The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl

The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl
Author: Brigid Brophy
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571304613

'In the title story of [ The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl] the main character, God himself, expresses a taste for writing that's sophisticated, stylish, literary. The words apply very well to [Brigid] Brophy's own best work.' New Republic 'What we have here is more common in England than America: reading that's at once very light and very intellectual. Consistent with her commitment to artifice and the rococo, Brophy believes in play... [She] is liveliest when speaking-or making the illustrious dead speak-of the life of art, of literature, music, architecture, which she thinks about a lot and knows a lot about.' Washington Post 'Tasty and nutritious... generally wise and witty... full of game-playing... Brigid Brophy remains a good though very British writer-balanced, erudite, sensible, unsubmissive to shrill sociological shibboleths, above all unscared.' Anthony Burgess , New York Times Book Review

Brigid Brophy

Brigid Brophy
Author: Richard Canning
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1474462685

This book explores all aspects of Brophy's literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy's eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them.

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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
Total Pages: 889
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ISBN: 9326192512

Modern British Women Writers

Modern British Women Writers
Author: Vicki K. Janik
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2002-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313016585

The 20th century witnessed several major cultural movements, including modernism, anti-modernism, and postmodernism. These and other means of understanding and perceiving the world shaped the literature of that era and, with the rise of feminism, resulted in a particularly rich body of literature by women writers. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 British women writers of the 20th century. Some of these writers were born in England, while others, such as Katherine Mansfield and Doris Lessing, came from countries of the former Empire or Commonwealth. The volume also includes entries for women of color, such as Kamala Markandaya and Buchi Emecheta. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes an overview of the writer's background, an analysis of her works, an assessment of her achievements, and lists of primary and secondary sources. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition

The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition
Author: Carol J. Adams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501312855

The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of readers into the second decade of the 21st century. Published in the year of the book's 25th anniversary, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a substantial new afterword, including more than 20 new images and discussions of recent events that prove beyond doubt the continuing relevance of Adams' revolutionary book.

Animal Satire

Animal Satire
Author: Robert McKay
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2023-08-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031248724

Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satire reveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through modern and contemporary times. More pressingly, the book makes the case for the significance of satire for understanding the real-world implications of rhetoric about animals in ongoing struggles for justice. By gathering both critical and creative examples from representative media forms, historical periods, and continents, this volume aims to enrich scholarship on the history of satire as well as empower creative practitioners with ideas about its practical applications today.

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess
Author: Roger Lewis
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466864524

Interviewer: "On what occasions do you lie?" Anthony Burgess: "When I write, when I speak, when I sleep." He was the last great modernist. Novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator, critic, Anthony Burgess's versatility and erudition found expression in more than fifty books and dozens of musical compositions, from operas, choral works and song cycles to symphonies and concertos. Here now is a kaleidoscope of a book--the culmination of twenty years of writing and research--about a man who remains best known for A Clockwork Orange, the source of Stanley Kubrick's ground breaking, mind bending and prescient film. Tracking Burgess from Manchester to Malaya to Malta to Monte Carlo, Roger Lewis assesses Burgess's struggles and uncovers the web of truth and illusion about the writer's famous antic disposition. Burgess, the author argues, was just as much a literary confidence man and prankster as a consummate wordsmith. Outrageously funny, honest and touching, Anthony Burgess explores the divisions that characterize its irascible subject and his darkly comic, bleakly beautiful world of fiction.

Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present

Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present
Author: George Stade
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2010-05-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438116896

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical and critical information on major and lesser-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century British writers, and includes articles on key schools of literature, and genres.