Divining Margaret Laurence
Author: Nora Foster Stovel
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0773575030
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Author: Nora Foster Stovel
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0773575030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.
Author: Donez Xiques
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2005-09-24
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1459714695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence's life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship that preceded the publication of the The Stone Angel, Laurence's first commercially successful novel. Donez Xiques demonstrates the importance of Margaret Laurence's early work as a journalist in her development as a writer and covers her return to Canada from Africa in the late 1950s. She details the significance of Laurence's "Vancouver years" as well as the challenges of her year in London prior to settling at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire, when Laurence stood on the verge of success. The Margaret Laurence known to most people is a public figure of the 1960s and 1970s; matriarchal, matronly, and accomplished. The story of her early years in the harsh setting of the Canadian Prairies during the 1930s - years of drought and the Great Depression - and of her African years has never before been chronicled with the thoroughness and vividness that Xiques provides for the reader. Appended to this powerful new biography is a short story by Margaret Laurence that has never before been published and two other stories that have not been widely available. They indicate the range of her concerns and show a marked departure from her fiction in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories and A Bird in the House. Readers will benefit from the extensive research in this full and vibrant portrait of one of the most revered writers of twentieth-century Canadian literature.
Author: Bart Casey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1618687964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Being the incredible history of Laurence Oliphant: his early success; his occult life with Thomas Lake Harris; his marriage to Alice le Strange; their sexual mysticisms and Zionist communities; truthfully told and amply documented to confound the skeptic."
Author: W.B. Gerard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1351922963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full-length and comprehensive study of the illustrations of Sterne's work, this book explores the ability of Sterne's texts to inspire the visual imagination. It helps to explain why scores of editions of his fiction have been illustrated, some profusely: to fulfill the reader's desire, as well as the artist's compulsion, to visualize Sterne's words. Gerard places his subject in a clear and innovative theoretical framework which opens the field to general word and image studies. The author begins by examining the distinct varieties of pictorialism in Sterne's texts. The remainder of the study takes into account three remarkable series of illustrations-representing Trim reading the sermon, didactic sentimentalism in A Sentimental Journey and Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling, and the many and diverse portrayals of 'poor Maria' - to demonstrate the ways in which culture projects these texts differently through the various artists.
Author: James King
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2012-02-21
Total Pages: 573
ISBN-13: 0307367215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe magnificent and long-awaited biography of the beloved writer who gave us the Manawaka novels, including The Diviners and The Stone Angel.
Author: Phil Swann
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 057369740X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFriar Laurence tries to prove he is innocent of the murders of Romeo and Juliet.
Author: David Barry
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2022-06-22
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 178982978X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter decades of theatrical ventures and performing together, 1957 would be the last time Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh would work together, with a European tour and London season of Shakespeare's seldom-performed Titus Andronicus. Strangely, not much has been written about one of the most prestigious touring theatre productions of all time, which visited six European capitals and became the first British Shakespearean company to perform beyond the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War. Now, David Barry tells the entire inside story of the incredible tour, in which he - at the age of just fourteen - played Olivier's grandson, accompanying the media-power couple of the decade around Europe. This is theatre history that has never before been told in such detail and will take the reader on the trip of a lifetime to discover what really went on during the crazy, hectic, wild and yet still utterly sensational touring production.
Author: John O'Hanlon
Publisher:
Published: 1877
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 0821416448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent and publicly recognized figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, not to mention numerous songs, plays, and essays in newspapers and magazines around the world. In the century following his death, Dunbar slipped into relative obscurity, remembered mainly for his dialect poetry or as a footnote to other more canonical figures from the period. The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar showcases his gifts as a writer of short fiction and provides key insights into the tensions and themes of Dunbar's literary achievement. Through examining the 104 stories written by Dunbar between 1890 and 1905, readers will be able to better understand Dunbar's specific attempts to maintain his artistic integrity while struggling with America's racist stereotypes. His work interrogated the color-line that informed American life and dictated his role as an artist in American letters. Editors Gene Jarrett and Thomas Morgan identify major themes and implications in Dunbar's work. Available in one convenient, comprehensive, and definitive volume for the first time, The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar illustrates the complexity of his literary life and legacy. ABOUT THE EDITORS---Gene Jarrett is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is co-editor (with Henry Louis Gates Jr.) of a forthcoming anthology, New Negro Criticism: Essays on Race, Representation, and African American Culture.Thomas Morgan is a lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research and teaching interests focus on critical race theory in late-nineteenth century American and African American literature, specifically as it applies to the politics of narrative form.
Author: Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13:
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