A Critical Study of the Prose Style of Graham Greene
A Critical Study of the Prose Style of Graham Greene

Author: Dr. Suprita Jha

Publisher: K.K. Publications

Published: 2021-08-14

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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Graham Greene (2nd Oct. 1904 – 3rd April 1991) Graham Greene was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. He was one of the most widely read novelists of the 20th century, a superb storyteller. Adventure and suspense are constant elements in his novels and many of his books have been made into successful films. His long stylistic journey from The Man Within (1929) to The Tenth Man (1985) has its own class and the style of writing he has adopted in all of his books is superb. Greene was also associated with many famous figures of his times: T.S. Eliot, Herbert Read, Evelyn Waugh, Ian Fleming among others. He died peacefully in Vevey, Switzerland on April 3, 1991.

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature
Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature

Author: Anne Cotterill

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2004-02-19

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0191532061

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Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices that captured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Anne Cotterill turns current sensitivity toward the silenced voice to argue that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced to be competitive yet circumspect as they made their voices heard.

Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century
Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century

Author: David Hopkins

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-06-16

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0192676946

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This volume is a study of how the poetry of Chaucer continued to give pleasure in the eighteenth century despite the immense linguistic, literary, and cultural shifts that had occurred in the intervening centuries. It explores translations and imitations of Chaucer's work by Dryden, Pope, and other poets (including Samuel Cobb, John Dart, Christopher Smart, Jane Brereton, William Wordsworth, and Leigh Hunt) from the early eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, as well as investigating the beginnings of modern Chaucer editing and biography. It pays particular attention to critical responses to Chaucer by Dryden and the brothers Warton, and includes a chapter on the oblique presence of Chaucer in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. It explores the ways in which Chaucer's poetry (including several works now known not to be by him) was described, refashioned, reimagined, and understood several centuries after its initial appearance. It also documents the way that views of Chaucer's own character were inferred from his work. The book combines detailed discussion of particular critical and poetic texts, many of them unfamiliar to modern readers, with larger suggestions about the ways in which poetry of the past is received in the future.