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Author : Alastair W. Thomson
Publisher : Lapwing Publications
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781905425983
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781528792141
Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), more commonly known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English journalist, essayist, critic, and novelist most famous for his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (1949) and allegorical novella “Animal Farm” (1945). His work is characterised by an opposition to totalitarianism and biting social commentary, and remains influential in popular culture today. Many of his neologisms have forever entered the English language, including "Thought Police", "Big Brother", "Room 101", "doublethink", "thoughtcrime", and "Newspeak" to name but a few. In “Such, Such Were the Joys”, Orwell relates his life experiences from age 8 to 13 in the years leading up to and at the beginning of the First World War. This piece provides insights into the world-view of the Edwardian middle and upper classes, oppression, juvenile psychology, and class conflict. A fascinating glimpse of British life in the early 20th century not to be missed by fans and collectors of Orwell's seminal work. Other notable works by this author include: “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” (1936) and “Coming Up for Air” (1939). Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly publishing this classic essay now in a new edition complete with the introductory essay "Why I Write".
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : James Walter Caufield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317084495
Opening the way for a reexamination of Matthew Arnold's unique contributions to ethical criticism, James Walter Caufield emphasizes the central role of philosophical pessimism in Arnold's master tropes of "culture" and "conduct." Caufield uses Arnold's ethics as a lens through which to view key literary and cultural movements of the past 150 years, demonstrating that Arnoldian conduct is grounded in a Victorian ethic of "renouncement," a form of altruism that wholly informs both Arnold's poetry and prose and sets him apart from the many nineteenth-century public moralists. Arnold's thought is situated within a cultural and philosophical context that shows the continuing relevance of "renouncement" to much contemporary ethical reflection, from the political kenosis of Giorgio Agamben and the pensiero debole of Gianni Vattimo, to the ethical criticism of Wayne C. Booth and Martha Nussbaum. In refocusing attention on Arnold's place within the broad history of critical and social thought, Caufield returns the poet and critic to his proper place as a founding father of modern cultural criticism.
Author : Joseph Black et al.
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 2000 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781770488205
The two-volume Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Edition provides an attractive alternative to the full six-volume anthology. Though much more compact, the Concise Edition nevertheless provides substantial choice, offering both a strong selection of canonical authors and a sampling of lesser-known works. With an unparalleled selection of illustrations and of contextual materials, accessible and engaging introductions, and full explanatory annotations, these volumes provide concise yet extraordinarily wide-ranging coverage for British Literature survey courses. New to this volume are Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; new authors include Dorothy Wordsworth, John Clare, Tomson Highway, Derek Walcott, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The third edition now also offers substantially expanded representation of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh literatures, as well as contextual materials on Gothic literature, Modernism, and World War II. Material that no longer appears in the bound book may in most cases be found on the companion website; many larger works are also available in separate volumes that may at the instructor’s request be bundled together with the anthology at no extra cost to the student. Features New to the Third Edition — New longer texts including Dickens’s performance reading of “David Copperfield,” Gaskell’s The Manchester Marriage, Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Beckett’s Endgame — New short selections from longer works including Eliot’s Middlemarch, Shelley’s Frankenstein, Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh, and Tennyson’s In Memoriam A.H.H. — New bound-book author entries for Dorothy Wordsworth, John Clare, Emily Brontë, Thomas de Quincey, Walter Pater, Isaac Rosenberg, Tomson Highway, Derek Walcott, Jeanette Winterson, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — New selections representing “Literary Currents in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the Long Nineteenth Century” — New “Contexts” section on “Gothic Literature” including materials by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen — “Literature, Politics, and Cultural Identity” section includes numerous new authors and pieces, including work by Sorely MacLean, James Kelman, Gillian Clarke, Kamau Brathwaite, Kim Moore, and Warsan Shire
Author : Wafa Khan
Publisher : Wafa Khan
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781389654183
