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UNINA9910789540403321 |
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Autore |
Hopkins Chris <1960-> |
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Titolo |
English fiction in the 1930s [[electronic resource] ] : language, genre, history / / Chris Hopkins |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2006 |
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1-283-12297-9 |
9786613122971 |
1-4411-7289-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (189 p.) |
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Continuum literary studies series |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Nineteen thirties |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Modernism and modernity -- pt. 2. Documentary and proletarian pastoral -- pt. 3. History and the historical novel -- pt. 4. Thrillers and dystopias. |
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This study approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time. Chris Hopkins uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or explore the boundaries, contemporary usefulness and complexities of particular prose genres. Generic debates and the political-aesthetic effects of different kinds of representation were live issues as discursive struggles and negotiations took place between modernist and realist modes, between high, |
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UNINA9910484066203321 |
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Autore |
Fraser Robert |
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After Ancient Biography : Modern Types and Classical Archetypes / / by Robert Fraser |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 pages) |
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Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, , 2730-9193 |
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Literature - History and criticism |
Classical literature |
Literature, Ancient |
Literature - Philosophy |
Literary History |
Classical and Antique Literature |
Literary Theory |
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Materiale a stampa |
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1. Chapter I: Paris in Parallel: Classical Biography in an Age of Revolution -- 2. Chapter II: Ancient Biographers and Modern Classicists: "What is Truth?" -- 3. Chapter III: Biography as Representation: Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- 4. Chapter IV: Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius -- 5. Chapter V: Biography as Persuasion: The Christian Gospels -- 6. Chapter VI: Biography as Inner Drama: Athanasius's Life of Saint Antony -- 7. Chapter VII: Heroic Biography: Carlyle & Co. -- 7. Chapter VIII: Caustic Biography: Strachey & Co. -- 8. Conclusion: "Beauty is Terror". |
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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient |
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biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and film. Crucially it asks what modern biographers can learn from their ancient predecessors. Are the challenges involved in life-writing still the same? Have working methods changed, and in what ways? What in the context of biographical writing is truth, and how are its interests best served? How is it possible, now as then, honestly to convey a life? |
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