Author: John Wain
Publisher:
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Stories:The life guard ; Manhood ; King Caliban ; I love you, Ricky ; Christmas at Rillingham's ; Rafferty ; The valentine generation ; A message from the pig-man ; Down our way ; Goodnight, Old Daisy.
Author: John Wain
Publisher: Hutchinson Radius
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Author: George Orwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198804172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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"This volume contains the best essays by one of the best English essayists. George Orwell has become famous all over the world for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, but throughout his writing life he was also a prolific journalist and essayist. He wrote brilliantly about politics, about literature, and about contemporary cultural life, always with that steely honesty and intolerance of cant which were the hallmarks of his direct, limpid prose. Stefan Collini's collection brings together nineteen essays, including such well-known pieces as 'Shooting an Elephant', 'Charles Dickens', 'Politics and the English Language', and 'Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool'. A substantial introduction situates Orwell's writing in its historical context and analyses the distinctive features of his style, while extensive notes explain historical allusions and identify his sources and quotations." Klappentext.
Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472031399
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Author: Joseph Langland
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809437153
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520029293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Author: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631495747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism—or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.” As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. Many of today’s evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they’ve read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex—and they have a silver ring to prove it. Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. And evangelical culture is teeming with muscular heroes—mythical warriors and rugged soldiers, men like Oliver North, Ronald Reagan, Mel Gibson, and the Duck Dynasty clan, who assert white masculine power in defense of “Christian America.” Chief among these evangelical legends is John Wayne, an icon of a lost time when men were uncowed by political correctness, unafraid to tell it like it was, and did what needed to be done. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Trump in fact represented the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values: patriarchy, authoritarian rule, aggressive foreign policy, fear of Islam, ambivalence toward #MeToo, and opposition to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ community. A much-needed reexamination of perhaps the most influential subculture in this country, Jesus and John Wayne shows that, far from adhering to biblical principles, modern white evangelicals have remade their faith, with enduring consequences for all Americans.
Author: Stephen Spender
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571294111
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places. W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932 Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in 1995. In choosing from these voluminous journals for the new edition, the editors have tried to provide a picture of the various lives Spender brought together in autobiographical form. The earlier 1985 edition of the Journals was overseen by the author, and it privileged his thoughts about poetry - his own and other people's. The new edition includes the final ten years of Spender's life and provides access to the more intimate thoughts and feelings of the private man, but equally documents his life as a public intellectual who played a part in shaping the European literary and intellectual culture of his age. As we look back on the dramatic events of the twentieth century, we find that Spender was involved in many of them: the reconstruction of Germany and the construction of Europe (as Unesco's first Literary Councillor), the development of the cultural Cold War (as editor of Encounter), the founding of Israel, the anti-Vietnam movement in America. The Journals provide a personal version of sixty turbulent years of the twentieth century, hovering between diary, autobiography and history.
Author: John Gilroy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847602029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Our best-selling poetry introduction offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which have shaped his contemporary reputation. Part 1, Life and Times, traces Larkin's early years and follows his development, within his career as a university librarian, into one of the most important and popular voices in twentieth-century poetry. Part 2, Artistic Strategies, explores a range of methodologies and aesthetic influences by which Larkin was empowered to create poetry at once both accessible and profound. Part 3, Reading Larkin, provides detailed critical commentary on many of the poems from his three major collections, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. Part 4, Reception, outlines the history of Larkin's reputation from the mid-1950s to the present, examining the debates to which his poetry has given rise. John Gilroy teaches at Anglia Ruskin University and for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.
