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142 results in Writers and their Work

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Veronica Forrest-Thompson and Language Poetry
  • Alison Mark
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 2001
  • Veronica Forrest-Thomson was an innovative poet and literary theorist, whose work is only now beginning to attract the attention it merits. Her aesthetic is founded on engagements with the criticism of William Empson and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and develops through an early assimilation of structuralist and poststructuralist thought, including the seminal work of Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan. In her referentially rich poetry, Forrest-Thomson engages with the full range and history of poetry in English in her explorations of three themes: identity, the nature of experience, and the representation of both British and American contemporary poets, including those usually known as the language poets: North American writers who, since the 1970's, have explored a related poetics. This study provides the first sustained consideration of Forrest-Thomson's poetry, and of the relationships between her work and that of the language writers. It all culminates in an overview of the project of Language writing and its important contribution to contemporary 'avant-garde', and shows that Forrest-Thomson's body of work, both poetry and poetics, deserves to be considered as one of the most remarkable achievements of the late twentieth century.

Charles Dickens
  • Rod Mengham
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    11 January 2001
  • This study discusses every phase of Dickens' development within his fiction, while particular attention is paid to those writings which fall into the category of first person narrative. It is through the use of the first person in novels, letters and travel writings that Dickens reveals a good deal, not only about his own identity, but also about the construction of Victorian subjectivity in general. The overriding focus of the analysis in this book is a literary one, although it includes a series of reflections on aspects of Victorian society and culture: prisons, schools, money, poverty, fallen women, orphans, detectives and The Great Exhibition.

Laurence Sterne
  • Manfred Pfister
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 January 2020
    Print publication:
    11 January 2001
  • Despite the immense popularity of Laurence Sterne's work during his lifetime, his contribution to the novel form and experimentalism has only been acknowledged since his death. His contemporaries Richardson and Goldsmith denounced his archaic methods and took offence at his playful irreverence but his oddity is never accidental nor perverse; it is the strategy of an inventive, thoughtful, comic talent. Tristram Shandy, perhaps his best loved work, defies convention at every turn, distributing narrative content across a bafflingly idiosyncratic time-scheme interrupted by digressions, authorial comments and interferences with the printed fabric of the book. This comically fragmented story line is a reaction against the linear narratives of Fielding and Richardson; aiming instead at a realistic impressionism, a shape determined by the association of ideas. This study critiques Sterne's work in the light of modern literary theory, questioning whether he was an artist before his time.

Ivor Gurney
  • John Lucas
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    08 January 2001
  • This is the first full length study of one of the most important English poets of the twentieth century.

Edith Wharton
  • Janet Beer
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    01 January 2001
  • Professor Beer's study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton's work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography. The opening chapter provides an overview of recent scholarship in Wharton studies including an appraisal of biographical texts, and subsequent chapters treat recurrent themes and ideas in her fiction and non-fiction, and the American and European context of her work. The major novels, as well as those less well-known, are discussed as are: contemporary reception of her work, American responses to her expatriation, her friendships with the leading artists of her day, and the influence of the First World War on her work.

Byron
  • J. Drummond Bone
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 2000
  • After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own personality. Now he is read and studied both for his complex politics and as a forerunner of many of the ideas and techniques more usually associated with post-modernism. Bone tackles the critical problems both of the populism of much of Byron's early work, and conversely of the sophisticated comedy of Beppo, Don Juan and The Vision of Judgement. He argues that for all its contradictoriness Byron's poetic mind develops organically, and that the scintillating technique of the late works grow out of the profoundly modern world-view, relativistic and secular, which had developed through his early years. Byron's writing are seen as a vital area for post-ideological and new found criticism.

Anglo-Saxon Verse
  • Graham Holderness
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    28 November 2019
    Print publication:
    01 June 2000
  • An introduction to Anglo-Saxon poetry which combines powerful, new translations with lucid commentary,bringing these Old English texts within the reach of the general reader.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Paul Hamilton
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 2000
  • This book offers a new interpretation of Shelley's major writings in relation to key aesthetic, philosophical and political themes of his day.

Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Cynthia F. Wong
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    15 May 2000
  • A new edition of the first full-length study of contemporary British writer Kazuo Ishiguro and his works, up to 2005. This book explores his uses of memory and its unreliability in narrative, his manipulations of desire and how humans reinterpret worlds from which they feel estranged. All of his works are eloquent expressions of people struggling with the silence of pain and the awkward stutters of confusion and loss. This book examines his subtle and ironic portrayals of people in emotional bereavement and it situates Ishiguro as an important international novelist by looking at his constructions of personal and political histories. Best known for the Booker Prize-winning and Merchant-Ivory film adaptation of The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro continues his formal experimentation in narrative voice with subsequent work and emphasises the necessary, yet futile, spirit that envelops many of his characters.

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
  • Germaine Greer
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 March 2000
  • Written by a renowned scholar and broadcaster, this account of Wilmot's work strives to place it in its socio-political context and describe the way the poet and his work were co-opted after his premature death to serve contrasting political agendas.

William Langland
  • "Piers Plowman"
  • Claire Marshall
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    12 January 2000
  • A reappraisal of Piers Plowman in the light of current debates on the nature of language, self, society and forms of religious worship at the end of the Middle Ages.

The Gawain Poet
  • J. A. Burrow
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    11 January 2000
  • This book presents a comprehensive account of what is known about the four poems commonly ascribed to the Gawain poet.

William Shakespeare
  • Measure for Measure
  • Kate Chedgzoy
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2020
    Print publication:
    06 January 2000
  • This study explores the intertwining of politics, sexuality, and the social order in Measure for Measure.

Muriel Spark
  • Bryan Cheyette
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    03 January 2000
  • Muriel Spark is widely considered to be one of the most gifted and innovative British novelists of her generation. Professor Cheyette's study is the first to explore her twenty novels as a whole and includes discussion of her short stories, poems and literary criticism.

E. M. Forster

V.S. Naipaul
  • Suman Gupta
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 1999
  • An up-to-date critical survey of all Naipaul's major work giving a cohesive view of his artistic development.

As You Like it
  • Penny Gay
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    27 November 2019
    Print publication:
    01 June 1999
  • This study focuses on As You Like It's performance potential today in the light of modern critical readings.

John Betjeman
  • Dennis Brown
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 1999
  • The book reassesses the work of John Betjeman by drawing on the poet's unique gifts of lyricism, irony and empathy.

Charles Tomlinson

Caroline Drama
  • The Plays of Massinger, Ford, Shirley, Brome
  • Julie Sanders
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 1999
  • An introduction to the drama of the Caroline period, which brings a neglected era of literature into clear focus.

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