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Book Synopsis Tennvson And T.S. Eliot: A Comparative Study by : Rajni Singh
Download or read book Tennvson And T.S. Eliot: A Comparative Study written by Rajni Singh and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, 1809-1892 and Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888-1965, English poets.
Book Synopsis Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses by : Marie Louise von Glinski
Download or read book Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses written by Marie Louise von Glinski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph on Ovid's epic simile, offering fresh perspectives on central episodes of this important work.
Download or read book Daphne Adeane written by Maurice Baring and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basil Wake and his wife Hyacinth exist in the social whirl of London’s early 1900s. For years Hyacinth has conducted a discreet affair with Parliamentarian Michael Choyce, who seems to fit into the Wakes’ lives so conveniently. But a startling portrait of the mysterious and beautiful Daphne Adeane signifies a change in this comfortable set-up.
Book Synopsis Between Stage and Screen by : Egil Törnqvist
Download or read book Between Stage and Screen written by Egil Törnqvist and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between Stage and Screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a number of Bergman's stage, screen, and radio productions. In the prologue Bergman's spiritual and aesthetic heritage and his position in the twentieth century media landscape is outlined. In the epilogue the question is answered to what extent one can speak of Bergman's directorial 'method' irrespective of the chosen medium.
Book Synopsis The Problem of American Realism by : Michael Davitt Bell
Download or read book The Problem of American Realism written by Michael Davitt Bell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since William Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of "realism" and "naturalism" as the great development in American post-Civil War fiction. Yet there are many problems with this generalization. It is virtually impossible, for example, to extract from the novels and manifestoes of American writers of this period any consistent definitions of realism or naturalism as modes of literary representation. Rather than seek common traits in widely divergent "realist" and "naturalist" literary works, Michael Davitt Bell focuses here on the role that these terms played in the social and literary discourse of the 1880s and 1890s. Bell argues that in America, "realism" and "naturalism" never achieved the sort of theoretical rigor that they did in European literary debate. Instead, the function of these ideas in America was less aesthetic than ideological, promoting as "reality" a version of social normalcy based on radically anti-"literary" and heavily gendered assumptions. What effects, Bell asks, did ideas about realism and naturalism have on writers who embraced and resisted them? To answer this question, he devotes separate chapters to the work of Howells and Frank Norris (the principal American advocates of realism and naturalism in the 1880s and 1890s), Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Sarah Orne Jewett. Bell reveals that a chief function of claiming to be a realist or a naturalist was to provide assurance that one was a "real" man rather than an "effeminate" artist. Since the 1880s, Bell asserts, all serious American fiction writers have had to contend with this problematic conception of literary realism. The true story of the transformation of American fiction after the Civil War is the history of this contention - a history of individual accommodations, evasions, holding actions, and occasional triumphs.
Book Synopsis The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature by : Stefanie Markovits
Download or read book The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-century English Literature written by Stefanie Markovits and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition. But in reading the works of Romantic and Victorian writers one notices a conflict, what Stefanie Markovits terms "a crisis of action." In her book, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Markovits maps out this conflict by focusing on four writers: William Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, George Eliot, and Henry James. Each chapter offers a "case-study" that demonstrates how specific historical contingencies - including reaction to the French Revolution, laissez-faire economic practices, changes in religious and scientific beliefs, and shifts in women's roles - made people in the period hypersensitive to the status of action and its literary co-relative, plot."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Our Corner written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells by : Christine DeVine
Download or read book Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells written by Christine DeVine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time when the class system in England was in a state of flux-a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel. Late-century writers such as Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells question the middle-class Victorian views of class that had dominated the novel for decades. By disrupting traditional novelistic conventions, these writers reveal the ideology of the historical moment in which those conventions obtained, thereby questioning the 'naturalness' of class assumed by earlier, middle-class Victorian writers. The book contextualizes novels by these writers within their historical moment with reference to relevant maps, journalism, artwork or photography, and specific historical events. It illuminates the relationship between fiction and history in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction, and especially the relationship between changing depictions of class and the development of realism. Examining the nineteenth-century English novel through the lens of social class allows the twenty-first century critic and student not only to understand the issues at stake in much Victorian fiction, but also to recognize powerful present-day vestiges of this social class system.
