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
Reading and the Reader(1st Edition) The Literary Agenda von PhilipDavis Paperback, 160 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-968318-5, ISBN: 0-19-968318-2
"The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for exa ..."
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."
Bernard Malamud(1st Edition) A Writer's Life von PhilipDavis Paperback, 400 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-957147-5, ISBN: 0-19-957147-3
"Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth in the ranks of Jewish American writers. Nothing came easily to Malamud: his family was poor, his mother pr ..."
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
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 ..."
"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 ..."
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."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
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