Landmarks of World Literature – serie
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Virginia Woolf: The Waves
Av Virginia Woolf, Warner
Häftad, 1986
538 kr
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Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her earlier, more accessible works. A final …
Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
Häftad, 1992
392 kr
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This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks …
Sterne: Tristram Shandy
Av Wolfgang Iser, Wolfgang Iser
Häftad, 1988
635 kr
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Without a beginning and without an end, Tristram Shandy moves in many different directions, defying the conventional expectations of its readers. Wolfgang Iser shows how Sterne exploits the philosophy of his day and its cognitive deficiencies, using digression, humour and play to convey experience …
Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Häftad, 1987
392 kr
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Professor ThorIby offers a close reading of this classic novel and explores the subtle psychology in Tolstoy's characterisation. He avoids complex terminology and assumes a readership studying the text in English translation.
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Häftad, 1990
361 kr
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Anthony Close's study places Don Quixote in the context of Cervantes' life and literary career, and in the book's cultural and social background. It focuses primarily on the central problems of Cervantine comedy, the use of burlesque, the presentation of characters through dialogue, the narrator's …
Conrad: Nostromo
Av Ian Watt, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1988
407 kr
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Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently topical. Ian Watt addresses Conrad's concerns when writing the work, and provides an accessible introduction, taking account of …
Goethe: Faust Part One
Häftad, 1986
504 kr
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Nicholas Boyle begins with a fascinating survey of earlier versions of the Faust story. He then offers a detailed reading of Faust Part One, emphasising the poetic and dramatic coherence of the work and tracing its links with the thought and culture of Goethe's time. The play emerges as a tragic …
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Häftad, 1992
504 kr
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Madame Bovary was one of the most influential literary achievements of the nineteenth century and gained immediate notoriety through its questioning of marriage, sex, and the role of women. Stephen Heath shows how this landmark text captures and articulates a fundamental experience of the …
Rousseau: Confessions
Av Peter France
Häftad, 1986
486 kr
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This new textbook series is ambitious in scope. It will provide concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of …
Proust: Swann's Way
Av Sheila Stern
Häftad, 1989
486 kr
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Swann's Way, published in 1913, is the first part of Proust's seven-part novel A la Recherche du temps perdu. The author's expansion, revision and correction of the work were cut short by his death in 1922, and sixty-six years later editors are still producing variants of the last three volumes …
Balzac: Old Goriot
Av David Bellos
Häftad, 1987
486 kr
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This up-to-date account of the novel's composition, structure, and achievement provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing nineteenth-century expectations of what novels should be like.
Constant: Adolphe
Häftad, 1987
486 kr
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Dr Wood traces in detail the frequently paradoxical development of themes and situations introduced in the opening chapters and lays stress on the novel's intricate writing. He places the book in its historical, intellectual and biographical context and examines its reception by writers as various …
Dickens: Bleak House
Av Graham Storey, Graham Storey
Häftad, 1986
392 kr
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Graham Storey explores Dickens's vital engagement with some of the most intractable social and political issues of his day, and shows how these are reflected in the plot and characterization of Bleak House. In his detailed analysis of the novel's principal themes and unique structure, he shows why …
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Häftad, 1990
542 kr
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One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes, and being translated into 27 languages. In …
Mann: Buddenbrooks
Häftad, 1987
523 kr
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This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks …
Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Häftad, 1987
654 kr
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The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Musil), does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. Not that it has wanted for spirited advocates; but, despite all …
Ezra Pound: The Cantos
Häftad, 1989
504 kr
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Pound's 800 page Cantos, written over a period of more than fifty years (1917-1969), invites the reader to join the poet on a journey from darkness and despair towards light and positive activity. In this book, George Kearns addresses the reader approaching The Cantos for the first time. He …
Byron: Don Juan
Häftad, 2008
523 kr
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In her introduction to this brilliant and outrageous literary landmark, Anne Barton places Don Juan within the context of Byron's life and reading, and offers an interpretation of the poem which demonstrates its underlying coherence and artistic integrity, despite Byron's mischievous protestations …
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Av Howard Erskine-Hill, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1993
392 kr
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This critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels aims at giving a fresh and impartial account of the world-famous satire. It characterises the significant historical and literary background to the work, and explores the text itself in the reading order intended by Swift. It gives proper attention …
Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Av Dale Kramer
Häftad, 1991
504 kr
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This book offers a fresh approach to Hardy's novel, highlighting its modern qualities. Dale Kramer re-examines the main characters and investigates Hardy's handling of the plot and the novel's characteristics as a tragedy. He gives special consideration to Tess's search for her identity, and the …
Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Häftad, 1989
377 kr
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Stendhal's great novel The Red and the Black, published in 1830, is seen as one of the most distinguished monuments of literary realism. In this introductory study, Stirling Haig shows how this realism derives from the incorporation of both history and legal reportage into the novel, and how it …
Eliot: Middlemarch
Häftad, 1991
486 kr
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A comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch, offering both general information and an original interpretation. It pays considerable attention to the intellectual and social context surrounding Middlemarch, and situates the work within nineteenth-century traditions of the novel in England and …
The Bible
Av Stephen Prickett, Robert Barnes m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
504 kr
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This study focuses on the Bible as a landmark of literature, showing both how it has influenced writers through the ages and how it in turn has been influenced by contemporary literature. It describes what is known about the historical context of the documents, the changes of interpretation they …
Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
Av Michael Black, Michael Black m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
361 kr
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This is the first critical study of Sons and Lovers to engage with the new Cambridge edition, which prints for the first time the whole text that Lawrence wrote, restoring the substantial cuts made by the first editor. Michael Black gives special attention to the genesis of the book - the writing …
Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du mal
Av F. W. Leakey
Häftad, 1992
392 kr
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Les Fleurs du mal, once the most infamous book of poems in French literature, became in the twentieth century the most famous, and the most admired: its challenge to convention when it was first published in 1857 led to its judicial condemnation, but it owes its 'landmark' status to the sheer …
Wordsworth: The Prelude
Av Stephen Gill
Häftad, 1991
523 kr
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In this introduction to Wordsworth's greatest poem, its creation, historical context, structure and reception history, Stephen Gill places The Prelude in the context of Wordsworth's life, and discusses the various states in which it survives. He gives an account of each book of the 1805 poem, and …
Mann: Doctor Faustus
Av Michael Beddow, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1994
392 kr
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In Doctor Faustus, his last major novel, Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. Through the figures of the solitary avant-garde composer, Adrian Leverkühn, and his often bemused biographer Serenus Zeitblom, Mann explores …
Céline: Journey to the End of the Night
Häftad, 1990
486 kr
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This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks …
Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta
Av Harriet S. Turner, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 2005
654 kr
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Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in the 1870s. In this new critical introduction …
Scott: Waverley
Av Richard Humphrey, J. P. Stern
Häftad, 1993
504 kr
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Scott's Waverley (1814), set in and around the Jacobite Rising in the Scotland of 1745-6, was the first historical novel in world literature. Innovative and humane in its plot, rich in social detail, and truly international in popularity, it not only launched a genre, but also became a landmark in …
