A Readers Guide To Great Twentieth Century English Novels Classic Reprint

Author : Frederick Robert Karl
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332419251
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book A Readers Guide to Great Twentieth-Century English Novels (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Robert Karl and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Readers Guide to Great Twentieth-Century English Novels In varying ways, Conrad's emphasis on the individual artist's con scious mind as guide to his artistic conceptions - an anti-traditionalist position and a throwback to the philosophy of the 1890's, the time of Conrad's apprenticeship - found its counterpart in the statements of Huxley, Virginia Woolf, and Joyce. Conrad was following, in his way, Flaubert's attempt to make the novel a major artistic form, not merely a type of entertainment. Concern with form, a major French preoccu pation, did not significantly begin in England, we remember, until George Eliot, Meredith, and Conrad turned to the novel, and only the latter practiced what he theorized. After Conrad, we find several state ments of novelistic theory incorporated into the novel itself: as exam ples, Stephen's sermon on art in A Portrait, the remarks in Philip Quarles'journal in Point Counter Point, and, indirectly, the tense discussions between Loerke, the devilish creator, and Ursula and Gud run Brangwen near the end of Women in Love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Frederick Robert Karl
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Total Pages : 293 pages
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Download or read book A reader's guide to great twentieth-century English novels written by Frederick Robert Karl and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 293 pages
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Download or read book A Readers Guide to Great Twentieth-century English Novels written by Frederick Robert Karl and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A reader's guide to great twentieth century English novels written by Frederick Karl and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick R. Karl and Marvin Magalaner
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Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book A Reader's Guide to Great Twentieth Century English Novels written by Frederick R. Karl and Marvin Magalaner and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Kermode
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195211535
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-century Novel written by Frank Kermode and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you remember what happens at the end of 1984? Or what triggered Quentin Compson's suicide in The Sound and the Fury? Perhaps you need to know who won the National Book Award in 1960, how many times the Booker Prize has been awarded to non-British writers, or what novels people were reading the year the Titanic sank. The answers to all these questions, and many more, can now be found in A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel. Wide-ranging and authoritative, A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel is a unique and invaluable guide to modern fiction written in English. Arranged chronologically from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim to E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, it contains detailed accounts of some 750 novels from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada, Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. All of the century's major novelists are represented, alongside less-celebrated writers whose work has been unjustly neglected; such beloved children's authors as A.A. Milne, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Kenneth Grahame, and such popular authors as Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, Daphne Du Maurier, and others whose work has left a definite stamp on readers' imaginations. Each lively entry supplies a summary of the plot, places the novel in a biographical and historical context, and provides a provocative critical assessment. Written by a team of thirty-eight contributors made up of critics, biographers, novelists, historians, academics, and literary journalists, all entries are fully cross-referenced and supplemented at the end of the book by brief biographical notes on all authors and by helpful alphabetical indexes of novels and authors. Interwoven with the entries are also 150 short extracts illustrating the voice and style of many featured novels, from Rudyard Kipling's Kim to Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. The chronological arrangement of the Guide gives readers fascinating insight into the sorts of books people were reading at any given period, and each year is prefaced by a selection of contemporary events from the worlds of the arts, science, and politics, revealing the background against which novels were written and published. This arrangement also allows readers to trace the literary history of twentieth-century fiction and to follow the development of individual authors. A celebration of modern fiction and an indispensable aide-memoire, A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel is a book to be read for pleasure as well as consulted for reference.

Author : Randall Stevenson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813108230
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reader's Guide to the Twentieth-century Novel in Britain written by Randall Stevenson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel is the major literary phenomenon of the twentieth century, and its development in Britain since 1900 has reflected the tumultuous changes that have characterized modern society. Randall Stevenson now presents an accessible and authoritative guide to the work of th ecentury's leading novelists as well as many of its lesser known writers. In this stimulating and wide-ranging account, Stevenson locates the work of individual writers, from Conrad to Jeanette Winterson, within an evolving literary history and the wider context of social, political, and cultural change. Included are British writers working in exile and writers with origins elsewhere, such as James and Rushdie, who have chosen to work in Britain. Women novelists are accorded their rightful prominence. This clear and lively survey deals with a broad range of movements, including modernism and postmodernism, as well as the influence of other world literatures and the impact of two world wars. An ideal text, this is a 'guide' in the best sense—concise and lucid, well-informed and perceptive. Readers new to the field will appreciate Stevenson's clear direction, while the experienced will be delighted by newly revealed connections and fresh perspectives.

Author : Carl Holliday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331232285
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book English Fiction written by Carl Holliday and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Fiction: From the Fifth to the Twentieth Century The stream of fiction is hard to follow. It has its origin in so many sources so widely separated and so divergent in character, and these are in many cases so obscured by remoteness or by insignificance, that they are difficult to discover. When discovered they do not disclose even to daring conjecture their possible influence upon the main current. The stream itself flows with many windings because turned in its course by adverse conditions or actually forced out of its normal channel by insuperable obstacles. It flows too with unsteady motion, now moving in well-defined limits, now submerging adjacent territory and well-nigh engulfing kindred forms and becoming itself sluggish in its forward movement; at other times it dashes on with inexplicable impetuosity and then eddies around some fixed point in its course. Tributaries feed this stream all along its course - tributaries that demand but defy full exploration and tempt the discoverer to lose himself in the mazes of their obscure sources. The author of this book has succeeded well in playing the guide on this stream with its twists and turnings, its lulling quietness and restive dashes, its accretions and its losses. By seeing the end from the beginning he has kept himself from being diverted from his single purpose and has certainly made the journey easier for the next explorer that comes this way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Harry Blamires
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000287645
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English written by Harry Blamires and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert L. Caserio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828339
Total Pages : 299 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel written by Robert L. Caserio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.