Author: W.Arthur Young
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349001783
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877456575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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The fourth volume of Rudyard Kipling's letters, now collected and edited for the first time, continues the story of his life from the end of the Edwardian era through the Great War, a crisis in Kipling's life as well as in that of the world. The years before the war saw the publication of Rewards and Fairies and Songs from Books. In politics, the great issue was Irish home rule and the fate of Ulster. At the outbreak of the war Kipling devoted himself to the struggle. He wrote patriotic verse, made recruiting speeches, and traveled as a correspondent to the French and Italian fronts. He published no new fiction, only what he wrote as correspondent and propagandist: France at War, The Fringes of the Fleet, and The Eyes of Asia. In 1915 his only son, John, was killed in the Battle of Loos; at the same time Kipling began to suffer from the undiagnosed ulcer that would torment him for the rest of his life. His last volume of poems, The Years Between, published in 1919, embodies the suffering and bitterness of these years.

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Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Author: Jan Montefiore
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN: 0746308272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Rudyard Kipling was a Victorian and an early modernist, a disciplinarian imperialist who sympathized with children and outlaws, a globe-trotter who mythologized 'Old England', and a world-famous author whom intellectuals despised. The central theme of this book is the way his work and its reception are both fissured and energized by these contradictions. This thorough study initially discusses Kipling's ambivalent knowing attitude to unknowable otherness, his rhetorical imitations of Indian and demotic vernaculars, his work ethic and ideal of imperialist masculinity, thus contextualizing the central discussion of his masterpiece Kim which, almost uniquely, takes Indian otherness as a source of pleasure, not anxiety. Jan Montefiore describes Kipling as a writer on the cusp of modernity, examining how his fiction and poetry engaged with radio, cinema and air travel, how his poetry anticipated and influenced the subversive uncertainties of modernism, and how his post-war contributions to the literature of mourning undermined their own overt traditionalism.

Author: W. Arthur Young
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Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Author: Springfield City Library Association (Springfield, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: Milton Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Norman Page
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349060011
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Author: California State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1262

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Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.