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Sound and the Fury
A Norton Critical Edition
Av William Faulkner, Michael Gorra
Häftad, 2026
266 kr
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This Norton Critical Edition includes:The 1929 text of The Sound and the Fury, corrected by textual scholar Noel Polk to correspond to Faulkner’s original complete manuscript.A reimagined preface, revised headnotes, and expanded footnotes by Michael Gorra to contextualize, among other aspects, …
As I Lay Dying
A Norton Critical Edition
Av William Faulkner, Michael Gorra
Häftad, 2022
266 kr
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This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by newly updated and expanded explanatory annotations and an introduction by Michael Gorra.“Backgrounds and Contexts” is divided into three sections, each of which includes a concise introduction by Michael Gorra …
Saddest Words
William Faulkner's Civil War
Häftad, 2021
207 kr
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Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the American Civil War, the central quarrel in …
Saddest Words
William Faulkner's Civil War
Inbunden, 2020
309 kr
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Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the American Civil War, the central quarrel in …
Aspern Papers and Other Tales
E-bok, 2014
108 kr
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A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra.This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all exploring the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern Papers', a critic is …
Aspern Papers and Other Tales
Häftad, 2014
152 kr
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A wonderful new selection of Henry James's short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra.This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all focussing the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern Papers', a critic is …
After Empire
Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie
Häftad, 1997
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323 kr
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This study explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on race, Gorra …
After Empire
Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie
E-bok, 2008
697 kr
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In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empire—Paul Scott, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie—have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity left in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on race, …
Storytellers
Reading the Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction
Inbunden, 2026
303 kr
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Tracing the origins of the modern short story, Michael Gorra provides the first fully realized picture of a century’s worth of great tales. The Storytellers offers a far-reaching account of the rich tradition of short narratives that flourished in nineteenth-century Europe and America, one that …
English Novel at Mid-Century
From the Leaning Tower
Inbunden, 1990
1259 kr
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'So far as the young were concerned,' Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, 'the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcastles.' Most critical accounts of that postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the myth of the 'thirties.' Michael Gorra's …
Portrait of a Lady
A Norton Critical Edition
Häftad, 2017
249 kr
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This Norton Critical Edition includes: ⁊ The New York Edition of the novel, accompanied by Michael Gorra's introduction and explanatory footnotes.⁊ Background and contextual materials centering on James as a writer, The Portrait of a Lady in revision, and reviews of the novel by James's …
Bells in Their Silence
Travels through Germany
Häftad, 2006
441 kr
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Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging …
Portrait of a Novel
Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
Inbunden, 2012
335 kr
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Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). …
Portrait of a Novel
Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
Häftad, 2013
332 kr
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Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). …
English Novel at Mid-Century
From the Leaning Tower
E-bok, 2016
1782 kr
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''So far as the young were concerned,'' Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, ''the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcastles.'' Most critical accounts of that postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the myth of the ''thirties.'' Michael Gorra''s …
English Novel at Mid-Century
From the Leaning Tower
Häftad, 1990
1263 kr
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'So far as the young were concerned,' Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, 'the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcastles.' Most critical accounts of that postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the myth of the 'thirties.' Michael Gorra's …
Bells in Their Silence
Travels through Germany
E-bok, 2009
574 kr
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Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging …
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (LOA #344)
Av Elizabeth Spencer, Michael Gorra
E-bok, 2021
512 kr
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Sound and the Fury
A Norton Critical Edition
Av William Faulkner, Michael Gorra
Häftad, 2014
187 kr
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William Faulkner’s provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely acknowledged as one of the most important English-language novels of the twentieth century. This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition builds on the strengths of its predecessors while focusing new …
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (LOA #344)
The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Av Elizabeth Spencer, Michael Gorra m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
470 kr
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Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was a major figure of the Southern Renaissance, though today her many books and stories are scattered or out of print. This Library of America volume brings together the very best of her writing - three novels and nineteen stories - from a career spanning more than six …
