Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Cambridge University Press Virginia Woolf
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Cambridge University Press The Road from Paris
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Book SynopsisArguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining important biographical detail with close analysis of his writings, the book considers the various genres in which Orwell wrote: the realistic novel, the essay, journalism and the anti-utopia. Ideally suited for readers approaching Orwell's work for the first time, the book concludes with an extended reflection on why George Orwell has enjoyed a literary afterlife unprecedented amonTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction; Part I. Life and Context: 1. Background and school days; 2. Burma and the wasted years; 3. The struggle to become a writer; 4. Orwell's breakthrough; 5. Spain and Orwell's political education; 6. Orwell's war; 7. Last years; Part II. Works: 8. Burmese Days; 9. A Clergyman's Daughter; 10. Keep the Aspidistra Flying; 11. Coming Up for Air; 12. Down and Out in Paris and London; 13. The Road to Wigan Pier; 14. Homage to Catalonia; 15. Orwell, the essayist; 16. A Hanging and Shooting an Elephant; 17. Inside the Whale; 18. Critical Essays; 19. Animal Farm; 20. Nineteen Eighty-Four; Part III. Critical Reception: 21. Starting out in the 1930s; 22. Critical controversy and popular success; 23. Posthumous fame; 24. 'Countdown' to 1-9-8-4; 25. Orwell in the twenty-first century; 26. An afterlife nonpareil; 27. 'If Orwell were alive today'; 28. A reputation evergreen; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Imagination of Edward Thomas
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Jaroslav Ha Ek
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Cambridge University Press The Novels of Julio Cortazar
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisJorge Luis Borges (1899â1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the 1940s and 1950s. The primary aim of this Companion is to provide a more comprehensive account of Borges's oeuvre and the evolution of his writing. It offers critical assessments by leading scholars of the poetry of his youth and the later poetry and fiction, as well as of the 'canonical' volumes of the middle years. Other chapters focus on key themes and interests, and on his influence in literary theory and translation studies.Trade Review'Borges, the eternal reviser, would have approved.' ChoiceTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction Edwin Williamson; 1. Philosophy and fiction Clive Griffin; 2. Mathematics and science in a literary mode Floyd Merrell; 3. Borges and theory Michael Wood; 4. Borges on translation Suzanne Jill Levine; 5. Jewish, Christian and Gnostic themes Evelyn Fishburn; 6. Islamic themes Luce López-Baralt; 7. Borges and popular culture Philip Swanson; 8. Postcolonial Borges Robin Fiddian; 9. Fictions Daniel Balderston; 10. The Aleph Roberto González Echevarría; 11. The Maker Alfred MacAdam; 12. Brodie's report Arturo Echavarría; 13. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's memory Efraín Kristal; 14. The early poetry (1923–9) Rafael Olea Franco; 15. The late poetry (1960–85) Jason Wilson; 16. Borges in context: the autobiographical dimension Edwin Williamson; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Hitlers War Poets Literature and Politics in the Third Reich
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Cambridge University Press Michael Field Poetry Aestheticism and the Fin de Sicle 58 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 58
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Book SynopsisModernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.Table of Contents1. Why write like this?; 2. Ezra Pound; 3. T. S. Eliot; 4. W. B. Yeats; 5. Modernist America: Williams, Moore, Stevens; 6. Avant-gardism: Loy, Stein, H. D.; 7. Why is it so difficult?; 8. Inside and outside modernism; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945 Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Joyce and the Invention of Irish History
Book SynopsisThis study links James Joyce's work to historical criticism, Irish historiography and antiquarianism, and Catholic providential history, Thomas C. Hofheinz shows how Joyce illuminates deep and prevalent problems central to modern Irish identity.Trade Review"...a valuable contribution to the growing list of works on Joyce and history....Hofheinz is not satisfied with merely providing a closely argued assessment of a major author's use of historical sources. Rather, he demonstrates how Finnegans Wake models the deceptions inherent in all history-making thereby cautioning readers to examine their own assumptions regarding the causes, effects and particulars of historical events." Mary Lowe-Evans, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920"In an essay that achieves an admirable balance between theoretical, historical and interpretive material, Hofheinz argues for a reading of Joyce's novel as 'a cipher for the modern Irish historical predicament'....The result is a reading of Finnegans Wake that is both dazzling and informative...a reading of Finnegans Wake that is both dazzling and informative, and among the finest expositions of Vico's importance to Joyce...I know. " Journal of English and Germanic PhilologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: the subject of Ireland in Finnegans Wake; 2. Conditions for historical study of Finnegans Wake; 3. Naming and claiming: Irish topological history and Finnegans Wake; 4. The annals of themselves: Irish historical writing and Joyce's primal patriarchy; 5. Vico, natural law philosophy, and Joyce's Ireland; 6. Unfolding the map; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo By Exquisite Design 11 Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Brechts Poetry of Political Exile
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Cambridge University Press Theodor Fontane
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Cambridge University Press Marcel Proust A Study in the Quality of Awareness
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Cambridge University Press Arno Schmidt A Critical Study of His Prose Anglica Germanica Series 2
