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Book Ian Watt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marina Mackay
  • Publisher : Oxford Mid-Century Studies
  • Release : 2019-01-29
  • ISBN : 0198824998
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Ian Watt written by Marina Mackay and published by Oxford Mid-Century Studies. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid-century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world: these were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation, and terror, but also ones in which communities and institutions were improvised under the starkest of emergency conditions. Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic argues that many of our foundational stories about the novelabout the novel's origins and development, and about the social, moral, and psychological work that the novel accomplishescan be traced to the crises of the Second World War and its aftermath.

Book Essays on Conrad

Download or read book Essays on Conrad written by Ian Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark collection of Ian Watt's essays on Joseph Conrad.

Book Myths of Modern Individualism

Download or read book Myths of Modern Individualism written by Ian Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year period during the Counter Reformation - presented unflattering portrayals of the three figures, while the Romantic period two centuries later recreated them as admirable and even heroic. The twentieth century retained their prestige as mythical figures, but with a new note of criticism. Robinson Crusoe came much later than the other three, but his fate can be seen as representative of the new religious, economic and social attitudes which succeeded the Counter-Reformation. The four figures help to reveal problems of individualism in the modern period: solitude, narcissism, and the claims of the self versus the claims of society. They all pursue their own view of what they should be, raising strong questions about their heroes' character and the societies whose ideals they reflect.

Book Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Conrad in the Nineteenth Century written by Ian Watt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."—New York Times

Book The Rise of the Novel

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  • Author : Ian P Watt
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781013326158
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book The Rise of the Novel written by Ian P Watt and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book When Novels Were Books

Download or read book When Novels Were Books written by Jordan Alexander Stein and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over the years distinguished themselves, becoming the genre we know today. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this history, showing how the physical object of the book shaped the stories it contained.

Book Diamond Dogs

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  • Author : Alan Watt
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2000-09-01
  • ISBN : 0446931284
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Diamond Dogs written by Alan Watt and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Garvin is a seventeen year old living in a small town outside Las Vegas. Abandoned by his mother when he was three, he blames his abusive father - the local sheriff - for driving her away. Neil is good-looking, popular, the quarterback of the high school football team and as cruel to his peers as his father is to him. He plans to get out of town on his "million dollar arm," until the night he accidentally commits a terrible crime and his father, unasked, covers up for him. As the FBI arrives and begins to narrow in, Neil and his father become locked in a confrontation that will break them apart and set them free

Book Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition

Download or read book Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition written by Mack Smith and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition examines representative texts and the theories of realism upon which they are based. It studies the foundations of these theories in the philosophies of language contemporaneous with them. Beginning with Adamicism, Mack Smith looks at the way humanist, rationalist, empiricist, Kantian, positivist, and poststructuralist theories of language are textually dramatized. He considers the cultural and personal influences that affect historical notions of realism and reality. He also demonstrates the rhetorical basis of realism by considering a mimetic device used by novelists in rendering a faithful version of reality&—ekphrasis, the narrative description of a work of art. Smith seeks a middle ground between the extremes of theory and interpretation, discourse and reality, and textualism and history, thus making an important contribution to the revaluation of literary studies.

Book Humanistic Heritage

Download or read book Humanistic Heritage written by Daniel R. Schwarz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of the principle works of Anglo-American novel criticism, defining the values, method and concepts that these works have in common and advancing a defence of Anglo-American humanistic criticism and the ideas proposed by Structuralism, Marxism and deconstruction.

Book Grant

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  • Author : Max Byrd
  • Publisher : Bantam
  • Release : 2001-05-29
  • ISBN : 0553380184
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Grant written by Max Byrd and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2001-05-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Byrd, the renowned author of Jackson and Jefferson, brings history to life in this stunning novel set in America’s Gilded Age. Grant is an unforgettable portrait of a colorful era—and the flawed, iron-willed, mysterious giant at its center. Ulysses S. Grant pursued a tragic war to its very end. But his final battle starts in 1880, when he loses his race to become the first U.S. President to serve three terms, goes bankrupt, and begins a fight against cancer that will prove to be his greatest challenge. Through journalist Nicholas Trist, readers follow Grant’s journey—and along the way meet Grant’s sworn enemy Henry Adams and Adams’s doomed wife, Clover, the old soldiers Sherman and Sheridan, and the always clever, always scheming Mark Twain. Revealed here are not only the penetrating secrets of our eighteenth president, but the intimate power-brokering that led to the end of Grant’s career, setting the stage for a new era in American history—one defined by politics, not warfare. “Serious, intricate . . . gripping . . . Byrd is an expert at linking the products of his own imagination with historical facts.”—The New York Times Book Review “With the license and gifts of a first-rate novelist, Max Byrd has managed in Grant to reveal the man far better than those who have tried before.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A vibrant, stunning story of Grant’s last years, but best of all, a gripping tale of ‘the reborn nation on the other side of the war.’ ”—Civil War Book Review “Splendid . . . nothing less than a visit with greatness.”—Associated Press “Historical fiction doesn’t get any better than this.”—Booklist

Book Form as Compensation for Life

Download or read book Form as Compensation for Life written by Oddvar Holmesland and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stylistic study of Virgina Woolf's fiction. Reading a novel by Virginia Woolf involves an element of `double reflexiveness': first, the reader's interaction with Woolf's words and what they describe, and second, the interaction of these words with the world Woolf perceivedand attempted to represent. Oddvar Holmesland takes this paradox and shows that it is not the invention of recent critics but something of which Woolf herself is well aware. In a number of analyses of Woolf's major works - MrsDalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves - he explores the ambiguity that Woolf's reader must work through in order to reach the insights and rewards that her fiction offers. Professor ODDVAR HOLMESLAND is Professor of English at the University of Tromso, Norway.

Book The Cambridge Companion to the Novel

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Novel written by Eric Bulson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.

Book The Queen s Tiger  Colonial Series Book 2

Download or read book The Queen s Tiger Colonial Series Book 2 written by Peter Watt and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of Australia's best historical fiction authors' Canberra Weekly Peter Watt brings to the fore all the passion, adventure and white-knuckle battle scenes that made his beloved Duffy and Macintosh novels so popular. It is 1857. Colonial India is a simmering volcano of nationalism about to erupt. Army surgeon Peter Campbell and his wife Alice, in India on their honeymoon, have no idea that they are about to be swept up in the chaos. Ian Steele, known to all as Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting for Queen and country in Persia. A world away, the real Samuel Forbes is planning to return to London - with potentially disastrous consequences for Samuel and Ian both. Then Ian is posted to India, but not before a brief return to England and a reunion with the woman he loves. In India he renews his friendship with Peter Campbell, and discovers that Alice has taken on a most unlikely role. Together they face the enemy and the terrible deprivations and savagery of war - and then Ian receives news from London that crushes all his hopes... PRAISE FOR THE QUEEN'S TIGER 'Watt has a true knack for producing captivating historical adventures filled with action, intrigue and family drama' Canberra Weekly

Book Jane Austen

Download or read book Jane Austen written by Ian Littlewood and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jane Austen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Watt
  • Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Jane Austen written by Ian Watt and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1963 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays exploring and analyzing Jane Austen's keen insight into the nature of middle-class society as portrayed in the 6 novels.

Book Dickens s Villains

Download or read book Dickens s Villains written by Juliet John and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.

Book Magical Realism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lois Parkinson Zamora
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780822316404
  • Pages : 598 pages

Download or read book Magical Realism written by Lois Parkinson Zamora and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On magical realism in literature