HSC Golden Guide to English (Advanced) is a textbook designed to teach students how to craft Band 6 level responses in English. The textbook is modelled on the highly successful educational method of example-based learning. Each piece of guidance provided in the textbook is supported by Band 6 examples using prescribed texts from the 2018 Year 12 Advanced English syllabus, so that students may see and learn for themselves how to improve their writing. The strategic philosophy of the textbook allows students to independently master HSC English without having to rely on tutoring or copious amounts of memorisation. The 250+ pages textbooks are divided into three sections: Practical Skills: including guides to essay preparation, essay writing, adapting to exam questions, writing in different formats such as speech, and supporting workbook exercises. Discovery: including syllabus deconstruction and clarification, creative writing, responding to short answer questions, 2018 Discovery texts, adapting to Discovery exam questions, and supporting workbook exercises. Modules A, B, C: including syllabus deconstruction and clarification, 2018 Modules texts, adapting to Modules exam questions, and supporting workbook exercises.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023744784
Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781438127064
Here is the revised and expanded edition of Daniel S. Burt's fascinating assessment of the 100 most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all times and cultures now with 25 additional entries and some reassessments as well as 25 new black-and-white photographs and illustrations. From Doris Lessing and Gabriel Garc a M rquez to Homer and Marcel Proust, the entries provide a compelling, accessible introduction to significant writers of world literature. All of the writers selected have helped to redefine literature, establishing a standard with which succeeding generations of writers and readers have had to contend. The ranking attempts to discern, from the broadest possible perspective, what makes a literary artist great and how that greatness can be measured and compared. Each profile distills the essence of the writer's career and character to help prompt consideration of literary merit and relationships by the reader.
Author : James Brooke-Smith
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789140927
The British public school is an iconic institution, a training ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual dissidence, and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into the wilder shores of public-school life over the last three hundred years in Gilded Youth. He uncovers armed mutinies in the late eighteenth century, a Victorian craze for flagellation, dandy-aesthetes of the 1920s, quasi-scientific discourse on masturbation, Communist scares in the 1930s, and the salacious tabloid scandals of the present day. Drawing on personal experience, extensive research, and public school representations in poetry, school slang, spy films, popular novels, and rock music, Brooke-Smith offers a fresh account of upper-class adolescence in Britain and the role of elite private education in shaping youth culture. He shows how this central British institution has inspired a counterculture of artists, intellectuals, and radicals—from Percy Shelley and George Orwell to Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson—who have rebelled against both the schools themselves and the wider society for which they stand. Written with verve and humor in the tradition of Owen Jones’s The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It, this highly original cultural history is an eye-opening leap over the hallowed iron gates of privilege—and perturbation.
Author : Richard Beckman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030253455
Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism: Charmed Life discusses charm as both an emotional and aesthetic phenomenon. Beginning with the first appearance of literary charm in the Sirens episode of the Odyssey, Richard Beckman traces charm throughout canonical literature, examining the metamorphoses of charm through the millennia. The book examines the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Proust, Joyce, Mann, and others, considering the multiplicity of ways charm is defined, depicted, and utilized by authors. Positioning these poems, dramas, and novels as case studies, Beckman reveals the mercurial yet enduring connotations of charm.
Author : Ysanne Holt,David Martin-Jones,Owain Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351187695
This edited collection, including contributors from the disciplines of art history, film studies, cultural geography and cultural anthropology, explores ways in which islands in the north of England and Scotland have provided space for a variety of visual-cultural practices and forms of creative expression which have informed our understanding of the world. Simultaneously, the chapters reflect upon the importance of these islands as a space in which, and with which, to contemplate the pressures and the possibilities within contemporary society. This book makes a timely and original contribution to the developing field of island studies, and will be of interest to scholars studying issues of place, community and the peripheries.
Author : William Ian MILLER,William Ian Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674041066
William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to vivify the larger social order with the idiom it commandeers from the sights, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds of fleshly physicality. Disgust and contempt, Miller argues, play crucial political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for persons than on an equal distribution of contempt. Disgust, however, signals dangerous division.
Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000015547668
Author : James De-La-Cour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UCD:31175035212581
Author : William GOLDER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026314339