II

Author : David Willbern
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474505
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The American Popular Novel After World War II written by David Willbern and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the perspectives of selected best-selling novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--including The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Jaws, Beloved, The Silence of the Lambs, and Jurassic Park--this book examines the crucial issues the U.S. was experiencing during those decades. These novels represent the voices of popular conversations, as Americans considered issues of family, class, racism and sexism, feminism, economic ambition, sexual violence, war, law, religion and science. Through the windows of fiction, the book surveys the Cold War and anti-communism, the prefeminist era of the 1950s and the sexual revolution of the 1970s, forms of corporate power in the 1960s and 1980s, the traumatic legacies of slavery and Vietnam, the American fascination with lawyers, cops and criminals, alternate styles of romance in the era of late capitalism, our abiding distrust of science, and our steadfast wonder about the Great Mysteries.

The Prose Factory

Author : D J Taylor
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473524946
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Prose Factory written by D J Taylor and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An entertaining history of literary life’ Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph Spanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles fought between Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists to the impact of creative writing degrees and the media don of today and taking in ‘star reviewers’, sniping critics, caballing editors and megalomaniac professors along the way, The Prose Factory explores the myriad influences on English literary life in the past century and the way in which they have shaped our preferences. ‘An amazing achievement’ David Lodge ‘A pleasingly gossipy history of literary life in England since 1918...very enjoyable’ Observer ‘Elegantly written, defiantly intelligent, scrupulously researched and richly enjoyable’ Mail on Sunday

A History of the Booker Prize

Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000433412
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Booker Prize written by Merritt Moseley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also functions as an example of literary criticism for each of the books involved, analyzing the judging process and the winning books. Exploring themes such as literary vs. popular fiction, the role of Postcolonial work in what began as a very "British" prize, the role of marketing, publishing, and the Booker organization itself, the book offers a crucial view into literary prize culture. The book spends time looking at exclusions, as well as the overall role and function of the literary prize. What books aren’t included and why? Why has the Booker become so significant? This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in, or studying, contemporary literature, literary prizes, literary culture and British literature, as well as publishing studies.

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

Author : Francis Wheen
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0786723521
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World written by Francis Wheen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of Enlightenment values, which have been displaced by nonsense. And no country has a more vivid parade of the bogus and bizarre than the one founded to embody Enlightenment values: the USA. In turn comic, indignant, outraged, and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World is a masterful depiction of the absurdity of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.

Understanding Julian Barnes

Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570031403
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Julian Barnes written by Merritt Moseley and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the divergent works of a daring English writer.

The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975

Author : Clare Hanson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137477369
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975 written by Clare Hanson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion.

British Novelists Since 1960

Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Novelists Since 1960 written by Merritt Moseley and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960.

New Statesman Society

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Statesman Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Current Contents. Arts & Humanities

Author : Institute for scientific information (Philadelphie, Pa).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Current Contents. Arts & Humanities written by Institute for scientific information (Philadelphie, Pa). and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ThirdWay

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.

A.U.M.L.A.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A.U.M.L.A. written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who's who in the Media

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Publisher : Guardian Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in the Media written by and published by Guardian Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new guide to Who's Who in the media, researched and compiled by the team responsible for the Media Directory, this companion title contains in-depth profiles of the UK's top 1000 movers and shakers in the media industry.....The most influential men and women in journalism, PR, marketing, newspapers, magazines, film, radio and TV give, in their own words, a thumbnail sketch of their career highlights, big breaks, mentors - and mistakes - as well as what they read, watch, listen to, and relax with.....The guide also gives contact details, including phone numbers and email addresses.

Books in Print

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

London Calling

Author : Sukhdev Sandhu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
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Download or read book London Calling written by Sukhdev Sandhu and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black authors of the 18th century were powerful figures: out walking near Charing Cross with one of his artist friends, Ignatius Sancho was accosted by a young fop who cried out to his friend, Smoke Othello. Sancho placed himself across the path and exclaimed in booming tones, Aye, Sir, such Othellos you meet with but once in a century. Such Iagos as you, we meet with in every dirty passage. Proceed, Sir

British and Irish Novelists Since 1960

Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British and Irish Novelists Since 1960 written by Merritt Moseley and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2003 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on British and Irish novelists discusses the combination of desperation and avant-gardism, bestsellers, masterpieces, competing technologies, hyper fiction, the future of the novel, recent changes in British publishing, and the increase in writings by celebrity authors.