Nelly's Version ; Light ; Waking
Title | Nelly's Version ; Light ; Waking PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Figes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Heathcliff (Fictitious character : Brontë) |
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Nelly's Version Light Waking
Title | Nelly's Version Light Waking PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Figes |
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Pages | 88 |
Release | 1977 |
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Tales of Innocence and Experience
Title | Tales of Innocence and Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Figes |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2003-04-02 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1582342598 |
The novelist offers a memoir of her childhood, discussing her grandmother, her special relationship with fairy tales, and her flight from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Ghosts
Title | Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Figes |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Aged women |
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As spare and elegant as her highly praised short novels Light and Waking, Eva Figes's Ghosts captures the experience of aging. In prose that seems to measure the very beat of passing time, we follow her heroine, an unnamed woman, through four seasons of a single year and watch her come to terms with her former lover, her grown children, and, finally, the ghostly self that she is slowly becoming. She moves through streets that have changed their contours, landscapes in constant flux, in a body slowly turning into her mother's.
Useless Activity
Title | Useless Activity PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Webb |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2022-07-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1800855303 |
Using a broad range of archival material from Washington University, St. Louis, the University of Glasgow, and the British Library, Useless Activity: Work, Leisure and British Avant-Garde Fiction, 1960-1975 is the first study to ask why the experimental writing of the 1960s and 1970s appears so fraught with anxiety about its own uselessness, before suggesting that this very anxiety was symptomatic of a unique period in British literary history when traditional notions about literary work – and what 'worked' in terms of literature – were being radically scrutinised and reassessed. The study is divided into five chapters with three of those dedicated to the close analysis of work produced by three writers representative of the 1960s British avant-garde: Eva Figes (1932–2012), B.S. Johnson (1933–1973), and Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984). The book argues that these writers’ preoccupations with concepts related to work, such as leisure, debt, and various forms of neglected labour like housework, allow us to rethink the British avant-garde's relation to realism while posing broader questions about the production and value of post-war literary avant-gardism more generally. Useless Activity proposes that only with an understanding of the British avant-garde’s engagement with the idea of work and its various corollaries can we appreciate these writers' move away from certain forms of literary realism and their contribution to the development of the modern British novel during the mid-twentieth century.
British and Irish Novelists Since 1960
Title | British and Irish Novelists Since 1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Merritt Moseley |
Publisher | Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Essays on British and Irish novelists discusses the combination of desperation and avant-gardism, bestsellers, masterpieces, competing technologies, hyper fiction, the future of the novel, recent changes in British publishing, and the increase in writings by celebrity authors.
Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Farces and Extravagances, Etc., Etc
Title | Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Farces and Extravagances, Etc., Etc PDF eBook |
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Pages | 652 |
Release | 1849 |
Genre | Drama |
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