Author: A. Trevor Tolley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886290283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Poetry of the Forties in Britain
Author: A. Trevor Tolley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886290283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886290283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Poetry of the Forties
Author: A. Trevor Tolley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719017094
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719017094
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The 1940s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction
Author: Philip Tew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350143022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded drastic and decisive changes to old certainties. Moving from potential invasion and defeat to victory, the creation of the welfare state and a new Cold war threat, the pace of historical change seemed too rapid and monumental for writers to match. Consequently the 1940s were often side-lined in literary accounts as a dividing line between periods and styles. Drawing on more recent scholarship and research, this volume surveys and analyses this period's fascinating diversity, from novels of the Blitz and the Navy to the rise of important new voices with its contributors exploring the work of influential women, Commonwealth, exiled, genre, avant-garde and queer writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the intriguing decade, this book offers substantial chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell as well as covering such writers as Jocelyn Brooke, Monica Dickens, James Hadley Chase, Patrick Hamilton, Gerald Kersh, Daphne Du Maurier, Mary Renault, Denton Welch and many others.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350143022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded drastic and decisive changes to old certainties. Moving from potential invasion and defeat to victory, the creation of the welfare state and a new Cold war threat, the pace of historical change seemed too rapid and monumental for writers to match. Consequently the 1940s were often side-lined in literary accounts as a dividing line between periods and styles. Drawing on more recent scholarship and research, this volume surveys and analyses this period's fascinating diversity, from novels of the Blitz and the Navy to the rise of important new voices with its contributors exploring the work of influential women, Commonwealth, exiled, genre, avant-garde and queer writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the intriguing decade, this book offers substantial chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell as well as covering such writers as Jocelyn Brooke, Monica Dickens, James Hadley Chase, Patrick Hamilton, Gerald Kersh, Daphne Du Maurier, Mary Renault, Denton Welch and many others.
Contemporary British Poetry
Author: James Acheson
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791427675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This collection of original essays focuses on new and continuing movements in British Poetry. It offers a wide ranging look at feminist, working class, and other poets of diverse cultural backgrounds.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791427675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This collection of original essays focuses on new and continuing movements in British Poetry. It offers a wide ranging look at feminist, working class, and other poets of diverse cultural backgrounds.
The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010
Author: Edward Larrissy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. 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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. 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.
Encyclopedia of British Poetry, 1900 to the Present
Author: James Persoon
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140746
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 2054
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive A to Z reference with approximately 450 entries providing facts about contemporary British poets, including their major works of poetry, concepts and movements.
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140746
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 2054
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive A to Z reference with approximately 450 entries providing facts about contemporary British poets, including their major works of poetry, concepts and movements.
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631215107
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century Covers all the poets most commonly studied at university level courses Features criticisms of British and Irish poetry as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, movements, and historical contexts Explores current debates about contemporary poetry, relating them to the volume's larger themes Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631215107
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century Covers all the poets most commonly studied at university level courses Features criticisms of British and Irish poetry as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, movements, and historical contexts Explores current debates about contemporary poetry, relating them to the volume's larger themes Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet
Reading London in Wartime
Author: William Cederwell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135123904X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature presents an expansive variety of writers and genres, including non-fiction and film approaches, to build a comprehensive social picture of the atmosphere during wartime London. From blitz and austerity to the nagging insistency of propaganda, this volume examines the representation of London in wartime and early post-war literature through each writer’s unique perspective on the pressures of 1940s city life. Exploring the use of London imagery, this book considers how literature redirects attention to individual, subjective experience at a time of enforced co-operation, uniformity and community. Unlike government information films and news broadcasts, which often used London to prop up prevailing clichés and stereotypes, and encouraged patriotic support for the war, literature had the freedom to express more recalcitrant truths. London writing of the 1940s was not a literature of opposition or dissent, but in offering more nuanced depictions of the period, it was a counterweight to propaganda and the general war temperament. In writing, the city becomes a more complex place, no longer the easy symbol of defiance and stoicism, of the shared sacrifice of ration book and war work.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135123904X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature presents an expansive variety of writers and genres, including non-fiction and film approaches, to build a comprehensive social picture of the atmosphere during wartime London. From blitz and austerity to the nagging insistency of propaganda, this volume examines the representation of London in wartime and early post-war literature through each writer’s unique perspective on the pressures of 1940s city life. Exploring the use of London imagery, this book considers how literature redirects attention to individual, subjective experience at a time of enforced co-operation, uniformity and community. Unlike government information films and news broadcasts, which often used London to prop up prevailing clichés and stereotypes, and encouraged patriotic support for the war, literature had the freedom to express more recalcitrant truths. London writing of the 1940s was not a literature of opposition or dissent, but in offering more nuanced depictions of the period, it was a counterweight to propaganda and the general war temperament. In writing, the city becomes a more complex place, no longer the easy symbol of defiance and stoicism, of the shared sacrifice of ration book and war work.
Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960
Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207188
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Now available. Here are the early poems which first brought Denise Levertov's work to prominence -- from early uncollected poems, selections from The Double Image (London, 1946), and her three books Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands (1958) and With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960), which established her as one of the more lyrical and most influential poets of the New American poetry.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207188
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Now available. Here are the early poems which first brought Denise Levertov's work to prominence -- from early uncollected poems, selections from The Double Image (London, 1946), and her three books Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands (1958) and With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960), which established her as one of the more lyrical and most influential poets of the New American poetry.
War Like a Wasp
Author: Andrew Sinclair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description