Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Cambridge University Press African American Literature in Transition 19801990
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of the Graphic Novel
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Cambridge University Press Conversing in Verse
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Cambridge University Press William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing
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Cambridge University Press The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction
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Cambridge University Press Class Whiteness and Southern Literature
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Cambridge University Press Literature Science and Public Policy
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Cambridge University Press The Great Gatsby Variorum edition
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Cambridge University Press China in Twentieth and TwentyFirstCentury African Literature
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Cambridge University Press Beckett and Cioran
Book SynopsisThis Element discusses the link between Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran, drawing upon the terms of Beckett's engagement with Cioran's writings, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Aspects of Cioran's conclusion about the formal nature that philosophy must assume chime with some of the formal decisions taken by Beckett in the mid-late prose.
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Cambridge University Press August Wilson in Context
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Cambridge University Press Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Planetary Pynchon
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Cambridge University Press Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Imperialism and the Historical Sense
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Cambridge University Press Henry James and the Promise of Fiction
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Fantasy
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Fantasy
Book SynopsisThis accessible new introduction to Fantasy literature, media and culture delves into pasts, presents, practices and communities. It considers Fantasy as a deep-rooted form, discusses a wide range of media permutations and reflects on the ways in which fantasies draw from and return ideas to a dynamic, ever-shifting commons.Trade Review'Matthew Sangster offers us an entirely new way to look at fantasy and its cultural significance. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' to Dungeons and Dragons, and gracefully integrating ideas from a number of disciplines, Sangster offers a convincing account of one of the major cultural phenomena of the past century and a half.' Brian Attebery, Emeritus Professor of English, Idaho State University'On all accounts, this is a wonderful book. The range of texts considered is amazing. Sangster examines written narratives, films, TV series, fan fiction, graphic narratives, comics, role-playing games, and other web manifestations of fantasy, and invokes Asian, African, and Near Eastern examples alongside Western ones. The teeming variety, and Sangster's own uniquely positive approach, support claims to the importance of fantasy in human experience and enforce the sense that collaboration and shared experience is an integral element of human interaction, and one that fantasy encourages.' Kathryn Hume, Emerita Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, The Pennsylvania State University'Matthew Sangster's modestly titled An Introduction to Fantasy is much more than an introduction to a single genre. It is a powerful meditation on a communal mode of artistic creativity that has shaped culture for thousands of years and now finds expression in textual, visual and interactive forms all across the world.' Anna Vaninskaya, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh'Although it's one of the oldest modes of storytelling, fantasy has exploded in popularity over the last half-century, and critical and historical commentary about it has expanded almost as dramatically. In An Introduction to Fantasy: Imagination, Iteration and Community, Matthew Sangster demonstrates a keen understanding both of the source material—drawing not only on literature but on films, TV, gaming, and art—and of the critical discourse around it. His eminently readable study is both historically grounded as far back as Plato, and as contemporary as Kelly Link and Nghi Vo.' Gary K. Wolfe, Emeritus Professor of Humanities, Roosevelt University'An insightful and engaging exploration into the broad landscape of fantasy. Brilliantly written and comprehensive, Sangster delves deftly into the signal importance of the genre throughout human history and in our fraught contemporary moment. Thought-provoking and timely, this volume belongs on every fantasist's bookshelf.' Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Associate Professor, Joint Program in English and Education, University of Michigan, author of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger GamesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Fantasy, Language and the Shaping of Culture; 2. The Value of Iteration; 3. Root Formations; 4. Enlightenment and its Shadows; 5. Fashioning Worlds; 6. Fantastic Communities and Common Ground; Envoi.
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Cambridge University Press Robert Lowell In Context
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Cambridge University Press Beckett and Cioran
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Cambridge University Press Modernism and the Idea of India
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Cambridge University Press Elizabeth Bowen in Context
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Cambridge University Press Seamus Heaney and Catholicism
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
Book SynopsisThis book offers essays from an international team of scholars, providing an introduction to McCarthy's life and works that will appeal to teachers and scholars. Essays include broad thematic treatments of multiple works, including Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and The Road, and cover McCarthy's extensive work in film.Trade Review'The collection works best when moving beyond the generalities of genre to the specificities of history and the singularities of style.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology of McCarthy's life and works; 1. Introduction: histories, novels, ideas: McCarthy and the art of philosophy Steven Frye; Part I. Influence and Innovation: 2. McCarthy's heroes and the will to truth Linda Woodson; 3. Modernism, postmodernism, and language: McCarthy's style Phillip A. Snyder and Delys W. Snyder; Part II. Beginnings in the American South: 4. McCarthy, Tennessee, and the southern gothic Lydia R. Cooper; 5. McCarthy and the uses of philosophy in the Tennessee novels Brian Evenson; Part III. The Move Westward: 6. History and the problem of evil in McCarthy's western novels Timothy Parrish; 7. The Border Trilogy, The Road, and the Cold War Pierre Lagayette; Part IV. The Novels: 8. Outer Dark and romantic naturalism James R. Giles; 9. Blood Meridian and the poetics of violence Steven Frye; 10. All the Pretty Horses, the border, and ethnic encounter Nicholas Monk; 11. The quest for God in The Road Allen Josephs; Part V. Themes and Issues: 12. McCarthy and naturalism Eric Carl Link; 13. McCarthy and film Stacey Peebles; 14. McCarthy's heroes: revisiting masculinity John Dudley; Selected bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Mrs Dalloway The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThis edition of Mrs Dalloway includes substantial explanatory notes compiling past scholarship while identifying new allusions, and a list of textual variants among all editions in Woolf's lifetime. It also features a composition history, documenting how Woolf's reading, friendships, and culture contributed to the book, and Woolf's seldom-reprinted 1928 introduction.Table of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Notes on the edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and work; Introduction; Chronology of the composition of Mrs Dalloway; Mrs Dalloway; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Textual notes; Appendix; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Russian Literature since 1991
