Gerald Brenan The Interior Castle

Author : Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571316816

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Gerald Brenan: The Interior Castle by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy Pdf

'A masterpiece which delights from first page to last.' TLS 'Very clever, very funny and very bold.' Victoria Glendinning, Times Born in 1894 to a well-off military family, Gerard Brenan was expected to follow the family tradition. But at Radley school he discovered a love of books and an urge to break the mould, which led him to abscond to Europe for six months. After the First World War he went to Spain, where he found the inspiration for his life's work (and began an affair with Dora Carrington.) Come the 1930s his life changed again, with marriage and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, which inspired his masterpiece The Spanish Labyrinth (1943). Drawing on long personal acquaintance as well as a wealth of unpublished correspondence, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy looks unflinchingly at the whole of this remarkable man of letters - from his venturesome spirit to his troublesome sexuality to his literary accomplishment. 'By no means unworthy to stand beside P N Furbank's Forster, Michael Holroyd's Strachey or Quentin Bell's Woolf... Affectionate but acerbic, learned but witty, elegant but relaxed, [Gathorne-Hardy] entertains as consistently as he informs.' Independent on Sunday

Author : Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UOM:39015025206254

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The Interior Castle by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy Pdf

Author : Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0571316808

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Gerald Brenan by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy Pdf

Born in 1894 to a well-off military family, Gerard Brenan was expected to follow the family tradition. But at Radley school he discovered a love of books and an urge to break the mould, which led him to abscond to Europe for six months. After the First World War he went to Spain, where he found the inspiration for his life's work (and began an affair with Dora Carrington). Come the 1930s his life changed again, with marriage and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, which inspired his masterpiece The Spanish Labyrinth (1943). Drawing on long personal acquaintance as well as a wealth of unpublished correspondence, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy looks unflinchingly at the whole of this remarkable man of letters - from his venturesome spirit to his troublesome sexuality to his literary accomplishment. 'By no means unworthy to stand beside P. N. Furbank's Forster, Michael Holroyd's Strachey or Quentin Bell's Woolf ... Affectionate but acerbic, learned but witty, elegant but relaxed, [Gathorne-Hardy] entertains as consistently as he informs.' Independent on Sunday

Author : S. Faber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230614093

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Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War by S. Faber Pdf

In this book, Faber assesses the long-term impact of the Spanish Civil War on Hispanic Studies as an academic field in the United States and Great Britain. Combining institutional history with biography, the book gives a compelling account of the dilemmas that the war posed for four Hispanists who turned their love of Spain into their life's work.

Author : Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571320936

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The Public School Phenomenon by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy Pdf

The public schools of England have long been praised and reviled in equal measure. Do they perpetuate elites and unjust divisions of social class? Do they improve or corrupt young minds and bodies? Should they be abolished? Are they in fact the form of education we would all wish for our children if we could only afford the fees? Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy's classic study of Britain's 'independent sector' of schools first appeared in 1977 and still stands as the most widely admired history of the subject, ranging across 1400 years in its spirited investigation. Provocative and comprehensive, witty and revealing, it traces the arc by which schools that were, circa 1900, typically 'frenziedly repressive about sex, odiously class-conscious and shut off into tight, conventional, usually brutal little total communities' gradually evolved into acknowledged centres of academic excellence, as keen on science as organised games, 'fairly relaxed about sex, and moderate in discipline' - but to which access still 'depends largely on class and entirely on money.'

Author : Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571321704

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The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy Pdf

First published in 1972, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy's The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny became an instant classic of social history - a groundbreaking study of the golden era of an extraordinary and exclusive British institution. Drawing upon extensive paper research and interviews with former nannies and their charges, Gathorne-Hardy offers 'a study of a unique and curious way of bringing up children, which evolved among the upper and upper-middle-classes during the nineteenth century, flourished for approximately eighty years and then, with the Second World War, vanished for ever.' The nanny hereby earns her place in the story of the British Empire; also in the histories of psychology, child-rearing and British ruling class mores. 'Marvellously researched and beautifully written.' W. H. Auden, Observer 'Enough to delight the sternest critic.' Auberon Waugh, Harpers & Queen

Author : María Odette Canivell Arzú
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498536967

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Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination by María Odette Canivell Arzú Pdf

In Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes the author examines traditional Arthurian and Cervantine literary narratives to discuss how the two literary figures became paladins of their respective nations. Whereas the former bestows upon the homeland a positive image of Britain, based on military might, a glorious past and a promise of return, the latter contributes to a negative image of Spain based on a narrative of defeat and faded glory. In the analysis of the political intentions behind the literature that gave wings to the rise as paragons of these very famous literary characters, a semblance of the national imaginaries of the countries of their birth appears. Indeed, the tradition of Waterloo and the tradition of La Mancha are polar opposites in their Weltanschauung, and they only have in common that both heroes, Arthur and Quijote, are depicted as paladins of justice, benefactors, and redeemers of their land of birth. It is this idealized view of what is possibly the figment of a writer’s (or many different writers) pen that astonishes the reader, for behind it lies an intention to market (for internal and external consumption) both literary creations, exceeding the boundaries of the creative fiction that invented them to transform them into myths and political symbols of their respective nations.

