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Author : John Brannigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889469273
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (692 download)
Download or read book Literature, Culture and Society in Postwar England written by John Brannigan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039109340
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Radical Fictions written by Nick Bentley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Bentley takes a fresh look at English fiction produced in the 1950s. By looking at a range of authors, he shows that the novel of the period was far more diverse and formally experimental than previous accounts have suggested.
Author : Alastair Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135100152
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book British Culture of the Post-War written by Alastair Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Angus Wilson to Pat Barker and Salman Rushdie, British Culture of the Post-War is an ideal starting point for those studying cultural developments in Britain of recent years. Chapters on individual people and art forms give a clear and concise overview of the progression of different genres. They also discuss the wider issues of Britain's relationship with America and Europe, and the idea of Britishness. Each section is introduced with a short discussion of the major historical events of the period. Read as a whole, British Culture of the Postwar will give students a comprehensive introduction to this turbulent and exciting period, and a greater understanding of the cultural production arising from it.
Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141672
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 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: From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.
Author : M. Ryle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349557
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book B S Johnson and Post-War Literature written by M. Ryle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new approaches to reading 1960s experimental fiction.
Author : C. Westall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035242
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Literature of an Independent England written by C. Westall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and the need for England to become a self-determining literary nation.
Author : Len Platt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042488
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Postmodern Literature and Race written by Len Platt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments focus on central critical domains within this field: race and performativity, race and the contemporary nation, and postracial futures. With essays on a wide range of contemporary writers, including Bernadine Evaristo, Alasdair Gray, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Levy, and Don DeLillo, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and aesthetics of contemporary writing.
Author : John Brannigan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137108347
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Orwell to the Present written by John Brannigan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential introductory guide provides a comprehensive critical survey of the diverse and rich body of literary writing produced in England in the postwar period. John Brannigan explores the relationship between literature and history, and analyses how poets, playwrights and novelists have revisited notions of Englishness, represented Englands of the past, and sought to make new 'maps' of English culture and society. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000 combines original readings of familiar texts with wide-ranging explorations of the principal themes and historical and cultural contexts of literature since the end of the Second World War. Writers considered in detail include: Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Pat Barker, John Betjeman, Edward Bond, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Sam Selvon, Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh.
Author : James F. English
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140515215X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction written by James F. English and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era. Comprises original essays from major scholars. Topics range from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author. The emphasis is on the whole fiction scene, from bookstores and prizes to the changing economics of film adaptation. Enables students to read contemporary works of British fiction with a much clearer sense of where they fit within British cultural life.
Author : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035708
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker written by Sharon Monteith and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays cover the work and career of Pat Barker, providing insight into her novels, from Union Street (1982) through the Regeneration trilogy (1991-95) to Double Vision (2003). The essays are organized into: "Writing Working-Class Women," "Dialogueunder Pressure," "Men at War," "The Talking Cure," and "Regenerating the Wasteland."
Author : Nicola Darwood
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443839507
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book A World of Lost Innocence written by Nicola Darwood and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Bowen was a prolific writer; her publishing career spanned five decades and during this time she wrote ten novels, over one hundred short stories and countless reviews and journal articles. While earlier novels are now acknowledged as Modernist texts, her later novels can be read through the lens of postmodernism; they can be considered variously as romantic fiction, marriage novels, war time spy thrillers and psychological drama but, throughout her novels, she consistently questioned notions of identity, sexuality and the loss of innocence. A World of Lost Innocence: The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen offers a reading of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction which focuses specifically on this loss, foregrounding the psychological conflicts experienced by her protagonists. It examines the subject not only across the range of her fiction, but also in relation to her unfolding narrative structures through a chronologically based discussion of her novels and selected short stories, interwoven with biographical information and drawing on unpublished letters. This book investigates the dominant kinds of innocence that Bowen represents throughout her fiction: the innocence attributed to childhood, sexual innocence and sexual morality, and political innocence, and argues that the transition from innocence to experience plays an important role in the epistemological journey faced both by Bowen’s characters and her readers.
