Twentieth Century English Literature

Author : Ashley Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415572452
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-century British Literature written by Ashley Dawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert L. Caserio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828339
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Laura Marcus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521820776
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature written by Laura Marcus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Reuben Arthur Brower
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674914247
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Literature in Retrospect written by Reuben Arthur Brower and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen essays in this second volume of Harvard English Studies explore and reevaluate the work of twentieth-century writers and critics from Joyce and James to Iris Murdoch and Mailer, from Yeats and Eliot to critics and poets of the present generation. Part I, "Writers and Critics," includes among other essays an exploration of erotic imagination in Dubliners and a study of Dickensian motifs in Murdoch's London novels. Other articles deal with the present standing of Yeats's and Eliot's poetry, the prosodies of free verse, and the role of the writer in modern fiction. Part II, "Twentieth Century Valuations Reconsidered" assesses some of the influential twentieth-century critical positions on Shakespeare, the pastoral, Donne, the metaphysical poets, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth. Distinguished contributors include Josephine Miles, Frank Kermode, F. R. Leavis, and Christopher Ricks.

Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Oxford Books of Verse
ISBN 13 : 9780198121374
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse written by Philip Larkin and published by Oxford Books of Verse. This book was released on 1973 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.

Author : Dennis Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349199133
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature written by Dennis Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-05-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : 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 : A. Norman Jeffares
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349185116
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century English Literature written by A. Norman Jeffares and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1986-12-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In revising this book for a second edition, Harry Blamires has updated his final chapters to give a thorough coverage to the work of dramatists, novelists and poets who have achieved prominence in the 1980s, either as new writers or rediscovered authors who have recently been brought back into print or revived by radio and television.

Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113982810X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry written by Neil Corcoran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dr Christine Berberich
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409489973
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature written by Dr Christine Berberich and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.