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Author : Robert Wilcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Understanding Arnold Wesker written by Robert Wilcher and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold Wesker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815311782
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Arnold Wesker written by Arnold Wesker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad reference on London Jewish playwright Wesker (b. 1932) and his work, considering the politics in his plays, biographical aspects, historical perspectives, critical approaches, and the critical response. The 18 original essays discuss the failure and promise of socialism as personal contact in Roots, writing for radio in Yardsdale, the modernity of The Kitchen, women in his later plays, and other topics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Arnold Wesker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472574613
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Roots written by Arnold Wesker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1958. Beatie Bryant has been to London and fallen in love with Ronnie, a young socialist. As she anxiously awaits his arrival to meet her family at their Norfolk farm, her head is swimming with new ideas. Ideas of a bolder, freer world which promise to clash with their rural way of life. Roots is the remarkable centrepiece of Wesker's seminal post-war trilogy. It was first performed in 1959 at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, before transferring to the Royal Court. It is the second play in a trilogy comprising Chicken Soup with Barley and I'm Talking About Jerusalem. It went on to transfer to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End. A true classic, Roots is an affecting portrait of a young woman finding her voice at a time of unprecedented social change. This Modern Classic edition features an introduction by Glenda Leeming.
Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570032806
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Understanding Alan Bennett written by Peter Wolfe and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the actor, director, playwright and lyricist, Alan Bennett. Peter Wolfe demonstrates that Alan Bennett's success in many spheres was no fluke, and his theatrical eminence has always been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play Single Spies won the Oliver Award as England's Best Comedy in 1989. The casts of his plays, starting with Forty Years On in 1968, have included such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates and Daniel Day Lewis. His screenwriting earned The Madness of King George a nomination for an Academy Award. This book seeks to illuminate the writer whose instinct for artistic choices has helped him to succeed on his own terms.
Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035159
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Understanding Graham Swift written by David Malcolm and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Malcolm discusses the novelist's use of major twentieth-century historical events to shape and deform the lives of his characters; his focus on the distortions and evasions that characterize the discussion of personal, local, and national histories; and his fascination with the complexities, sufferings, and joys that mark individual lives. Malcolm suggests that despite Swift's dark vision of human suffering, he tempers his writing with an intermittent focus on that which can redeem our failures, our losses, and our cruelties."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Cheryl Browning Bove
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872498761
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)
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Author : Gillian Mary Hanson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570032196
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Understanding Alan Sillitoe written by Gillian Mary Hanson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Alan Sillitoe offers a lucid appraisal of the life and works of the well-known contemporary British writer hailed by critics as the literary descendent of D.H. Lawrence. Known primarily for his novels Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Sillitoe has written more than 50 books over the last 40 years, including novels, plays, collections of short stories, poems, and travel pieces, as well as more than four hundred essays. In this comprehensive study of the major novels and short stories, Hanson reveals Sillitoe's artistic influences and the dominant thematic concerns of his works.
Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035616
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
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Author : Arnold Wesker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel written by Arnold Wesker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reade W. Dornan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135541388
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Arnold Wesker written by Reade W. Dornan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only collection of essays on one of Britain's Angry Young Men, this book contains discussions of most of Wesker's published plays with an emphasis on the more recent works. Essays reevaluate the plays that made Wesker a household name in Britain (the Trilogy, The Kitchen , and Chips with Everything). Clive Barker, co-director of Centre 42, gives a fresh account of that movement, and playwright Paul Levitt provides a previously unrecorded history of Caritas, Blood Libel, and Shylock. A personal profile of Wesker by novelist Margaret Drabble is reprinted from an earlier article. Original essays cover the theory and practice of theatre-Wesker's in-text stage directions, British television's adaptation of his plays, and an actor's and a director's perspectives on working with the playwright. Major international Weskerian critics are assembled here: Klaus Peter Mÿller and Heiner Zimmermann from Germany; Rossana Bonadei, Angela Locatelli, and Alessandra Marzola from Italy; Keith Gore, Glenda Leeming, Martin Priestman, Jeremy Ridgman, Margaret Rose, and Robert Wilcher from Great Britain; Menakshi Ponnuswami from India; Robert Gross, Kimball King, and Robert Skloot from the United States. These essays take a wide range of critical approaches from an exploration of gender, to semiotics, biography, and the New Historicism. This is the most comprehensive collection of criticism on Arnold Wesker to date. Every major Weskerian scholar writing in English has contributed a piece to this casebook. Originating in Germany, Italy, Great Britain, India, and the United States, their essays create an international cultural context for Wesker's plays. They also position his work among his contemporaries, in his historical era, and in the political and theatrical environment that defines his world. Furthermore, they form a biographical profile of Wesker, often giving us firsthand accounts of turning points in his career. Finally, some essays evaluate and interpret the major plays, dissecting and scrutinizing the formal elements that make them distinct. Their critical approaches are varied in that they make liberal use of semiotics, Bakhtinian and communication theory, cultural studies, and traditional readings. Their contributions compose a multi-faceted view of Wesker's life and work setting out fresh arguments for all his plays.