Book SynopsisRussian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from nonfiction to drama. Written by an international team of leading experts on contemporary Russian literature and culture, it presents a broad panorama of genres in post-Soviet literature such as postmodernism, magical historicism, hyper-naturalism (in drama), and the new lyricism. At the same time, it offers close readings of the most prominent works published in Russia since the end of the Soviet regime and elimination of censorship. The collection highlights the interdisciplinary context of twenty-first-century Russian literature and can be widely used both for research and teaching by specialists in and beyond Russian studies, including those in post-Cold War and post-communist world historTrade Review'The editors' stated goal was to offer 'the first attempt at an integral study of Russian literature after the breakup of the Soviet Union' … In this they have succeeded admirably. This collection offers a simultaneously readable and thoughtful assessment of approximately forty texts and forty writers and a compelling overview of broad literary trends and developments.' Margaret Ziolkowski, The Russian Review'This richly detailed compendium of essays will be of interest to scholars, students of contemporary Russian literature and culture, and pedagogues' Elizabeth Skomp, The Slavonic and East European ReviewTable of Contents1. The burden of freedom: Russian literature after Communism Evgeny Dobrenko and Mark Lipovetsky; 2. Recycling of the Soviet Evgeny Dobrenko; 3. (Post)ideological novel Serguei Alex. Oushakine; 4. Historical novel Kevin M. F. Platt; 5. Dystopias and catastrophe tales after Chernobyl Eliot Borenstein; 6. Magical historicism Alexander Etkind; 7. Petropoetics Ilya Kalinin; 8. Postmodernist novel Mark Lipovetsky; 9. Narrating trauma Helena Goscilo; 10. (Auto)biographical prose Marina Balina; 11. The legacy of the Underground Poets Catherine Ciepiela; 12. New lyrics Stephanie Sandler; 13. Narrative poetry Ilya Kukulin; 14. New drama Boris Wolfson; Works cited.
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Peking University Press (PUP) The Development of Chinese Martial Arts Fiction A History of Wuxia Literature The Cambridge China Library
Book SynopsisChen Pingyuan is one of the leading scholars of modern Chinese literature, known particularly for his work on wuxia, a popular and influential genre of historical martial arts fiction still celebrated around the world today. This work, presented here in English translation for the first time, is considered to be the seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics of the modern Chinese wuxia novel in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tracing the resurgence of interest in classical chivalric tales in China.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Wuxia novels and me; 1. The Xiake dream of the literati through the ages; 2. Haoxia stories of the Tang and Song dynasties; 3. Xiayi novels of the Qing dynasty; 4. Twentieth-century Wuxia novels; 5. Carrying a sword and doing Xiake deeds; 6. Sweet revenge; 7. The smiling proud Xiake; 8. Roving to the ends of the world; 9. Wuxia novels as a literary genre; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama
Book SynopsisHenry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional writing on art will gain fresh insights not only into British, American and French art, but also into James's fiction and critical thinking.Trade Review'Collister's thoughtful and thorough editions bring that intelligence back into focus, and remind us again that James' fiction is grounded in a deep understanding of human culture in all its forms.' Hazel Hutchison, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgments; A note on James's texts; Chronology: Henry James's life and writings; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Henry James's writings on art; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Textual variants; Biographical notes on artists; Select bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses
Book SynopsisFew books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than Ulysses. This volume offers fourteen concise and highly accessible essays by accomplished scholars that explore this masterpiece of world literature. It also includes numerous resources to aid both new and returning readers on their own Odyssean journey through the novel.Table of Contents1. Writing Ulysses Michael Groden; 2. Reception history Joseph Brooker; 3. Afterlife Jonathan Goldman; 4. Beginnings Scarlett Baron; 5. Character, plot, myth Margot Norris; 6. Setting: Dublin 1904/1922 Enda Duffy; 7. Endings Maud Ellmann; 8. City circuits: 'Aeolus' and 'Wandering Rocks' Michael Rubenstein; 9. Memory: 'Sirens' Marjorie Howes; 10. Interruption: 'Cyclops' and 'Nausicaa' Sean Latham; 11. Difficulty: 'Oxen of the Sun' and 'Circe' Cheryl Herr; 12. Intertextuality Brandon Kershner; 13. Bodies Vike Plock; 14. Symbols and things Paul Saint-Amour.
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Cambridge University Press Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture 170 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 170
Book SynopsisThomas Pynchon and American Counterculture employs the revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates Pynchon's commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the New Left and the Black Panther Party and on such movements as the psychedelic movement and the women's movement, drawing out points of critique to build a picture of a complex countercultural sensibility at work in Pynchon's fiction. In emphasising the subtleties of Pynchon's responses to counterculture, Freer clarifies his importance as an intellectually rigorous political philosopher. She further suggests that, like the graffiti in Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon creates texts that are 'revealed in order to be thought about, expanded on, translated into action by the people', his early attraction to core countercultural values growing into a conscious, politically motivated writing project that reaches its most mature expression in Against the DTable of Contents1. On the road to anti-structure: V., The Crying Lot 49 and the Beats; 2. Love, violence and yippie subversion in Gravity's Rainbow: Pynchon and the New Left; 3. The psychedelic movement, fantasy and anarchism in The Crying Lot 49 and Against the Day; 4. The Black Panther Party, revolutionary suicide and Gravity's Rainbow; 5. Feminism moderate and radical in The Crying Lot 49 and Vineland: Pynchon and the women's movement.
