This book describes the challenge to traditional Christian beliefs that was inherent in the very concept of literary Realism and presents the Catholic novel as a series of conscious readaptations of Realist techniques and models.
In this study of the five novels set outside the fictional county, Yoknapatawpha, the author devotes a chapter to each novel and develops the theme that these texts present in fictional form Faulkner's reflections on his aesthetic development and on the mutual responsibilities of writer and reader.
One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography.
The essays collected in this volume offer a range of different approaches to the significance of the work of Margaret Laurence, historical, feminist, descriptive and thematic, in which critics from Europe, America and Canada offer assessments of this 20th century novelist.
A Hardy Chronology provides the Hardy student with an abbreviated biography and reference guide, listing year by year the full details of a remarkably full life and prodigious literary output.
An examination of the ways in which the artists and writers of the 1940s developed and extended approaches from earlier English romanticism to provide a direct and compassionate response to the reality of contemporary destruction.
A study of the popular modern dramatists and the continuity of the farce tradition from Pinero to Travers, the Whitehall team and Orton which examines and questions some of the common assumptions about its nature.
The period between the Revolution of 1917 and Stalin's coming to power in the early 1930s was one of the most exciting for all branches of the arts in Russia.
Focusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and Woolf, this study is divided into two sections: the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings; the second discusses how new theory has transformed the way we read and think.
These 60 recollections present some of the many facets of Conrad the writer, the adventurer and the recluse, the Polish gallant and the neurotic modernist, the Edwardian country gentleman and the penniless beggar.
This dictionary provides explanations of references and words used with rare meanings, sources of quotations and allusions, identifications of fictional places and people, major symbols and important influences with critical comments on all Hardy's novels, short stories and poetry.
This research-level publication for current thought and documentation upon the life and work of Yeats, focuses on Yeats at work on various manuscripts and on his tours of America.
