A Peep Into the Past, and Other Prose Pieces
Author | : Sir Max Beerbohm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : English wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Max Beerbohm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : English wit and humor |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Max Beerbohm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Christopher Lane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
In The Ruling Passion, Christopher Lane examines the relationship between masculinity, homosexual desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the twentieth century. Questioning the popular assumption that Britain's empire functioned with symbolic efficiency on sublimated desire, this book presents a counterhistory of the empire's many layers of conflict and ambivalence. Through attentive readings of sexual and political allegory in the work of Kipling, Forster, James, Beerbohm, Firbank, and others--and deft use of psychoanalytic theory--The Ruling Passion interprets turbulent scenes of masculine identification and pleasure, power and mastery, intimacy and antagonism. By foregrounding the shattering effects of male homosexuality and interracial desire, and by insisting on the centrality of unconscious fantasy and the death drive, The Ruling Passion examines the startling recurrence of colonial failure in narratives of symbolic doubt and ontological crisis. Lane argues compellingly that Britain can progress culturally and politically only when it has relinquished its residual fantasies of global mastery.
Author | : A. Kingston |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007-12-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 023060935X |
This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker.
Author | : Kerry Powell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2013-12-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107016134 |
Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.
Author | : N. John Hall |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300072174 |
Max Beerbohm, the foremost caricaturist of his day, was hailed by The Times in 1913 as the greatest of English comic artists, by Bernard Berenson as the English Goya, and by Edmund Wilson as the greatest...portrayer of personalities - in the history of art.
Author | : George Woodcock |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1983-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349170666 |
Author | : Lawrence Danson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198186281 |
What were Wilde's intentions? They had always been suspect, from the time of Poems, when the charge was plagiarism, to his trials, when the charge was sodomy. In Intentions (1891), the book on which his claim as a theoretical critic chiefly lies, and in two related essays, `The Portrait of MrW. H.' and `The Soul of Man Under Socialism', Wilde's epigrammatic dazzle and paradoxical subversions both reveal and mask his designs upon fin-de-siecle society. In the first extended study of Wilde's criticism, Lawrence Danson examines these essays/dialogues/fictions (unsettling the categories wasone of their intentions) and assesses their achievement. Danson sets Wilde's criticism in context. He shows how the son of an Irish patriot sought to create a new ideal of English culture by elevating `lies' above history, levelling the distinction between artist and critic, and ending the sway of`nature' over liberated human desire.
Author | : Tracy Chevalier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1135314101 |
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 859 |
Release | : 1987-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0810105519 |
Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: "Benito Cereno", an exhilarating account of mutiny and rescue aboard a disabled slave ship, which is a parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, and "The Encantadas", ten allegorical sketches of the Galapagos Islands, which reveal nature to be both enchanting and horrifying. Two pieces explore themes of isolation and defeat found in Melville's great novels: "Bartelby, the Scrivener", a prophetically modern story of alienation and loss on nineteenth-century Wall Street, and "The Bell Tower", a Faustian tale about a Renaissance architect who brings about his own violent destruction. The other two works reveal Melville's mastery of very different writing styles: "The Lightning-Rod Man", a satire showcasing his talent for Dickensian comedy, and "The Piazza", the title story of the collection, which anticipates the author's later absorption with poetry.