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English as a Vocation
This book explores how a small circle of Cambridge literary critics turned into a movement that revolutionized the way English was taught and brought popular culture into classrooms. The leader, F. R. Leavis, was a well-known and controversial writer. The focus of this book is not on Leavis but on the people who put his ideas into practice.
The New World
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The Gorgon's Head
William R. Brashear deals with tragedy, not as a dramatic literary genre, but as a basic way of experiencing the universe and of reacting to it. The writer of tragedy forces readers to confront much more than a tragic flaw in a single character; he forces them to confront the gorgon's head itself, the ultimate chaos of the universe. For him, Aristotle's intellectualization of tragedy distorted it for centuries because the tragic sense of life is experiential and intuitive rather than logical and syllogistic. In the later works of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Spangler, Brashear finds the beginnings of the understanding of tragedy that developed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature....
Annual Reports
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The Modern Movement
A major new survey of literature in England during the first half of the twentieth century, Chris Baldick places modernist with non-modernist writings, high art with low entertainment. The Modern Movement ranges broadly covering psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the new anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.
Joyce's Book of Memory
DIVDiscusses Ulysses arguing that through the operation of memory, it mimics the working of the human mind and achieves its status as one of the most intellectual achievements of the 20th century./div
Hearings
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A Critical Study of Joseph Conrad
The Book Studies Conrad S Mostly Unconscious Psychological Promp¬Tings Behind His Adopted Method Of Treatment Of Themes, At One Stage One Kind At Another Stage Another Diffe¬Rent Kind, With The Corresponding Changes In His Stylistic Pattern. All These Variations Are Found To Conform To A Well-Related System In The Author S Discernments Arranged In Four Parts And Nineteen Chapters.
