| Description |
xii, 320 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Twentieth-century literature: texts and debates |
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Twentieth-century literature--texts and debates.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. What is literature for? -- 1. Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- 2. Review of The novel today by Philip Henderson / George Orwell -- 3. Preface to the Poems / Wilfred Owen -- Anton Chekhov, The cherry orchard -- 4. Review of an English performance of The cherry orchard / Anon -- 5. A note on translations / Beverly Hahn -- 6. Peasant benefactor and chronicler / Ronald Hingley -- 7. Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre / Anatoly Smeliansky -- The stories of Katherine Mansfield -- 8. Katherine Mansfield and the Origins of modernist fiction / Sydney Janet Kaplan -- 9. Katherine Mansfield / Clare Hanson and Andrew Gurr -- 10. Conclusion to Studies in the history of the Renaissance / Walter Pater -- 11. Pleasure / Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle -- Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset song -- 12.1. Contribution to The Writers' International Controversy / Lewis Grassic Gibbon -- 12.2. Letter to Helen Cruickshank / Lewis Grassic Gibbon -- 12.3. The antique scene / Lewis Grassic Gibbon -- 13.1. Aberdeen Bon accord, Sunset song : striking story of Mearns life -- 13.2. Daily mail, four good novels : some young authors of promise -- 13.3. Fife Herald and Journal, review of Sunset song : a novel - by Lewis Grassic Gibbon -- 13.4. Modern Scot, two Scottish novels -- 13.5. New York Times Book Review, a Scotch novel that is close to the soil -- 14.1. Nationalism in writing / Neil M. Gunn -- 14.2. Lewis Grassic Gibbon / James Barke -- 14.3. The Gospels according to Saint Bakunin : Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Libertarian Communism / Keith Dixon -- 14.4. Earth mother / Terence Davies -- The poetry of the 1930s -- 15. Introduction to The Oxford book of lights verse / W. H. Auden -- 16. The leaning tower / Virginia Woolf -- Pt. II. Contending Modernisms -- T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and other observations -- 17. Jules Laforgue / Arthur Symons -- 18.1. Creative Evolution / Henri Bergson -- 18.2. Matter and memory / Henri Bergson -- 19. The Blast manifesto / Wyndham Lewis -- 20.1. Tradition and the individual talent / T. S. Eliot -- 20.2. Romanticism and classicism / T. E. Hulme -- Virginia Woolf, Orlando -- 21. The diary of Virginia Woolf / Virginia Woolf -- 22. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown / Virginia Woolf -- 23. A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- Bertolt Brecht, life of Galileo -- 24. The epic theatre and its difficulties / Bertolt Brecht -- 25. Alienation effects in Chinese acting / Bertolt Brecht -- 26. A short organum for thetheatre / Bertolt Brecht -- 27. The dialectics of Galileo / Ernst Schumacher -- The poetry of Christopher Okigbo -- 28. Towards the decolonization of African literature / Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie and Ihechukwu Madubiuke -- 29. Introduction to Labyrinths with path of thunder / Christopher Okigbo -- Pt. III. Varieties of the popular -- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca -- 30. The house of secrets / Daphne du Maurier -- 31. Female sexuality / Sigmund Freud -- The poetry of Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg -- 32. The last avant-garde / David Lehman -- 33. Personism : a manifesto / Frank O'Hara -- 34. Never argue with the movies : love and the cinema in the poetry of Frank / O'Hara and Jim Elledge -- 35. Mass culture in America : the post-war debate / John Storey -- Philip K. Dick, Do androids dream of electric sheep? -- 36. Cognition and estrangement / Darko Suvin -- 37. Blade runner's post-individual worldspace and Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Kevin R. McNamara -- 38. Mechanical mirrors, the double, and Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Patricia S. Warrick -- Manuel Puig, Kiss of the spider woman -- 39. Dialgoism in Manuel Puig's Kiss of the spider woman / Michael Dunne -- 40. Through the film Darkly : grade 'B' movies and dreamwork in Tres tristes tigres and El beso de la mujer arena / Stephanie Merrim -- Pt. IV. Judging literature -- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot -- 41. Three dialogues / Samuel Beckett -- 42. The idea of the postmodern / Hans Bertens -- 43. Winning the culture game : prizes, awards, and the rules of art / James F. English -- The poetry of Seamus Heaney -- 44. Crediting poetry / Seamus Heaney -- 45. A slow north-east wind / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- 46. Escaped from the massacre? / Ciaran Carson -- Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise -- 47. The empire writes back / Pico Iyer -- 48. The postcolonial exotic / Graham Huggan -- 49. Imagining to postcolonial writer / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- 50. An idea of the past / Abdulrazak Gurnah -- Pat Barker, The ghost road -- 51.1. Spirits in waiting / Candice Rodd -- 51.2. Trench trauma and jungle ghosts / Harriet Patterson -- 52. Both sides / Lorna Sage -- 53. Fathers / A. S. Byatt |
| Notes |
'in association with The Open University' -- t.p |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Johnson, David, 1942-2009.
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Gupta, Suman, 1966-
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Open University.
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| ISBN |
0415351707 hardback |
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0415351715 paperback |
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