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Cambridge University Press Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess
Book SynopsisSaddik explores Williams' later plays (196182) in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Grounding the plays in the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik analyzes recent productions that successfully captured the playwright's late aesthetic.Trade Review'Annette J. Saddik's lucid and vital assessment of the misunderstood, mysterious later plays of Tennessee Williams opens the door for a new generation of appreciation for the entire body of his work. A wonderful and eye-opening achievement for those of us passionate about the plays that poured out of him in the twenty years of life that remained after his last 'so-called' success, Night of the Iguana.' John Guare, author of The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation'Annette Saddik midwifes the rebirth of Tennessee Williams as poet and avant-garde icon, as she rehabilitates the soul and honor of America's greatest playwright.' Lee Breuer, Mabou Mines Theater Company'In her groundbreaking new book, Annette Saddik proves that Tennessee Williams is the greatest unknown playwright America has produced. She demonstrates so beautifully and persuasively that for the length of his career, Williams was a writer less of lyrical realism, than the grotesque. His later works, on which her book focuses, are thus not aesthetic failures but richly imagined, experimental plays written for an experimental theatre. By so rethinking the whole of Williams's career, Saddik sheds a different light on his most popular plays and reveals to us a new and thrilling Tennessee Williams.' David Savran, City University of New York'Annette Saddik is a rare scholar. Not only does this book demonstrate her qualities as a meticulous theatre historian and Tennessee Williams specialist, but every page bristles with ideas. This book is of utmost importance for understanding the development of Williams' dramatic output and of the confluence of twentieth-century American and European performance.' Martin Halliwell, University of LeicesterTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'sicker than necessary': Tennessee Williams' theatre of excess; 1. 'Drowned in Rabelaisian laughter': Germans as grotesque comic figures in Williams' plays of the 1960s and '70s; 2. 'Benevolent anarchy': Williams' late plays and the theater of cruelty; 3. 'Writing calls for discipline!': chaos, creativity, and madness in Clothes for a Summer Hotel; 4. 'Act naturally': embracing the monstrous woman in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, The Mutilated, and The Pronoun 'I'; 5. 'There's something not natural here': grotesque ambiguities in Kingdom of Earth, A Cavalier for Milady and A House Not Meant to Stand; 6. 'All drama is about being extreme': 'in-yer-face' sex, war, and violence; Conclusion: 'the only thing to do is laugh'.
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Cambridge University Press Modernism and Naturalism in British and Irish Fiction 18801930
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Simon Joyce examines the ways in which readers have come to view canonical modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, showing how their work might be read in conjunction with lesser-known Irish and 'New Woman' novelists such as George Moore, Sarah Grand, and George Egerton.Table of Contents1. How Zola crossed (and didn't cross) the English Channel; 2. Portraits and artists: impressionism and naturalism; 3. A naturalism for Ireland; 4. Proto-sensitivity: naturalism, aestheticism, and the New Woman novel; 5. The voice of witlessness: Virginia Woolf and the poor.
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Cambridge University Press Franz Kafka in Context
Book SynopsisThis innovative book places Kafka's work in its many varied contexts. Accessible essays by leading Kafka scholars discuss his texts from new and often unexpected angles. They include his relation to Czech literature, modern culture, the role of Prague in the First World War, and friendship, illness and sexuality.Trade Review'… tightly argued essays by some of today's foremost scholars.' The Times Literary Supplement'Few recent books on Kafka have been as informative as this collection of essays, which looks at the many ways one can approach Kafka's writings. … This review cannot do justice to the scope and value of Duttlinger's collection. Highly recommended.' R. C. Conrad, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Life and Work: 1. Family Anthony Northey; 2. Friendship Claudia Nitschke; 3. Women Elizabeth Boa; 4. Work Benno Wagner; 5. Health and illness Johannes Türk; 6. Writing Manfred Engel; 7. Style Ritchie Robertson; Part II. Art and Literature: 8. Literary modernism Judith Ryan; 9. Kafka's reading Ritchie Robertson; 10. Gesture Lucia Ruprecht; 11. Performance and recitation Lothar Müller; 12. Film Silke Horstkotte; 13. Photography J. J. Long; 14. Music Thomas Martinec; 15. Architecture Roger Thiel; Part III. Politics, Culture, History: 16. Prague: history and culture Marek Nekula; 17. Czech language and literature Peter Zusi; 18. The First World War Mark Cornwall; 19. Travel, colonialism and exoticism Matthias Zach; 20. Law Theodore Ziolkowski; 21. Philosophy Ben Morgan; 22. Religion Daniel Weidner; 23. Judaism and Zionism Katja Garloff; 24. Psychology and psychoanalysis Carolin Duttlinger; 25. Gender and sexuality Mark M. Anderson; 26. The city Andrew J. Webber; 27. Childhood, pedagogy and education Katharina Laszlo; 28. Ethnography and anthropology Nicola Gess; Part IV. Reception and Influence: 29. Early critical reception Ruth V. Gross; 30. Critical theory Anthony Phelan; 31. Deconstruction Stanley Corngold; 32. Reading Kafka Emily Troscianko; 33. Editions Clayton Koelb; 34. Translation Mark Harman; 35. Film adaptations Dora Osborne.
