E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster
Author: Wendy Moffat
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2010-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0747598436

Based on exclusive access to E. M. Forster's previously restricted diaries this scrupulously researched and sensitively written biography is the first to put the fact that he was homosexual back at the heart of his story.

E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster
Author: Mary Lago
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1995-02-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349237957

Forster's literary career is assessed in relation to works that mark its phases: his suburban novels, the Indian novel, the BBC talks, and first and last, his short fiction. This study traces evidences of his keen awareness of political and social undercurrents as discovered in the works: the importance of personal relations, culture as a precious heritage, and the creative artist as definer of cultural values and encourager of those who should preserve them.

The Art of Fiction

The Art of Fiction
Author: David Lodge
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1448137799

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

E.M.Foster

E.M.Foster
Author: Frederick Campbell Crews
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400877318

Each of E. M. Forster's five novels-The Longest journey, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Room with a View. Howards End, and A Passage to India-is here analyzed within the framework of Forster’s cultural heritage nineteenth-century liberalism and humanism. In tracing Forster’s family and educational background, his religious and political heritage, and his relation to the "Bloomsbury Group," Mr. Crews reveals the growing melancholy in Forster’s acceptance of “the perils of humanism.” Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A Passage to India

A Passage to India
Author: Laura Heffernan
Publisher: Spark Notes
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781586638191

In this Readers' Guide, Betty Jay considers the establishment of Forster's reputation and the various attempts of critics to decipher the complex codes that are a feature of his novel. Successive chapters focus on debates around Forster's liberal-humanism, with essays from F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling and Malcolm Bradbury; on the indeterminacy and ambiguity of the text, with extracts from essays by Gillian Beer, Robert Barratt, Wendy Moffat and Jo-Ann Hoeppner Moran; and on the sexual politics of Forster's work, with writings from Elaine Showalter, Frances L. Restuccia and Eve Dawkins Poll. The Guide concludes with essays from Jeffrey Meyers and Jenny Sharpe, who read A Passage to India in terms of its engagement with British imperialism.

Maurice

Maurice
Author: E M. Forster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre:
ISBN: 9780571388189

Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening.A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914, but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970.[Bokinfo].

The Longest Journey Illustrated

The Longest Journey Illustrated
Author: E M Forster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2020-12-13
Genre:
ISBN:

The Longest Journey is a bildungsroman by E. M. Forster, first published in 1907. It is the second of Forster's six published novels, following Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and preceding A Room With A View (1908) and Howards End (1910). It has a reputation for being the least known of Forster's novels, but was also the author's personal favourite and one of his most autobiographical.It is the only one of Forster's novels not to have received a film or television adaptation.

Great Novels of E.M. Forster

Great Novels of E.M. Forster
Author: E. M. Forster
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 857
Release: 1992-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780881849080

A renaissance of E.M. Forster is currently under way, as the success of the many films based upon his novels demonstrates Forster's appeal to the modern audience. Four of his best works--Howard's End, A Room with A View, The Longest Journey and Where Angels Fear to Tread--are brought together in this one-volume anthology.