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Author : Pamela Hansford Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Unspeakable Skipton written by Pamela Hansford Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pamela Hansford-Johnson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1473679907
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The Unspeakable Skipton written by Pamela Hansford-Johnson and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Witty, satirical and deftly malicious' Anthony Burgess 'A maliciously witty account of literary skulduggery and loft pretensions.' TLS Delve into the sparkling and satirical world of Pamela Hansford Johnson with this wickedly funny tragicomedy about a destitute English author living in Bruges. Living in near destitution in Bruges, once successful British author Skipton is skulking in a café when he spies a group of well to do countrymen on holiday. Surviving on payments from his long-suffering publishers for novels he has no intention of delivering, and money from an elderly aunt, he spies an opportunity to swindle the tourists. But when an Italian aristocrat arrives, Skipton recognises an opportunity to earn even more, and conspires with a Flemish antique dealer to sell him a convincing fake. But will the conman himself be conned? 'Very funny' Independent 'If this is not a great book, then I don't know what greatness is.' Edith Sitwell
Author : Pamela Hansford Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Unspeakable Skipton written by Pamela Hansford Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191045918
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pamela Hansford Johnson written by Deirdre David and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deirdre David traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood growing up in a theatrical household in South London to her death as the widow of the novelist and popular intellectual C. P. Snow. Forced to leave school at sixteen, she trained as a shorthand typist, worked for four years in the mid 1930 for a West End Bank, and conducted a tumultuous romance with the then 19-year old poet Dylan Thomas. Thomas having persuaded her she would become a better novelist than a poet she published a scandalous first novel in 1935 and went on to publish close to thirty more in her career. A passionate defender of the narrative traditions of the British novel, she contributed many essays and reviews on contemporary fiction to periodicals and newspapers; in her own fiction, in the nineteenth-century traditions of Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens, she focused on the domestic everyday, the moral questions facing a rapidly-changing society, and the challenges and pleasures of urban life. She was very much a novelist of the city, particularly London. She also gained praise and criticism for her writings about violence and pornography, especially in her well-known analysis of the notorious Moors murder trial. With C. P. Snow, she travelled many times to the United States and the Soviet Union and at the time of her death in 1981, she was still at work on her last novel. Hers was a rich, courageous, and politically committed writing life, and this biography restores Johnson's work to the critical distinction it received when it was published.
Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108210872
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book English Literature in Context written by Paul Poplawski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of English Literature in Context, a popular textbook which provides an essential resource and reference tool for all English literature students. Designed to accompany students throughout their degree course, it offers a detailed narrative survey of the diverse historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the development of English literature, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. Carefully structured for undergraduate use, the eight chronological chapters are written by a team of expert contributors who are also highly experienced teachers. Each chapter includes a detailed chronology, contextual readings of selected literary texts, annotated suggestions for further reading, a rich range of illustrations and textboxes, and thorough historical and literary overviews. This second edition has been comprehensively revised, with a new chapter on postcolonial literature, a substantially expanded chapter on contemporary literature, and the addition of over two hundred new critical references. Online resources include textboxes, chapter samples, study questions, and chronologies.
Author : Shirley Chew
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781387869
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Translating Life written by Shirley Chew and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together eighteen substantial essays by distinguished scholars, critics and translators, and two interviews with eminent figures of British theatre, to explore the idea and practice of translation. The individual, but conceptually related, contributions examine topics from the Renaissance to the present in the context of apt exploration of the translation process, invoking both restricted and extended senses of translation. The endeavour is to study in detail the theory, workings and implications of what might be called the art of creative transposition, effective at the level of interlingual transcoding, dynamic rewriting, theatrical and cinematic adaptation, intersemiotic or intermedial translation, and cultural exchange. Many of the essays focus on aspects of intertextuality, the dialogue with text, past and present, as they bear on the issue of translation, attending to the historical, political or cultural dimensions of the practice, whether it illuminates a gendered reading of a text or a staging of cultural difference. The historic and generic range of the discussions is wide, encompassing the Elizabethan epyllion, Sensibility fiction, Victorian poetry and prose, modern and postmodern novels, but the book is dominated by dramatic or performance-related applications, with major representation of fresh investigations into Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to The Tempest) and foregrounding of acts of self-translation on stage, in the dramatic monologue and in fiction. Contributions from theatre practitioners such as Sir Peter Hall, John Barton and Peter Lichtenfels underscore the immense practical importance of the translator on the stage and the business of both acting and directing as a species of translation.