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Cambridge University Press F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context
Book SynopsisExplores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with the social, historical and cultural contexts of the 1920s and 1930s. Highlighting elements of both high culture and popular culture, this book demonstrates the extent to which Fitzgerald embraced, internalized and came to embody the Jazz Age and Depression Era.Trade Review'Bryant Mangum's F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context is the kind of collection we need. Throughout, it reads smoothly and effectively like a literary-cultural biography; its focused, topical essays cover myriad aspects of Fitzgerald's life, work, and times … any student or teacher-scholar looking to do serious work on Fitzgerald should read this book. … [It] is both rich and versatile …' The Fitzgerald Review'Meticulous and impressively broad in scope and context, this collection offers informative yet entertaining insight into virtually every aspect of Fitzgerald's life, work, development and influences …These essays should be required reading for seminar classes featuring Fitzgerald. For that matter, anyone interested in Fitzgerald would do well to read the book in its entirely or choose at random from the interesting offerings … Highly recommended. All readers.' ChoiceTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; Preface; Chronology Gretchen Comba; Part I. Life and Works (1896–Present): 1. Biography Cathy Barks; 2. Interpreting Fitzgerald's ledger James L. W. West, III; 3. Letters Bryant Mangum; 4. Literary style Kirk Curnutt; 5. Literary influences William Blazek; 6. Intellectual influences Ronald Berman; 7. Contemporary critical reception Jackson R. Bryer; 8. The Fitzgerald revival Ruth Prigozy; Part II. An Author's Formation (1896–1920): 9. Buffalo and Syracuse, New York Joel Kabot; 10. St Paul, Minnesota, St Paul Academy, and St Paul Academy now and then Deborah Davis Schlacks; 11. A Catholic boyhood: Newman School and The Newman News, and Monsignor Cyril Sigourney Webster Fay Pearl James; 12. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University, and The Nassau Literary Magazine Edward Gillin; 13. World War I James H. Meredith; 14. Marriage to Zelda Sayre Linda Wagner-Martin; 15. Fitzgerald's southern narrative: the Tarleton, Georgia stories Bryant Mangum; Part III. Jazz Age Literary and Artistic Movements (1918–29): 16. American literary realism James Nagel; 17. Naturalism and high modernism Michael Nowlin; 18. Avant-garde trends Linda Patterson Miller; Part IV. Historical and Social Contexts in the Jazz Age (1918–29): 19. Prohibition Linda De Roche; 20. Class structure Peter Hays; 21. Ethnic stereotyping Suzanne del Gizzo; 22. Gender in the Jazz Age Heidi M. Kunz; 23. Post-war flappers Kate Drowne; 24. Youth culture Jarom McDonald; 25. American expatriates in France Elisabeth Bouzonviller; Part V. Popular and Material Culture in the Jazz Age (1918–29): 26. Popular literary tastes Philip McGowan; 27. Magazines Robert Beuka; 28. Broadway melodies Anthony J. Berret; 29. Stage and screen entertainment Walter Raubicheck and Steven Goldleaf; 30. Consumer culture and advertising Lauren Rule Maxwell; 31. Fashion Doni M. Wilson; 32. Transportation Deborah Clarke; 33. Parties Christopher Ames; 34. Architecture and design Bonnie Shannon McMullen; Part VI. The Depression Era (1929–40): 35. The Crash and the aftermath Richard Godden; 36. The Great Depression Michael K. Glenday; 37. The writer in Hollywood Richard Fine; 38. The Golden Age of Hollywood Laura Rattray; 39. Hollywood and the gossip columnists Gail D. Sinclair; 40. Heroes and Hollywood Robert Sklar; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press W B Yeats in Context Literature in Context
Book SynopsisW. B. Yeats is a writer who requires, and at the same time tests the limits of, contextual study. More than perhaps any other Irish writer, he produced his own context as much as it produced him. His cultural and political activities, combined with his prolific literary output, made an impact that can only be understood by close attention to his words in relation to the times in which he lived. W. B. Yeats in Context maps Yeats' world in concise, lively essays by distinguished critics and historians. The places, people, themes and intellectual frameworks most important to his development receive close attention, as do his artistic influences, and the production and reception of his work. As a gateway into the study of Yeats, this volume offers much new information for both students, scholars and anyone interested in the life and times of this enigmatic and influential poet.Table of ContentsIntroduction David Holdeman and Ben Levitas; Part I. Times: 1. Church, state, childhood, and youth, 1865–85 W. J. McCormack; 2. The fin de siècle, 1885–97 Stephen Regan; 3. Anger management, 1898–1913 Adrian Frazier; 4. War, 1914–23 Ben Levitas; 5. The Irish Free State