A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates Contributor(s): Gupta, Suman (Editor), Johnson, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415351707 ISBN-13: 9780415351706 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: This critical reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide: br *a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century br *insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century br *closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critical issues might be debated. br Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of i Debating Twentieth-Century Literature /i or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century. br Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's i The Cherry Orchard /i, Mansfield's i Short Stories /i, poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's i Sunset Song /i, Eliot's i Prufrock /i, Brecht's i Galileo /i, Woolf's i Orlando /i, Okigbo's i Selected Poems /i, du Maurier's i Rebecca /i, poetry by Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's i Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? /i, Puig's i Kiss /i i of the Spiderwoman /i, Beckett's i Waiting for Godot /i, Heaney's i New Selected Poems 1966-1987 /i, Gurnah's i Paradise /i and Barker's i The Ghost Road. /i |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Reference - Literary Collections |
Dewey: 809.04 |
Series: Twentieth-Century Literature: Texts and Debates |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.42" W x 9.6" (1.38 lbs) 332 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide:
Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of Debating Twentieth-Century Literature or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century. |