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Iris Murdoch's Paradoxical Novels
Thirty Years of Critical Reception
Inbunden, 2001
1433 kr
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The first study of the literary criticism on Murdoch's novels.The novels of the late Iris Murdoch have been compared to Shakespeare; her name has been put forward for the Nobel Prize in literature; her works have been translated into 29 languages; and no less a critic than Harold Bloom has said of …
Strange Sad War Revolving
Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-1876
Av Luke Mancuso
Inbunden, 1997
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Analysis of Whitman's reflection of civil rights legislation in his work, 1865-1876.Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in Whitman studies for over a century. This first book-length analysis seeks to point the way for a needed recovery of …
Critical Reception of Emerson
Unsettling all Things
Inbunden, 2000
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A history of the most important scholarly criticism of Emerson from his time down to the present.Since the 1820s, Ralph Waldo Emerson has provoked an unsettled response from his readers and contentiousness among critics. Critics still contest Emerson's position: Was he poet or philosopher? Did he …
Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds
The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision
Inbunden, 2000
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The first detailed study of a major but neglected work by Thoreau.Until very recently, only a handful of Thoreau specialists knew of the existence of 'The Dispersion of Seeds', an ecological treatise written during the last years of Thoreau's life, which has been reconstructed and edited, and was …
Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
Av Tim Mehigan
Häftad, 2014
413 kr
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New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader.J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer …
Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee
Av Tim Mehigan, Christian Moser
Inbunden, 2018
1508 kr
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New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and philosophical writer.Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply …
Formal Center in Literature
Explorations from Poe to the Present
Inbunden, 2018
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An investigation of the phenomenon of the framed formal center in literature of the last 180 years, illuminating both the works and correspondences among works of different genres, periods, and nations.This book concerns the framed center in selected literary works of the 19th to 21st centuries. …
How D. H. Lawrence Read Herman Melville
Inbunden, 2021
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Details Lawrence's reception of Melville and reveals his underacknowledged role in the Melville Revival, while contributing to the history of the book and the study of the creative process.How Lawrence Read Melville is a highly focused account of D. H. Lawrence's discovery and reception of Herman …
Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels
Rewritings from a Drowning World
Inbunden, 2022
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Breaks new ground by both analyzing the literary qualities of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth and contextualizing their concern with climate change within the wider crises of the Anthropocene.With the rise of concern about global warming in recent years, climate-change fiction, or cli-fi, …
Wordsworth and the Critics
The Development of a Critical Reputation
Inbunden, 2000
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The first full-length study of the reception of Wordsworth's poetry and theory.William Wordsworth, often regarded as the High Priest of British Romantic Poetry, certainly had the longest career of the Romantics, one extending from his days as a schoolboy almost to the end of his life in 1850, from …
Recent Criticism of James Joyce's Ulysses
An Analytical Review
Av Michael Patrick Gillespie, Paula Gillespie
Inbunden, 2000
892 kr
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A study that must be read by all scholars and students of Joyce.Since its appearance in 1922, James Joyce's novel Ulysses has remained extremely popular, never having gone out of print. Since the expiration of its copyright in the early 1990s, almost every major press in the US and England has …