Author : M. Hunter Hayes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036750
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Understanding Will Self written by M. Hunter Hayes and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Will Self introduces readers to the satire and expressive ingenuity of a British writer who has garnered an array of awards since the 1991 publication of his first short story collection, The Quantity Theory of Sanity. In this guide to the well-received but largely unstudied writer, M. Hunter Hayes examines the key themes, narrative strategies, and cultural commentaries that characterize Self's work. Through close textual analyses, Hayes guides readers through the alternative universe of Self's writing and maps the interplay between his forays into journalism and fiction. Marked by their combination of seemingly improbable events and quotidian details, Self's novels, novellas, and short stories examine contemporary English life through a mode of writing that he has aptly termed dirty magical realism. Hayes shows how recurring characters have evolved through successive works and in relation with their environments.
Author : Graham Saunders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781789383645
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (836 download)
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Author : John L. Cobbs
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570031687
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Understanding John Le Carré written by John L. Cobbs and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cobbs establishes that contemporary English novelist John le Carre's fiction transcends the genre of espionage, and that le Carre is preeminently a social commentator who writes novels of manners. Cobbs analyzes each of le Carre's novels and offers a biographical sketch, describing le Carre's often overlooked academic success and reputation as a once member of British Intelligence.
Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035494
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Understanding Anthony Powell written by Nicholas Birns and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns explains how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode.
Author : Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034350
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Understanding Anita Brookner written by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander (American studies and literature, U. of Gdansk, Poland), who has written about other Jewish authors, explores the bleak worldview of a British novelist from a Polish-Jewish background. She analyzes Brookner's zoom-in portrayal of her protagonists' faith in a better world despite exile, loneliness, and acceptance of authority and a class system, in 19 short novels from The Debut (1981) to Undue Influence (1999). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Brett Josef Grubisic
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570037566
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Understanding Beryl Bainbridge written by Brett Josef Grubisic and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this introduction to prolific British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, Brett Josef Grubisic provides a biographical sketch of the writer, discussion of her motivations and techniques, and a detailed survey of her fiction that places the works in the traditions of British black comedy, social novels, and historical fiction. In approaching her works, Grubisic maps Bainbridge's movement from social to historical novels, beginning with the comic historicism of Young Adolf and continuing to her most recent fiction, The Birthday Boys, Every Man for Himself, Master Georgie, and According to Queeney. Grubisic holds that in portraying historical events through a variety of narrative techniques or from oblique vantage points, Bainbridge's latest novels partially ally themselves with the style and ideological concerns of literary postmodernism while still recalling the defining view of hardship established in her youth."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034367
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book Understanding Ian McEwan written by David Malcolm and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically-acclaimed contemporary British writer Ian McEwan's novels and short stories often involve tales of aberrance and obsession. In this guide for students and the interested general reader, Malcolm (English, U. of Gdansk, Poland) discusses themes such as incest, espionage, sexual fixation, and political dysfunction in McEwan's writing. He also analyzes McEwan's portrayal of women; his concern with rationalism; his moral perspective; and the impact of feminism on his fiction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
