The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster
Author: David Bradshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-12
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0521834759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays on the life and work of E. M. Forster.
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The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists
Author: Adrian Poole
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-12-10
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1139828118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing
Author: Hugh Stevens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0521888441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing introduces readers to important concepts, methods and cultural and historical debates relevant to the study of sexuality and literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad
Author: J. H. Stape
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-06-27
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521484848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Author: Gregory Claeys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-08-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139828428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
A Great Unrecorded History
Author: Wendy Moffat
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1429940247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA REVELATORY LOOK AT THE INTIMATE LIFE OF THE GREAT AUTHOR—AND HOW IT SHAPED HIS MOST BE LOVED WORKS With the posthumous publication of his long-suppressed novel Maurice in 1970, E. M. Forster came out as a homosexual— though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. As Wendy Moffat persuasively argues in A Great Unrecorded History, Forster's homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde's imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private life—a history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time. A Great Unrecorded History is a biography of the heart. Moffat's decade of detective work—including first-time interviews with Forster's friends—has resulted in the first book to integrate Forster's public and private lives. Seeing his life through the lens of his sexuality offers us a radically new view—revealing his astuteness as a social critic, his political bravery, and his prophetic vision of gay intimacy. A Great Unrecorded History invites us to see Forster— and modern gay history—from a completely new angle.
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
Author: Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-08
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1107159628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster
Author: David Bradshaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-12
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1107494893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays, each one by a recognized expert, provides lively and innovative readings of every aspect of Forster's wide-ranging career. It includes substantial chapters dedicated to his two major novels, Howards End and A Passage to India, and further chapters focus on A Room With a View and Maurice. Forster's connections with the values of Bloomsbury and the lure of Greece and Italy in his work are assessed, as is his vexed relationship with Modernism. Other essays investigate his role as a literary critic, the status of his work within the genres of the novel and the short story, his treatment of sexuality and his attitude to and representation of women. This was the most comprehensive study of Forster's work to be published for many years, providing an invaluable source of comment on and insight into his writings.
The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten
Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-06-28
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521574761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. Topics treated here in detail for the first time include Britten's work in the cinema in the 1930s, his lifelong pacifism and his strong interest in the music of the Far East; other chapters include reassessments of his relationship with W. H. Auden and his attitude towards childhood, comprehensive analyses of major works and a concise history of the Aldeburgh Festival. A distinguished team of contributors include some who worked with the composer during his lifetime, as well as leading representatives of the younger generation of Britten scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
Virginia Woolf
Author: Edward Morgan Forster
Publisher:
Published: 1942
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
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