Author: J.M. BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Farewell Miss Julie Logan A Wintry Tale
Author: J.M. BarrieFarewell Miss Julie Logan
Author: J. M. BarrieFarewell, Miss Julie Logan
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
... Farewell Miss Julie Logan: a wintry tale
Author: Sir James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Farewell Miss Julie Logan
Author: J.M. BarriePublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767514X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This selection of J M Barrie's work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. The disturbing prose fable of The Little White Bird contains the first and most original exploration of the Peter Pan theme, properly set in the wider context of a middle-aged man's engagement with creation, fantasy and loneliness-a theme which made Barrie world-famous and haunted him for the rest of his life. In a one-act play of scintillating satire, The Twelve-Pound Look exposes the pomposities of male pride and public success in 1910 from the point of view of an ex-wife unexpectedly returned as her (be)knighted husband's typist. Written in diary form and telling of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, Farewell Miss Julie Logan evokes the author's fascination with longing, death and loss in a novella which can stand with the stories of the supernatural and which itself raises questions about the nature of romance fiction. This volume offers an exciting reassessment of one of Scotland's most unusual and misrepresented writers.
Farewell Miss Julie Logan
Author: J. M. BarriePublisher:
ISBN: 9780884115991
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Works of J.M. Barrie. (Uniform Edition.).
Author: James Matthew BarrieKailyard and Scottish Literature
Author: Andrew NashPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042022035
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
For more than a century, the word 'Kailyard' has been a focal point of Scottish literary and cultural debate. Originally a term of literary criticism, it has come to be used, often pejoratively, across a whole range of academic and popular discourse. Historians, politicians and critics of Scottish film and media have joined literary scholars in using the term to set out a diagnosis of Scottish culture. This is the first comprehensive study of the subject. Andrew Nash traces the origins of the Kailyard diagnosis in the nineteenth century and considers the critical concerns that gave rise to it. He then provides a full reassessment of the literature most commonly associated with the term - the fiction of J.M. Barrie, S.R. Crockett and Ian Maclaren. Placing this work in more appropriate contexts, he considers the literary, social and religious imperatives that underpinned it and discusses the impact of these writers in the publishing world. These chapters are succeeded by detailed analysis of the various ways in which the term has been used in wider discussions of Scottish literature and culture. Discussing literary criticism, film studies, and political and sociological analyses of Scotland, Nash shows how Kailyard, as a critical term, helps expose some of the key issues in Scottish cultural debate in the twentieth century, including discussions over national representation, popular culture and the parochialism of Scottish culture.
Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death
Author: Cairns CraigPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474447228
Category : Christianity and existentialism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Søren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's religious commitments and her artistic innovations. Because of the prominence, after the Second World War, of the atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, it is often forgotten that existentialism was originally a Christian philosophy, shaped by followers of Kierkegaard such as Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel. The author traces in Spark's writings both the influence of Kierkegaard and of Spark's resistance to Sartre's co-option of existentialism to an atheistic agenda. Kierkegaard's analysis of the nature of the "aesthetic" as a false mode of existence that has to be transcended by the ethical and then by the religious provides a fundamental structure for Spark's satirical analyses of the failings of the modern world.
Peter Pan
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description