Author : Boris Ford
Publisher : Penguin Uk
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0140238166
From Orwell to Naipaul
Boris Ford
From Orwell To Naipaul
From Orwell To Naipaul Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of From Orwell To Naipaul book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Orwell and Marxism
Philip Bounds
Author : Philip Bounds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857715357
Orwell and Marxism by Philip Bounds Pdf
Whether as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, an advocate of patriotic Socialism or a left-wing opponent of the Soviet Union, George Orwell was the ultimate outsider in politics - insecure, scornful of orthodoxies, cussedly independent. Best known today as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell also wrote seven other full-length books and and a vast number of essays, articles and reviews. A pioneering cultural critic, he addressed a range of important issues including art, literature, 'Englishness', mass communication and the spectre of totalitarianism. Famously describing his own background as 'lower-upper-middle class', Orwell had a complex relationship with Marxism and all his work reflects the influence of British communism. In this thoughtful and original study Philip Bounds argues that Orwell's writings effectively took the form of a dialogue with the leading British Marxists of his day. Bounds shows that Orwell often agreed with the Marxists and built on their insights in his writings, while on other occasions he used his disagreements with them as the basis of his own critical position. Through close analysis of Orwell's writings as well as his historical and literary context, Bounds has produced an important study of one of the iconic writers of the 20th century. 'Orwell and Marxism' offers a thorough introduction to Orwell the intellectual, reviving his reputation as a serious cultural thinker and documenting his most important influences, as well as a convincing portrait of British Marxism and society in the 1930s and 40s.
George Orwell's Animal Farm
Harold Bloom
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dystopias in literature
ISBN : 9781438128719
George Orwell's Animal Farm by Harold Bloom Pdf
Discusses the characters, plot, and writing of Animal farm by George Orwell. Includes critical essays on the novel and a brief biography of the author.
London Calling
Rob Nixon
Author : Rob Nixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195361964
London Calling by Rob Nixon Pdf
V.S. Naipaul stands as the most lionized literary mediator between First and Third World experience and is ordinarily viewed as possessing a unique authority on the subject of cross-cultural relations in the post-colonial era. In contesting this orthodox reading of his work, Nixon argues that Naipaul is more than simply an unduly influential writer. He has become a regressive Western institution, articulating a set of values that perpetuates political interests and representational modes that have their origin in the high imperial age. Nixon uses Naipaul's travel writing to probe the core theoretical issues raised by cross-cultural representation along metropolitan-periphery lines. With reference to economic theories of dependency, he critiques the vision, popularized by Naipaul, of the post-colonial world as divided between mimic and parasitic Third World nations on the one hand and, on the other, the benignly creative societies of the West.
The Sum of No Equation
Sabine Freyling
Author : Sabine Freyling
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3631579101
The Sum of No Equation by Sabine Freyling Pdf
Starting with the social and psychological side of the person Naipaul, one can summarise some reasonably simple discoveries that can be extracted from both his autobiographical pieces and his seemingly fictional books, published within a period of more than fifty years. Naipaul suggested that the way to approach the author is not through finding out as much as possible about the man and one could easily argue that the idea shall simply be used in conversion. One can learn more about the person when taking into account all that has been produced by the author, who is part of the person. By this means, one can extract valuable information about both person and author and thus can easily uncover some mysteries that have been established by the author/person to conceal the reality behind a fixed idea that has always played a significant role in Naipaul's life. Having studied English, Naipaul was aware of all the tools available and of the aims of literary critics and seems to have challenged these established routes for his own sake and to serve his purpose.
Half a Life
V. S. Naipaul
Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307370594
Half a Life by V. S. Naipaul Pdf
One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste—a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer—strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her—carried along, really—to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man’s determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, “Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.” A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination.
African Culture and Global Politics
Toyin Falola,Danielle Sanchez
Author : Toyin Falola,Danielle Sanchez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134674473
African Culture and Global Politics by Toyin Falola,Danielle Sanchez Pdf
This volume attempts to insert itself within the larger discussion of Africa in the twenty-first century, especially within the realm of world politics. Despite the underwhelming amount of attention given to Africa's role in international politics in popular news sources, it is evident that Africa has a consistent record of participating in world politics- one that pre-dates colonization and continues today. In continuance of this legacy of active participation in global political exchanges, Africans today can be heard in dialogues that span the world and their roles are impossible to replace by other entities. It is evident that a vastly different Africa exists than ones that bolster images of starvation, corruption, and compliance. The essays in this volume center on Africa and Africans participating in international political discourses, but with an emphasis on various forms of expression and philosophies, as these factors heavily influence Africa's role as a participant in global politics. The reader will find a variety of essays that permeate surface discussions of politics and political activism by inserting African culture, rhetoric, philosophies into the larger discussion of international politics and Africa's role in worldwide political, social, and economic debates.
