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Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet's birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of the poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastoral in order to view it in an original light. Moreover, in presenting a Dylan Thomas who has real significance for twenty-first century readers, it shows that such a reappraisal also requires us to re-think some of the ways in which all post-Waste Land British poetry has been read in the last few decades.
Thomas, Dylan, --- Crítica e interpretación --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tomas, Dilan, --- Tomas, D̲ylan, --- תומס, דילן, --- תונס, דילן --- Thomas, Dylan --- Tomas, Dilan --- Tomas, D̲ylan
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Jose Tomas de Cuellar (1830-1894) was a Mexican writer noted for his sharp sense of humor and gift for caricature. Having a Ball and Christmas Eve are two novellas written in the costumbrista style, made popular in the mid-nineteenth century by the periodical press in which these sketches of contemporary manners were first published. The stories are a sensitive reflection of the effects of modernization brought by an authoritarian regime dedicated to order and progress.Christmas Eve describes a volatile middle class in which people pursue pleasure and entertainment without regard to morality.
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Auteur de romans aussi majeurs que Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles ou Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy a vu son œuvre de fiction longtemps écartée du canon de la littérature anglaise alors même qu’elle rencontrait un réel succès auprès du public. L’œuvre de ce romancier de la fin de l’époque victorienne a posé et pose encore, il est vrai, à la critique bien des problèmes idéologiques et esthétiques. La surface humano-libérale et réaliste des textes de Hardy s’avère en effet troublée par une vision sombre et absurdiste de l’existence, et par des contradictions formelles. Cette étude n’a pas pour objet de chercher à atténuer le pessimisme de l’œuvre ou d’effacer ses incohérences, mais au contraire de les mettre en lumière, de souligner précisément le caractère central du thème de l’aliénation dans les « Romans de caractère et d’environnement » en mettant en perspective ses différentes manifestations et en attirant finalement l’attention sur les parallèles entre niveaux diégétique et narratif. L’auteur ébranle le mythe d’un sujet souverain et unitaire : les personnages de ses romans et nouvelles sont exilés, décentrés, menacés de fragmentation et de dissolution par des forces extérieures et intérieures. Quant à la représentation, elle aliène son propre discours en affichant ses divisions et ses apories. Hardy annonce une forme de modernité, la crise de la mimèsis.
Literature (General) --- Hardy --- Tomas --- aliénation sociale --- réification --- littérature
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Lyrik. --- Sprache. --- Thomas, Dylan. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Thomas, Dylan, --- Tomas, Dilan, --- Tomas, D̲ylan, --- תומס, דילן, --- תונס, דילן --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Wales --- In literature. --- Thomas, Dylan --- Tomas, Dilan --- Tomas, D̲ylan
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Lyrik. --- Thomas, Dylan. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Thomas, Dylan, --- Tomas, Dilan, --- Tomas, D̲ylan, --- תומס, דילן, --- תונס, דילן --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Thomas, Dylan --- Tomas, Dilan --- Tomas, D̲ylan
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Pynchon's California is the first book to examine Thomas Pynchon's use of California as a setting in his novels. Throughout his 50-year career, Pynchon has regularly returned to the Golden State in his fiction. With the publication in 2009 of his third novel set there, the significance of California in Pynchon's evolving fictional project becomes increasingly worthy of study. Scott McClintock and John Miller have gathered essays from leading and up-and-coming Pynchon scholars who explore this topic from a variety of critical perspectives, reflecting the diversity and eclecticism of Pynchon's f
Pynchon, Thomas --- Pinchon, Tomas --- Criticism and interpretation. --- California --- In literature.
