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Author : Michael Edward Gorra
Release : 1990
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 239/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The English Novel at Mid-century by : Michael Edward Gorra
Download or read book The English Novel at Mid-century written by Michael Edward Gorra. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Gorra
Release : 2016-07-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The English Novel at Mid-Century by : Michael Gorra
Download or read book The English Novel at Mid-Century written by Michael Gorra. This book was released on 2016-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'So far as the young were concerned,' Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, 'the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcastles.' Most critical accounts of that postwar generation have been constrained by having to deal with the myth of the 'thirties.' Michael Gorra's innovation in this exciting study of the postwar generation's major novelists lies in seeing the consequences of that dissolution in formal rather than political terms, arguing that the novelist's difficulty in representing human character in what Wyndham Lewis called a 'shell-shocked' age is itself a sign of that loss of belief. But while most studies of this generation end with the coming of World War 2, Gorra follows these novelists throughout their careers. The result is a book that not only shows how the British novel's increasing consciousness of its own limitations stands as a mirror to the country's loss of power, but also provides memorable portraits of four major twentieth century writers.
Author : Robert Bruegmann
Release : 1996-09-01
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 946/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism at Mid-Century by : Robert Bruegmann
Download or read book Modernism at Mid-Century written by Robert Bruegmann. This book was released on 1996-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the country's largest and most important postwar architectural projects, the United States Air Force Academy opened in 1958. With its spectacular natural setting and stunning Modernist design, the Academy was quickly hailed as a national landmark and attracts over a million visitors each year. The contributors to this volume (Jory Johnson, Robert Nauman, Sheri Olson, James Russell, and Kristen Schaffer) and editor Robert Bruegmann chronicle the complex history of the planning, design, and construction of the Air Force Academy. As the most conspicuous commission of the American military at the height of the Cold War, the design of the Academy generated intense popular interest and was a lightning rod for conflicting values in postwar society. The design, by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has been hailed as the final triumph of the International Style and as a monument to military bureaucracy.
Author : David Trotter
Release : 2003-10
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 183/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis English Novel in History, 1895–1920 by : David Trotter
Download or read book English Novel in History, 1895–1920 written by David Trotter. This book was released on 2003-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written especially for students and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this book aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to early 20th-century fiction.
Author : M. MacKay
Release : 2007-01-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 390/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis British Fiction After Modernism by : M. MacKay
Download or read book British Fiction After Modernism written by M. MacKay. This book was released on 2007-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. The book identifies continuities of preoccupation - with national identity, historiography and the challenge to literary form presented by public and private violence - that span the entire century.
