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Author | : John Fletcher |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2021-07-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1800249853 |
A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence. 'Fletcher impresses in this searing debut... Fletcher makes all his characters realistic, even if they only appear briefly, and excels at portraying the horrors of war and the moral challenges it poses. Fans of J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun will be riveted' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 1937. CHINA IS AT WAR. Soldiers of the Empire of Japan sweep through the country, killing and displacing the millions who stand in their way. As vast swathes of the country fall to the invaders, Wuhan, an industrial city in the centre of China, is appointed wartime capital. While the rest of the world looks the other way, the citizens of Wuhan stand alone against a whirlwind of violence – transforming militarily, educationally, medically and culturally. Their heroic efforts halted the Japanese. Weaving together a multitude of narratives, Wuhan is a historical fiction epic that pulls no punches: the heart-in-mouth tale of a peasant family forced onto a thousand-mile refugee death-march; the story of Lao She – China's greatest writer – leaving his family in a war zone to assist with the propaganda effort in Wuhan; the hellish battlefields of the Sino-Japanese war; the approaching global conflict seen through a host of colourful characters – from Chiang Kai-Shek, China's nationalist leader, to Peter Fleming, a British journalist based in Wuhan and the prototype for his younger brother Ian Fleming's James Bond.
Author | : John Fletcher |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2014-05-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408143801 |
The Tamer Tamed is the subtitle or alternative title to John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, a comedic sequel and reply to The Taming of the Shrew. The plot switches the gender roles of Shakespeare's play: the women seek to tame the men. Katherine (the "shrew" of the original) has died, and Petruchio takes a second wife, Maria. Maria denounces her former mildness and vows not to sleep with Petruchio until she "turn him and bend him as [she] list, and mold him into a babe again." After many comedic exchanges and plot twists, Petruchio is finally "tamed" in the eyes of Maria, and the play ends with the two reconciled. The play is seen to reflect how society's views of women, femininity, and "domestic propriety" were beginning to change. It is said that Fletcher wrote this play to attract Shakespeare's attention - the two went on to collaborate on at least three plays together. This brand new New Mermaid edition offers unique and fresh insight into the critical interpretation of the play. It builds on current critical foundations (the relationship with Taming of the Shrew, gender relations etc) and suggests different areas of interest (popular associations of the shrew, the question of reputation, and a re-examination of the play's structure). as well as examining stage history and recent productions.
Author | : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 3734 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465523995 |
Author | : Francis Beaumont |
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Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1811 |
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Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781610750264 |
Author | : Domenico Lovascio |
Publisher | : Revels Plays Companion Library |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781526157386 |
Examines Fletcher's Roman plays and identifies disorientation as the unifying principle of his portrayal of imperial Rome. The book sheds new light on his intellectual life by arguing that his dramatization of Rome exudes a sense of scepticism over the authority of Roman models resulting from his irreverent approach to the classics.
Author | : John Fletcher |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000639088 |
Alain Robbe-Grillet had traditionally been seen as an austere experimentalist in fiction, addicted to arid and interminable descriptions of objects like coffee pots, erasers and pieces of string. His own rather bellicose theoretical pronouncements were partly to blame for this unattractive picture, belied by the immense popular success of the film Last Year at Marienbad (1961) (made by Alain Resnais from Robbe-Grillet’s script) and the high critical esteem in which novels like Jealousy and The Voyeur are held. In his original study, first published in 1983, John Fletcher attempts to resolve this paradox by offering a new interpretation of Robbe-Grillet’s work which stresses the subversive qualities of his imagination and the disturbing power of his vision of a world of labyrinths and bizarre sexual stereotypes, haunted by images of love and loss.
Author | : John Fletcher |
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Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Methodist Church |
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Author | : Chris Cooper |
Publisher | : Ft Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2007-06-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781405873239 |
This text introduces the fundamental principles of tourism and provides a framework that effectively integrates theory and practice. A global and diverse spread of examples shows the impacts and influences of this fast-changing industry on its environment and vice versa. Companion website includes an Instructor's Manual and Powerpoint slides for the tutor; self-assessment questions, weblinks and a glossary of key terms for the student. Suitable for a wide range of introductory and other modules on undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Tourism
Author | : John Fletcher |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 1988-07-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0938626671 |
A Pulitzer Prize winner best known as an imagist, John Gould Fletcher experimented with every facet of Modernist poetry and influenced poets in both England and the United States. this is the first collection to span his entire career, and brings again to the public eye work that has been unavailable for thirty-five years. Fletcher is responsible for introducing Ezra Pound to French symbolism, and Amy Lowell to “polyphonic prose,” and his connection with the Southern Fugitive Agrarian movement adds to his significance as the first modern Southern poet. The editors have chosen representative works for his many stages of development and discuss in the introduction Fletcher’s influence on the better-known modernists. Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher is the first n a series of books by or about Fletcher to fill an important space in home and public libraries with American literature collections.