| Author | : Laura Marcus |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 912 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521820776 |
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The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
| Author | : George Sampson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 998 |
| Release | : 1970-02-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521095815 |
Based on The Cambridge history of English literature.
The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel
| Author | : Robert L. Caserio |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2009-04-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139828339 |
The twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
| Author | : Neil Corcoran |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2007-12-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 113982810X |
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
The New Cambridge History of English Literature
| Author | : Clare A. Lees |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 6400 |
| Release | : 2013-05-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781107035034 |
A set of reference works on the history of English literature throughout the major periods of its development.
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 9, Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
| Author | : George Alexander Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 506 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521300148 |
This ninth volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory during the last century. Drawing on the combined expertise of a large team of specialist scholars, it offers an authoritative account of the various movements of thought that have made the late twentieth century such a richly productive period in the history of criticism. The aim has been to cover developments which have had greatest impact on the academic study of literature, along with background chapters that place those movements in a broader, intellectual, national and socio-cultural perspective. In comparison with Volumes Seven and Eight, also devoted to twentieth-century developments, there is marked emphasis on the rethinking of historical and philosophical approaches, which have emerged, especially during the past two decades, as among the most challenging areas of debate.
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
| Author | : Leonard Cassuto |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1271 |
| Release | : 2011-03-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1316184439 |
This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones. Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ground to show the role of popular genres - such as science fiction and mystery novels - in the creation of the literary tradition. One of the original features of this book is the dialogue between the essays, highlighting cross-currents between authors and their works as well as across historical periods. While offering a narrative of the development of the genre, the History reflects the multiple methodologies that have informed readings of the American novel and will change the way scholars and readers think about American literary history.
Twenty-First Century Fiction
| Author | : S. Adiseshiah |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2015-12-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137035188 |
This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel, and identifications of 21st-century themes, tropes and styles combine to produce a timely critical intervention into genuinely contemporary fiction.
Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel
| Author | : Zénó Vernyik |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2021-09-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1793622264 |
Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history, political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary take on how Koestler's novels utilize, and at times transcend, the genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit and reassess them. With the topics of Koestler's novels including terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma, the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as they were at the time of their publication.
