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Janet Frame
Av Claire Bazin
Häftad, 2011
260 kr
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This study examines the whole of Frame’s output starting with the fiction (novels, short-stories and poems) before focusing on the two autobiographical novels, Owls do Cry and Faces in the Water, to end with the autobiographical trilogy, a sort of restorative prism inviting us to (re) read all her …
Henry James: Book. 1
Av Tony Tanner
Häftad, 1980
329 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 …
George Chapman
Häftad, 1978
329 kr
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George Chapman (1559-1634) is the least known of the great Elizabethan dramatists—but he was much more than a dramatist. In his own day, his translation of Homer brought him acclaim (it was the first English translation). He was a lyric poet who competed with Marlowe and Shakespeare, and wrote a …
Andrew Marvell
Häftad, 1994
384 kr
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This new study of Andrew Marvell offers a state-of-the-art guide to one of the most intriguing and elusive poets of the seventeenth century. Hero to the eighteenth century for his published defences of parliamentary government and religious toleration, Marvell was friend and defender of Milton, …
Walter Pater
Av Laurel Brake
Häftad, 1994
384 kr
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Walter Pater (1839-94) was an active participant in the literary marketplace as an academic, journalist, critic, writer of short stories, and novelist at a time of the rise of English and of journalism, university reform, and the professionalisation and separating out of literature from journalism. …
Elizabeth Gaskell
Av Kate Flint
Häftad, 1994
384 kr
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This original study of Elizabeth Gaskell places the woman and her writings within their full Victorian context. Recent critical appraisal has focused both on her role as a novelist of industrial England, and on her awareness of the position of women and the problems of the woman writer in that …
John Clare
Av John Lucas
Häftad, 1994
384 kr
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The four volumes of John Clare’s poetry that were published during his tragic life were so brutally edited, and sometimes even wilfully censored for political reasons that his work invited mainly curiosity and condescension from the literary world. Now that readers have a chance to re-evaluate …
John Donne
Häftad, 1994
459 kr
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Dr Davies’ stimulating study covers the full range of Donne’s poetry, from the early satires and elegies to the Songs and Sonnets and Divine Poems, and includes thoughtful analysis of parts of his memorable sermons. Questioning the traditional critical approach which relates the writer’s life and …
Leo Tolstoy
Av John Bayley
Häftad, 1996
384 kr
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Tolstoy’s art as represented in his greatest novels: War and Peace and Anna Karenina continues to absorb, fascinate and delight modern readers despite the lack of appeal of much of his later convictions. His great works continue to exercise a profound influence on the best imaginative writing. In …
William Hazlitt
Av R. L. Brett, J. B. Priestley
Häftad, 1994
355 kr
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William Hazlitt was a brilliant and perceptive essayist and critic in the early 19th Century whose critical impressions of his contemporaries and their work gave a sense of an age and the leading figures who populated it in a particularly vivid way.
