Author: A. Trevor Tolley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886290283
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: Philip Tew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350143022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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How did social, cultural and political events concerning Britain during the 1940s reshape modern British fiction? During the Second World War and in its aftermath, British literature experienced and recorded drastic and decisive changes to old certainties. Moving from potential invasion and defeat to victory, the creation of the welfare state and a new Cold war threat, the pace of historical change seemed too rapid and monumental for writers to match. Consequently the 1940s were often side-lined in literary accounts as a dividing line between periods and styles. Drawing on more recent scholarship and research, this volume surveys and analyses this period's fascinating diversity, from novels of the Blitz and the Navy to the rise of important new voices with its contributors exploring the work of influential women, Commonwealth, exiled, genre, avant-garde and queer writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the intriguing decade, this book offers substantial chapters on Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and George Orwell as well as covering such writers as Jocelyn Brooke, Monica Dickens, James Hadley Chase, Patrick Hamilton, Gerald Kersh, Daphne Du Maurier, Mary Renault, Denton Welch and many others.

Author: James Acheson
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791427675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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This collection of original essays focuses on new and continuing movements in British Poetry. It offers a wide ranging look at feminist, working class, and other poets of diverse cultural backgrounds.

Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631215107
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century Covers all the poets most commonly studied at university level courses Features criticisms of British and Irish poetry as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, movements, and historical contexts Explores current debates about contemporary poetry, relating them to the volume's larger themes Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet

Author: Edward Larrissy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.

Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521883067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1117

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A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

Author: Rob Jackaman
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889469327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry.

Author: Gill Plain
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748631518
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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A groundbreaking re-reading of the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation This study undoes the customary division of the 1940s into the Second World War and after. Instead, it focuses on the thematic preoccupations that emerged from writers' immersion in and resistance to the conflict. Through seven chapters - Documenting, Desiring, Killing, Escaping, Grieving, Adjusting and Atomising - the book sets middlebrow and popular writers alongside residual modernists and new voices to reconstruct the literary landscape of the period. Detailed case studies of fiction, drama and poetry provide fresh critical perspectives on writers as diverse as Margery Allingham, Alexander Baron, Elizabeth Bowen, Keith Douglas, Henry Green, Graham Greene, Georgette Heyer, Alun Lewis, Nancy Mitford, George Orwell, Mervyn Peake, J. B. Priestley, Terence Rattigan, Mary Renault, Stevie Smith, Dylan Thomas and Evelyn Waugh. Key Features Detailed and theoretically informed case studies of canonical writers such as Bowen, Orwell, Greene and Waugh Case studies and critical re-evaluations of popular genre writers and forgotten writers

Author: L. Shires
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349178640
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Author: Gill Plain
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748689362
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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This new study rereads the literary response to a decade of trauma and transformation. Instead of separating the 1940s into before and after the war, it focuses on the entire decade and the themes which emerged from writers' involvement in and resistance