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13 produkter
American Horror Fiction
From Brockden Brown to Stephen King
Häftad, 1990
634 kr
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This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on a genre which has remained popular for nearly two hundred years: American horror fiction. There are essays on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Robert Bloch, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, …
British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s
Politics and Art
Häftad, 1997
634 kr
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This collection looks at the developments in British poetry from the Movement until the present. The introduction not only provides a context for these changes but also argues that poetry criticism has been debilitated by the quest for political respectability, a trend which can only be reversed by …
Twentieth-Century European Drama
Inbunden, 1993
1260 kr
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This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, Fernando …
American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal
Av Clive Bloom, Brian Docherty
Häftad, 1995
634 kr
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Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, the Modernist tradition in American poetry is driven by the same concern to engage with the world in revolutionary terms, inspired by the concept of democracy vital to the American dream. But this tradition is not confined to a few writers at the beginning …
Woke Up This Morning
Häftad, 2012
110 kr
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Woke up this Morning is a hitch-hiker's guide to cultural alienation, from Glasgow to London to San Francisco and back again. Brian Docherty grew up in Scotland in the 1960s listening to Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon on the radio, hitched across Europe in the 1970s, and then followed the Vikings …
American Crime Fiction
Studies in the Genre
E-bok, 1988
234 kr
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This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on one of the most popular and enduring literary genres: American crime fiction. There are essays on Edgar Allan Poe, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M.Cain, Mickey Spillane, George V. Higgins and Jerome Charyn, covering the period …
American Horror Fiction
From Brockden Brown to Stephen King
E-bok, 1990
877 kr
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This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on a genre which has remained popular for nearly two hundred years: American horror fiction. There are essays on Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Robert Bloch, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, …
Twentieth-Century European Drama
E-bok, 1993
1726 kr
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This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, Fernando …
British Poetry, 1900-50
Aspects of Tradition
E-bok, 1995
299 kr
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This collection focuses on British poetry from the Georgians to the Second World War. The introduction provides the framework for the articles which follow by considering the question of the relation between poetry and society as it appears in the work of F.R. Leavis, T.W. Adorno and Antony …
American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal
Av Brian Docherty, Clive Bloom
E-bok, 1995
857 kr
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Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, the Modernist tradition in American poetry is driven by the same concern to engage with the world in revolutionary terms, inspired by the concept of democracy vital to the American dream. But this tradition is not confined to a few writers at the beginning …
British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s
Politics and Art
E-bok, 1997
876 kr
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This collection looks at the developments in British poetry from the Movement until the present. The introduction not only provides a context for these changes but also argues that poetry criticism has been debilitated by the quest for political respectability, a trend which can only be reversed by …