Author : Pamela Hansford-Johnson
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1473679869
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book This Bed Thy Centre written by Pamela Hansford-Johnson and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Striking first novel . . . qualities of vitality and humour which set it apart.' New York Times Delve into the world of Pamela Hansford Johnson through her explosive, banned debut, This Bed Thy Centre. . . Sixteen year old Elsie Cotton, who lives with her widowed mother in south London, wants someone to explain to her what sexual intercourse is. Her mother won't tell her, and nor will her teacher; her boyfriend Roly is only too willing to show her, but fear of the unknown and her understanding of the potential consequences stop her. As she and Roly continue their courtship, it becomes clear that the only way Elsie will take the leap into bed is if they're married... This era-defining novel - which was banned from Battersea library on publication - explores down-at-heel south London in the 30's and attitudes towards sex. The Daily Express said at the time: 'Miss Johnson will be able to write when she has persuaded herself that there are other things in the world besides sex.' Luckily for Miss Johnson, this was the debut novel that was followed by 27 other novels in a career that ended in her being called 'one of Britain's best-known novelists' by the New York Times.
Author : Patrick Joseph Duffley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315504642
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The English Infinitive written by Patrick Joseph Duffley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a series which aims to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative. The texts are ideal for the scholar, the teacher, and the student, but especially for English speaking students in overseas universities where English is the language of instruction, or advanced specialist students of English in foreign universities. Although English is probably the most studied language in the world, this is one of the first systematic comparisons of infinitives with and without the use of "to". Patrick Duffley examines these uses adopting the semantic approach, which shows that the two infinitive forms each have a basic meaning which is capable of explaining all of their particular uses. The author has carried out detailed research for this book, examining over 24,000 occurences of the infinitive, as well as taking into account the observations of previous grammarians. The book challenges old assumptions that grammar is independent of meaning and should be dealt with in purely formal terms. It also fulfils a need for literature on an area of English grammar which has sometimes been presumed to be chaotic and unsystematic. The text is aimed specialists in linguistics and advanced students of English as a second language.
Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313016585
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Modern British Women Writers written by Vicki K. Janik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th century witnessed several major cultural movements, including modernism, anti-modernism, and postmodernism. These and other means of understanding and perceiving the world shaped the literature of that era and, with the rise of feminism, resulted in a particularly rich body of literature by women writers. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes an overview of the writer's background, an analysis of her works, an assessment of her achievements, and lists of primary and secondary sources. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Author : Niamh Baker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349202886
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Happily Ever After? written by Niamh Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at the body of women's fiction written in postwar Britain, up to 1960. It examines the myth of the fairy tale ending and what changes the postwar period has wrought in subverting stereotypes.
Author : Elizabeth Popham
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442650230
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book E.J. Pratt written by Elizabeth Popham and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Library of the University of Toronto presents information on Canadian poet Edwin John Pratt (1882-?). The library offers biographical information on Pratt, the full text of several of Pratt's poems, and a bibliography of his works.
Author : D. Salwak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137079983
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Living With a Writer written by D. Salwak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living With A Writer brings together a group of prestigious contributors to discuss the writing lives of contemporary poets, novelists, critics, dramatists, editors and collaborators. What are the practical considerations of being a writer? What are the household dynamics? How do the circumstances contribute to the work? What does it tell us about the creative process? The book features pieces from well-known authors and partners in famous literary relationships, including John Bayley, Amanda Craig, Nadine Gordimer, Ann Thwaite, Paul Theroux and John Updike.