George Herbert
Av T. S. Eliot
Häftad, 1994
407 kr
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T.S. Eliot considered George Herbert one of the liveliest and most profound of English poets with whose work he felt an instinctive accord. Describing The Temple as … ‘not simply a collection of poems but … a record of the spiritual struggles of a man of intellectual power and emotional intensity …
Mary Wollstonecraft
Av Jane Moore
Häftad, 1999
459 kr
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Since the publication of her Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft has been justly hailed as a pioneer of feminist thought in the English-speaking world. Yet Wollstonecraft is a much more fascinating figure, her life far richer, and the impact of that life on her ideas a …
J.R.R. Tolkien
Häftad, 1997
355 kr
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Tolkien was a specialist in a recherché field. He did not, at least initially, write for a mass audience. Yet for many in the 60s his books, particularly Lord of the Rings, became a political badge and an interpretative text. Widely translated, his fiction won the accolade both of parody and of its …
Edmund Spenser
Av Colin Burrow
Häftad, 1996
459 kr
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Edmund Spenser (1554-1599) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calendar (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and whose unfinished Faerie Queene (1590-96) was the longest and most accomplished poem written in the sixteenth century. Readers have always been immediately …
Graham Greene
Häftad, 1996
384 kr
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Graham Greene is among the major creative talents of our time. This study concentrates on his achievements as a novelist whose work spanned more than sixty years, and was translated into forty languages. As skilful in writing with humour as with seriousness, he combined the gifts of a superb …
Byron
Häftad, 2000
384 kr
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After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas and techniques more usually associated with …
Geoffrey Chaucer
Av Steve Ellis
Häftad, 1996
384 kr
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This study of Geoffrey Chaucer addresses both recent theoretical approaches to his work, as well as various popular tropes – ‘Father of English Poetry’, poet of ‘Merrie England’ – that have enshrined his status within a nationalist ideology. Feminist criticism and the work of Bakhtin receive …
Charlotte Yonge
Häftad, 1996
384 kr
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Charlotte Yonge, a best-seller admired by her greatest literary contemporaries in the mid-nineteenth century, but ignored or vilified by critics for the next hundred years, has recently received some attention from biographers, from historians of the Oxford Movement and of children’s literature, …
A. S. Byatt
Av Richard Todd
Häftad, 1996
384 kr
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A.S. Byatt (1936) has become known world-wide for her award-winning novel Possession (1990). This thrilling story of romance and literary detection, spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has prompted a widespread reappraisal of Byatt’s entire oeuvre throughout Europe, the United States, …
Franz Kafka
Av Michael Wood
Häftad, 1998
384 kr
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Franz Kafka's work has profoundly influenced postmodernist thinking. Michael Wood pays close attention to individual works by Kafka and to his original Austro-Hungarian context.
Salman Rushdie
Av Damian Grant
Häftad, 1999
744 kr
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Salman Rushdie is one of the most widely discussed of contemporary writers; also, one whose work has provoked disagreement and controversy—not least in the far-reaching 'Rushdie affair.' This study seeks to provide a balanced view by approaching Rushdie's fiction in terms of its dual responsibility …
Angus Wilson
Häftad, 1997
384 kr
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Sir Angus Wilson shot to fame in the late 1940’s – his first stories were greeted by Sean O’Faolain and Evelyn Waugh alike with delight. He was championed at once as an odd realist providing new social maps of post-war England – V S Pritchett was to see him as revising the conventional picture of …
Pre-Raphaelitism: Poetry and Painting
Häftad, 2013
384 kr
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This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to examine those aspects of the movement that account for its enduring legacy. Beginning with the profound and somewhat neglected influence of Ruskin’s work …
Romeo and Juliet
Häftad, 1998
459 kr
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This study argues that Romeo and Juliet, perhaps Shakespeare’s most popularly-known play, repays thorough investigation – read afresh, the play is an extraordinary exploration of domestic conflict, social relations and linguistic practice. Drawing upon recent criticism on history and literature, …
Sir Walter Scott
Häftad, 2006
384 kr
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Providing a brief account of the life of Sir Walter Scott, this text charts his development as a poet and novelist, and justifies his claims to attention as a major 19th century novelist and a seminal influence on later writers.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Häftad, 2000
384 kr
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This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley’s thought and major writings. As an introduction, it stresses his seriousness and sophistication, his poetic brilliance and intellectual courage. More specifically, its readings emphasise the materialistic and …
Brian Friel
Häftad, 2009
260 kr
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Brian Friel is Ireland’s leading living playwright, a fact that is easily observable on the billboards of Derry, Dublin, London and New York. These locations are also essential in understanding the range and reach of Friel’s theatrical concerns and his projected audience. From his first major …
Evelyn Waugh
Häftad, 2018
459 kr
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Everyone knows how funny Evelyn Waugh is. One of his finest comic creations was his own increasingly rebarbative public persona – a self-confessed ‘front of pomposity mitigated by indiscretion, that was as hard, bright and antiquated as a cuirass’. No wonder new biographies of Waugh are popular. …
Pope Amongst the Satirists, 1660-1750
Häftad, 2005
384 kr
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Professor Hammond's succinct yet wide-ranging account of the 'Golden Age' of satire, 1660-1750, critically explores its dominant literary forms and examines the work of its outstanding practitioners.
