Twentieth Century English Literature

Author : Ashley Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415572453

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The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-century British Literature by Ashley Dawson Pdf

In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides: Analysis of works by a diverse range of influential authors Examination of the cultural and literary impact of crucial historical, social, political and cultural events Discussion of Britain's imperial status in the century and the diversification of the nation through Black and Asian British Literature Readers are also provided with a comprehensive timeline, a glossary of terms, further reading and explanatory text boxes featuring further information on key figures and events.

Author : Robert L. Caserio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828338

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The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel by Robert L. Caserio Pdf

The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.

Author : Laura Marcus,Peter Nicholls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521820774

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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature by Laura Marcus,Peter Nicholls Pdf

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Author : Reuben Arthur Brower
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674914244

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Twentieth-century Literature in Retrospect by Reuben Arthur Brower Pdf

The sixteen essays in this second volume of Harvard English Studies explore and reevaluate the work of twentieth-century writers and critics from Joyce and James to Iris Murdoch and Mailer, from Yeats and Eliot to critics and poets of the present generation. Part I, "Writers and Critics," includes among other essays an exploration of erotic imagination in Dubliners and a study of Dickensian motifs in Murdoch's London novels. Other articles deal with the present standing of Yeats's and Eliot's poetry, the prosodies of free verse, and the role of the writer in modern fiction. Part II, "Twentieth Century Valuations Reconsidered" assesses some of the influential twentieth-century critical positions on Shakespeare, the pastoral, Donne, the metaphysical poets, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth. Distinguished contributors include Josephine Miles, Frank Kermode, F. R. Leavis, and Christopher Ricks.

Author : A. Norman Jeffares,Michael Morony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349185115

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Twentieth-Century English Literature by A. Norman Jeffares,Michael Morony Pdf

In revising this book for a second edition, Harry Blamires has updated his final chapters to give a thorough coverage to the work of dramatists, novelists and poets who have achieved prominence in the 1980s, either as new writers or rediscovered authors who have recently been brought back into print or revived by radio and television.

Author : Dennis Brown,John Theodore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349199136

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The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature by Dennis Brown,John Theodore Pdf

An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.

Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000287646

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A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English by Harry Blamires Pdf

First published in 1983, A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is a detailed and comprehensive guide containing over 500 entries on individual writers from countries including Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the UK. The book contains substantial articles relating to major novelists, poets, and dramatists of the age, as well as a wealth of information on the work of lesser-known writers and the part they have played in cultural history. It focuses in detail on the character and quality of the literature itself, highlighting what is distinctive in the work of the writers being discussed and providing key biographical and contextual details. A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is ideal for those with an interest in the twentieth century literary scene and the history of literature more broadly.

Author : Dr Christine Berberich
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409489979

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The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature by Dr Christine Berberich Pdf

Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for twentieth-century literature and culture. Christine Berberich challenges this notion by showing that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, Berberich pays particular attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'. Though 'Englishness' and by extension the English gentleman continue to be linked to depictions of England as the green and pleasant land of imagined bygone days, Berberich counterbalances this perception by showing that the figure of the English gentleman is the medium through which these authors and many of their contemporaries critique the shifting mores of contemporary society. Twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman thus have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.

Author : Arthur Simons Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : English literature
ISBN : UVA:X000359207

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English Literature of the Twentieth Century by Arthur Simons Collins Pdf

Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Oxford Books of Verse
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0198121377

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The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse by Philip Larkin Pdf

Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.

Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : New York : Schocken Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4280571

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Twentieth-century English Literature by Harry Blamires Pdf

Discusses the authors who have written in the British Isles since 1900 and their writings.

Author : Jenny Stringer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780192122711

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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English by Jenny Stringer Pdf

Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.

Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828109

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry by Neil Corcoran Pdf

The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.

Author : Lawrence Normand,Alison Winch
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441101914

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Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature by Lawrence Normand,Alison Winch Pdf

Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature explores the ways in which 20th-century literature has been influenced by Buddhism, and has been, in turn, a major factor in bringing about Buddhism's increasing spread and influence in the West. Focussing on Britain and the United States, Buddhism's influence on a range of key literary texts will be examined in the context of those societies' evolving modernity. Writers discussed include T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, Iris Murdoch, Maxine Hong Kingston. This book brings together for the first time a series of context-rich interpretations that demonstrate the importance of literature in this ongoing cultural change in Britain and the United States.

Author : Bonnie S. McDougall,Kam Louie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231110847

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The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century by Bonnie S. McDougall,Kam Louie Pdf

The written culture of 20th-century China has only recently begun to receive sustained attention from Western readers and critics. This book presents illuminating information on writers, audiences, and the impact of various literary works on politics and culture--and provides a unique window on Chinese society.