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UNINA9910966704403321 |
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Titolo |
Modern British and Irish criticism and theory : a critical guide / / edited by Julian Wolfreys |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006 |
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1-280-50158-8 |
9786610501588 |
0-7486-2680-8 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Criticism - Great Britain |
Criticism - Ireland |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published as part of The Edinburgh encyclopaedia of modern criticism and theory in 2002"--T.p. verso. |
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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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Contents; Preface; 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772±1834) and Matthew Arnold (1822±1888); 2. John Ruskin (1819±1900) and Walter Pater (1839±1894): Aesthetics and the State; 3. Oscar Wilde (1854±1900): Aesthetics and Criticism; 4. The Cambridge School: Sir ArthurQuiller- Couch (1863±1944), I. A. Richards (1893± 1979) and William Empson (1906±1984); 5. James Joyce (1882±1941): Theories of Literature; 6. Virginia Woolf (1882±1941): Aesthetics; 7. T. S. Eliot (1888±1965); 8. After the `Cambridge School': F. R. Leavis (1895±1978), Scrutiny (1932±1952) and Literary Studies in Britain |
9. J. L. Austin (1911±1960) and Speech-Act Theory10. Richard Hoggart (1918±), Raymond Williams (1921±1988) and the Emergence of Cultural Studies; 11. Raymond Williams (1921±1988); 12. Stuart Hall (1932±); 13. Terry Eagleton (1943±); 14. Screen (1971±); 15. Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy; 16. The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain; 17. Feminism and Poststructuralism; 18. Cultural Studies; 19. Cultural Material |
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A guide to the development of literary theory in Britain and Ireland, this book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, as well as academics working in the field. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, it contains essays that address the rise and significance of poetics, and literary |
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and cultural studies. Each essay includes a further reading list. |
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UNINA9910966825103321 |
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Autore |
Ball Charles <1781?-> |
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Fifty years in chains : or, The life of an American slave / / by Charles Ball |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2012 |
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9781469607863 |
1469607867 |
9781469607856 |
1469607859 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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305.5 |
305.5/67 |
305.5/67/092 |
305.567092 |
306.362092 |
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Slavery - Maryland |
Slavery - South Carolina |
Slavery - Georgia |
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Materiale a stampa |
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About This Edition; Summary; PREFACE.; FIFTY YEARS IN CHAINS; or, THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN SLAVE.; CHAPTER I.; SEPARATED FROM MY MOTHER.; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III.; CHAPTER IV.; CHAPTER V.; CHAPTER VI.; CHAPTER VII.; CHAPTER VIII.; CHAPTER IX.; CHAPTER X.; CHAPTER XI.; CHAPTER XII.; CHAPTER XIII.; CHAPTER XIV.; CHAPTER XV.; CHAPTER XVI.; CHAPTER XVII.; CHAPTER XVIII.; CHAPTER XIX.; CHAPTER XX. |
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Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized reprint of the earlier Slavery in the United States (1836). In the narratives, Ball describes his experiences as a |
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slave, including the uncertainty of slave life and the ways in which the slaves are forced to suffer inhumane conditions. He recounts the qualities of his various masters and the ways in which his fortune depended on their temperament. As slave narrative scholar William L. Andrews has noted, Ball's oft-repeated narrative directly influenced the manner and matter of later |
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