An Investigation of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time
Title | An Investigation of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Isabelle Francoise Michele Joyau |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1990 |
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Investigating Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time
Title | Investigating Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Isabelle Joyau |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 1994-03-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 134923284X |
Investigating Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time
Title | Investigating Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Isabelle Joyau |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780312106706 |
"This stimulating study of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time will be welcomed by all those interested in the development of contemporary English fiction. The clarity of Isabelle Joyau's style, the freshness of her approach will appeal to academics and non-academics alike. She steers clear of the tyranny of 'theory' favouring instead Auden's 'single intuitive glance', the assumption being that the critical method is ultimately oneself, thus managing to communicate, or revive, the pleasure given by the text under scrutiny. The detailed examination of individual themes (the narrator's quest for truth, time, the sociological aspect, structure, surface and depth, the abyss of carnality, the series and its generic affiliations) is subordinate to the book's wider purpose: the examination of that tour de force, the creation of a compelling epic of insignificance. With up-to-date philosophical reading, awareness of the fiction of Powell's contemporaries, and a strong parallel drawn between Powell's work and Montaigne's Essays - more relevant than the obvious comparison with Proust - the range of cultural references is wide because the richness of Powell's unique achievement as well as his notion of a cultural continuum are best illuminated through the evocative power of intertextuality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
A Question of Upbringing
Title | A Question of Upbringing PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Powell |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2011-01-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1409037827 |
'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In this first volume, Nick Jenkins is introduced to the ebbs and flows of life at boarding school in the 1920s, spent in the company of his friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool. Though their days are filled with visits from relatives and boyish pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer’s car threatens their new friendship. As the school year comes to a close, the young men are faced with the prospects of adulthood, and with finding their place in the world.
Anthony Powell
Title | Anthony Powell PDF eBook |
Author | Hilary Spurling |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 2017-10-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0241256550 |
'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic of English literature. Spanning twelve spectacular volumes and written over twenty-five years, his comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing twentieth century Britain through war and peace. Drawing on Powell's letters and journals, and the memories of those who knew him, Hilary Spurling explores his life. Investigating the friends, relations, lovers, acquaintances, fools and geniuses who surrounded him, she reveals the comical and tragic events that inspired one of the greatest fictions of the age. * Discover Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series, available in paperback and e-book from Arrow.
Nation & Novel
Title | Nation & Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Parrinder |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 513 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199264856 |
Patrick Parrinder traces English prose fiction from its late medieval origins through its stories of rogues and criminals, family rebellions and suffering heroines, to the contemporary novels of immigration. He provides both a comprehensive survey and a new interpretation of the importance of the English novel.
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature
Title | The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | W. Michelle Wang |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2020-12-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000220745 |
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.