Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978331051
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A nice little study of Chaucer, in the same vein as Chesterton's biographies of Dickens and Blake.
Chaucer
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978331051
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A nice little study of Chaucer, in the same vein as Chesterton's biographies of Dickens and Blake.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978331051
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A nice little study of Chaucer, in the same vein as Chesterton's biographies of Dickens and Blake.
The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton
Author: Joseph R. McCleary
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135852065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings. Specifically, McCleary contends that Chesterton’s recurring use of the themes of locality, patriotism, and nationalism embodies a distinctive understanding of what gives history its coherence.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135852065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings. Specifically, McCleary contends that Chesterton’s recurring use of the themes of locality, patriotism, and nationalism embodies a distinctive understanding of what gives history its coherence.
G. K. Chesterton
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438113013
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A collection of critical essays on G.K. Chesterton's work.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438113013
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
A collection of critical essays on G.K. Chesterton's work.
G. K. Chesterton
Author: Ian Ker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199601283
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
G. K. Chesterton is remembered as a brilliant creator of nonsense and satirical verse, author of the Father Brown stories and the innovative novel, The Man who was Thursday, and yet today he is not counted among the major English novelists and poets. However, this major new biography argues that Chesterton should be seen as the successor of the great Victorian prose writers, Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, and above all Newman. Chesterton's achievement as one of the great English literary critics has not hitherto been fully recognized, perhaps because his best literary criticism is of prose rather than poetry. Ian Ker remedies this neglect, paying particular attention to Chesterton's writings on the Victorians, especially Dickens. As a social and political thinker, Chesterton is contrasted here with contemporary intellectuals like Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in his championing of democracy and the masses. Pre-eminently a controversialist, as revealed in his prolific journalistic output, he became a formidable apologist for Christianity and Catholicism, as well as a powerful satirist of anti-Catholicism. This full-length life of G. K. Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer. It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton's joyful humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and his love of the ordinary things of life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199601283
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
G. K. Chesterton is remembered as a brilliant creator of nonsense and satirical verse, author of the Father Brown stories and the innovative novel, The Man who was Thursday, and yet today he is not counted among the major English novelists and poets. However, this major new biography argues that Chesterton should be seen as the successor of the great Victorian prose writers, Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, and above all Newman. Chesterton's achievement as one of the great English literary critics has not hitherto been fully recognized, perhaps because his best literary criticism is of prose rather than poetry. Ian Ker remedies this neglect, paying particular attention to Chesterton's writings on the Victorians, especially Dickens. As a social and political thinker, Chesterton is contrasted here with contemporary intellectuals like Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in his championing of democracy and the masses. Pre-eminently a controversialist, as revealed in his prolific journalistic output, he became a formidable apologist for Christianity and Catholicism, as well as a powerful satirist of anti-Catholicism. This full-length life of G. K. Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer. It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton's joyful humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and his love of the ordinary things of life.
The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton
Author: John C. Tibbetts
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476643970
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. "Everything is different in the dark," wrote Chesterton; "perhaps you don't know how terrible a truth that is." Chesterton's use of the theme of "gargoyles" provides the thematic structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the riddles and paradoxes of three works--Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the play The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's Collected Chesterton.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476643970
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. "Everything is different in the dark," wrote Chesterton; "perhaps you don't know how terrible a truth that is." Chesterton's use of the theme of "gargoyles" provides the thematic structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the riddles and paradoxes of three works--Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the play The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's Collected Chesterton.
The Making of Chaucer's English
Author: Christopher Cannon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521592741
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A substantial reappraisal of the place of Chaucer's English in the history of English language and literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521592741
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A substantial reappraisal of the place of Chaucer's English in the history of English language and literature.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115687
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Provides insight into Chaucer's Canterbury tales, along with a short biography of the poet.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115687
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Provides insight into Chaucer's Canterbury tales, along with a short biography of the poet.
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438113714
Category : Chaucer, Geoffrey
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Presents a collection of critical essays on the Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438113714
Category : Chaucer, Geoffrey
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Presents a collection of critical essays on the Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Chaucer's Dead Body
Author: Thomas A. Prendergast
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135887268
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In Chaucer's Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer's transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages. This book weaves an intricate argument about the ways that the body, death, and representation come together in the recuperation and reception of Chaucer over the centuries, and proposes a deeply compelling logic that links memorialization and canon formation. Making a persuasive and intriguing case that the status of Chaucer's physical body is an index of the status of Chaucer's work, and furthermore that there continues to be a link between corpse and corpus in all of our assertions of positive and negative literary values from Chaucer's time on, Prendergast organizes his study of Chaucer's literary legacy around Chaucer's tomb - around the history of attempts to restore it, to determine its authenticity, and to establish its exact location.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135887268
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In Chaucer's Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer's transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages. This book weaves an intricate argument about the ways that the body, death, and representation come together in the recuperation and reception of Chaucer over the centuries, and proposes a deeply compelling logic that links memorialization and canon formation. Making a persuasive and intriguing case that the status of Chaucer's physical body is an index of the status of Chaucer's work, and furthermore that there continues to be a link between corpse and corpus in all of our assertions of positive and negative literary values from Chaucer's time on, Prendergast organizes his study of Chaucer's literary legacy around Chaucer's tomb - around the history of attempts to restore it, to determine its authenticity, and to establish its exact location.
3000-3999, Modern languages and literature
Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description