Dickens, Dali and Others
Author : George Orwell
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : George Orwell
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Page : 243 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Fiction
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Ten celebrated essays by a man universally regarded as a master of the essay form. Included are such classics as "Charles Dickens," "The Art of Donald McGill," "Boys' Weeklies," "Raffles and Miss Blandish," and "Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali."
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 1996
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : 9780824059903
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Peter Marks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441197680
George Orwell is acclaimed as one of English literature's great essayists. Yet, while many are considered classics, as a body of work his essays have been neglected. Peter Marks provides the first sustained study of Orwell the essayist, giving these compelling pieces the critical attention they merit. Orwell employed the essay as a tool to entertain, illuminate and provoke readers across an array of topics. Marks situates the essays in their original contexts, exploring how journals influenced the type of essay Orwell wrote. Acknowledging this periodical culture helps explain the tactics Orwell employed, the topics he chose and the audiences he addressed. Orwell's first and last published works were essays, providing evidence of the development of his cultural and political views over two decades. Essays helped him fashion his distinctive literary 'voice' and Mark traces how their afterlife contributes to Orwell's posthumous reputation. Arguing the essays are central to Orwell's enduring literary, political and cultural value, Marks shows how we understand the complexities, subtleties, and contradictions of Orwell better when we understand his essays.
Author : Benjamin R. Barber
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781412817530
Art and politics are often regarded as denizens of different realms, but few artists have been comfortable with the notion of a purely aesthetic definition of art. The artist has a public and thus political vision of the world interpreted by his art no less than the statesman and the legislator have a creative vision of the world they wish to make. The sixteen original essays in this volume bear eloquent witness to this interpenetration of art and politics. Each confronts the intersection of the aesthetic and the social, each is concerned with the interface of poetic vision and political vision, of reflection and action. They take art in the broadest sense, ranging over poets, dramatists, novelists, essayists, and filmmakers. Their focus is on art and its political dilemmas, not simply on the artist. They consider the issues raised for politics and culture by alienation, violence, modernization, technology, democracy, progress, and revolution. And they debate the capacity of art to stimulate social change and incite revolution, the temptations of social control of culture and of political censorship, the uncertain relationship between art and history, the impact of economic structure on artistic creation and of economic class on artistic product, the common ground between art and legislation and between crea-tivitv and control.
Author : Joseph Gold
Publisher : Published for University of Manitoba Press by University of Toronto Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Reference
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Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393322637
This, the first biography to draw on a close study of the new "Complete Works", sheds a new light on this extraordinary literary figure through interviews with family and friends, and research into material in the Orwell archive. It also includes previously unpublished photographs.
Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571133175
Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was ridiculed by those academics who condescended to write about him. Only the faithful band of devotees who called themselves Dickensians kept alive an interest in his work. Then, during the Second World War, he was resurrected by critics, and was soon being hailed as the foremost writer of his age, a literary genius alongside Shakespeare and Milton. More recently, Dickens has again been taken to task by a new breed of literary theorists who fault his chauvinism and imperialist attitudes. Whether he has been adored or despised, however, one thing is certain: no other Victorian novelist has generated more critical commentary. This book traces Dickens's reputation from the earliest reviews through the work of early 21st-century commentators, showing how judgments of Dickens changed with new standards for evaluating fiction. Mazzeno balances attention to prominent critics from the late 19th century through the first three quarters of the 20th with an emphasis on the past three decades, during which literary theory has opened up new ways of reading Dickens. What becomes clear is that, in attempting to provide fresh insight into Dickens's writings, critics often reveal as much about the predilections of their own age as they do about the novelist. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Author : Richard Joseph Voorhees
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 9780911198805
Author : Jonathan H. Grossman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0199644195
Explores the rise of the passenger transport network in the nineteenth century and the impact it made on Dickens's work.