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Criticism --- History --- De Quincey, Thomas, --- Quincey, Thomas de, --- De Kvinsi, Tomas, --- Kvinsi, Tomas de, --- De Quincy, Thomas, --- Quincy, Thomas de, --- DeQuincey, Thomas, --- Knowledge --- Literature. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Thomas De Quincey: The Prose of Vision is the first full-length critical study of De Quincey's imaginative writings. Considering these writings as a 'prose of vision' transcending their origins in magazine journalism, the author stresses their relationship to the Romantic traditions of imaginative vision and inward quest. He traces continuing themes and their transformations throughout De Quincey's career, and he offers sustained critical readings of De Quincey's major works. Professor De Luca discusses, in chronological sequence, the original version of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, in which De Quincey traces his passage from innocence to experience; Gothic tales and essays on murder, which reveal a fascination with the concept of power; and the major works of De Quincey's later years, including Suspiria de Profundis, The English Mail-Coach, and the revised Confessions, which show the richest development of his interest in vision and in self-exploration. The book concludes with a discussion of the equivocal implications in De Quincey's three late major works and relates these implications to the equivocal tendencies in the Romantic tradition itself - its uneasy yearning for transcendence and its courageous commitment to the flow of ordinary experience. This study, which makes a significant contribution to an understanding of De Quincey's works, will be of particular interest to students of Romanticism.
De Quincey, Thomas, --- Quincey, Thomas de, --- De Kvinsi, Tomas, --- Kvinsi, Tomas de, --- De Quincy, Thomas, --- Quincy, Thomas de, --- DeQuincey, Thomas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance.
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Seeking to replicate the success of his New York electric central station throughout the United States and in Europe and Latin America, Thomas A. Edison vowed to become a "business man for a year." This bold decision began a remarkable transition period for America's greatest inventive thinker. The seventh volume of Edison's papers chronicles the profound changes in his professional and personal life, including the unexpected death of his wife. It concludes with Edison returning to the laboratory to develop new communications technology.
Inventors --- Edison, Thomas A. --- Ai-ti-sheng, --- Edison, Thomas Alva, --- Ėdison, Tomas Alʹva, --- Ėdisson, Tomas-Alʹva, --- トーマス· A ·エジソン, --- Biography: science, technology & medicine
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With his move from Menlo Park, New Jersey, to New York City at the end of March 1881, Edison shifted his focus from research and development to the commercialization of his electric lighting system. This volume of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison chronicles Edison's central role in the enormous effort to manufacture, market, and install electric lighting systems in the United States and abroad. Standard studies of this period emphasize the inauguration of the commercial electric utility industry at the Pearl Street central station. Edison and his associates, however, audaciously operated on a global scale, not just focusing on the major cities of North America and Europe but reaching simultaneously from Appleton, Wisconsin, to Australia, through the Indian subcontinent and East Asia, to Central and South America.Praise for The Papers of Thomas A. Edison:"A mine of material . . . Scrupulously edited . . . No one could ask for more . . . A choplicking feast for future Edison biographers—well into the next century, and perhaps beyond."—Washington Post“What is most extraordinary about the collection isn't necessarily what it reveals about Edison's inventions . . . It's the insight into the process.”—Associated Press"Those interested in America's technological culture can eagerly look forward to the appearance of each volume of the Edison Papers."—Technology and Culture"His lucidity comes through everywhere . . . His writing and drawing come together as a single, vigorous thought process."—New York Times"A triumph of the bookmaker's art, with splendidly arranged illustrations, essential background information, and cautionary reminders of the common sources on which Edison's imagination drew."—New York Review of Books"In the pages of this volume Edison the man, his work, and his times come alive . . . A delight to browse through or to read carefully."—Science"Beyond its status as the resource for Edison studies, providing a near inexhaustible supply of scholarly fodder, this series . . . will surely become a model for such projects in the future . . . The sheer diversity of material offered here refreshingly transcends any exclusive restriction to Edisonia."—British Journal for the History of Science
Inventors --- Edison, Thomas A. --- Ai-ti-sheng, --- Edison, Thomas Alva, --- Ėdison, Tomas Alʹva, --- Ėdisson, Tomas-Alʹva, --- トーマス· A ·エジソン, --- Biography: science, technology & medicine
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