Medienkombination, Englisch, Band 8, 1408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 2121 g
From the Late Inter-War Years to 2010
Medienkombination, Englisch, Band 8, 1408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 2121 g
Reihe: History of English Literature
ISBN: 978-1-78997-401-0
Verlag: Peter Lang
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‘Franco Marucci’s History of English Literature is unique in its field. There is no other book that combines such erudition and authority in such a compact format. An indispensable work of reference.’
— J. B. Bullen, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of
English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This
reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts
in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the
biographical, historical and intellectual context for each author.
Volume 8 continues with the 1920s and the 1930s, when the Depression,
the Spanish Civil War, Fascist dictatorships, and the threat of a second war
challenged apolitical Modernism. Poets led by Auden, novelists like Orwell
and figures such as Lawrence of Arabia defined the period. By the end of the
Second World War, a realist, satirical or comic tradition resurfaces in the novel,
while in poetry the affirmation of a pre-war neo-Romantic vein, especially with
Dylan Thomas, is reacted against by various movements that lead poetry back
to the common man. Two important years are 1953, when Waiting for Godot
by Beckett is staged, and 1956, when Look Back in Anger by Osborne gives life
to the ‘angry’ novel and theatre. Extensive discussions not only of writers now
become classics (Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Heaney, Hill and Ted Hughes)
but also of other leading ones (such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian
McEwan) are included.
Marucci
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‘Franco Marucci’s History of English Literature is unique in its field. There is no other book that combines such erudition and authority in such a compact format. An indispensable work of reference.’
— J. B. Bullen, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of
English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This
reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts
in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the
biographical, historical and intellectual context for each author.
Volume 8 continues with the 1920s and the 1930s, when the Depression,
the Spanish Civil War, Fascist dictatorships, and the threat of a second war
challenged apolitical Modernism. Poets led by Auden, novelists like Orwell
and figures such as Lawrence of Arabia defined the period. By the end of the
Second World War, a realist, satirical or comic tradition resurfaces in the novel,
while in poetry the affirmation of a pre-war neo-Romantic vein, especially with
Dylan Thomas, is reacted against by various movements that lead poetry back
to the common man. Two important years are 1953, when Waiting for Godot
by Beckett is staged, and 1956, when Look Back in Anger by Osborne gives life
to the ‘angry’ novel and theatre. Extensive discussions not only of writers now
become classics (Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Heaney, Hill and Ted Hughes)
but also of other leading ones (such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian
McEwan) are included.
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