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19 produkter
Prefaces to Shakespeare
Av Tony Tanner
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
372 kr
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When Tony Tanner died in 1998, the world lost a critic who was as sensitive a reader of Jane Austen as he was of Thomas Pynchon, and who wrote with a warmth and clarity that belied his fluency in literary theory. In the final ten years of his life Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in …
The American Mystery
American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo
Av Tony Tanner
Häftad, 2000
823 kr
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The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. His work is familiar to generations of students and scholars, and has helped shape our understanding of the major nineteenth and twentieth century American writers. With a foreword by …
Henry James: Book. 1
Av Tony Tanner
Häftad, 1980
328 kr
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Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Sacred Fount, the great ghost-story, The Jolly Corner and other tales, autobiography, travel and the influential …
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories
Av Tony Tanner
Häftad, 2002
542 kr
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'And then went down to the ship.' Thus, with a nod to Homer, Ezra Pound began his own epic odyssey through the world of literature and the modern world. There is no literature without a departure, a setting forth; and very often that has meant leaving the land for the more uncertain world of the …
The Confidence-Man
His Masquerade
Av Herman Melville, Tony Tanner m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
166 kr
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Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidèle is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 …
Jane Austen
Av Tony Tanner
Inbunden, 2007
753 kr
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Tony Tanner's classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author's most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen's novels. Tanner shows how Austen changed from a basically accepting view of 'society' to a more questioning …
Thomas Pynchon
Av Tony Tanner
Inbunden, 2019
1744 kr
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Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulness and experimentation and wealth of allusion, to …
Thomas Pynchon
Av Tony Tanner
Häftad, 2021
626 kr
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Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulness and experimentation and wealth of allusion, to …
The Reign of Wonder
Naivety and Reality in American Literature
Av Tony Tanner
Häftad, 1977
898 kr
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The adopted attitude towards reality and experience in American literature tends to be one of wonder and cultivated naivety rather than analysis and judgement. In this book, Dr Tanner offers some reasons for this and seeks to demonstrate the peculiar importance of wonder in American literature, by …
Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men
Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature
Av Tony Tanner
Häftad, 1989
1029 kr
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This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Among the questions considered in the first section of the book are how does American Romantic writing differ …
Thomas Pynchon
Av Tony Tanner
E-bok, 2019
721 kr
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Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulness and experimentation and wealth of allusion, to …
Thomas Pynchon
Av Tony Tanner
E-bok, 2019
721 kr
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Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulness and experimentation and wealth of allusion, to …
Jane Austen
Av Tony Tanner
E-bok, 2017
825 kr
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Tony Tanner''s classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author''s most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen''s novels. Tanner shows how Austen changed from a basically accepting view of ''society'' to a more …
Jane Austen
Av Tony Tanner
E-bok, 1986
717 kr
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Tony Tanner''s classic text on Jane Austen addresses the issues that have always occupied the author''s most perceptive critics, and offers an illuminating and refreshing analysis of Austen''s novels. Tanner shows how Austen changed from a basically accepting view of ''society'' to a more …
Adultery in the Novel
Contract and Transgression
Av Tony Tanner
Häftad, 2020
785 kr
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Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples. Tony Tanner proposes that transgressions of the marriage contract take on a special …
Venecia deseada
Av Tony Tanner
E-bok, 2015
227 kr
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Venecia está presente en la obra de Melville, Lord Byron, Ruskin, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Hofmannsthal, Ezra Pound, Rilke, Mann, Satre, es decir, en buena parte de los autores fundamentales para entender la literatura moderna y el mundo en el que estamos. Venecia es un mundo de deseo, así lo …