Author : James Brophy,William Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009222549

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Samuel Beckett's Poetry by James Brophy,William Davies Pdf

The first book-length study of Samuel Beckett's complete poetry, combining new work from major literature critics and new critical perspectives.

Author : Mark Falcoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351290661

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A Culture of Its Own by Mark Falcoff Pdf

A Culture of Its Own: Taking Latin America Seriously presents Mark Falcoff's essays on the region. Many of them are contentious; none of them are dull. He ranges from bilingualism to the cult of Garcia Lorca, from U.S.-Cuban relations to Chile's curious love affair with Germany. On more than one occasion, Falcoff takes aim at American journalism and scholarship, both of which, he argues, have all too often produced a fantasy version of Latin America which reflects our own national narcissism rather than genuine curiosity about the other. Latin America, Falcoff argues, is not merely a geographical extension of the United States, or a kind of downmarket version of the American Southwest. It is a culture all its own, with its own historical memory, sensibility, and worldview. Its achievements -and its miseries-are also its own, not the end-product of policies made by the Pentagon, Wall Street, or the CIA. Falcoff writes about the region with originality, iconoclastic wit, and distinctive literary flair. His volume will interest Latin American specialists, diplomats, and journalists as well as those general readers who think they are not interested in Latin America-or who only suspect they might be, but don't know quite where to start.

Author : María Jesús González Hernández
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Hispanists
ISBN : 1845195353

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Raymond Carr by María Jesús González Hernández Pdf

"Published in collaboration with the Ca'anada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies."

Author : Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837641369

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The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain by Tom Buchanan Pdf

Explores the relationship between Britain and the Spanish Civil War. This book explains the war's legacy and longer-term impact on Britain, and presents a chronological progression from the Civil War to the post-war Franco era. It also provides a discussion of the importance of loss and memory.

Author : Victoria Glendinning
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743246538

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Leonard Woolf by Victoria Glendinning Pdf

An account of the life and career of the Bloomsbury political intellectual and husband of Virginia Woolf covers his comfortable Jewish childhood, role in inspiring the League of Nations, and relationships with such figures as E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. 40,000 first printing.

Author : Nicholas Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134510474

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The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume 2 by Nicholas Griffin Pdf

This long-awaited second volume of Russell's best letters reveals the inner workings of a philosophical genius and an impassioned campaigner for peace and social reform. The letters, only three of which have been published before, cover most of Russell's adult life, a period in which he wrote over thirty books, including his famous History of Western Philosophy. Richly illustrated with photographs from Russell's life, the collection includes letters to Ho Chi Minh, Tito, Jawaharlal Nehru and Albert Einstein.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415260124

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The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell Pdf

This second volume of letters, only three of which have been published before, presents a picture of a philosophical genius and impassioned campaigner for peace and social reform. Includes letters to Ho Chi Minh, Tito, Jawahral Nehru and Sartre.

Author : Hazel K. Bell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781789627459

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Indexing Biographies and Other Stories of Human Lives by Hazel K. Bell Pdf

Stories of human lives can be fascinating but frequently difficult to index well. The new, updated fourth edition of Hazel K. Bell’s Indexing Biographies is a valuable guide to the points for consideration when indexing life histories, biographies, autobiographies, letters and other narrative texts. Topics include the indexing of fiction, analysis of the text before indexing, names and their various forms, appropriate language choice for index entries, impartiality of the indexer, and how to treat main characters (through appropriate subheading structure) and minor characters (where strings of locators are sometimes unavoidable). The book also discusses more technical matters of index layout, presentation and arrangement of entries, such as how to judge whether alphabetical, chronological, page order or thematic grouping is most appropriate for the text. Examples of good practice and outstanding indexes are provided throughout. Lists of useful reference works and relevant articles from The Indexer journal are also suggested. There is, of course, a comprehensive index. Indexing Biographies contains fine advice on best indexing practices for book indexers, trainee indexers, authors, publishers and all lovers of life histories. It is an excellent overview of the complex, important and rewarding task of indexing such material.