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The Cambridge companion to Rudyard Kipling.
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ISBN: 9780521136631 9780521199728 9780511979323 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Cambridge university press

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"Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is among the most popular, acclaimed and controversial of writers in English. His books have sold in great numbers, and he remains the youngest writer to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many associate Kipling with poems such as 'If-', his novel Kim, his pioneering use of the short story form and such works for children as the Just So Stories. For others, though, Kipling is the very symbol of the British Empire and a belligerent approach to other peoples and races. This Companion explores Kipling's main themes and texts, the different genres in which he worked and the various phases of his career. It also examines the 'afterlives' of his texts in postcolonial writing and through adaptations of his work. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this book serves as a useful introduction for students of literature and of Empire and its after effects"--


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Kipling's art of fiction, 1884-1901
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ISBN: 9780199684588 0199684588 0191765880 1306300371 0191509477 9780191509476 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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'Kipling's Art of Fiction 1884-1901' re-establishes its subject as a major artist. Through extended close readings of individual works, and unprecedentedly detailed attention to changes in location and readership, it distinguishes between two kinds of Kipling fiction. The first is coercive and concerned with the authoritarian control of meaning; the second relates less directly to its immediate historical surroundings and is more aesthetically complex.


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From sea to sea and other sketches : letters of travel.
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ISBN: 1139060619 1108033687 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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First published in book form in 1899, & reissued here in the 1928 Macmillan edition, this two-volume collection contains a series of letters & travel reports originally written for newspapers by the young Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) on his journeys around India, Burma, China, Japan & the United States between 1887 & 1889. The 1907 Nobel Prize winner's characteristic fluid writing style is already apparent in these funny, poignant & vivid articles and short stories. Providing revealing insights into Kipling's notions of imperialism & Englishness, the works also reflect the writer's keen observational powers, & a telling intelligent self-awareness of his own cultural prejudices. Volume 1 contains Kipling's Letters of Marque & 24 pieces from From Sea to Sea, including descriptions of his experiences of the Great Wall of China, Japanese theatre & visiting a slaughterhouse in Chicago.


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Rudyard Kipling
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ISBN: 1786945983 074631261X 0746308272 Year: 1997 Publisher: Writers and their Work

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This book argues that Kipling's writings, at once Victorian conservative and modernist subversive, preaching imperialist control yet speaking for subaltern races and classes, are fissured yet energised by their own contradictions.

Kipling's America : Travel Letters, 1889-1895
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ISBN: 0944318339 0944318177 Year: 2003 Volume: no. 17 Publisher: Greensboro, NC : ELT Press, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,

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"Kipling was just twenty-three years old when he reached San Francisco in May 1889; he immediately began recording the sights and sounds of boom-town America. For four months he toured the United States, publishing accounts of his journey in the Pioneer, a major newspaper in western India. A few years later, when he lived in Vermont, Kipling wrote several syndicated articles published in both England and the U.S. Then in 1899 he revised and abridged the Pioneer versions and published them in From Sea to Sea. The second series of syndicated articles he collected in Letters of Travel (1920). Most of these travel writings are now out of print. In Kipling's America, Professor D.H. Stewart brings all of these articles together and reproduces the original printed versions. Readers are provided with the opportunity to hear again Kipling at his cocky and often opinionated best. From Kipling's perspective, America unleashed the chaotic energy latent in human beings, and he was uncertain whether this energy inevitably would be productive or destructive." "That some of his impressions were one-dimensional is undeniable, but equally undeniable is his gift of language - his access to a ready lexicon often composed of what he termed a "perpetual Pentecost" to describe the "talking in tongues" heard in British Overseas Clubs throughout the Empire. This hodgepodge of European languages (counter-pointed with pidgin English, Chinese, Hindi, American) produced a symphony (or cacophony) of bountiful word play."--Jacket.

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