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	Intercultural Voices in Contemporary British Literature Lars Ole Sauerberg 0333801709 Jan 2002 Hardcover ·
Book Description During the last decades of the 20th century it has become increasingly difficult to consider British literature as "national" or "mainstream." This book investigates contemporary fiction and poetry written in or relating to Britain, and uncovers a distinct sense of a new and different national and social reality. Tracing literary effects of migration, globalization, and regionalization, the book focuses on literary tradition as an inspiration or object of hate and frustration for the exploration and expression of post-imperial experiences.


	The Moonstone (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Wilkie Collins 159308322X August 2005 Paperback ·



	The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries (2nd Edition) David Damrosch, et al 0321105796 August 26, 2002 Paperback ·
Book Description Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the Romantic period. The text includes Perspectives, Companion Readings, and "and Its Time" sections which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the Romantic period. With a generous representation of fiction, drama, and poetry, the second edition includes major additions of important works and an expanded illustration program. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and illustrations show both...


	The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries/the Victorian Age/the Twentieth Century : Compact Edition David Damrosch (Editor) 0321202392 July 2003 Paperback ·



	British Cost Accounting 1887-1952 Trevor Boyns 0815322402 Feb 1996 Hardcover ·



	Utopia (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Thomas More 1593083696 November 2005 Hardcover ·



	Understanding John Gardner John Michael Howell 0872498727 June 1993 Hardcover ·



	Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film (Postmodern Studies 35) Christian Gutleben (Editor), Susana Onega (Editor) 9042010509 May 2004 Paperback ·
Book Description Contemporary works of art that remodel the canon not only create complex, hybrid and plural products but also alter our perceptions and understanding of their source texts. This is the dual process, referred to in this volume as "refraction", that the essays collected here set out to discuss and analyse by focusing on the dialectic rapport between postmodernism and the canon. What is sought in many of the essays is a redefinition of postmodernist art and a re-examination of the canon in the light of contemporary epistemology. Given this dual process, this volume will be of value both to everyone interested in contemporary art—particularly fiction, drama and film—and also to readers whose aim it is to promote a better appreciation of canonical British literature.


	Utopia (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Thomas More 1593082444 May 2005 Paperback ·



	Understanding Paul West David W. Madden 0872498867 Sept 1993 Hardcover ·



	Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) William Makepeace Thackeray 1593083653 September 2005 Hardcover ·



	The Uses of the Canon : Elizabethan Literature and Contemporary Theory (Clarendon Paperbacks) Howard Felperin 0198122659 November 19, 1992 Paperback ·
Book Description An important contribution to the current rethinking of "English," and to the reconsideration of Shakespeare's role within it, this book focuses on the emergence of the New Historicism, clarifying a number of key positions in the criticism of the past fifteen years. The essays subject many of New Historicism's most challenging claims to rigorous analysis, distinguish sharply between its American and British versions, and assess the causes and consequences of its politicization of literary studies. The theoretical and political issues at stake in current debates are clearly examined, and the uses served by the canonical texts at their center are reexamined within a broad cultural and historical perspective. Offering fresh readings of a number of classic texts--including Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest,...


	Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) William Makepeace Thackeray 1593080719 December 2003 Paperback ·
Book Description “I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,” observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest—and most appealing—women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair, a wonderfully satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. From London’s ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and...


	Understanding Julian Barnes Merritt Moseley 1570031401 Mar 1997 Hardcover ·



	Understanding John Le Carre John L. Cobbs 1570031681 Dec 1997 Hardcover ·
From the Author About the book: Nothing mysterious here. It is a "critical biography" and overall introduction to JLC as an author and to his place in both English literature and the genre of espionage fiction in particular. I suppose if there is an "agenda" to the book it is that JLC is more than simply a writer of "entertainments" (a word that I--and he--borrowed from Graham Greene), but a very serious artist who is dealing with a very serious subject--the Cold War. There is a peculiar tendency among intellectuals to dismiss the Cold War as a subject for artistic treatment. We are happy to read massive thousand-page tomes of political theory and sociological/political commentary about the conflict, but the idea of making the this dominant conflict of our post-WWII world the subject of literature is disturbing to us. The Cold War...


	The Canterbury Tales (Oxford Illustrated Classics) Geoffrey Chaucer, et al 0192741810 May 13, 1999 Paperback ·
Book Description They set off on an April morning with the rain dripping from the branches. Priests, nuns, tradesmen, men from the city--all pilgrims on the road to Canterbury. To pass the long journey they told each other stories of magic and trickery, of animals with blazing eyes, of people with pants on fire, of love and death and the devil. Geraldine McCaughrean retells The Canterbury Tales for children in a lively and humorous style that captures the original flair of Chaucer himself. She introduces us to the characters who told these tales: the shy, battle-hardened Knight, the Summoner whose breath smells of onions, the Widow of Bath who likes a happy ending. The stories and characters are brought to life by the brush of Victor Ambrus, with pictures of wild chases, exciting battles, and the English countryside.


	The Prince and the Pauper (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Mark Twain 1593082185 December 2004 Paperback ·



	The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel Jasper Fforde 0142001805 February 2003 Paperback ·
Book Review Penzler Pick, January 2002: When I first heard the premise of this unique mystery, I doubted that a first-time author could pull off a complicated caper involving so many assumptions, not the least of which is a complete suspension of disbelief. Jasper Fforde is not only up to the task, he exceeds all expectations. Imagine this. Great Britain in 1985 is close to being a police state. The Crimean War has dragged on for more than 130 years and Wales is self-governing. The only recognizable thing about this England is her citizens' enduring love of literature. And the Third Most Wanted criminal, Acheron Hades, is stealing characters from England's cherished literary heritage and holding them for ransom. Bibliophiles will be enchanted, but not surprised, to learn that stealing a character from a book only...