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Cambridge University Press Queneaus Fiction An Introductory Study
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Cambridge University Press Drama of the Group
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Cambridge University Press Mandelstam The Later Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Modern Norwegian Literature 18601918
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Cambridge University Press Cesar Vallejo The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence
Book SynopsisThis 1976 book was the first full-length study in English of the Peruvian poet, César Vallejo (18921938). Franco explores limitations on the poet's freedom of speech, and goes on to explore Vallejo's later poetry, which gestures towards the tentative nature of humanity and civilisation that gives the poetry its abiding relevance.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; 1. Poetry as a mode of existence; 2. The alienated romantic: Los heraldos negros; 3. The body as text: nature and culture in Vallejo's poetics; 4. The end of the sovereign illusion: Trilce; 5. The discourse of the given: Trilce; 6. Art and revolution; 7. The dialectics of man and nature; 8. The destruction of Prometheus: Poemas humanos; 9. The mirror of the world: España, aparta de mí este cáliz; 10. The invention of Vallejo; Guide to texts and criticism; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Bergson and His Influence
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Cambridge University Press Paul Valery and Music A Study of the Techniques of Composition in Valrys Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Else LaskerSchuler
Book SynopsisThis 1974 book was the first full-length treatment in English of the poetry of Else Lasker-Schüler (18691945), a German-Jewish poet who died in exile in Jerusalem. The aim of the author, a practising psychologist, was to see poetry as an expression of the deeper urges of the psyche.Table of ContentsPrefatory note; Abbreviations; Part I. Introduction; Part II. A Biographical Outline: 1. Myth and reality; 2. Childhood; 3. Marriage; 4. Friends; 5. Paul; 6. Emigration; 7. Jerusalem; Part III. The Swing of the Pendulum: 1. The backward movement: withdrawal: i. Disappointment and resentment; ii. Despair and isolation; iii. Escape into fantasy; iv. Preoccupation with death; 2. The forward movement: outgoing: i. Longing for contact; ii. The erotic encounter; iii. The search for God; Biographical data; Select bibliography; Index; Diagram: the swing of the pendulum.
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Cambridge University Press Rilke Europe and the EnglishSpeaking World
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Cambridge University Press Tredici Novelle Moderne
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Cambridge University Press This Side of Paradise
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Cambridge University Press Modern American Short Story Sequences Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities
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Cambridge University Press Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Daily Time and Everyday Life
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Cambridge University Press Julio Cort Zar
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press TwentiethCentury Poetry and the Visual Arts
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Cambridge University Press Beckett Technology and the Body
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Cambridge University Press The Persistence of Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Feminism and Jewishness
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Cambridge University Press TwentyFirstCentury Fiction
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to H D Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisH. D. (Hilda Doolittle) was one of the central figures in literary modernism in the 1910s. She collaborated with Ezra Pound and others and played an important role in the early development of modernist poetry. This Cambridge Companion is a critical introduction to H. D. containing essays on all her major works. The first part explores the author's initial exclusion from the canon and her subsequent reinstatement; her tendency to merge fact with fiction in her autobiographical texts; her contribution to the little magazines; her relation to modernism; her representation of gender; and her influence on later generations of writers. The second part offers close and accessible critical analyses of H. D.'s style, her poems Hymen and Trilogy, her novels HERmione and Majic Ring, her understanding of translation as literary practice and of her notion of history in Tribute to Freud and The Gift.Trade Review"H.D.'s reputation has risen progressively over the last couple of decades; now, she takes her rightful place as a canonical modernist poet. Mackay (Univ. of Nicosia, Cyprus) and the late Christodoulides (university of Cyprus) offer a multidimensional view of H.D." --CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic LibrariesTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction Nephie J. Christodoulides and Polina Mackay; Part I. Contexts and Issues: 1. 'Uncanonically seated': H. D. and literary canons Miranda B. Hickman; 2. Facts and fictions Nephie J. Christodoulides; 3. H. D. and the 'Little Magazines' Cyrena N. Pondrom; 4. H. D.'s modernism Polina Mackay; 5. H. D. and gender: queering the reading Georgia Johnston; 6. Reading H. D.: influence and legacy Jo Gill; Part II. Works: 7. H. D.'s transformative poetics Diana Collecott; 8. Hymen and Trilogy Sarah Graham; 9. HERmione and other prose Matte Robinson and Demetrios P. Tryphonopoulos; 10. H. D. and translation Eileen Gregory; 11. Reading history in The Gift and Tribute to Freud Brenda S. Helt; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Berlin in the Twentieth Century
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Cambridge University Press Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction
