Author: William McFeePublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Essays and reviews. (Includes three on Joseph Conrad.).
Swallowing the Anchor
Author: William McFeePublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Essays and reviews. (Includes three on Joseph Conrad.).
Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Book Review Digest
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.
Saturday Review of Literature
Author: Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: Cornish miners in America
Author: Sir Francis Bond HeadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Essay and General Literature Index
Author: Minnie Earl SearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 1980
Book Description
Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately)
Reading the Novels of John Williams
Author: Mark AsquithPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498545432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
John Williams, as the New Yorker noted recently, was author of ‘the greatest American novel you’ve have never heard of.’ He died in obscurity, but has enjoyed a literary renaissance due to the worldwide critical acclaim greeting recent reissues of his major novel Butcher’s Crossing, Augustus and particularly Stoner. With films of both Butcher’s Crossing and Stoner already in pre-production it is clear that Williams’ star is in the ascendant. This book is designed to offer a critical introduction to his writing. It is developed through solid scholarly research but is structured and written in a clear and direct style that makes it accessible for academics, students and general readers alike. It offers a clear sense of the novelist’s early life and work, which includes an evaluation of his academic life (he was a professor at the University of Denver) and neglected poetry. The bulk of the book is given over to readings of the three major novels: they offer an appreciation of Williams’ literary craft combined with an assessment of literary and cultural influences and an overview of contemporary critical reactions. Few authors have written such disparate works in terms of subject matter, genre and style, however they are all united in their effort to grapple with deeper existential questions. For whether his characters are riding the Western plains, speaking in the Roman Forum or reading in a dusty library, they all demonstrate Williams’ preoccupation with the ways in which youthful hopes and a strong sense of who we are shaped by life’s accidents. How we make the life meaningful, learn to love another human being, confront failure – these are the well points of Williams’ understated tragedies. Unfortunately, such meditations are rarely fashionable; but neither are they ever unfashionable. George Orwell observed that the only true critic is time: this study makes clear that Williams’ time has come.
The Open Shelf
Author: Essays of Our Day
Author: Bertha Evans WardPublisher: New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950
Author: George WatsonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.