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Author: Anna Cottrell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-09-30
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1474425674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyses our modern obsession with intense experiences in terms of the metaphysics of intensity
Author: Benjamin Kohlmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1316998762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis History offers a new and comprehensive picture of 1930s British literature. The '30s have often been cast as a literary-historical anomaly, either as a 'low, dishonest decade', a doomed experiment in combining art and politics, or as a 'late modernist' afterthought to the intense period of artistic experimentation in the 1920s. By contrast, the contributors to this volume explore the contours of a 'long 1930s' by repositioning the decade and its characteristic concerns at the heart of twentieth-century literary history. This book expands the range of writers covered, moving beyond a narrow focus on towering canonical figures to draw in a more diverse cast of characters, in terms of race, gender, class, and forms of artistic expression. The book's four sections emphasize the decade's characteristic geographical and sexual identities; the new media landscapes and institutional settings its writers operated in; questions of commitment and autonomy; and British writing's international entanglements.
Author: James Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-12-19
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1108481086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.
Author: Anna Cottrell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-09-14
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1474425666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture
Author: Sajjad Zaheer
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2011-08-25
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9351360695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Night in London chronicles the diverse and often conflicting emotional, ideological and political aspirations of an entire generation of Indian students in Europe. The novella sheds light on the dynamics of late imperial culture-English working-class politics, anti-colonial sentiment and race relations-like no other sustained narrative by an expatriate Indian author of the same period. Long considered a landmark in twentieth-century Urdu fiction, A Night in London is being made available in English for the first time in a translation by Bilal Hashmi. The volume also features an introduction by Carlo Coppola, a noted scholar and critic of Urdu literature.
Author: Natasha Periyan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1350019852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s British Literature tells the story of a school-minded decade and illuminates new readings of the politics and aesthetics of 1930s literature. In a period of shifting political claims, educational policy shaped writers' social and gender ideals. This book explores how a wide array of writers including Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Winifred Holtby and Graham Greene were informed by their pedagogic work. It considers the ways in which education influenced writers' analysis of literary style and their conception of future literary forms. The Politics of 1930s British Literature argues that to those perennial symbols of the 1930s, the loudspeaker and the gramophone, should be added the textbook and the blackboard.
Author: Susheila Nasta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 862
ISBN-13: 1108169007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting on this field's evolution, from the eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on the expertise of over forty international experts, this book gathers innovative scholarship to look forward to new readings and perspectives, while also focusing on undervalued writers, texts, and research areas. Creating new pathways to engage with the naming of a field that has often been contested, readings of literary texts are interwoven throughout with key political, social, and material contexts. In making visible the diverse influences constituting past and contemporary British literary culture, this Cambridge History makes a unique contribution to British, Commonwealth, postcolonial, transnational, diasporic, and global literary studies, serving both as one of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary history and as a compass for future scholarship.
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Publisher: Cambria Press
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Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1621968243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nick Hubble
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-01-14
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1350079154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generation', this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and cultural democratization that characterized the decade. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine Burdekin, Agatha Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.
Author: Chris Hopkins
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0826489389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time. Chris Hopkins uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or explore the boundaries, contemporary usefulness and complexities of particular prose genres. Generic debates and the political-aesthetic effects of different kinds of representation were live issues as discursive struggles and negotiations took place between modernist and realist modes, between high, middle and lowbrow categorisations of culture, between literature and mass culture, and between different conceptions of the role of the writer, politics and nationality, sexuality and gender identities. Chris Hopkins draws both on well-known texts and on novels which have only recently begun to be discussed by critics of the thirties - particularly those by women writers whose work has still not been related very clearly to the literary and political debates of the period. Organised in five sections each focusing on major genres, he takes a wide range of novels as case studies and discusses their uses of generic forms, relating them to other examples and to their historical, political and cultural contexts.
