A Twentieth-century Literature Reader

A Twentieth-century Literature Reader
Author :
Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 338
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780415351706
ISBN-13 : 0415351707
Rating : 4/5 (707 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Twentieth-century Literature Reader by : Suman Gupta

Download or read book A Twentieth-century Literature Reader written by Suman Gupta and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide: a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critical issues might be debated. Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of Debating Twentieth-Century Literature or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century. Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Mansfield's Short Stories, poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's Sunset Song, Eliot's Prufrock, Brecht's Galileo, Woolf's Orlando, Okigbo's Selected Poems, du Maurier's Rebecca, poetry by Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Puig's Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, Gurnah's Paradise and Barker's The Ghost Road.


A Twentieth-century Literature Reader Related Books

A Twentieth-century Literature Reader
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Suman Gupta
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Psychology Press

GET EBOOK

This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics,
The Twentieth Century Performance Reader
Language: en
Pages: 545
Authors: Teresa Brayshaw
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practit
20th [Twentieth] Century Literary Criticism
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: David Lodge
Categories: Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Reading Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Molly Abel Travis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: SIU Press

GET EBOOK

Molly Abel Travis unites reader theory with an analysis of historical conditions and various cultural contexts in this discussion of the reading and reception o
The Reader's Companion to Twentieth-century Writers
Language: en
Pages: 854
Authors: Peter Parker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

GET EBOOK

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in a Nutshell provides a concise overview of a popular therapeutic approach, starting with the ABCDE Model of Emotional Distu