This book examines and breaks the routine to propose alternative languages for criticism. It shows the commitments of some of the most distinctive voices in criticism, from literature, music, the visual arts, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, amongst o...Loe edasi...
Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through dialogue, humour and t...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydn...Loe edasi...
First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with other forms of literature such as gothic...Loe edasi...
This is an enlarged edition of Professor Beers widely acclaimed volume on George Eliot which initially appeared in the `Key Women Writers series issued by The Harvester Press....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Everett Root, ISBN-13: 9781911454656)
This is an enlarged edition of Professor Beers widely acclaimed volume on George Eliot which initially appeared in the `Key Women Writers series issued by The Harvester Press....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jan-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226564692)
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydn...Loe edasi...
First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with other forms of literature such as gothic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226041506)
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. What is often overlooked, however, is that Carroll conceived...Loe edasi...
Gillian Beer, John Coetzee, Jon Cook, Tacita Dean, Tess Jaray, Richard Long, Robert Macfarlane, Clive Scott, Will Self, Ali Smith...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2014, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Full Circle Editions Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780957152861)
A collection of essays and other texts by eleven internationally acclaimed writers, critics and artists. Over a decade after his death W.G. Sebald remains a major presence in world literature. He has a devoted readership in many different...Loe edasi...
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Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now, circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him...Loe edasi...
The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, is doomed because of the young mans family connections and lack of wealth, until he makes his fortune at sea and returns to claim her as his wife. At twenty-s...Loe edasi...
A new edition of the classic study, featuring a new essay and an updated bibliography. Gillian Beers classic Darwins Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2009, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521767699)
A new edition of the classic study, featuring a new essay and an updated bibliography. Gillian Beers classic Darwins Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here re...Loe edasi...
In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length of the past and on the abundance of life-forms, present and extinct, dislodged man from his central posi...Loe edasi...
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Woolf described this work on the title-page of the first draft as the life of anybody. The Waves (1931) traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an exploratory and sensuous narrative. The Waves was conceived, brooded on, and written...Loe edasi...
The papers presented here were first delivered at a 2003 international conference at Cambridge University on developing interdisciplinary methods for criticism. Contributors come from fields as diverse as musicology and psychology. Beer (Cambridge, e...Loe edasi...
Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, this novel offers a satire of vanity and pretension. It is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities....Loe edasi...
Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown in...Loe edasi...
