"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 ..."
Reader 56 Winter 2014 Gary Allen, Alison Brackenbury, Miriam Gamble, Sean Haldane von PhilipDavis, The Reader Paperback, 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von The Reader Organisation ISBN-13: 978-0-9576683-5-5, ISBN: 0-9576683-5-X
"This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series."
In Mind of Johnson A Study of Johnson the Rambler (Paperback) von PhilipDavis Paperback, 328 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3379-3, ISBN: 0-8203-3379-4
"It was said of the learned Bishop Sanderson, that, when he was preparing his
lectures, he hesitated so much, and rejected so often, that, at the time of reading,
he was often forced to produce, not what was best, but what happened to be at
hand. ... For Hebraism as Arnold defines it Culture and Anarchy, in opposition to
Hellenism, puts conscience before consciousness, the rigour of moral rules and
laws before the flexibility of dis ..."
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."
"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 thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method. Shakespeare Thinking discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigm of fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the la ..."
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 ..."
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
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"Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the relationship between literature and life, reading and thinking. Explores the prominence of Victorian literature for contemporary readers and academics, through the author’s unique insight into why it is still important today Provides new frames of interpretation for key Victorian works o ..."
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
"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 ..."
"Politics USA is a lively, student-friendly introduction to US politics. It is a complete guide, giving students a rich and varied resource for all aspects of their course. The book provides an accessible overview of US political institutions and has in-depth coverage of the presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court. Politics USA pays considerable attention to the historic and socio-economic contexts of American politics. This gre ..."
The Oxford English Literary History(Updated) Volume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians von PhilipDavis Paperback, 648 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926920-4, ISBN: 0-19-926920-3
"Inaugurating a major new series, successor to the Oxford History of English Literature but excitingly new in its emphasis on 'literary history', this volume covers the flowering of Victorian literature, from the decade when Tennyson started writing In Memoriam and Darwin embarked on the Beagle to the publication of Hardy's first great novels and the death of George Eliot. The Victorian era produced a literature of diversity and experime ..."
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
"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."
"Heralding a new era in literary studies, the "Oxford English Literary History" breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon, by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how their work was shaped by the times in which they lived. Each volume offers a fresh, ground-breaking re-assessment of the authors, their works, and the events and ideas, which shaped the literary voice of their age. Written by some of the lea ..."