Twentieth Century Suspense

Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349206784
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Suspense written by Clive Bloom and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-05-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series aims to bring to academics, students and general readers the best contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. This volume contains 17 critical essays on influential suspense writers of the 20th century.

Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333475911
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Suspense written by Clive Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Docherty
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349230731
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century European Drama written by Brian Docherty and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-11-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, Fernando Arrabal, Jean Genet, Peter Weiss, Vaclav Havel, comtemporary German theatre, and Dario Fo and Franca Rame. These specially commissioned essays combine contemporary theory with a discussion of the dramatic work of the playwrights who created modern drama in Europe.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349813664
Total Pages : 1585 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 1585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Winter Thorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book Thorne's Twentieth Century Book-keeping and Business Practice written by William Winter Thorne and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beatrix Hesse
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113746304X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Crime Play in the Twentieth Century written by Beatrix Hesse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction.

Author : Eric Ambler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Coffin for Dimitrios written by Eric Ambler and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Morris
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773493254
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Stereotyped Images in Victorian and Twentieth-century Literature and Society written by John Morris and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Horsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199253265
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Crime Fiction written by Lee Horsley and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, feminist) and will be a useful supplement to a range of crime fiction courses, whether they focus on historical contexts, ideological shifts, the emergence of sub-genres, or the application of critical theories. Forty-seven widely available stories and novels are chosen for detailed discussion. In seeking to illuminate the relationship between different phases of generic development Lee Horsley employs an overlapping historical framework, with sections doubling back chronologically in order to explore the extent to which successive transformations have their roots within the earlier phases of crime writing, as well as responding in complex ways to the preoccupations and anxieties of their own eras. The first part of the study considers the nature and evolution of the main sub-genres of crime fiction: the classic and hard-boiled strands of detective fiction, the non-investigative crime novel (centered on transgressors or victims), and the "mixed" form of the police procedural. The second half of the study examines the ways in which writers have used crime fiction as a vehicle for socio-political critique. These chapters consider the evolution of committed, oppositional strategies, tracing the development of politicized detective and crime fiction, from Depression-era protests against economic injustice to more recent decades which have seen writers launching protests against ecological crimes, rampant consumerism, Reaganomics, racism, and sexism.

Author : Maria K. Bachman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000707148
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain written by Maria K. Bachman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between literary studies and sociology in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. During the ongoing emergence of what Thomas Carlyle, in "Signs of the Times" (1829), pejoratively labeled a new "Mechanical Age," Britain’s robust tradition of social thought was transformed by professionalization, institutionalization, and the birth of modern disciplinary fields. Writers and thinkers most committed to an approach grounded in empirical data and inductive reasoning, such as Harriet Martineau and John Stuart Mill, positioned themselves in relation to French positivist Auguste Comte’s recent neologism "la sociologie." Some Victorian and Edwardian novelists, George Eliot and John Galsworthy among them, became enthusiastic adopters of early sociological theory; others, including Charles Dickens and Ford Madox Ford, more idiosyncratically both complemented and competed with the "systems of society" proposed by their social scientific contemporaries. Chronologically bound within the period from the 1830s through the 1920s, this volume expansively reconstructs their expansive if never collective efforts. Individual essays focus on Comte, Dickens, Eliot, Ford, and Galsworthy, as well as Friedrich Engels, Elizabeth Gaskell, G. H. Lewes, Virginia Woolf, and others. The volume's introduction locates these author-specific contributions in the context of both the international intellectual history of sociology in Britain through the First World War and the interanimating intersections of sociological and literary theory from the work of Hippolyte Taine in the 1860s through the successive linguistic and digital turns of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.