and the European crisis, 1924–39 Paul Scott Stanfield; Part II. Places: 6. Sligo David Fitzpatrick; 7. London Timothy Webb; 8. Dublin Anthony Roche; 9. Galway: Coole and Ballylee Jonathan Allison; Part III. Personalities: 10. John Butler Yeats Douglas Archibald; 11. Maud Gonne Karen Steele; 12. Lady Gregory Judith Hill; 13. J. M. Synge Nicholas Grene; 14. Ezra Pound Catherine E. Paul; 15. George Yeats Margaret Mills Harper; Part IV. Themes: 16. Class and eugenics Donald J. Childs; 17. Nationalism and postcolonialism David Lloyd; 18. Gender Vicki Mahaffey; 19. Aesthetics James Pethica; 20. Fascism R. F. Foster; Part V. Philosophies: 21. The Church in Ireland: Protestant and Catholic Nicholas Allen; 22. Occultism Timothy Materer; 23. Folklore Sinéad Garrigan Mattar; 24. Indian thought Shalini Sikka; 25. Nietzsche Michael Valdez Moses; 26. Classical philosophy Matthew Gibson; 27. Landscape, family, eighteenth-century Ireland Jefferson Holdridge; Part VI. Arts: 28. Nineteenth-century Irish poetry Phillip L. Marcus; 29. The English Romantic Symbolists Matthew Campbell; 30. Modern poetry James Longenbach; 31. Theatrical culture Richard Cave; 32. The visual arts Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux; 33. Modern fiction Frank Shovlin; Part VII. Reception: 34. Manuscripts and revisions David Holdeman; 35. Publishers and the material text George Bornstein; 36. Critical debate, 1939–70 Edna Longley; 37. Critical debate, 1970–2006 Rob Doggett; 38. Popular culture Geraldine Higgins; Guide to further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
Book SynopsisThis book is a critical edition of D. H. Lawrence's complete essays about Mexican and Southwestern Indians, both those published in 1927 as Mornings in Mexico, and the other essays Lawrence wrote about them during his American years. The number of essays, therefore, is more than double that of all previous editions. The early version of 'Pan in America' appears here for the first time, as do previously unpublished passages in other essays. The texts are informed by all extant manuscripts, typescripts, and early publications, with a full textual apparatus revealing Lawrence's revisions. The volume includes extensive notes and appendices with information on Mesoamerican mythology and history. Lawrence's interest in and real affection for the region and its peoples went beyond the travel writing genre and these essays hold significance not only for those interested in Lawrence but also in the wider context of the cultures of Mexico and the Southwest.Trade Review'This is a magnificent book! The collection of essays covers almost all that Lawrence was thinking about the importance of the American world between 1922 and 1928 … For all Lawrence readers this is a volume to get, to dip into time and again for a refreshing voice of complete individual seriousness.' The Use of English'Crosswhite Hyde's edition can be unhesitatingly recommended to all libraries and scholars of twentieth-century literature.' English StudiesTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction; Note on the texts; Mornings in Mexico: Corasmin and the parrots; Walk to Huayapa; The Mozo; Market day; Indians and entertainment; The dance of the sprouting corn; The Hopi snake dance; A little moonshine with lemon; Other Essays, 1922–8: Certain Americans and an Englishman; Indians and an Englishman; Taos; Au Revoir, USA; Dear old horse, a London letter; Paris letter; Letter from Germany; Pan in America; See Mexico after, by Luis Q.; New Mexico; Appendix I. 'Just back from the snake dance'; Appendix II. ['Indians and an Englishman' and 'Certain Americans and an Englishman']: early fragment in Luhan; Appendix III. 'Pan in America': early version; Appendix IV. ['See Mexico After, by Luis Q.'] (Early fragments); Appendix V. Mesoamerican and Southwestern American myth; Appendix VI. History timelines; Appendix VII. Maps; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Glossary; Line-end hyphenation.
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Cambridge University Press Paul Morel
Book SynopsisThis is the first ever edition of the early version of Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's highly popular autobiographical novel. It is very different from Sons and Lovers, less polished but full of powerful, spontaneous, dramatic writing. The volume also contains documents by Lawrence's girlfriend Jessie Chambers, facsimile pages, maps and scholarly apparatus.Trade Review'… what delights … how worth reading and treasuring Paul Morel is.' Independent on Sunday'Helen Baron's editorial work is, as usual with this series, impeccable.' English StudiesTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Paul Morel; Appendix 1. 'Matilda'; Appendix 2. Chapter plan; Appendix 3. Two versions of the start of MS3; Appendix 4. MS3 chapter 9 annotated by Jessie Chambers; Appendix 5. Jessie Chambers' manuscripts; Explanatory notes; Maps; Textual apparatus; Line-end hyphenation; Note on pounds, shillings and pence.
