"This 1989 Howling entry gives horror and mystery clichés a stimulating twist. A mysterious Hungarian count invites nine celebrities and celebrities-in-training to attend the reopening of a Budapest castle after 500 years. What the group does not know is that the castle was sealed after a clan of werewolves committed suicide to prevent their familial evil from infecting the world. However, a baby survived, and the implication is that s ..."
"The revaluation of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's work by feminist scholars has
made her an established author in ... limit the appreciation of her wider
contribution to English literary culture in the nineteenth century, just as her
popular image as ..."
Reading and the Reader The Literary Agenda von PhilipDavis 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-150616-1, ISBN: 0-19-150616-8
"The Literary Agenda Philip Davis ... But the slow reality and careful authority of
the reading from out of the cave made me patient for what seemed even in its
quirkiness on the verge of the important. ... of the deep south in 'lay my burden
down, lay my-ah burden down'. Then suddenly this developed from lay my
burden down—this quiet and gentle shock: See my baby lay his head on a down
pillow, Pigeons flurrying on the boulevards. L ..."
Reading and the Reader The Literary Agenda von PhilipDavis 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-150617-8, ISBN: 0-19-150617-6
"In short, I include thinking that has arisen out of work I have previously done on
Shakespeare, the Victorians, Samuel Johnson, Bernard Malamud, and various
aspects of the experience of reading, in an attempt at summation of a reading life.
But for different people, of course, there must be different authors and different
books that matter, and different places of emphasis within them. There is, rightly,
a wide variety of literatur ..."
"This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series."
Guerilla Visions von PhilipDavis 312 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Trafford On Demand Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-4251-6560-4, ISBN: 1-4251-6560-5
"He's a osophical no Joan, whose full name Joan Holliday marked her as a relative
of “Doc ... She took religious vows and became Sister Joan Holliday. ..."
Shakespeare Now! Shakespeare Thinking von PhilipDavis 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von A&C Black ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-9821-1, ISBN: 1-4411-9821-0
"... that Aristotle would have answered them'. But what is more: 'if they are
questions which could not occur in Aristotle's age, he still answers them'. For
Newman concludes, 'In one respect he knows more than Aristotle, because in
new emergencies after the time of Aristotle, he can and does answer what
Aristotle would have answered, but for the want of opportunity did not' (quoted by
Ian Kerr in the foreword to Newman's Essay on t ..."
Shakespeare Now! Shakespeare Thinking von PhilipDavis 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Continuum ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-2903-1, ISBN: 1-4411-2903-0
"Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic ..."
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos Ser. Why Victorian Literature Still Matters von PhilipDavis 184 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von John Wiley & Sons Inc (E) ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0462-6, ISBN: 1-4443-0462-3
"But that it would have been better for me if my wife could have helped me more,
and shared the many thoughts in which I had no partner; ... It is the world of
realism inhabited by such as Tolstoy's Levin in Anna Karenina, living a sort of
everyman's life ... Whatever the ideas held beforehand, or the names given from
outside, it is different inside – the golden rule of nineteenth-century experiential
realism."
"Writing The Fixer had cost Malamud dearly. After the initial excitement of the
prizes and the sales, there was finally only one thing that reconciled him to a
novel that he found almost too painful to look back at. 'For a long time I could not
face the book, then made peace with it particularly after my experience in
Hungary' (LC II 12.3). He had refused to go to Hungary during the making of the
film of The Fixer, which appeared in ..."
Bernard Malamud A Writer's Life : A Writer's Life von PhilipDavis Veröffentlicht 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-153359-4, ISBN: 0-19-153359-9
"20 Saul Bellow, Dangling Man (Harmondsworth, 1988), p. 9. ... 30 See Dante, La Vita Nuova, translated by B.Reynolds (Harmondsworth, 1980), pp. ... 39 Philip Roth, The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (London, 1988), p. 9. ... 43 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (London, 1942) , pp."
Experience Of Reading von PhilipDavis 336 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-91200-1, ISBN: 1-134-91200-5
"Philip Davis, Reader in English Literature Philip Davis. still before it ... She
remembered the sensation of knowledge, of grasping an argument, seizing an
illustration, seeing a link, a connection, between this ancient Greek idea here and
this ..."
Experience Of Reading von PhilipDavis 336 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-134-91199-8, ISBN: 1-134-91199-8
Street-Land Its Little People and Big Problems (1915) by Grace Kroll and PhilipDavis (2009, Hardcover) von PhilipDavis Veröffentlicht von Kessinger Publishing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-120-82628-2, ISBN: 1-120-82628-4