عنوان

Understanding Anthony Powell /

شابک

1570035490

شابک

9781570035494

شماره

b727042

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

xvii, 389 pages ;

ابعاد

19 cm.

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 اصلي به زبان ديگر

Anthony Powell

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

Powell, Anthony,1905-Critique et interprétation.

موضوع مستند نشده

Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000

موضوع مستند نشده

Powell, Anthony,1905-2000

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

Powell, Anthony.

موضوع مستند نشده

Autobiographical fiction, English-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Angleterre dans la littérature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Roman autobiographique anglais-- Histoire et critique.

موضوع مستند نشده

Autobiographical fiction, English-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Autobiographical fiction, English.

موضوع مستند نشده

Literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

England, In literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

England.

موضوع مستند نشده

Great Britain, In literature.

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

7

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

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ويراست

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

شماره رده

کد سيستم

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Birns, Nicholas.

تاريخ عمليات

20201213225510.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y