Category: British Irish

By Jed Esty

This ebook describes an incredible literary tradition stuck within the act of turning into minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, ''Civilisation has shrunk.'' Her phrases captured not just the onset of global struggle II, but in addition a longer-term reversal of nationwide fortune. the 1st entire account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British energy from the literary experiments of the Thirties throughout the upward thrust of cultural reports within the 1950s.

Jed Esty explores the results of declining empire on modernist form--and at the very that means of Englishness. He levels from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural experiences pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). concentrating on writing that converts the aptitude strength of the contracting British country into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism got here domestic to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation demanding situations renowned myths in regards to the dying of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist iteration no longer as aesthetic dinosaurs, yet as members within the transition from empire to welfare kingdom, from metropolitan paintings to nationwide tradition. blending literary feedback with postcolonial conception, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives offers a clean tackle significant works whereas redrawing the strains among modernism and postmodernism.

By Elizabeth Berg

By Sharon C. Seelig

The poetry of Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne represents "an try and form their lives and verse round the truth of divine presence and influence," writes Sharon Seelig. the connection among trust and expression in those 3 metaphysical poets is the topic of this deeply perceptive study.

Each of those poets held to some degree the suggestion of twin truth, of the area as indicative of a better truth, yet their responses to this practice differ greatly―from the continuing fight among God and the poet of The Temple, which ultimately transforms the fabrics of lifestyle and worship; to the more challenging team spirit of Silex Scintillans, with its stress among illumination and resignation; to the ecstatic proclamations of Thomas Traherne, whose feel of divine truth in the beginning turns out so robust as to spoil the attribute metaphysical stress among this international and the following. Seelig's examine proceeds from person poems to the complete paintings, exploring the relation of cosmology and spiritual event to poetic shape.

By James Carney & Leonard Madden & Karl White

Beckett Re-Membered showcases one of the most fresh scholarship at the Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Samuel Beckett. in addition to essays on Beckett s literary output, it features a part at the philosophical size of his paintings a huge addition, given the profound impression Beckett has had on ecu philosophy. instead of trying to circumscribe Beckett scholarship via advocating a theoretical place or thematic concentration, Beckett Re-Membered displays the interesting and numerous diversity of serious interventions that Beckett stories maintains to generate. within the nineteen essays that contain this quantity, each significant articulation of Beckett s paintings is addressed, with the end result that that it bargains an strangely entire survey of its goal writer. Beckett Re-Membered will entice any reader who's drawn to provocative responses to 1 of the 20th century s most crucial ecu writers

By John A. Duffie

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By Philip Kerr

By Jean Plaidy

Power-hungry monarch, cold-blooded assassin, obsessive monster—who may love this kind of man?       
 
Set opposed to the glittering courts of sixteenth-century Europe, the Spain of the feared Inquisition, and the tortured England of Bloody Mary, For a Queen’s Love is the tale of Philip II of Spain—and of the ladies who enjoyed him as a husband and father.
 
Philip used to be a gloomy and stricken guy, who, like many royals, were robbed of his adolescence. His first marriage, a romantic union with childlike Maria Manoela, introduced him tragedy and a difficult son, Don Carlos. Then marriage with the jealously possessive Mary Tudor, a political union that finally didn't convey Philip an inheritor that might solidify the unified energy he so deeply wanted. and at last, marriage back to a tender bride Philip stole from his unbalanced son, sowing the seeds of brutal homicide. yet background is seldom what it kind of feels, and within the palms of loved writer Jean Plaidy, we listen one other part to the tale of Philip II—the strongest of kings who used to be straight away enthusiast, assassin, husband, father, and lover.

By Harold Bloom

A bunch of boys are stranded on an island within the allegorical novel. The identify, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a part of Chelsea apartment Publishers’ sleek severe Interpretations sequence, offers crucial 20th-century feedback on William Golding’s Lord of the Flies via extracts of serious essays through recognized literary critics. This number of feedback additionally incorporates a brief biography on William Golding, a chronology of the author’s lifestyles, and an introductory essay written by means of Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the arts, Yale college.

By G. Wilson Knight

Professor Wilson Knight is widely known for his interpretative paintings on Shakespeare, Byron and different classics. He has additionally every now and then released articles on glossy literature. those are right here accumulated, with the addition of recent material.

Poets who've had little analytic consciousness in recent times akin to Tennyson, Masefield and Brooke, are proven, within the demeanour to which we've grown accustomed in Wilson Knight's reviews, to carry a size of that means hitherto overlooked or misunderstood. Homage is paid to John Cowper Powys as one of many most suitable seers of our, or any, age. A entire overview of the paintings of Francis Berry claims to set up him as our ultimate residing poet.

Professor Knight's new quantity makes an uncompromising problem. He urges, and is going some distance to turn out, that smooth literary feedback has didn't make touch with the richer meanings of up to date literature. He stresses the relation among such acclaimed poets as Yeats and Eliot and the spiritualistic routine of this day, and argues that powers to which our ecclesiastical and educational traditions were blind are crying for attractiveness, not just via our best poets but additionally in pop song. Professor Knight regards youth-revolts as indicators of a fit dissatisfaction with an irreligious and directionless tradition, and believes that our desire lies within the missed powers urgent for recognition.

By Beverly Barton

Play To Win... it is the final game--the adrenaline surge of the quest, the joys of victory, the discomfort of defeat. For during this online game, the principles are easy: To win, you simply need to kill. To lose, you'll have to die... Play To Scream... The sufferers are former good looks queens stumbled on with a unmarried rose beside their our bodies. Lindsay McAllister has noticeable this signature prior to, while she used to be a rookie detective with the Chattanooga PD investigating the demise of Judd Walker's spouse, a homicide that despatched the good-looking attorney off the deep finish. Now, Lindsay has the brutal job of telling Judd that his wife's killer has struck back, and she will want his support to outplay their opponent--because the killer is getting bolder, speedier, and extra ruthless. the sport is escalating, and nobody is secure. Play To Die... Now because the physique count number rises, the foundations are altering. A killer will do something to win. And the single manner for Lindsay to forestall a madman's twisted video game is to play it herself... manhattan occasions bestselling writer Beverly Barton has written over thirty modern romance novels and created the preferred "The Protectors" sequence for Silhouette's Intimate Moments line. This sixth-generation Alabamian is a two-time Maggie Award winner, a two-time nationwide Reader's selection Award winner, and a recipient of a Romantic occasions profession success Award for sequence Romantic experience. She is presently engaged on her subsequent novel of romantic suspense for Zebra Books.