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Fictions of Power in English Literature
1900-1950
Av Lee Horsley
Häftad, 1995
578 kr
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As a result of its imperial role, Britain was closely involved with such romantic and disruptive myths of power such as the imperial adventure hero and the self-deified charismatic leader. Lee Horsley explores fictional representations of political power during this period, surveying a wide range …
New York Fictions
Modernity, Postmodernism, The New Modern
Häftad, 1995
427 kr
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In this original study, Peter Brooker takes issue with the simplified opposition of postmodernism to modernism in accounts of the modern period. Instead, he follows the course of modernity in the spectacular example of New York, to reveal the complexities of both modernist and postmodern responses …
Poetry of Ted Hughes
Language, Illusion & Beyond
Häftad, 1998
946 kr
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This text provides a lucid and accessible introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, a major figure in twentieth- century poetry whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with the human mind. It is also the first full length study to place Hughes's poetry in the context …
Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry
Av Neil Roberts
Häftad, 1999
812 kr
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Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences. At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those …
Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965
Moments of Danger
Häftad, 1996
946 kr
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This study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or republican perspectives. The book takes its major theoretical energy from readings of Antonio …
Infernal Desires of Angela Carter
Fiction, Femininity, Feminism
Av Joseph Bristow, Trev Lynn Broughton
Häftad, 1997
811 kr
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The book provides a detailed overview of Carter's career, and examines her fascination with female sexuality from her earliest writings to her posthumously published works of the 1990s. Featuring well-established critics it throws fresh light on Carter's unapologetic exploration of erotic fantasy, …
Rewriting the Thirties
Modernism and After
Av Keith Williams, Steven Matthews m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
628 kr
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Rewriting the Thirties questions the myth of the 'anti-modernist' decade. Conversely, the editors argue it is a symptomatic, transitional phase between modern and post-modern writing and politics, at a time of cultural and technological change. The text reconsiders some of the leading writers of …
Literature and The Contemporary
Fictions and Theories of the Present
Av Roger Luckhurst, Peter Marks
Häftad, 1999
996 kr
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At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve essays evidence of the way in which the literature …
Other Sylvia Plath
Av Tracy Brain
Häftad, 2001
996 kr
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Despite being widely studied on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her to suicide. Tracy Brain aims to remedy this by introducing completely new approaches to Plath's …
Infernal Desires of Angela Carter
Fiction, Femininity, Feminism
Av Joseph Bristow, Trev Lynn Broughton
Inbunden, 2016
2890 kr
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Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of the most gifted, subversive, and stylish British writers to emerge in the 1960s.
Poetry of Ted Hughes
Language, Illusion & Beyond
Inbunden, 2016
2890 kr
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This text provides a lucid and accessible introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, a major figure in twentieth- century poetry whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with the human mind. It is also the first full length study to place Hughes's poetry in the context …
Other Sylvia Plath
Av Tracy Brain
Inbunden, 2016
2890 kr
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Despite being widely studied on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her to suicide. Tracy Brain aims to remedy this by introducing completely new approaches to Plath's …
Fictions of Power in English Literature
1900-1950
Av Lee Horsley
Inbunden, 2017
1750 kr
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As a result of its imperial role, Britain was closely involved with such romantic and disruptive myths of power such as the imperial adventure hero and the self-deified charismatic leader. Lee Horsley explores fictional representations of political power during this period, surveying a wide range …
Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965
Moments of Danger
Inbunden, 2017
2890 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or republican perspectives. The book takes its major theoretical energy from readings of Antonio …
Literature and The Contemporary
Fictions and Theories of the Present
Av Roger Luckhurst, Peter Marks
Inbunden, 2016
2890 kr
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At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the Contemporary, in contrast, aims to provide through twelve essays evidence of the way in which the literature …
Rewriting the Thirties
Modernism and After
Av Keith Williams, Steven Matthews m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2454 kr
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Rewriting the Thirties questions the myth of the 'anti-modernist' decade. Conversely, the editors argue it is a symptomatic, transitional phase between modern and post-modern writing and politics, at a time of cultural and technological change.The text reconsiders some of the leading writers of the …
New York Fictions
Modernity, Postmodernism, The New Modern
Inbunden, 2017
1147 kr
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In this original study, Peter Brooker takes issue with the simplified opposition of postmodernism to modernism in accounts of the modern period. Instead, he follows the course of modernity in the spectacular example of New York, to reveal the complexities of both modernist and postmodern responses …
Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry
Av Neil Roberts
Inbunden, 2015
2890 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences. At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those …