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Cambridge University Press D H Lawrence Late Essays and Articles The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
Book SynopsisIn his last years D. H. Lawrence often wrote for newspapers; he needed the money, and clearly enjoyed the work. He also wrote several substantial essays during the same period. This meticulously-edited collection brings together major essays such as Pornography and Obscenity and Lawrence's spirited Introduction to the volume of his Paintings; a group of autobiographical pieces, two of which are published here for the first time; and the articles Lawrence wrote at the invitation of newspaper and magazine editors. There are thirty-nine items in total, thirty-five of them deriving from original manuscripts; all were written between 1926 and Lawrence's death in March 1930. They are ordered chronologically according to the date of composition; each is preceded by an account of the circumstances in which it came to be published. The volume is introduced by a substantial survey of Lawrence's career as a writer responding directly to public interests and concerns.Trade Review"...the writings reflect the immense versatility and variation in quality evident throughout Lawrence's productive literary career. Highly Recommended." J.E. Steiner, emerita, Drew University"To read these wonderful essays, and the many other pieces in this volume, is to reacquaint onself with the lyrical and visionary brilliance of Lawrence's art--even when the passion and insight are compressed into the limiting format of a newspaper article." English Literature in Transition, Peter Balbert, Trinity UniversityTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Prefatory note; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Late essays and articles: Note on the texts; Mercury; [Return to Bestwood]; Getting on; Which class I belong to; Newthorpe in 2927; The 'Jeune Fille' wants to know; Laura Philippine; That women know best; All there; Thinking about oneself; Insouciance; Master in his own house; Matriarchy; Ownership; Autobiography; Women are so cocksure; Why I don't like living in London; Cocksure women and hen-sure men; Hymns in a man's life; Red trousers; Is England still a man's country?; Sex appeal; Do women change; Enslaved by civilisation; Give her a pattern; Introduction to pictures; Myself revealed; Introduction to these paintings; The state of funk; Making pictures; Pornography and obscenity; Pictures on the wall; The risen lord; Men must work and women as well; Nottingham and the mining countryside; We need one another; The real thing; Nobody loves me; Appendix 1. Early draft of 'The 'Jeune Fille' Wants to Know'; Appendix 2. Vanity Fair version of 'Do Women Change'; Appendix 3. 'Mushrooms': an autobiographical fragment; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry 19452010
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 19452010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished. As a comprehensive critical, literary-historical and scholarly guide, this Companion offers not only new readings of a wide range of poets but a detailed account of the contexts in which their verse was written and received. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.Trade Review'Examining poetry from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and poetry written in postcolonial contexts, the essays, taken together, offer a comprehensive approach to a wide range of issues to which poets responded, including national identity, the 'movement,' migration, feminism, gender, women's experience, postmodernism, and ecopoetics. … In sum, this collection provides valuable insights into the full diversity and wide spectrum of British poetry.' Choice'This volume meets the high standards we expect from the Cambridge Companion series. Each contributor is an academic with expertise in the area on which they write. Each chapter is engagingly and accessibly written, providing a necessarily selective overview of the subject.' Languages and LiteratureTable of Contents1. Poets of the forties and early fifties: the last Romantics? C. D. Blanton; 2. The movement Patrick Deane; 3. Survivors: modernists and thirties poets John Matthias; 4. Beyond all this fiddle Eric Falci; 5. Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the children of Albion, and performance poetry Cornelia Grabner; 6. High late modernists or postmodernists? Simon Perril; 7. Stretching the lyric: the metaphor men, new narrative poetry, and other ruses Natalie Pollard; 8. Poetry and class Sandie Byrne; 9. Northern Irish poetry Fran Brearton; 10. Scottish poetry Alan Riach; 11. Welsh poetry Katie Gramich; 12. Black British poetry Sarah Lawson Welsh; 13. Poetry, feminism, gender and women's experience Jan Montefiore; 14. Ecopoetics Fiona Becket; 15. Poetry and the city Peter Barry; 16. Outward forms Jon Glover.
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Cambridge University Press Quetzalcoatl The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
Book SynopsisQuetzalcoatl was written during Lawrence's first stay in Mexico, in May and June 1923, and registers his initial responses to those aspects of Mexican landscape, religion, politics and culture which would fascinate him over the following two years. On leaving Mexico in July 1923, he described Quetzalcoatl as 'nearly finished', intending to revise it later, but in the event actually rewrote it almost completely, and it was published as The Plumed Serpent in 1926. This is the first scholarly edition of the original manuscripts and typescripts of Quetzalcoatl, and includes a record of all revisions Lawrence made in the course of writing it, detailed explanatory notes and an introduction outlining its compositional history. With the publication of this volume, all Lawrence's novels, in their first, intermediate and final versions, are now available in the Cambridge edition.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Quetzalcoatl; Appendix I. Deleted MS passage from Chapter III; Appendix II. Deleted MS passage from Chapter VI; Appendix III. Deleted MS passage from Chapter VII; Appendix IV. Deleted MS passage from Chapter VII; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus.
