Twentieth Century Literature In English
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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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Neil Corcoran |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2007-12-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113982810X |
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
Author | : Dennis Brown |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 1989-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349199133 |
An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.
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.