Summers's Child & Summer of Roses (2 Books).
Title | Summers's Child & Summer of Roses (2 Books). PDF eBook |
Author | Luanne Rice |
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Summer Roses in the Rain
Title | Summer Roses in the Rain PDF eBook |
Author | Ilka Hauck |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
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ISBN | 9783947634057 |
Cool Characters
Title | Cool Characters PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Konstantinou |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
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Release | 2016-03-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0674969472 |
Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s mainstream. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of “postirony.”
Politics and History in William Golding
Title | Politics and History in William Golding PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Crawford |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826263046 |
"Politics and History in William Golding provides a much needed politicized and historicized reading of William Golding's novels as a counter to previous, universalizing criticism. Paul Crawford argues that an understanding of fantastic and carnivalesque modes in Golding's work is vital if we are to appreciate fully his interrogation of twentieth-century life." "The fantastic and carnivalesque are foundational to both the satirical and nonsatirical approaches that mark Golding's early and late fiction. No previous study has analyzed this structure that is so central to his work. Politics and History in William Golding examines this writer's work more fully than it has been studied within the convoluted context of the last half of the twentieth century. Crawford directly links Golding's various deployments of the fantastic and carnivalesque to historical, political, and social change." --Book Jacket.
Obscure Invitations
Title | Obscure Invitations PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Widiss |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804773232 |
Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves. Obscure Invitations argues that this taboo has blinded us to fundamental elements of twentieth-century literature. Widiss focuses on the particularly self-conscious constructions of authorship that characterize modernist and postmodernist writing, elaborating the narrative strategies they demand and the reading practices they yield. He reveals that apparent manifestations of "the death of the author" and of the "free play" of language are performances that ultimately affirm authorial control of text and reader. The book significantly revises received understandings of central texts by Faulkner, Stein, and Nabokov. It then discusses Eggers' Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the films Seven and The Usual Suspects, demonstrating that each is a highly self-aware rebuttal of the notion of authorial absence.
The Annals of the Edinburgh Stage with an Account of the Rise and Progress of Dramatic Writing in Scotland
Title | The Annals of the Edinburgh Stage with an Account of the Rise and Progress of Dramatic Writing in Scotland PDF eBook |
Author | James C. Dibdin |
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Pages | 572 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | English drama |
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The Playhouse of Pepys
Title | The Playhouse of Pepys PDF eBook |
Author | Montague Summers |
Publisher | Humanities Press International |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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A study of Restoration theatre from 1660-1682.