Visionary Closure In The Modern Novel
Author: William R Thickstun
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1988-03-29
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1349191639
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Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930
Author: Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0470779837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of the first half of the twentieth century. An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Draws on the author’s decades of experience researching and teaching the modern British novel. Sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. Features close readings of Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow, Joyce’s Dubliners and Ulysses, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse and Forster’s A Passage to India. Shows how these novels are essential components in a modernist cultural tradition which includes the visual arts. Takes account of recent developments in theory and cultural studies. Written in an engaging style, avoiding jargon.
The Case For a Humanistic Poetics
Author: Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1990-06-18
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1349110701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn attempt to define a humanistic and pluralistic ideology of reading which takes recent theory into account. By the same author as "The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories on the English Novel from James through Hillis Miller", and "Reading Joyce's `Ulysses'".
Visionary Closure in the Modern Novel
Author: William R. Thickstun
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780312013394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930
Author: D. Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1995-02-27
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0230379338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an exciting and important book... The theoretical chapters are a model of elegantly styled accommodation; yet they brook no fudging of the issues, no comfortable ambiguities - Modern Fiction Studies The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930: Studies in Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster and Woolf is a provocative exploration of a crucial period in the development of the English novel, integrating critical theory, historical background and sophisticated close reading. Divided into two major sections, the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings. The second section is theoretical and speaks of the transformation in the way that we read and think about authors, readers, characters and form in the light of recent theory, offering an alternative to the deconstructive and Marxist trends in literary studies.
The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890–1930
Author: Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-06-18
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1349097039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and Woolf, this study is divided into two sections: the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings; the second discusses how new theory has transformed the way we read and think.
Living with a Visionary
Author: John Matthias
Publisher: DOS Madres Press
Published: 2021-10
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781953252388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his afterword, Igor Webb writes, "The lament, uttered when love and death are most closely bound, is something like an essential accessory to mortality. . . . 'Living with a Visionary' is the poet's account of his, and (and his wife) Diana's, descent into hell (from effects of Parkinson's disease). . . . But it's in 'Some of Her Things,' a fable in the form of a long prose poem, . . . that Matthias most powerfully, and poignantly, deploys his language. . . . it is a courtly threnody for lost time." Literary Nonfiction
D. H. Lawrence
Author: Paul Poplawski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1996-06-24
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 0313035016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKD.H. Lawrence remains one of the most popular and studied authors of the 20th century. This book is a comprehensive but easy to use reference guide to Lawrence's life, works, and critical reception. The volume has been systematically structured to convey a coherent overall sense of Lawrence's achievement and critical reputation, but it is also designed to enable the reader who may be interested in only one aspect of Lawrence's career, perhaps even in only one of his novels or stories, to find relevant information quickly and easily without having to read other parts of the text. The book begins with an original biography by John Worthen, one of the world's foremost authorities on Lawrence's life and work. The chapters that follow provide separate entries for all of Lawrence's works, except for individual poems and paintings, with critical summaries, discussions of characters, and details of settings. There is also a complete overview of Lawrence and film, with the most complete listing available of film adaptations of his works and of criticism relating to them. Each section of the book provides comprehensive primary and secondary bibliographical data, including citations for the most recent scholarly studies. Maps and chronologies further trace Lawrence's travels and his development over time.
Reading Joyce’s Ulysses
Author: Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1349214140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReissued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Reading Joyce's 'Ulysses' includes a new preface taking account of scholarly and critical development since its original publication. It shows how the now important issues of post-colonialism, feminism, Irish Studies and urban culture are addressed within the text, as well as a discussion of how the book can be used by both beginners and seasoned readers. Schwarz not only presents a powerful and original reading of Joyce's great epic novel, but discusses it in terms of a dialogue between recent and more traditional theory. Focusing on what he calls the odyssean reader, Schwarz demonstrates how the experience of reading Ulysses involves responding both to traditional plot and character, and to the novel's stylistic experiments.
The Supporting Cast
Author: David Galef
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0271040106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor every Hamlet, there is a supporting cast; for every Mrs. Dalloway, an entire realm of subordinate portraits. Yet if literary criticism cares at all about significant detail, emergent patterns, and the subtleties in narrative, flat and minor characters are crucial to an understanding of the fictional process itself. Beginning with E. M. Forster's landmark study of flat and round characters, this book is both a critical and writerly examination of the species: Why are certain minor characters so salient in readers' minds, and why are flat characters often so comic? Is a name enough to create a character, and if so, what is the vanishing point of characterization? The walking allegory, the narrator, the disrupter, the doppelg&änger&—how are they used, and to what effect? The Supporting Cast first explores the theoretical limits of character, from structuralist taxonomies to reader-response concerns, with examples culled from a wide range of literature. The author then applies these concepts, in chapters of sustained analysis, to works of Conrad, Forster, and Woolf. The work also provides comments on flat and minor characters in other media and a full-scale character index of Woolf's Jacob's Room.
