Download or read book The Legend of Arthur in British and American Literature written by Jennifer Robin Goodman and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of the Arthurian legends and their role in English and American literature up to the present. One chapter is devoted to Malory's Morte Darthur.
Download or read book The Twayne Authors Series written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twayne Authors Series-Twayne World, English and US Authors has 600 full text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series. Password is "elvis."
Download or read book Arthur Miller written by Leonard Moss and published by New College & University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arthur Miller's plays register indignant protests against injustice, suggesting a humanistic thesis on social repsonsibility. In his best writing, however, that thesis is implied, not prescribed. Miller's moral insight focuses most clearly upon psychological processes: when his characters fervently defend egocentric attitudes, their futility evokes a genuine sense of terror and pathos that indirectly but powerfully reinforces his theory on the necessity for meaningful accommodation between individual and society. Centering his attention on Miller's technical resources - dialogue styles, symbolic devices, and structural principles - the author undertakes to judge the success with which the progressions of personality, theme, and tension have been executed. He concludes that Miller has often been led into enlarging the "interior psychological question" with "codes of social and ethical importance" (Miller's phrases) in a way that has weakened his work. Nevertheless, Miller's achievement remains an exceptional one in the American theater."
Download or read book David Hume written by John Valdimir Price and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of David Hume.
Download or read book William Golding written by Bernard F. Dick and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of William Golding.
Download or read book Ian Fleming written by Bruce A. Rosenberg and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens Revisited written by Robert Newsom and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length Dickens is gener ally considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian period, (Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities). This outstanding study covers the whole of Dickens' career and also concentrates on his biography and the current state of Dickens criticism.
Download or read book Rabindranath Tagore written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tagore, a Bengalese writer, artist and thinker won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature and became an international celebrity. These essays arose from an international Tagore Conference held in London in 1986 which aimed to reassess the range of his achievement and the catholicity of his thought.
Download or read book Andrew Marvell Revisited written by Thomas Wheeler and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length
Download or read book Anthony Burgess Revisited written by John J. Stinson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book John Le Carr written by Lynn Beene and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although le Carre's thrillers, like the work of genre novelists, include resourceful agents, animated narratives, technical espionage devices, and entangled political affairs, his characters, Beene contends, are more reminiscent of Charles Dickens's best caricatures: their actions remind readers that decency, love, and the line between betrayal and loyalty are precarious. In the tradition of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, and Graham Greene, le Carre creates largely convincing characters whose often unshakable faith in conspiracy leads uncontrollably to treachery. Although often efficient, le Carre's people are pawns in an espionage chess game where betrayal is the basic tactic: once caught in the game, Beene observes, their only escapes are betrayal, death, or, worse, self-realization and angst, as is the case with the perennial character George Smiley." "Le Carre is singular among contemporary writers because, Beene argues, he exchanges action, the mainstay of espionage fiction and that which makes the genre pure entertainment, for psychological debate and ethical paralysis. Le Carre writes of an "our side" indistinguishable from "theirs": "we" can be incompetent, fumbling, and mindlessly destructive; "they" can be decent, conscientious, and dedicated.".
Download or read book Ray Bradbury written by David Mogen and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradbury's name has become synonymous with superb science fiction. Mogen examines the whole of his career and his large, varied body of work up to this time.
Download or read book Louise Fitzhugh written by Virginia L. Wolf and published by New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International. This book was released on 1991 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Louise Fitzhugh, a major innovator in realistic fiction for children, stunned the book world with her challenging 1964 novel Harriet the Spy. An individualist who satirized conformity in all her books--among them Sport, Nobody's Family Is Going to Change, and Bang, Bang, You're Dead--Fitzhugh created memorable protagonists who consistently resist deadening familial and societal conventions. Although her novels celebrate independence and self-knowledge, the absence of intimacy in Fitzhugh's fictional world also suggests the tragedy of individualism; her work thus serves as a subtle critique of contemporary American society, where neither outsider nor conformist is truly happy." "In this first book-length study of Fitzhugh's published works, Virginia L. Wolf introduces new biographical information and explores the complex relationship between Fitzhugh's life and art. Wolf enhances our understanding of the homosexual artist by tracing the autobiographical sources of Fitzhugh's major themes and inspirations: alienation, the family, individualism, conformity, religion, war, and bigotry. In this careful examination of Fitzhugh's feminism and lesbianism, Wolf emphasizes the revolutionary, iconoclastic positions championed by Fitzhugh and her characters. These hitherto unexamined issues provide a unique new insight into Fitzhugh's accomplishments and further our understanding of her contribution to children's literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Cormac McCarthy written by Robert L. Jarrett and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astute and learned analysis of McCarthy's fiction, Robert Jarrett looks at all seven of the novels published to date and responds to much of the current (and proliferating) critical thought about McCarthy. After an introductory biographical chapter, Jarrett addresses what he considers the two phases of McCarthy's fiction: as a regional writer of the Appalachian South, whose work mixes modernist and realistic techniques and merges contemporary fiction with the tradition of Southern literature (as in The Orchard Keeper [1965], Outer Dark [1968], Child of God [1973], and Suttree [1979]), and as a bold experimenter in form and style, with a keenly rendered postmodern esthetic (as in Blood Meridian [1985], All the Pretty Horses, and The Crossing [1994]). Jarrett regards McCarthy's early novels as attempts to write a modern fiction of the twentieth-century Tennessee hill country, comparable to what local-color realists or regionalists accomplished in the nineteenth century and to what William Faulkner accomplished in his mixture of modernism and regionalism in his Yoknapatawpha fiction. It is during his second phase, Jarrett points out, that the locales of McCarthy's novels shift to the Southwest, and any appearance they give of being popular westerns becomes only a disguise. In the final chapter Jarrett stresses three distinctive aspects of McCarthy's fiction: the diverse and idiosyncratic style of the narrative discourse, the central theme of the quest undertaken through a visionary landscape, and the role of interpolated tales. Drawing keenly on literary theory to synthesize the various strands of McCarthy's unique narrative voice, Jarrett concludes that while the author's tales -often steeped in violence - may not tell us what we want to hear, the enduring pleasure of his novels lies in their imaginative and stylistic power.
Download or read book Frank Herbert written by William F. Touponce and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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