	Understanding Alan Sillitoe Gillian Mary Hanson 157003219X Feb 1999 Hardcover ·
Card catalog description Understanding Alan Sillitoe offers an appraisal of the life and works of the contemporary British writer recognized by critics as the literary descendent of D. H. Lawrence. Known primarily for his novels Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Sillitoe has written more than fifty books over the last forty years, including novels, plays, and collections of short stories, poems, and travel pieces, as well as more than four hundred essays. In this comprehensive study of the major novels and short stories, Hanson reveals the influences on Sillitoe and the dominant thematic concerns of his works.


	Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time Eavan Boland 0393037169 March 1995 Hardcover ·
From Library Journal Blending autobiography with argument, Boland, a well-known poet in Ireland, addresses the challenge of reconciling her identity as a woman and mother writing in suburbia with the male-oriented political tradition of Irish poetry. Beginning with recollections of her earlier life in Ireland and her grandmother, Boland attempts to explain the woman poet's conflict with assuming the role of creator after having been traditionally treated as an object in Irish poetry. The author, most recently of the acclaimed poetry collection In a Time of Violence (LJ 3/1/94), structures her latest book like a poem, presenting an argument, leaving it, and then returning to it again. This method is well suited to her self-conscious exploration of the duality between woman and poet. Complex and thought-provoking, this title will appeal...


	Understanding Alan Bennett Peter Wolfe 1570032807 June 1999 Hardcover ·



	Paradise Lost (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) John Milton 1593083645 September 2005 Hardcover ·



	Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A : The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, The (3rd Edition) David Damrosch, et al 0321333942 December 28, 2005 Paperback ·
Book Description The Longman Anthology of British Literature is the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged book on the market. Approaching literature from a broad cultural perspective, the anthology offers a rich selection of fiction, drama, and poetry by major British authors. The second edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature includes key major additions of important works, an expanded illustration program, and new translation of Beowulf. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and one hundred illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments from the medieval period through the 18th Century. Perspectives sections shed light on individual periods, but are also positioned to link with...


	Understanding Anita Brookner Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 1570034354 Jan 2002 Hardcover ·
Book Description Understanding Anita Brookner examines the undeniably bleak view of the world in Brookner's fiction and the solitary protagonists whose "faith in a better world" is both their tragedy and their beauty. Cheryl Alexander Malcolm acquaints the reader with Brookner's distinguished career (first as an eminent art critic and historian, then as a writer), critical acclaim and awards, London birth and lifelong residence, and Polish Jewish family background. She examines the limited range of literary forms with which Brookner, abjuring the postmodern devices of jumbled chronologies and multiple narrators, contents herself. She illustrates Brookner's recurrent point of view, characterized by traditional British cultural values—understatement, deference to authority, and acceptance of a class system. Despite her aloofness...


	Understanding Martin Amis (Understanding Contemporary British Literature) James Diedrick 1570035164 January 2004 Paperback ·
Book Description Understanding Martin Amis is a comprehensive guide to the novels, short stories, and nonfiction of one of Britain's most highly acclaimed and controversial authors. Building on the first edition,of 1995, James Diedrick draws on personal interviews, reviews, and criticism, to map the distinctive features of Martin Amis's imaginative landscape—the sociosexual satire of Money and Yellow Dog, the bold experimentation of Time's Arrow and Night Train, and the provocative blend of autobiography and cultural analysis in Experience and Koba the Dread. Diedrick illustrates how Amis has reshaped the British literary landscape, expanding its stylistic and thematic range while creating forms adequate to the experience of postmodernity. Diedrick also analyzes an increasing cultural conservatism in Amis's work, rooted in...


	Paradise Lost (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) John Milton 1593080956 September 2004 Paperback ·



	Understanding Ian McEwan David Malcolm 1570034362 Jan 2002 Hardcover ·
Book Description Understanding Ian McEwan provides a full discussion of the fiction written by one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work—admired by critics for its polished, understated treatment of themes of aberrance and obsession—in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the twentieth century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and science, use of moral perspective, and proclivity toward fragmentation. Malcolm offers close readings of McEwan's early short stories, which he recognizes as traditional and conservative in technique despite their shocking subject matter, and all of McEwan's novels. Employing the third novel, The Child in Time, as the fulcrum...


	Understanding Iris Murdoch (Understanding Contemporary British Literature) Cheryl Browning Bove 087249876X May 1993 Hardcover ·



	The Sharpe Companion: A Historical and Military Guide to Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe Novels 1777-1808: The Early Years (Richard Sharpe Series) Mark Adkin 0060738146 May 2005 Paperback ·
Book Description Named "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" by The Economist, Bernard Cornwell is the undisputed master of historical battle fi ction, and for more than twenty years, his Richard Sharpe series has thrilled millions of readers worldwide on both the page and on television. Now author Mark Adkin, a major in the British army, has created this indispensable guide covering Sharpe's early career, from his beginnings as an illiterate private fighting on the battlefields of India to his legendary command of the Light Company. A treasure not only for fans of the series but also for anyone interested in nineteenth-century warfare, The Sharpe Companion includes: A chapter devoted to each Sharpe book Glossary of characters, both real and fictional Illustrations and photographs Maps of every battle and...