The Revisions Of Englishness

Author : David Rogers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719069727
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revisions of Englishness written by David Rogers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse and often competing notions of "Englishness" have been critiqued by a variety of writers and critics who have become concerned about received visions of "Englishness" in the post-war period. An exciting and provocative collection of essays which registers the changes to Englishness since the 1950s, this book explores how Englishness has been revised for a variety of aesthetic and political purposes and makes a ground-breaking contribution to the contemporary debates in literary and cultural studies.

Author : David Gervais
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521443385
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Englands written by David Gervais and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of 'Englishness' - loss, nostalgia and exile - on the work of twentieth-century writers.

Author : C. Westall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035242
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature of an Independent England written by C. Westall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and the need for England to become a self-determining literary nation.

Author : Ailsa Henderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192643789
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Englishness written by Ailsa Henderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the Brexit referendum, there was widespread doubt as to whether English nationalism existed at all, at least beyond a small fringe. Since then, it has come to be regarded an obvious explanation for the vote to Leave the European Union. Subsequent opinion polls have raised doubts about the extent of continuing English commitment to the Union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet even as Englishness is apparently reshaping Britain's place in world and perhaps, ultimately, the state itself, it remains poorly understood. In this book Ailsa Henderson and Richard Wyn Jones draw on data from the Future of England Survey, a specially commissioned public attitudes survey programme exploring the political implications of English identity, to make new and original arguments about the nature of English nationalism. They demonstrate that English nationalism is emphatically not a rejection of Britain and Britishness. Rather, English nationalism combines a sense of grievance about England's place within the United Kingdom with a fierce commitment to a particular vision of Britain's past, present, and future. Understanding its Janus-faced nature - both England and Britain - is key not only to understanding English nationalism, but also to understanding the ways in which it is transforming British politics.

Author : C. Westall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035242
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature of an Independent England written by C. Westall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and the need for England to become a self-determining literary nation.

Author : Ronald Forrest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revision English written by Ronald Forrest and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Fox
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1857889177
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watching the English written by Kate Fox and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.

Author : Milton Sarkar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443888346
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Englishness and Post-imperial Space written by Milton Sarkar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Englishness and Post-imperial Space: The Poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes probes into the English mindset immediately after the British withdrawal from the colonies, and examines how the loss of power and global prestige affected contemporary poetry, particularly that of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Frustration and disillusionment, even anger, characterised the era and many of the literary works the period produced. Most writers became insular and were obsessed with the ‘English’ elements in their writing. The great, international and cosmopolitan themes (of Eliot, for instance) were replaced by those of narrow domestic importance. It is in such a context, this book argues, that Larkin and Hughes returned to the old England, most notably to the themes of gradually vanishing pristine landscape and national myths and legends, to the archetypal English customs and conventions. It examines their poetry mainly from the perspective of Englishness, a burgeoning area of academic interest. Intricately connected with the values emanating from England as a geographical and socio-cultural space, Englishness as a concept is intrinsic to the identity of a people who gradually became globally powerful. The loss of empire dealt a severe blow to this sense of the self. This book explores the dynamics of the representation of this sense of loss and the frustration it produced in the poems of Larkin and Hughes.

Author : Ulla Rahbek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030221253
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Multicultural Literature and Superdiversity written by Ulla Rahbek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary British multicultural multi-genre literature. Considering socio-political and philosophical ideas about British multiculturalism, superdiversity and conviviality, Ulla Rahbek studies a broad range of texts by writers from across the majority-minority divide. The text focuses on figurative registers and metaphorical richness in multicultural poetry and investigates the interlocked issue of recognition, representation and identity in memoirs. Rahbek analyses how twenty-first-century British multicultural novels both envision and reimagine an inclusive nation and thematise the detrimental effects of individual exclusion on characters’ pursuits of the good life. She observes the ways that short stories pivot on ambivalent encounters and intercultural dialogue, and she reflects on the public good of multicultural literature.

Author : M. Gardiner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137026022
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Return of England in English Literature written by M. Gardiner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively study provides an account of the 'fall and rise' of the English nation within the British discipline of English Literature between the late eighteenth century and the present day, offering a reconceptualisation of the relationship between English Literature and the formation of English cultural identity.