Book SynopsisBy tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Edward Ragg presents a new, revisionist study of the work of Wallace Stevens. This book embraces philosophical and artistic perspectives, analyzing Stevens's place within and resistance to Modernist debates concerning literature, painting, representation and 'the imagination'.Trade Review'Ragg's book shows what can be done by scrupulous scholarship on a carefully chosen and crucial individual feature of a poet's oeuvre. Ragg brings to the topic of abstraction an enviable combination of elegant clarity, subtle and imaginative readings, the construction of an engaging and rich dialectic within Stevens' own career and incisive philosophical analysis that provides a significant conceptual place for the role of idealization in poetry.' Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley'Edward Ragg's Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction is a major contribution to Stevens studies. Ragg is an internationally renowned Stevens expert. In this book he approaches head on the vexed question of 'abstraction' in Stevens' poetry. As Ragg shows, Stevens' notions of abstraction and his practice of 'the aesthetics of abstraction' evolved over the years, from book to book of poetry and from essay to essay as he tried to account in the latter for his poetic practice. The evolution was an attempt to strike the right balance between abstraction and reference to things, 'the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them'. Particularly valuable is the detailed account of Stevens' tendency to abandon the specific idiom of abstraction that dominates the poetry of the early 1940s and its replacement as the decade wore on with a poetry that is still abstract but no longer so much uses just one repertoire of terms. Dr. Ragg's investigation is carried on by way of brilliant close reading of difficult poems, for example the admirable readings of 'Montrachet-Le-Jardin' and 'The Pure Good of Theory'. Anyone interested in Stevens' poetry should have this superb book.' J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine'Ragg's is the rare book that combines intellectual rigor with literary sensitivity in all areas, harmonizing the discussion of ideas and debates with well-informed, multifaceted, and sensitive readings of poems. 'It Must Bring Pleasure' and it does.' Beverly Maeder, University of Lausanne'Ragg's meticulous scholarship will surely inspire further debate on this vexed and central question of Stevens studies …' The Journal of American Studies'Ragg's work has garnered much deserved praise, and it will be of use both to readers of Stevens and to anyone working on the relationship between poetry and painting … Ragg's work is exceptionally well done … and his claim for the central importance of painterly abstraction in the development of Stevens' poetics is established compellingly. The majority of Ragg's focus falls on Stevens' works from 1923 to 1945, and the close analysis he offers of 'Landscape with Boat' from Parts of a World … is particularly useful for the classroom as well as scholarship. This reviewer has used Ragg's approach for seminars with good effect, and this may be the lasting contribution of his work. Instructors teaching Stevens' poetry will find [this] a highly useful resource during lecture preparation, especially given Ragg's tendency to move from critical assertions to the accumulation of evidence through extensive close reading.' James Gifford, The Year's Work in English Studies'[This book] is tightly argued throughout, drawing upon Stevens' essays and letters to illustrate the poet's engagement with modernist art theory and philosophy, and to map his evolving sense of an abstract aesthetic … Ragg makes a particularly strong case for considering Stevens' gustatory imagination. Ever alert to the pleasures of eating and drinking in Stevens' poetry, [he] argues that the physical and sensual 'are often the sites for the catalysis of his abstract imagination', adding that 'the tendency to oppose the sensual to the abstract denies readers insight into this aspect of Stevens' work'.' Alex Runchman, Irish Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: 'Stevensian' and the question of abstraction 1935–2009; 1. The abstract impulse: from anecdote to 'new romantic' in Harmonium (1923) and Ideas of Order (1935); 2. The turn to abstraction: Owl's Clover (1936) and the 'un-locatable' speaker in The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937); 3. The 'in-visible' abstract: Stevens' idealism from Coleridge to Merleau-Ponty; 4. Abstract figures: the curious case of the idealist 'I'; 5. Abstract appetites: food, wine and the idealist 'I'; 6. The pure good of theory: a new abstract emphasis; 7. Bourgeois abstraction: poetry, painting and the idea of mastery in late Stevens.
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Cambridge University Press The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad
Book SynopsisSince the publication of the Cambridge edition of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, the numerous letters in the nine volumes, many of them published for the first time and many more taken from hard-to-find books and journals, have had a profound influence on writing about Conrad. This selection makes the highlights available in one volume. The letters have been re-edited with shorter footnotes and an emphasis on the latest scholarship. Letters originally written in French or Polish appear only in revised English translations. Among the topics that stand out are Conrad's memories of growing up in Poland and Ukraine, his ideas about fiction, often expressed in precise but sympathetic comments on the work of his friends, the anxieties of war and revolution, his struggle to keep his integrity as a writer, and his lives as a sailor and a family man.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Letters: 1861–1893; 1894–1897; 1898–1902; 1903–1908; 1909–1913; 1914–1918; 1919–1922; 1924–1924; Conrad's correspondents.
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Cambridge University Press The Novel in German since 1990
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Cambridge University Press London Modernism and 1914
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945
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Cambridge University Press Thomas Hardy in Context
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