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Sea and Sardinia
Av D. H. Lawrence, Jill Franks m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
143 kr
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Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, SEA AND SARDINIA records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his delighted response to a new landscape and people and his uncanny ability to transmute the spirit of place into literary art. Like his …
Islands and the Modernists
The Allure of Isolation in Art, Literature and Science
Av Jill Franks
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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This study examines five modernists in different disciplines--biology, painting, drama, fiction, and anthropology--whose work on islands made them famous. Charles Darwin challenged every presumption of popular science with his theory of evolution by natural selection, derived from his study of the …
British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement
Six Literary Voices of Their Times
Av Jill Franks
Häftad, 2013
549 kr
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This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September …
Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin
Little Men, Big Auteurs
Av Jill Franks
Häftad, 2019
517 kr
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The comic archetype of the Little Man--a "nobody" who stands up to unfairness--is central to the films of Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin. Portraying the alienation of life in an indifferent world with a mix of pathos, irony and slapstick, both adopted absurdist personas--Chaplin's bumbling yet …
Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel
Race, Class, Gender and the Uses of Genre
Av Jill Franks
Häftad, 2022
429 kr
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Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of the century, rigid application of gender rules and class hierarchies began to relax. Consciousness of the injustice of class- and gender-based discrimination was …
