G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton
Title G. K. Chesterton PDF eBook
Author Lynette Hunter
Publisher
Pages 190
Release 1979-01-01
Genre Allegory
ISBN 9780312314927

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G. K. Chesterton: Explorations in Allegory

G. K. Chesterton: Explorations in Allegory
Title G. K. Chesterton: Explorations in Allegory PDF eBook
Author Lynette Hunter
Publisher Springer
Pages 196
Release 1979-07-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1349161179

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G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton
Title G. K. Chesterton PDF eBook
Author Harold Bloom
Publisher Infobase Publishing
Pages 201
Release 2009
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1438113013

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A collection of critical essays on G.K. Chesterton's work.

G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton
Title G.K. Chesterton PDF eBook
Author Michael D. Hurley
Publisher Northcote House Pub Limited
Pages 136
Release 2012
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0746312105

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A revaluation of the vast and vastly varied work of G.K. Chesterton through a literary reading of his philosophy, and a philosophical reading of his fiction. Novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, historian, journalist, Christian apologist, literary and social critic, G.K. Chesterton was one of the most protean and prolific writers of his age, perhaps of any age. Bernard Shaw called him a 'colossal genius.' This study determines the scale and quality of that genius, and considers why he has failed to gain the 'permanent claim on our loyalty' that T.S. Elliot believed he deserved. Interest in Chesterton today tends to be divided between those who enjoy his stories as an end in themselves, and those who argue his unique contribution to metaphysics. By comparing the ethical sympathies and literary style of his work across different genres, Michael D. Hurley brings Chesterton's divided selves together: to show how his achievement as a writer and a thinker are inseparable, and why his philosophy must therefore be read aesthetically, and his fiction read philosophically.

The Outline of Sanity

The Outline of Sanity
Title The Outline of Sanity PDF eBook
Author Alzina Stone Dale
Publisher iUniverse
Pages 373
Release 2005
Genre Authors, English
ISBN 0595340768

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"Gilbert Keith Chesterton has been the subject of several biographies, but none as comprehensive as The Outline of Sanity, A Biography of G. K. Chesterton by Alzina Stone Dale." -THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "A biography in which the imaginative and intellectual stature of the man is seen in its full measure." -SUNDAY TIMES (UK)

The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton

The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton
Title The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton PDF eBook
Author Joseph R. McCleary
Publisher Routledge
Pages 173
Release 2009-02-20
Genre History
ISBN 1135852065

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This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings. Specifically, McCleary contends that Chesterton’s recurring use of the themes of locality, patriotism, and nationalism embodies a distinctive understanding of what gives history its coherence.

The Complete Father Brown Stories

The Complete Father Brown Stories
Title The Complete Father Brown Stories PDF eBook
Author G K Chesterton
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 1087
Release 2012-04-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0141959932

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The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in one brilliant volume. Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself. This complete edition brings together all of the Father Brown stories, including two not previously available in Penguin: 'The Donnington Affair', in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solving a murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton), and 'The Mask of Midas', which was found in Chesterton's papers after his death. It also includes an introduction and notes by Michael D. Hurley. G.K. Chesteron was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before turning his hand to journalism. A prolific writer throughout his life, his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), The Man Who Knew Too Much(1922), The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) and the Father Brown stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938. Michael D. Hurley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He has written widely on English literature from the nineteenth century to the present day, with an emphasis on poetry and poetics. His book on G. K. Chesterton was published in 2011.