Author : Nicola Darwood
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527545156
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction written by Nicola Darwood and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the work of five intermodernist writers. Some were established authors before the First World War and others continued to write after the Second World War, but this book focuses particularly on their writing between 1918 and 1939. Elizabeth von Arnim, Stella Benson, Bradda Field, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Stella Gibbons and Winifred Watson had much in common: they all wrote novels full of comic moments, which often challenged the cultural politics of the interwar period. Drawing on the literary and critical contexts of each novel, the essays here discuss the use of comic structures that enabled the authors to critique the dominant patriarchal structures of their time, and offer an alternative, sometimes subversive, view of the world in which their characters reside. This book contributes to the growing scholarly interest in interwar fiction, focusing principally on novelists who have fallen out of public view. It widens our understanding both of the authors and of the continuing, highly topical debate about interwar women novelists.
Author : George Woodcock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349170666
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Twentieth Century Fiction written by George Woodcock and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Renee C. Fox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351512943
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book In the Field written by Renee C. Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Field, by Renee C. Fox, is a narrative account of the author's life as a sociologist. It is not a memoir in the conventional sense; rather, it is an ethnographic autobiography. Drawing on a vast reservoir of notes and documents that chronicle the span of her career, this work also focuses on the places Fox's field research has carried her.Propelled by a conviction to move beyond the boundaries of herself and of her native land, Fox has done first-hand research in Europe, Central Africa, and China, as well as in the United States. The majority of her research has centered on health, illness, and medicine. Other recurrent themes that pervade her work include training for uncertainty; the allocation of scarce resources; the relationship between self and others; detachment and concern; the particular and the universal; the harm that can result from intended good; and the questions posed by illness and accident, pain and suffering, and death.It is Fox's commitment as a teacher and mentor of generations of students that lies at the heart of this book. This volume will inspire new generations of social researchers.
Author : Umesh Dalakoti
Publisher : Umesh Dalakoti
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Target Point: English Literature written by Umesh Dalakoti and published by Umesh Dalakoti. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept behind the Target Point is that to provide overall information and facts about Literature. After the depth study of British Literature, American Literature, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, African Literature, Indian Literature in English, Literary Theories and Criticism, English Pedagogy, Second Language Learning and Teaching here we points out those important facts which not had been asked by Previous CBSE NET Exam and which have priority to ask in upcoming NTA NET Exams and SET Exams. In EXTRA POINTS, the main focus kept on the important facts and not on the familiar terms. English Literature is a very vast subject and no one grasp it within a few months. It needs too much time and proper revision and continuity. But it is the most difficult aspect for each student. Therefore, TARGET POINTS is a solution for those students who have less time to study. Once you read it, you will be realize the effectiveness of this book.
Author : Sam Solecki
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228015774
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination written by Sam Solecki and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had an Italian empire before the Greeks and Romans did. By the start of the Christian era their wooden temples and writings had vanished, the Romans and the early church had melted their bronze statues, and the people had assimilated. After the last Etruscan augur served the Romans as they fought back the Visigoths in 408 CE, the civilization disappeared but for ruins, tombs, art, and vases. No other lost culture disappeared as completely and then returned to the same extent as the Etruscans. Indeed, no other ancient Mediterranean people was as controversial both in its time and in posterity. Though the Greeks and Romans tarred them as superstitious and decadent, D.H. Lawrence praised their way of life as offering an alternative to modernity. In The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to intellectual and cultural history, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists. The resurrection of this vanished kingdom occurred with remarkable vigour in philosophy, literature, music, history, mythology, and the plastic arts. From Wedgwood to Picasso, Proust to Lawrence, Emily Dickinson to Anne Carson, Solecki reads the disembodied traces of Etruscan culture for what they tell us about cultural knowledge and mindsets in different times and places, for the way that ideas about the Etruscans can serve as a reflection or foil to a particular cultural moment, and for the creative alchemy whereby artists turn to the past for the raw materials of contemporary creation. The Etruscans are a cultural curiosity because of their disputed origin, unique language, and distinctive religion and customs, but their destination is no less worthy of our curiosity. The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination provides a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.