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Cambridge University Press Vladimir Nabokov in Context
Book SynopsisVladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, cultural, intellectual and political contexts of the turbulent twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov in Context maps the ever-changing sites, people, cultures and ideologies of his itinerant life which shaped the production and reception of his work. Concise and lively essays by leading scholars reveal a complex relationship of mutual influence between Nabokov''s work and his environment. Appealing to a wide community of literary scholars this timely companion to Nabokov''s writing offers new insights and approaches to one of the most important, and yet most elusive writers of modern literature.Trade Review'Vladimir Nabokov in Context offers a competent and highly readable exploration of the complex relationship between the man and his work in the global context of his time … [It] is a very commendable effort, and a valuable resource on the circumstances that fashioned Nabokov and his art.' René Alladaye, The Slavonic and East European ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: contextualizing Nabokov David M. Bethea and Siggy Frank; Part I. Identity: 1. Nabokov: a life in contexts I: Russia and emigration Brian Boyd; 2. Nabokov: a life in contexts II: beyond the emigration Brian Boyd; 3. Childhood Barbara Wyllie; 4. Women Lara Delage-Toriel; 5. Friends and foes Julian W. Connolly; 6. Academia Susan Elizabeth Sweeney; 7. Authorial persona Maria Malikova; Part II. Places: 8. St Petersburg Gennady Barabtarlo; 9. Cambridge Beci Carver; 10. Berlin Stanislav Shvabrin; 11. Paris John Burt Foster, Jr; 12. East to West Coast Monica Manolescu; 13. Switzerland East to West Coast Monica Manolescu; Part III. Literature and Arts: 14. The Russian literary canon Alexander Dolinin; 15. The Western literary canon Michael Wood; 16. Publishing: Russian Émigré literature Siggy Frank; 17. Publishing: American literature Duncan White; 18. Detective fiction Michal Oklot and Matthew Walker; 19. Samizdat and Tamizdat Ann Komaromi; 20. Nabokov's visual imagination Marijeta Bozovic; 21. Popular culture Nassim Winnie Balestrini; Part IV. Ideas and Cultures: 22. Science Stephen H. Blackwell; 23. Darwinism David M. Bethea; 24. Psychoanalysis Michal Oklot and Matthew Walker; 25. Faith Sergei Davydov; 26. Jewishness as literary device in Nabokov's fiction Leonid Livak; 27. Liberalism Dana Dragunoiu; 28. Totalitarianism Olga Voronina; 29. The Cold War Will Norman; 30. The long 1950s Andrea Carosso; 31. Transnationalism Rachel Trousdale; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel
Book SynopsisSince the graphic novel rose to prominence half a century ago, it has become one of the fastest growing literary/artistic genres, generating interest from readers globally. The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the distinct development of this art form both in America and around the world. This Companion also explores the diverse subgenres often associated with it, such as journalism, fiction, historical fiction, autobiography, biography, science fiction and fantasy. Leading scholars offer insights into graphic novel adaptations of prose works and the adaptation of graphic novels to films; analyses of outstanding graphic novels, like Maus and The Walking Man; an overview which distinguishes the international graphic novel from its American counterpart; and analyses of how the form works and what it teaches, making this book a key resource for scholars, graduate students and undergraduate students alike.Trade Review'[The book] takes stock of the field so far, and is a perfect resource for anyone new to it.' Eric Bulson, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction; 1. How the graphic novel works Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith; 2. From comics to the graphic novel: William Hogarth to Will Eisner Stephen E. Tabachnick; 3. The development of the American graphic novel: Will Eisner to the present Stephen Weiner; 4. The international graphic novel Dan Mazur and Alexander Danner; 5. Historical fiction Hugo Frey; 6. Revisionist superheroes, fantasy, and science fiction Darren Harris-Fein; 7. The autobiographical and biographical graphic novel Martha Kuhlman; 8. Other non-fiction Jan Baetens; 9. Novel into graphic novel Esther Bendit Saltzman; 10. Graphic novel into film M. Keith Booker; 11. Some classics Bart Beaty; 12. Learning from the graphic novel James Bucky Carter.
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Cambridge University Press Reading the Ruins
Book SynopsisFrom fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. They appeared as content, with visions of tottering towers and scraps of paper; and also as form, in the shapes of broken poetics. But from the outbreak of the Second World War what had been an aesthetic mode began to resemble a proleptic template. During that conflict many modernist writers such as Graham Greene, Louis MacNeice, David Jones, J. F. Hendry, Elizabeth Bowen, T. S. Eliot and Rose Macaulay engaged with devastated cityscapes and the altered lives of a nation at war. To understand the potency of the bombsites, both in the Second World War and after, Reading the Ruins brings together poetry, novels and short stories, as well as film and visual art.Trade Review"...a rich and widely ranging book, Mellor considers how ruins feature as both a trope and also a fact of life in writing from before and during the conflict....Mellor manages to defamiliarize texts that have become mainstays of studies of Second World War writing, and makes inventive and productive connections between seemingly disparate voices. Essential for scholars interested in Second World War literature and culture, this book is also an important contribution to the understanding of developments in modernism in mid-twentieth-century Britain, and deserves a wide readership." -VICTORIA STEWART, University of Leicester, The Review of English Studies"...It rewards careful reading from start to finish, for both the wealth of understudied material it introduces and the close readings that go with it. Properly digested, its contents will serve an important purpose indeed, refuting for once and for all any suggestion that modernism weakened and died around 1940." --Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Imagining destruction; 2. A metropolis aflame; 3. Surrealism and the bombsites; 4. The haunted city; 5. The new London jungle; Coda; Notes, Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Writing and the Modern Stage
