Author: K. K. Ruthven
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Faking Literature, first published in 2001, examines the role of forgery in literature.
Faking Literature
Author: K. K. Ruthven
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Faking Literature, first published in 2001, examines the role of forgery in literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Faking Literature, first published in 2001, examines the role of forgery in literature.
Comes a Stranger
Author: E.R. Punshon
Publisher: Dean Street Press
ISBN: 1910570877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
"You see," Miss Kayne said, "I committed a murder once myself." Miss Kayne's proud boast to Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen is that she has committed the Perfect Murder - a crime with no clues. Bobby thinks at first it is a macabre joke, but before long a body is reportedly found, stabbed in the world-famous Kayne Library. When Bobby gets to the scene, the corpse has disappeared. But instead Miss Kayne's cousin, Nat, is found in a nearby country lane - shot through the heart. Were the two murders connected - or were there even two? Bobby finds himself embroiled in one of the most ingenious and sinister cases of his career. Can he prove this was not a case of Perfect Murder? Comes a Stranger, originally published in 1938, is the eleventh novel in the Bobby Owen mystery series. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. "What is distinction? The few who achieve it step - plot or no plot - unquestioned into the first rank... in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time." Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: Dean Street Press
ISBN: 1910570877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
"You see," Miss Kayne said, "I committed a murder once myself." Miss Kayne's proud boast to Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen is that she has committed the Perfect Murder - a crime with no clues. Bobby thinks at first it is a macabre joke, but before long a body is reportedly found, stabbed in the world-famous Kayne Library. When Bobby gets to the scene, the corpse has disappeared. But instead Miss Kayne's cousin, Nat, is found in a nearby country lane - shot through the heart. Were the two murders connected - or were there even two? Bobby finds himself embroiled in one of the most ingenious and sinister cases of his career. Can he prove this was not a case of Perfect Murder? Comes a Stranger, originally published in 1938, is the eleventh novel in the Bobby Owen mystery series. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. "What is distinction? The few who achieve it step - plot or no plot - unquestioned into the first rank... in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time." Dorothy L. Sayers
Catalogue
Author:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Poetical Remains
Author: Samantha Matthews
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191514489
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
What happens to poets' genius when they die? The peculiar affinity which was felt to exist between their physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - is the subject of this original cultural study, which concentrates on poets and poetry from the Romantic to late Victorian period. Poetical Remains deals with issues such as the place of burial, the kind of monument deemed appropriate, the poet's 'last words' and last poems, the creation of memorial volumes, and the commercial boost given to a poet's reputation by 'celebrity death', focussing in each case on the powerful, complex, often unstated but ever-present connections between the poet's body and their poetic 'corpus'. As well as the works of the poets themselves, Matthews draws on contemporary biography and memoirs, family correspondence, newspaper reports, and tribute verse among other texts, and places the literature of poetic death in its social, material, and affective context: the conflict between the idealized 'country churchyard' and the secular urban cemetery, the ideal of private, familial burial as against the pressure for public ceremony, the recuperation of death-in-exile as an extension of national pride, transactions between spiritual and material, poetic and pragmatic, in a secularizing age. Some of the most poignant and darkly comic moments in nineteenth-century literary history arose around the deathbeds of poets and the events which followed their deaths. What happened to Shelley's heart, and to Thomas Hood's monument; the different fates which dictated that the first Poet Laureate appointed by Queen Victoria, Wordsworth, was buried in his family plot in Grasmere, while her second, Tennyson, was wrested from his family's grasp and interred in Westminster Abbey - these are some of the stories which Matthews tells, and which are bound up in a sustained and powerful argument about the way in which our culture deals with artists and their work on the boundary between life and death.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191514489
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
What happens to poets' genius when they die? The peculiar affinity which was felt to exist between their physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - is the subject of this original cultural study, which concentrates on poets and poetry from the Romantic to late Victorian period. Poetical Remains deals with issues such as the place of burial, the kind of monument deemed appropriate, the poet's 'last words' and last poems, the creation of memorial volumes, and the commercial boost given to a poet's reputation by 'celebrity death', focussing in each case on the powerful, complex, often unstated but ever-present connections between the poet's body and their poetic 'corpus'. As well as the works of the poets themselves, Matthews draws on contemporary biography and memoirs, family correspondence, newspaper reports, and tribute verse among other texts, and places the literature of poetic death in its social, material, and affective context: the conflict between the idealized 'country churchyard' and the secular urban cemetery, the ideal of private, familial burial as against the pressure for public ceremony, the recuperation of death-in-exile as an extension of national pride, transactions between spiritual and material, poetic and pragmatic, in a secularizing age. Some of the most poignant and darkly comic moments in nineteenth-century literary history arose around the deathbeds of poets and the events which followed their deaths. What happened to Shelley's heart, and to Thomas Hood's monument; the different fates which dictated that the first Poet Laureate appointed by Queen Victoria, Wordsworth, was buried in his family plot in Grasmere, while her second, Tennyson, was wrested from his family's grasp and interred in Westminster Abbey - these are some of the stories which Matthews tells, and which are bound up in a sustained and powerful argument about the way in which our culture deals with artists and their work on the boundary between life and death.
Guide to the Collections
Author: National Library of Australia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Wise After the Event
Author: George Eric Haslam
Publisher: [Manchester] : Manchester Libraries Committee
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical exhibitions England Manchester
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher: [Manchester] : Manchester Libraries Committee
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical exhibitions England Manchester
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Books about Books
Author: National Book League (Great Britain). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography of bibliographies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography of bibliographies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Cambridge bibliography of English literature, edited by F.W. ...
Author: F.W. Bateson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.