عنوان

Understanding Anthony Powell /

شابک

1423744934

شابک

9781423744931

شماره

b727040

عنوان اصلي

Understanding Anthony Powell /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Nicholas Birns.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Columbia :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of South Carolina,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2004.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (xvii, 389 pages).

عنوان فروست

Understanding contemporary British literature

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-378) and index.

متن يادداشت

"Suggesting that the literary world is just beginning to realize the extent of Anthony Powell's achievements, Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns adds to the understanding of how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode." "Birns offers readings of Powell's entire oeuvre, including the novels Afternoon Men, Venusberg, and The Fisher King, and his journals, which appeared in print between 1995 and 1997. Looking especially closely at A Dance to the Music of Time, the twelve-volume sequence of novels that is Powell's masterpiece, Birns sets the series in its social and historical context, emphasizing the role that both world wars and the cold war played in Powell's life and writing. He makes a particular study of the novel's dominating force - the arrogant, opportunistic Widmerpool, a social climber who delights in his own good fortune and gloats over the sufferings of others. While noting Widmerpool's central position, Birns illumines Powell's subtle aesthetic resistance, epitomized by minor characters and the voice of the narrator, against Widmerpool and his ilk. Birns shows that instead of setting forth a single champion against evil, Powell subtly communicates a half-melancholy, half-humorous sensibility in which he invites the reader to share."--Jacket.

عنوان

Understanding Anthony Powell.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

1570035490

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Anthony Powell

موضوع مستند نشده

Powell, Anthony,1905-2000-- Criticism and interpretation.

موضوع مستند نشده

Powell, Anthony,1905-2000.

موضوع مستند نشده

Autobiographical fiction, English-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Autobiographical fiction, English.

موضوع مستند نشده

English Literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

English.

موضوع مستند نشده

Languages & Literatures.

موضوع مستند نشده

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

موضوع مستند نشده

Literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

England, In literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

England.

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

LIT-- 004120

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Birns, Nicholas.

تاريخ عمليات

20201213225500.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y