Author : Jonathan Kemp
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551525038
A remarkable and bold novel that interweaves the lives and loves of three very different London men across the decades.
Author : S. Groes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230306012
London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capital city.
Author : Sarah Milne
Publisher : White Owl
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1399001159
“Brings literature lovers on a journey through London, from Chaucer in the fourteenth century to present day . . . as diverse as the city itself.” —British Heritage Travel Many of the greatest names in literature have visited or made their home in the colorful and diverse metropolis of London. From Charles Dickens to George Orwell, Virginia Woolf to Bernadine Evaristo, London’s writers have brought the city to life through some of the best known and loved stories and characters in fiction. This book takes you on an area-by-area journey through London to discover the stories behind the stories told in some of the most famous novels, plays, and poems written in, or about, the city. Find out which poet almost lost one of his most important manuscripts in a Soho pub. Discover how Graham Greene managed to survive the German bomb that destroyed his Clapham home. Climb down the dingy steps from London Bridge to the Thames Path below and imagine how it felt to be Nancy trying to save Oliver Twist, only to then meet her own violent death. Drink in the same pub where Bram Stoker listened to the ghost stories that inspired Dracula, the plush drinking house where Noel Coward performed, and the bars and cafes frequented by modern writers. Tour the locations where London’s writers, and their characters lived, worked, played, loved, lost, and died. This is the first literature guide to London to be fully illustrated throughout with beautiful color photographs. It can be used as a guidebook on a physical journey through London, or as a treasury of fascinating, often obscure tales and information for book lovers to read wherever they are.
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
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Author : Sebastian Groes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441176160
British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history, its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital constituent in the understanding of the decade. Groes uncovers a major epistemological shift, and presents a powerful meta-narrative about post-war literature in the UK, and beyond. British Fictions of the Sixties offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark and John Fowles. It also pays critical attention to avant-garde writers including Ann Quinn, Bridget Brophy, Eva Figes, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J. G. Ballard, presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination.
Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107028035
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Author : Jan Gossaert
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art and design
ISBN : 1588393984
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 5, 2010-Jan. 17, 2011, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Feb. 23-May 30, 2011, National Gallery, London (selected paintings only).
Author : Ian Tregillis
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765361202
The launch of a dark epic of magic and world war in a very different twentieth century
Author : Beth Williamson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 178327476X
Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images.Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in the 1340s, in the area of Central Italy surrounding the city of Siena, combined images and relics, presented visibly together, within painted and decorated wooden frames. In these tabernacles the various media and materials worked together to create a powerful and captivating ensemble, usable in several contexts, both in procession and static, as the centre of focussed, prayerful attention. This book looks at Siena and Central Italy as environments of artistic invention, and at Sienese painters in particular as experts in experimentation whose ingenuity encouraged the development of this new form of devotional technology. It is the first full-length study to focus in depth on the materiality of these tabernacles, investigating the connotations and effects of the materials from which they were made. It examines especially the effect of bringing relics and images together, and considers how the impressions of variety and abundance created by the multiplication of materials give birth to meaning and encourage certain kinds of action or thought.connotations and effects of the materials from which they were made. It examines especially the effect of bringing relics and images together, and considers how the impressions of variety and abundance created by the multiplication of materials give birth to meaning and encourage certain kinds of action or thought.connotations and effects of the materials from which they were made. It examines especially the effect of bringing relics and images together, and considers how the impressions of variety and abundance created by the multiplication of materials give birth to meaning and encourage certain kinds of action or thought.connotations and effects of the materials from which they were made. It examines especially the effect of bringing relics and images together, and considers how the impressions of variety and abundance created by the multiplication of materials give birth to meaning and encourage certain kinds of action or thought.
Author : Jonathan Kemp
Publisher : Myriad Editions (US&CA)
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1908434074
When 64-year-old Grace Wellbeck thinks she sees the ghost of her first husband, she fears for her sanity and worries that she's having another breakdown. Long-buried memories come back thick and fast: from the fairground thrills of 1950s Blackpool to the dark reality of a violent marriage. But the ghost turns out to be very real: a charismatic young man named Luke. And as Grace gets to know him, she is jolted into an emotional awakening that brings her to a momentous decision. Drawing on a brilliant literary tradition of madness, incarceration, and escape, Jonathan Kemp delivers the triumphant coming of age of a woman in her 60s.