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
Feroza F. Jussawalla
Author : Feroza F. Jussawalla
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878059466
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul by Feroza F. Jussawalla Pdf
This collection brings together interviews from a thirty-six-year span and reveals a witty, sometimes scathing talker with a free-ranging curiosity. In early interviews, mostly given to such fellow writers and colleagues as Derek Walcott and Eric Roach, Naipul is clipped, brusque, and clearly impatient with interviewers. More recent interviews, given primarily to journalists rather than literary figures, reveal a more mellow Naipaul, often warm, passionate, and forthcoming about his private life.
Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century
Peter Watson
Author : Peter Watson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780226736
Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson Pdf
A history of the twentieth century which covers all the ideas, people, great events, literary and artistic movements, scientific discoveries which have shaped the twentieth century. Terrible Beauty presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso's first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time in an immensely readable narrative. From the creation of plastic to Norman Mailer, from the discovery of the 'Big Bang' to the Counterculture, from Relativity to Susan Sontag, from Proust to Salman Rushdie, and Henri Bergson to Saul Bellow, the book's range is encyclopedic. We meet in these pages the other twentieth century, the writers, the artists, the scientists and philosophers who were not cowed by the political and military disasters raging around them, and produced some of the most amazing and rewarding ideas by which we live. Terrible Beauty, endlessly stimulating and provocative, affirms that there was much more to the twentieth century than war and genocide.
A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Autonomy (Psychology)
ISBN : 0330522892
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul Pdf
Traditional Chinese edition of A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul. It is a story of Mr. Biswas's struggle for independence, but more importantly, it is his fight for dignity and a life with meaning. A House for Mr. Biswas is touted as Naipaul's finest novel. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
White Heat
Dominic Sandbrook
Author : Dominic Sandbrook
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780349141282
White Heat by Dominic Sandbrook Pdf
Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum. The memories, images and colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, Carnaby Street and Kings Road, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich and readable historical narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline.
Emyr Humphreys
Diane Green
Author : Diane Green
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708322598
Emyr Humphreys by Diane Green Pdf
This book explores in detail the novels written by Emyr Humphreys during a timespan of over fifty years, from his first, A Little Kingdom, published in 1946, to The Gift of a Daughter, published in 1998. An early chapter comprises a literary biography with the following chapters devoted to: the early novels including A Toy Epic; a separate examination of Outside the House of Baal, considered by many to be his finest achievement; his use of Celtic myth as a patterning device; similarly his use of Welsh history is covered in 2 chapters; and finally his use of various postcolonial strategies. It also contains an extensive bibliography of work by and about Emyr Humphreys.
Passionate Intellect
Michael Kirkham
Author : Michael Kirkham
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846313714
Passionate Intellect by Michael Kirkham Pdf
This critical study looks at the first four decades of Charles Tomlinson’s poetic career, and is the only published full-scale, exclusive treatment of his poetry. Tomlinson is a major British poet whose work has received more recognition in North America and continental Europe than it has in his own country, where still, in some quarters, its character is misunderstood and therefore misjudged. The purpose of Kirkham’s study is to increase understanding and appreciation of the exceptional achievement of Tomlinson’s poetry, emphasising both the startling originality of his vision – a unified vision of a natural-human world – and the subtlety of his poetic art. The study is a reading of the poems which aims to show what they yield to close scrutiny and to remove misconceptions. Known for its analytical rendering of sense-impressions and its avoidance of the personal pronoun, the objectivism of Tomlinson’s poetry is not an exercise in asceticism, but a means of enlarging the circumference of the perceiving self, an expansion of self which is not at the same time an inflation of the self-regarding ego. Its theme is not objects as such but relations, the relation of the perceiving self to the other, of the human to the non-human world. Its reputation for cool detachment is based on a misreading: it is a poetry of energy and excitement, which combines self-restraint with passionate conviction.
Finding a Role?
Brian Harrison
Author : Brian Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199548750
Finding a Role? by Brian Harrison Pdf
Seven analytic chapters in this book pursue the massive changes wrought in Britain between 1970 and 1990. They look in detail at the changes in international relations, landscape and townscape, social framework, family and welfare structures, economic policies and realities and government which had occurred by 1990.
Seeking a Role
Brian Harrison
Author : Brian Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198204763
Seeking a Role by Brian Harrison Pdf
An impressively detailed but also unusually wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain in the 1950s and 60s, covering everything from international relations to family life, the countryside to manufacturing, religion to race, cultural life to political structures.