Book SynopsisIt is time to change the way we talk about writing in theater. This book offers a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage. While performance studies, German Theaterwissenschaft, and even text-based drama studies have commonly envisioned theatrical performance as something that must operate beyond the limits of the textual imagination, this book shows how a series of writers have actively shaped new conceptions of theater''s radical potential. Engaging with a range of theorists, including Theodor Adorno, Jarcho reveals a modern tradition of ''negative theatrics,'' whose artists undermine the here and now of performance in order to challenge the value and the power of the existing world. This vision emerges through surprising new readings of modernist classics - by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Samuel Beckett - as well as contemporary American works by Suzan-Lori Parks, Elevator Repair Service, Trade Review'In short, the achievement of Jarcho's book is that it is not only a complex and challenging piece of scholarship that probes into the underappreciated potential of theatrical writing, but also serves as an invaluable model for scholars looking to renegotiate the place of theater both beyond and beside drama in the contemporary academy.' Chris Corbo, ASAP/Journal'A review this short cannot do justice to the intricacies of Jarcho's analysis here and throughout Writing and the Modern Stage. Backed by its author's extensive knowledge of drama, performance, and critical theory, Jarcho's book offers a powerful counter-argument to those who see writing as something that theatre overcomes in order to achieve an authentic presentness.' Stanton B. Garner, Jr, Modern Drama'This book is a testament to the importance of scholarly work that not only considers theatre as one of many manifestations in the large bubbling pot of cultural production but also attends to the intricacies of medial specificity.' Eleanor Skimin, Theatre SurveyTable of ContentsPart I. Modernism's Negative Theatrics: 1. Introduction: negative theatrics; 2. 'Something stranger yet': theatrical distractions in Henry James and Gertrude Stein; 3. 'Gesture towards the universe': theater as utopia in Waiting for Godot; Part II. Beyond the Present: Playwrights at the Turn of the Millennium: 4. Introduction: staging writing today; 5. The promise of 'playwriting': Suzan-Lori Parks; 6. 'Small, fierce creatures': Mac Wellman's auratic theater.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group Cambridge Companions to Literature
Book SynopsisNamed after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new direction for public taste in art. This Companion offers a comprehensive guide to the intellectual and social contexts surrounding Bloomsbury and its coterie, which includes writer Virginia Woolf, economist Maynard Keynes, and art critic Roger Fry, among others. Thirteen chapters from leading scholars and critics explore the Bloomsbury Group's rejection of Victorian values and social mores, their interventions in issues of empire and international politics, their innovations in the literary and visual arts, and more. Complete with a chronology of key events and a detailed guide to further reading, this Companion provides scholars and students of English literature with fresh perspectives on the achievements of this remarkable circle of frTrade Review'… a timely and necessary source to which we can direct those who might have questions about the dynamic relationships, cultural production, political leanings, and public engagements of the members of the group.' Sarah E. Cornish, Woolf Studies AnnualTable of ContentsChronology Molly Pulda; 1. Introduction Victoria Rosner; Part I. Origins: 2. Victorian Bloomsbury Katy Mullin; 3. Cambridge Bloomsbury Ann Banfield; Part II. Everyday Life: 4. Domestic Bloomsbury Morag Shiach; 5. Bloomsbury as queer subculture Christopher Reed; Part III. Politics: 6. War, peace, and internationalism Christine Froula; 7. Bloomsbury and empire Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina; Part IV. Arts: 8. Pens and paintbrushes Mary Ann Caws; 9. Bloomsbury and the book arts Helen Southworth; 10. Bloomsbury aesthetics Laura Marcus; Part V. Reflections of Bloomsbury: 11. The Bloomsbury narcissus Vesna Goldsworthy; 12. Intellectual crossings and reception Brenda R. Silver; 13. Bloomsbury's afterlife Regina Marler; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and
Book SynopsisMichael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted against traditional theatre and literature in both similar and widely different ways. Setting the movement in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, Bennett provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and literature, from Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard. Chapters reveal the movement's origins, development and present-day influence upon popular culture around the world, employing the latest research to this often challenging area of study in a balanced and authoritative approach. Essential reading for students of literature and theatre, this book provides the necessary tools to interpret and develop the study of a movement associated with some of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential cultural figures.Trade Review'In his latest book Michael Bennett sets out to provide a scholarly but reader-friendly appraisal of the literary and dramatic manifestations of the absurd. … this book manages to be both an accessible introduction to readers unfamiliar with the absurd and a thought-provoking addition to absurd criticism.' Pedro Querido, Modern Language ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: overview of the absurd; 2. Setting the stage; 3. The emergence of a 'movement': the historical and intellectual contexts; 4. Samuel Beckett; 5. Beckett's notable contemporaries; 6. The European and American wave of absurdism; 7. Post-absurdism?; 8. Absurd criticism.
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Cambridge University Press Fitzgerald The Love of the Last Tycoon
Book SynopsisThis critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon utilises Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescipts, and working notes.Trade Review"The Love of the Last Tycoon carries the authority of a great writer working very close to the top of his form. Only scholars will need to consult the 200 pages of extensive critical apparatus included in this edition. But anyone who admires Fitzgerald will want to take another look at the 129 pages of Tycoon text, now that they have at last been printed as he would have wanted them to be." Scott Donaldson, Chicago Tribune"...the Bruccoli version adds new, valuable, and important information regarding Fitzgerald's artistry, his knowledge of the film industry, and the accomplishment represented by what still must be regarded as work in progress....This book, essential for the support of detailed study of Fitzgerald and the American novel, may well replace the older Wilson version." Choice"...this novel has been considered the finest story of the Hollywood film industry during the age of the great studios. In this new edition Bruccoli presents us with Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescripts, and notes, giving us not only the novel but its creation. And Bruccoli's introduction is itself a fascinating piece of research; a marvelous read." Books of the Southwest"This critical edition of Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel restores the author's original 1940 version..." American Literature"The production of the definitive edition, based upon a significant number of hand-and-type written MSS...is a notable achievement, made especially important and necessary because of the inchoate and incomplete state of the novel. The work offers a marvelous opportunity for readers and writers alike literally to watch a novel in the making..." David Noel Freedman, Michigan Quarterly reviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; F. Scott Fitzgerald selected chronology: 1927–41; The geography of The Love of the Last Tycoon; Introduction; The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western; Selected Fitzgerald working notes: facsimiles; Inventory of drafts; Textual apparatus: Editorial emendations in the base-texts; Textual notes; Fitzgerald's revisions, corrections, and annotations in the latest typescripts; Wilson's alterations in the latest typescripts; Variants in the scribners setting copy and the first printing; Word division; Explanatory notes; Appendix 1. The sanitarium frame; Appendix 2. Specimen working drafts.
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