The Twentieth Century English Novel
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Author | : Robert L. Caserio |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2009-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139828339 |
The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.
Author | : Philip Larkin |
Publisher | : Oxford Books of Verse |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780198121374 |
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Author | : Ashley Dawson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415572452 |
In The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides: Analysis of works by a diverse range of influential authors Examination of the cultural and literary impact of crucial historical, social, political and cultural events Discussion of Britain's imperial status in the century and the diversification of the nation through Black and Asian British Literature Readers are also provided with a comprehensive timeline, a glossary of terms, further reading and explanatory text boxes featuring further information on key figures and events.
Author | : Laura Marcus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521820776 |
Author | : Bonnie S. McDougall |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231110846 |
The written culture of 20th-century China has only recently begun to receive sustained attention from Western readers and critics. This book presents illuminating information on writers, audiences, and the impact of various literary works on politics and culture--and provides a unique window on Chinese society.
Author | : Albert Robida |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2004-03-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780819566805 |
Humorous, illustrated novel by the “father of science fiction illustration”.
Author | : Harry Blamires |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2021-06-23 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1000287645 |
First published in 1983, A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is a detailed and comprehensive guide containing over 500 entries on individual writers from countries including Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the UK. The book contains substantial articles relating to major novelists, poets, and dramatists of the age, as well as a wealth of information on the work of lesser-known writers and the part they have played in cultural history. It focuses in detail on the character and quality of the literature itself, highlighting what is distinctive in the work of the writers being discussed and providing key biographical and contextual details. A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English is ideal for those with an interest in the twentieth century literary scene and the history of literature more broadly.
Author | : Dr Christine Berberich |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1409489973 |
Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for twentieth-century literature and culture. Christine Berberich challenges this notion by showing that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, Berberich pays particular attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'. Though 'Englishness' and by extension the English gentleman continue to be linked to depictions of England as the green and pleasant land of imagined bygone days, Berberich counterbalances this perception by showing that the figure of the English gentleman is the medium through which these authors and many of their contemporaries critique the shifting mores of contemporary society. Twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman thus have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.
Author | : Charles More |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317867777 |
In a century of rapid social change, the British people have experienced two world wars, the growth of the welfare state and the loss of Empire. Charles More looks at these and other issues in a comprehensive study of Britain’s political, economic and social history throughout the twentieth century. This accessible new book also engages with topical questions such as the impact of the Labour party and the role of patriotism in British identity.
Author | : Jesse Zuba |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691164479 |
An illuminating look at the poetic debut in twentieth-century American literary culture "We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique literary production with its own tradition, conventions, and dynamic role in the literary market. Through new readings of poets ranging from Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore to John Ashbery and Louise Glück, Jesse Zuba illuminates the importance of the first book in twentieth-century American literary culture, which involved complex struggles for legitimacy on the part of poets, critics, and publishers alike. Zuba investigates poets' diverse responses to the question of how to launch a career in an increasingly professionalized literary scene that threatened the authenticity of the poetic calling. He shows how modernist debuts evoke markedly idiosyncratic paths, while postwar first books evoke trajectories that balance professional imperatives with traditional literary ideals. Debut titles ranging from Simpson's The Arrivistes to Ken Chen's Juvenilia stress the strikingly pervasive theme of beginning, accommodating a new demand for career development even as it distances the poets from that demand. Combining literary analysis with cultural history, The First Book will interest scholars and students of twentieth-century literature as well as readers and writers of poetry.