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 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.
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
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.
The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s
Author: Rob Jackaman
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889469327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889469327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry.
The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521883067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1117
Book Description
A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521883067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1117
Book Description
A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
British Poetry of the Second World War
Author: L. Shires
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349178640
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349178640
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Literature of the 1940s
Author: Gill Plain
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748689362
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This new study rereads the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. Instead of separating the 1940s into before and after the war, it focuses on the entire decade and the themes which emerged from writers' involvement in and resistance
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748689362
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This new study rereads the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. Instead of separating the 1940s into before and after the war, it focuses on the entire decade and the themes which emerged from writers' involvement in and resistance
The Poetry of Dylan Thomas
Author: John Goodby
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846319943
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
An important reappraisal of the poetry of Dylan Thomas in terms of modern critical theory.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846319943
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
An important reappraisal of the poetry of Dylan Thomas in terms of modern critical theory.