Anthony Powell's "Music of Time" as a Cyclic Novel of Generations
Author : Rudolf Bader
Publisher : Francke
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Arts in literature
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Author : Rudolf Bader
Publisher : Francke
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Arts in literature
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Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570035494
Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns explains how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode.
Author : Irving Adelman
Publisher :
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
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In this new edition, what was already an expansive work has been updated and further enlarged to include information not only on American and British novelists but also on writers in English from around the world.
Author : Christine Berberich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131702785X
Studies of the English gentleman have tended to focus mainly on the nineteenth century, encouraging the implicit assumption that this influential literary trope has less resonance for twentieth-century literature and culture. Christine Berberich challenges this notion by showing that the English gentleman has proven to be a remarkably adaptable and relevant ideal that continues to influence not only literature but other forms of representation, including the media and advertising industries. Focusing on Siegfried Sassoon, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh and Kazuo Ishiguro, whose presentations of the gentlemanly ideal are analysed in their specific cultural, historical, and sociological contexts, Berberich pays particular attention to the role of nostalgia and its relationship to 'Englishness'. Though 'Englishness' and by extension the English gentleman continue to be linked to depictions of England as the green and pleasant land of imagined bygone days, Berberich counterbalances this perception by showing that the figure of the English gentleman is the medium through which these authors and many of their contemporaries critique the shifting mores of contemporary society. Twentieth-century depictions of the gentleman thus have much to tell us about rapidly changing conceptions of national, class, and gender identity.
Author : Robert L. Selig
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Autobiographical fiction, English
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This book explores Anthony Powell's complex use of time in A Dance to the Music of Time, the twelve-volume sequence that traces a colorful group of English acquaintances from 1914 to 1971.
Author : Neil Francis Brennan
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Since the first edition, an additional eight books by the English novelist and critic have appeared, including his four-volume complete memoirs. In this revision, Brennan casts light on Powell's fiction by drawing from the author's memory of his own life and times in his memoirs. Born just after the turn of the 20th century into the insular world of England's upper class, Powell has portrayed its inner workings in his fiction. From his first novel, Afternoon Men, a study of London's Bohemian art scene, through his 12 volume work, The Music of Time, to his last novel, The Fisher King, a study of an ageing artist, Powell has managed to combine ironic wit with a sympathetic awareness of human fallibility to create a body of work.
Author : John Dorrance Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Hedwig Bock
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 1986
Category : English fiction
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Author : Lynette Felber
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1987
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Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 1936
Category : English literature
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