Book Synopsis Water-hyacinth Obstructions in the Waters of the Gulf and South Atlantic States by : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Download or read book Water-hyacinth Obstructions in the Waters of the Gulf and South Atlantic States written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Audubon Wildlife Report 1989/1990 by : William J. Chandler
Download or read book Audubon Wildlife Report 1989/1990 written by William J. Chandler and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audubon Wildlife Report 1989/1990 covers important challenges to the continued health of different species and ecosystems, furthering the debate on issues such as old-growth forests, the relationship between water and wildlife, and the need to preserve and restore wetlands and grassland range territory. The book starts by providing a comprehensive overview of the featured federal agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including its history, legislative mandate, and key programs that affect the environment. The text then discusses federal court decisions that provide new interpretations of federal wildlife law; the conservation of coastal wetlands in the Southeast; and global climate change and its potential effects on fish and wildlife. A monitoring and research strategy for nongame migratory birds, as well as the conservation of ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest are also considered. The book further tackles the restoration of the public rangelands in the West; discard bycatch in marine fisheries with a special focus on the Gulf of Mexico; and the trends in western water law and their implications for the environment. The text also encompasses the appropriations and related congressional policy directives for federal fish and wildlife programs. Biologists and people with an advocacy of preserving wildlife will find the book invaluable.
Book Synopsis Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata by : Egil Törnqvist
Download or read book Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata written by Egil Törnqvist and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally considered one of milestones in the development of modern drama, August Strindberg's chamber play "The Ghost Sonata" (1907) has variously been hailed as the first expressionist, surrealist and absurdist drama. In this monograph of the play as text and as performance --the first of its kind--Egil Tornqvist examines, in four chapters, the source text, various translations of it into English, the stage versions of Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander and Ingmar Bergman, and select radio and TV adaptations. In two framing chapters the background and impact of the play are illuminated. Focusing on Bergman's 1973 production, the book in addition contains a rehearsal diary and a transcription of this production. It is concluded with an annotated list of select productions.
Book Synopsis Moral Philosophers and the Novel by : P. Johnson
Download or read book Moral Philosophers and the Novel written by P. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study, Peter Johnson makes explicit the issues involved in using the novel as a source in moral philosophy. The book pays close attention to questions of method, aesthetic accounts of the novel and the nature of ethical knowledge. The views of leading philosophers are examined and criticised in the light of the book's distinctive contribution to the current debate.
Book Synopsis Meaning and Method by : George Boolos
Download or read book Meaning and Method written by George Boolos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a report on the state of philosophy in a number of significant areas.
Book Synopsis Love's Knowledge by : Martha C. Nussbaum
Download or read book Love's Knowledge written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-02 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rules. She argues that this ethical conception cannot be completely and appropriately stated without turning to forms of writing usually considered literary rather than philosophical. It is consequently necessary to broaden our conception of moral philosophy in order to include these forms. Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.
Book Synopsis Contemporary One-Act Plays by : Various Authors
Download or read book Contemporary One-Act Plays written by Various Authors and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Short Plays written by Lady Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ethics and Aesthetics of Freedom in American and Chinese Realism by : Wenying Xu
Download or read book Ethics and Aesthetics of Freedom in American and Chinese Realism written by Wenying Xu and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this monograph is to complicate the postmodernist argument that art is always already political and does so by studying literary realism as practiced by American and Chinese writers, utilizing the perspective of Michel Foucault. It performs a careful reading of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and The Princess Casamassima, William Dean Howell's A Hazard of New Fortunes, and The World of Chance, Liu Binyan's People or Monster? and Sound is Better Than Silence and Zhang Xianliang's Half Man is Woman and Getting Used to Dying. It demonstrates that both sets of realist writers provide interpretive presentations of social realities in order to dismantle cultural appearances (the gospel of wealth, social Darwinism, political liberalism, party purity and historical progress).
