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Author : David W. Madden
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0872498867
Author : Stephen Westerholm
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441231789
Two thousand years later, Paul attracts more attention than any other figure from antiquity besides one," writes Stephen Westerholm. Why the fascination with the apostle Paul? Westerholm explains that Paul remains such a compelling figure because he was "a man completely captivated by a particular way of looking at life." Using the themes of the Epistle to the Romans, Westerholm helps readers understand the major components of Paul's vision of life. He delves into the writings of the Old Testament, explores their influence on Paul, and engages contemporary readers in a thought-provoking reconsideration of their own assumptions about faith, theology, and ethics. This insightful introduction gives postmodern readers, especially those with little or no biblical background, a necessary big-picture look at Paul's view of reality.
Author : James H. Meredith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781573566414
With insightful analysis, factual contextual information, and illuminating historical documents, this book provides a detailed, but broad perspective on the most destructive event in history. The literature analyzed in this book includes that of novelists and poets such as Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, Kurt Vonnegut, William Styron, Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, Paul West, and Bette Green. Along with interviews with these literary luminaries that personalize the war and help to make connections between the literature and the actual experiences of those involved, Meredith also provides rare historical documents that enhance the reader's understanding of the military and political strategies of the major forces of the war. Each chapter provides a literary analysis of the most relevant literature for students on the topic of that chapter, followed by a historical overview of the aspect of the war that will aid the student to understand the historical context of the literature. Primary documents, especially interviews and memoirs, will help students to build bridges between history and the fictional accounts they read. Each chapter is followed by topics and questions for class discussion, suggestions for student papers, and a selected bibliography. This comprehensive casebook will be valuable for interdisciplinary study of World War II and the literature most frequently taught in high school English and history classes.
Author : Brett Josef Grubisic
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570037566
"In this introduction to prolific British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, Brett Josef Grubisic provides a biographical sketch of the writer, discussion of her motivations and techniques, and a detailed survey of her fiction that places the works in the traditions of British black comedy, social novels, and historical fiction. In approaching her works, Grubisic maps Bainbridge's movement from social to historical novels, beginning with the comic historicism of Young Adolf and continuing to her most recent fiction, The Birthday Boys, Every Man for Himself, Master Georgie, and According to Queeney. Grubisic holds that in portraying historical events through a variety of narrative techniques or from oblique vantage points, Bainbridge's latest novels partially ally themselves with the style and ideological concerns of literary postmodernism while still recalling the defining view of hardship established in her youth."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : M. Hunter Hayes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570036756
Understanding Will Self introduces readers to the satire and expressive ingenuity of a British writer who has garnered an array of awards since the 1991 publication of his first short story collection, The Quantity Theory of Sanity. In this guide to the well-received but largely unstudied writer, M. Hunter Hayes examines the key themes, narrative strategies, and cultural commentaries that characterize Self's work. Through close textual analyses, Hayes guides readers through the alternative universe of Self's writing and maps the interplay between his forays into journalism and fiction. Marked by their combination of seemingly improbable events and quotidian details, Self's novels, novellas, and short stories examine contemporary English life through a mode of writing that he has aptly termed dirty magical realism. Hayes shows how recurring characters have evolved through successive works and in relation with their environments.
Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 157003561X
Peter Wolfe's study of Penelope Fitzgerald's canon illuminates writings he characterizes as possessing unerring dramatic judgment, a friendly and fluid style, and lyrical and precise descriptive passages. In this survey of Fitzgerald's life and career, Wolfe explains how the British novelist brings resources of talent and craft, thought and feeling, courage and vulnerability, to the biographies and novels that have earned her renown.
Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570035490
Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns explains how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode.
Author : Gillian Fenwick
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570034567
"Fenwick reckons with Parks's full literary range, from his novels and nonfiction books to his translations and journalism, and sheds light on the work of a versatile English writer whose international recognition is steadily growing."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570034354
Alexander (American studies and literature, U. of Gdansk, Poland), who has written about other Jewish authors, explores the bleak worldview of a British novelist from a Polish-Jewish background. She analyzes Brookner's zoom-in portrayal of her protagonists' faith in a better world despite exile, loneliness, and acceptance of authority and a class system, in 19 short novels from The Debut (1981) to Undue Influence (1999). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570034362
Critically-acclaimed contemporary British writer Ian McEwan's novels and short stories often involve tales of aberrance and obsession. In this guide for students and the interested general reader, Malcolm (English, U. of Gdansk, Poland) discusses themes such as incest, espionage, sexual fixation, and political dysfunction in McEwan's writing. He also analyzes McEwan's portrayal of women; his concern with rationalism; his moral perspective; and the impact of feminism on his fiction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570032807
A study of the actor, director, playwright and lyricist, Alan Bennett. Peter Wolfe demonstrates that Alan Bennett's success in many spheres was no fluke, and his theatrical eminence has always been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play Single Spies won the Oliver Award as England's Best Comedy in 1989. The casts of his plays, starting with Forty Years On in 1968, have included such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates and Daniel Day Lewis. His screenwriting earned The Madness of King George a nomination for an Academy Award. This book seeks to illuminate the writer whose instinct for artistic choices has helped him to succeed on his own terms.
Author : Gillian Mary Hanson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 157003219X
Understanding Alan Sillitoe offers a lucid appraisal of the life and works of the well-known contemporary British writer hailed by critics as the literary descendent of D.H. Lawrence. Known primarily for his novels Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Sillitoe has written more than 50 books over the last 40 years, including novels, plays, collections of short stories, poems, and travel pieces, as well as more than four hundred essays. In this comprehensive study of the major novels and short stories, Hanson reveals Sillitoe's artistic influences and the dominant thematic concerns of his works.
Author : John L. Cobbs
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570031681
John Cobbs establishes that contemporary English novelist John le Carre's fiction transcends the genre of espionage, and that le Carre is preeminently a social commentator who writes novels of manners. Cobbs analyzes each of le Carre's novels and offers a biographical sketch, describing le Carre's often overlooked academic success and reputation as a once member of British Intelligence.
Author : Cheryl Browning Bove
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 087249876X
Describes Murdoch as preoccupied with love, art, & the possibility & difficulty of doing good & avoiding evil.
Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570035156
"Malcolm discusses the novelist's use of major twentieth-century historical events to shape and deform the lives of his characters; his focus on the distortions and evasions that characterize the discussion of personal, local, and national histories; and his fascination with the complexities, sufferings, and joys that mark individual lives. Malcolm suggests that despite Swift's dark vision of human suffering, he tempers his writing with an intermittent focus on that which can redeem our failures, our losses, and our cruelties."--BOOK JACKET.