A Twentieth-century Literature Reader: Texts and DebatesSuman Gupta, David Johnson Psychology Press, 2005 - 320 頁 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:
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. |
內容
WHAT IS LITERATURE FOR? | 5 |
Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard | 12 |
The Stories of Katherine Mansfield | 29 |
Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle Pleasure | 38 |
4 | 56 |
The Poetry of the 1930s | 66 |
16 | 72 |
T S Eliot Prufrock and Other Observations | 85 |
Grade B Movies and Dreamwork in Tres tristes tigres | 216 |
and El beso de la mujer araña | 217 |
JUDGING LITERATURE | 231 |
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot | 233 |
Hans Bertens The Idea of the Postmodern | 235 |
Prizes Awards and the Rules of Art | 243 |
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney | 261 |
Conor Cruise OBrien A Slow NorthEast Wind | 263 |
2 | 92 |
Virginia Woolf Orlando | 107 |
Virginia Woolf A Room of Ones | 118 |
Bertolt Brecht Life of Galileo | 128 |
Bertolt Brecht A Short Organum for the Theatre | 135 |
The Poetry of Christopher Okigbo | 149 |
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca | 159 |
The Poetry of Frank OHara and Allen Ginsberg | 169 |
The PostWar Debate | 179 |
Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 187 |
Kevin R McNamara Blade Runners PostIndividual | 193 |
Manuel Puig Kiss of the Spider Woman | 203 |
Ciaran Carson Escaped from the Massacre? | 267 |
Abdulrazak Gurnah Paradise | 272 |
Graham Huggan The Postcolonial Exotic | 274 |
Abdulrazak Gurnah Imagining the Postcolonial Writer | 278 |
Abdulrazak Gurnah An Idea of the Past | 289 |
Pat Barker The Ghost Road | 293 |
Harriet Patterson Trench Trauma and Jungle Ghosts | 295 |
Lorna Sage Both Sides | 297 |
A S Byatt Fathers | 302 |
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