Author : Lucy Le-Guilcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317060903
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Rumer Godden written by Lucy Le-Guilcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published more than 60 books, including novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry; this is the first collection devoted to this important transnational writer. Focusing on Godden's writing from the 1930s onward, the contributors uncover the breadth and variety of the literary landscape on display in works such as Black Narcissus, The Lady and the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. Often drawing on her own experiences living in India and Britain, Godden establishes a diverse narrative topography that allows her to engage with issues related to her own uncertain position as an author representing such nomadic Others as gypsies, or taking up the displacements brought about by international conflict. Recognizing that studies of the transnational must consider the condition of enforced and elected exile within the changing political and cultural borders of postcolonial nations, the contributors position Godden with respect to different and overlapping fields of inquiry: modern literary history; colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies; inter-media studies; and children's literature. Taken together, the essays in this volume demonstrate the richness and variety of Godden's writing and render the myriad ways in which Godden is an important critical presence in mid-twentieth-century fiction.
Author : Praseeda Gopinath
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813933838
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Scarecrows of Chivalry written by Praseeda Gopinath and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylization of English masculinity became the central theme, focus, and conceit for many literary texts that represented the "condition of Britain" in the 1930s and the immediate postwar era. From the early writings of George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh to works by poets and novelists such as Philip Larkin, Ian Fleming, Barbara Pym, and A. S. Byatt, the author shows how Englishmen trafficking in the images of self-restraint, governance, decency, and detachment in the absence of a structuring imperial ethos became what the poet Larkin called "scarecrows of chivalry." Gopinath's study of this masculine ideal under duress reveals the ways in which issues of race, class, and sexuality constructed a gendered narrative of the nation.
Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192445
Total Pages : 1581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 1581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile
Author : Natalie Ferris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192594125
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980 written by Natalie Ferris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a catalogue note for the 1965 exhibition 'Between Poetry and Painting' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the poet Edwin Morgan probed the relationship between abstraction and literature: 'Abstract painting can often satisfy, but "abstract poetry" can only exist in inverted commas'. Language may be fragmented, rearranged, or distorted, abstract in so far as it is withdrawn from a particular system of knowledge, but Morgan was of the mind that to be wholly 'disruptive' was to deprive a poem of its 'point' as an 'object of contemplation'. Whilst abstract art may have come to fulfil or or fortify an impression of post-war taste, abstraction in literature continued to be treated with suspicion. But how does this speak to the extent to which Britain's literary culture was responsive to progress compared to its artistic culture? Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980 traces a line of literary experimentation in post-war British literature that was prompted by the aesthetic, philosophical and theoretical demands of abstraction. Spanning the period 1945 to 1980, it observes the ways in which certain aesthetic advancements initiated new forms of literary expression to posit a new genealogy of interdisciplinary practice in Britain. At a time in which Britain became conscious of its evolving identity within an increasingly globalised context, this study accounts for the range of Continental and Transatlantic influences in order to more accurately locate the networks at play. Exploring the contributions made by individuals, such as Herbert Read, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Christine Brooke- Rose, as well as by groups of practitioners. It brings a wide range of previously unexplored archival material into the public domain and offers a comprehensive account of the evolving status of abstraction across cultural, institutional, and literary contexts.
Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415969154
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Glossalalia written by Julian Wolfreys and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glossalaliais not a conventional glossary or dictionary. Although arranged alphabetically, it is a cutting-edge introduction to the state of theory today. Here 26 newly commissioned "definitions" of theoretical keywords are presented in a playful A-Z format, ranging from "Animality" to "Zero." Leading theorists and critics including J. Hillis Miller, Gayatri Chavkravorty Spivak, Simon Critchley, Ernesto Laclau, and many others provide unusual and insightful interpretations of a range of unexpected terms such as "Zero," "X," and "Yarn." They also reflect with renewed vigor upon such familiar concerns as "Difference," "Jouissance," "Nation," and "Otherness." Like a standard glossary, the volume invites the reader to start almost anywhere. ButGlossala liasteps far beyond the parameters of a standard reference work that is simply "about theory" by encouraging readers to actively engage with and enjoy theory, and to consider the future possibilities of theory in the twenty-firstcentury.
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Total Pages : 2068 pages
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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
