Reading the Times(1st Edition) Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction von RandallStevenson Paperback, 272 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-5252-6, ISBN: 1-4744-5252-3
"From the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, Reading the Times offers fresh insight into modern narrative. It shows how profoundly the structure and themes of the novel depend on attitudes to the clock and to the sense of history's passage, tracing their origins in technologic, economic and social change. It off ..."
"The last two decades have seen a new renaissance in Scottish literary culture in which the Scottish novel has attained new heights of maturity, confidence and challenge. The Scottish Novel since the Seventies is the first major critical reassessment of the developments in this period. Ranging from the work of longer-established authors such as Robin Jenkins, Muriel Spark and William McIlvanney to the more recent experiments of Alasdair ..."
"English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the sixties, and throughout the rest of the century. Drama thrived on its rapidly rebuilt foundations. New freedoms of style and form revitalised fiction. Poetry, too, gradually recovered the variety and inventiveness of earlier years. As we ..."
"realistic account of an ageing doctor's fascination for Flaubert, but Barnes also
playfully abandons conventional narrative in favour of pseudo-biography,
bestiary, a kind of dictionary, a series of intimate conversations with the reader,
and a variety of other unusual devices. ... They provide a picture of late twentieth-
century urban life more pungent and sleazy than anything Jane Austen could
have dreamed of and yet - rather lik ..."
Reading the Times(1st Edition) Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction von RandallStevenson Hardcover, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2018 von Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-0155-5, ISBN: 1-4744-0155-4
"A wide-ranging study of shifting temporalities and their literary consequences in twentieth-century fictionFrom the Prime Meridian Conference of 1884 to the celebration of the millennium in 2000; from the fiction of Joseph Conrad to the novels of William Gibson and W.G. Sebald, 'Reading the Times' offers fresh insight into modern narrative. It shows how profoundly the structure and themes of the novel depend on attitudes to the clock an ..."
"Written accessibly for the theatre-going general public, this is an ideal guide to the new Scottish theatre: its people, its plays, its politics, its companies and its audiences. Directors, playwrights, journalists and distinguished theatre critics offer personal, challenging and wide-ranging insights into the last 25 years of Scottish theatre."
"This collection brings together some of Scotland's best-known dramatists. This timely anthology presents many classic contemporary playwrights whose work has been out of print for some time. The collection includes the following in what will come to be a literary and academic standard: "Mary Rose", James Barrie; "In Time o' Strife", Joe Corrie; "Jamie the Saxt", Robert McLellan; "Mr Bolfry", James Bridie; "The Gorbals Story", Robert McL ..."
Modernist Fiction An Introduction (Hardback) von R.W. Stevenson, RandallStevenson Hardcover, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-138-15230-4, ISBN: 1-138-15230-7
"Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its ..."
Modernist Fiction(2nd Edition) An Introduction von R.W. Stevenson, RandallStevenson Paperback, 264 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1997 von Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-13-837659-8, ISBN: 0-13-837659-X
"In the revised edition of this popular text, Randall Stevenson has expanded, re-emphasised and amended his work to make it even more relevant to today's student studying the Modernist period in literature. The book covers a wide range of modernist novelists and novels, and also provides an invaluable guide to key developments in the genre. Stevenson has developed his text by adding a discussion of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which is no ..."
"An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century. This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary -historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary 'hot spots': Freud's Vienna and Conrad's Congo in 1899, Chicago and London i ..."
"Includes an introduction on the life of the author, his relationship to the South, literary influences, a note on the text, a general and a detailed summary, a commentary, hints for study and suggestions for further reading."
"Tony Seward and Jackie Jones were patient, encouraging editors of the first
edition, the latter instrumental in seeing it through to publication with Harvester
Wheatsheaf. I'm also grateful to Christina Wipf Perry of Prentice Hall for
suggesting and looking after this second, revised edition, ... Colin Nicholson,
Susanne Greenhalgh, John Cartmell, Jane Goldman, John Orr and Roger
Savage have all helped in ..."
Reading the Times Temporality and History in Twentieth-Century Fiction von RandallStevenson 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2018 von Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-3234-4, ISBN: 1-4744-3234-4
"Spender, Stephen, 'Books and the War II: Time, Violence and Macbeth', The
Penguin New Writing, February 1941. Spengler ... Stape, John, The Several
Lives of Joseph Conrad (London: William Heinemann, 2007). ... Stites, Richard, '
Utopias of Time, Space, and Life in the Russian Revolution', Revue des études
slaves, 56 (1), 1984. ... Charles M., 'Modernism, Time Machines, and the
Defamiliarization of."
"Not all of them are Indian writers of the British diaspora – Ghosh lives in New
York and Mistry in Toronto – but they come ... and exhibitionism, but because it is
so restlessly innovative and relentlessly intertextual with popular cinema and
music. ... Toni Morrison' (1988) New York Times Book Review, 24 January, 36
Baraka, Amiri (1980) 'Afro-American Literature and ... Beacon Books Cleaver,
Eldridge (1969) Soul on Ice, London: Jo ..."
"Penguin relied on 2,000 available titles, and Pan on only 450: several million of
its annual sales were paperback ... Penguin maintained its original commitment
to diversity and quality through signing up recently established authors such as
Iris ... by that time, and it remained one of the largest children's publishers in the
period, contributing to some general changes ... as Roald Dahl created
subversive, extra-parental, excitin ..."
"What does university study of English Literature involve today? How should students read literary texts? Answers to these questions have substantially changed and developed over recent decades, often in response to advances in literary theory. In the light of this and other recent developments, the Edinburgh Introduction provides a new, updated guide for students beginning their study of literature today. Recent developments in theory ..."
The British Novel in the Twentieth Century The Literary Bibliography Series von RandallStevenson Paperback, 36 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1991 von The British Council (English Language Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-86355-121-5, ISBN: 0-86355-121-1
"This is a new edition of this established guide for students studying literature for the first time. This up-to-the minute foundational guide introduces the full range of literary forms, styles, theories and critical strategies which new students need to cover. By careful use of examples it demonstrates exactly how strategies for reading texts can be put to work and all texts discussed are conveniently available in the Norton Anthology ..."