Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 781
Book Description
The Twentieth Century
Author: Albert RobidaPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819566805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Humorous, illustrated novel by the “father of science fiction illustration”.
Twentieth-century Fiction
Author: Peter Verdonk (ured.)Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415105903
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
By applying recent trends in literary and linguistic theory to a range of 20th Century fiction, the contributors make new theoretical insights accessible to student readers. An essential introduction to the subject.
20th-century Fiction
Author: The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D. SalingerPublisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316450867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices--but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
Author: Edward JamesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Explores this popular literary genre as a cultural phenomenon which has had a considerable impact upon the the way in which the modern world is viewed
A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction
Author: David SeedPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781444310115
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War. Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fields Written in an approachable and accessible style Covers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelists Provides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay
Twentieth-century Science-fiction Writers
Author: Curtis C. SmithPublisher: Saint James Press
ISBN: 9780912289274
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
History of 20th-century Literature
Author: Simon BeesleyPublisher: Hamlyn (UK)
ISBN: 9780600598077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"Primo Levi, Colette, Angela Carter, Sinclair Lewis, Boris Pasternak, D. H. Lawrence and Agatha Christie are a few of the luminaries featured....Divided into categories such as "Magic Realism" (including Marquez are Rushdie), "African-American Writing" (Baldwin, Wright, and Ellison), "Metafictions" (Calvino, Eco), "Cult Fiction" (Richard Brautigan, John Kennedy Toole) and "Feminine Perspectives" (Iris Murdoch, Murial Spark), and replete with movie stills and photographs of many authors and their times, this accessible study treats highlights of mainstream world literature."--Publishers Weekly.
Twentieth-century Fiction
Author: Twentieth Century Fiction
Author: George WoodcockPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349170666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description