The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 768
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ISBN-10 : 9780191655067
ISBN-13 : 0191655066
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Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 by : Andrew Hadfield

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading.

Movements in English Literature

Movements in English Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 0521206553
ISBN-13 : 9780521206556
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Synopsis Movements in English Literature by : Gillie

In this 1975 volume, Christopher Gillie follows the method of selecting writers that are most significant for this study. He tries to show the main movements in English literature between 1900 and 1940, and selects for discussion those writers who have an abiding relevance, even those without a large readership. As a guide to himself as well as the reader, he includes in the account enough historical and social narrative as may help explain such relevance, and why he has made particular selections. Gillie reinforces his critical comments with quotations from the selected writers, and provides an extensive bibliography for further study.

English Literature

English Literature
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 463
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4057664166821
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Synopsis English Literature by : William J. Long

"English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World" by William J. Long resents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It's a useful and interesting guide for students as well as teachers of English literature, specially European and American, despite over a hundred years passing since the time of its first publication.

English Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1590-1700

English Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1590-1700
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781317901570
ISBN-13 : 1317901576
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Synopsis English Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1590-1700 by : Roger Pooley

This is the first book-length history of the range of seventeenth-century English prose writing. Roger Pooley's study begins with narrative, ranging from the fiction of Bunyan and Aphra Behn to the biographical and autobiographical work of Aubrey and Pepys. Further sections consider religious prose from the hugely influential Authorised Version to Donne's sermons, the political writing of figures as diverse as Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Marvell, cornucopian texts and the writings of the new scientists from Bacon to Newton. At a time when the boundaries of the `canon' are being increasingly revised, this is not only a major survey of a series of great works of literature, but also a fascinating social history and a guide to understanding the literature of the period as a whole.

The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921

The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 541
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ISBN-10 : 9780271044408
ISBN-13 : 0271044403
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921 by : Philip O'Leary

The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's evolution into nationhood: the cultural crusades mounted by those who believed in the centrality of the Irish language to the emergent Irish state. This book attempts to remedy that deficiency and to present the lively debates within the language movement in their full complexity, citing documents such as editorials, columns, speeches, letters, and literary works that were influential at the time but all too often were published only in Irish or were difficult to access. Cautiously employing the terms "nativist" and "progressive" for the turnings inward and toward the European continent manifested in different authors, this study examines the strengths and weaknesses of contrasting positions on the major issues confronting the language movement. Moving from the early collecting or retelling of folklore through the search for heroes in early Irish history to the reworking of ancient Irish literary materials by retelling it in modern vernacular Irish, O'Leary addresses the many debates and questions concerning Irish writing of the period. His study is a model for inquiries into the kind of linguistic-literary movement that arises during intense nationalism.

The Movement of English Prose

The Movement of English Prose
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : LCCN:67024520
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Synopsis The Movement of English Prose by : Ian Alistair Gordon

History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne

History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne
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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages : 710
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ISBN-10 : 9780809532292
ISBN-13 : 0809532298
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne by : Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang's survey of English literature is a remarkably thorough look at the history of English writing, covering authors from Abbot Adamnan to Edward Young, and everyone of note in between.

Prose of the World

Prose of the World
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780231527675
ISBN-13 : 0231527675
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Prose of the World by : Saikat Majumdar

Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for people living on the colonial periphery. Saikat Majumdar suggests that this impoverished affective experience of colonial modernity significantly shapes the innovative aesthetics of modernist fiction. Prose of the World explores the global life of this narrative aesthetic, from late-colonial modernism to the present day, focusing on a writer each from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Ranging from James Joyce's deflated epiphanies to Amit Chaudhuri's disavowal of the grand spectacle of postcolonial national allegories, Majumdar foregrounds the banal as a key instinct of modern and contemporary fiction—one that nevertheless remains submerged because of its antithetical relation to literature's intuitive function to engage or excite. Majumdar asks us to rethink the assumption that banality merely indicates an aesthetic failure. If narrative is traditionally enabled by the tremor, velocity, and excitement of the event, the historical and affective lack implied by the banal produces a narrative force that is radically new precisely because it suspends the conventional impulses of narration.