Kipling Considered
Author: Phillip Mallett
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-09-12
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 134920062X
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Author: Phillip Mallett
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-09-12
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 134920062X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Benfey
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0735221448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures—including Freud and William James—was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he lamented, “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live in either.” In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative “what if” over Kipling’s American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling’s work.
Author: Howard J. Booth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0521199727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of Kipling's work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Calgary : Bayeux Arts
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781896209487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis brief biography of Rudyard Kipling is an ideal introduction, for young and old alike, to the fascinating life and works of one of the finest writers 0f the last hundred years.
Author: David Sergeant
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0191509477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKipling's Art of Fiction 1884-1901 re-establishes its subject as a major artist. Through extended close readings of individual works, and unprecedentedly detailed attention to changes in location and readership, it distinguishes between two kinds of Kipling fiction. The first is coercive and concerned with the authoritarian control of meaning; the second relates less directly to its immediate historical surroundings and is more aesthetically complex. Misunderstandings have often resulted from confusing the two kinds of work. Distinguishing between them allows for a newly coherent account of Kipling's career, both explaining his artistic achievement and making clearer his identity as a political writer. Changes in Kipling's narrative practice are tracked as he moves from India to Britain and the US, and engages with a succession of new audiences and political contexts; detailed readings are provided of such key texts as Plain Tales from the Hills, The Jungle Books and Kim. As well as revealing the precise nature of Kipling's artistry, this book shows how properties of narrative which have been generally underrated — such as embodiment and externality — can be used to make sophisticated fictions, and by linking these to Robert Louis Stevenson's discussion of the romance, suggests new ways in which such work might be approached.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 1899
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHis name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow and he lived in the north of London coming into the City every day to work in a bank. He was twenty years old and suffered from aspirations.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: P. Mallett
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-06-18
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1403937753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781596793446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.