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British Writers of the Thirties

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#331224-VD21
Titel	British Writers of the Thirties
Auteur	Cunningham, Valentine
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1990
ISBN10	0192826557
ISBN13	9780192826558
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This wide-ranging study of British writers and poets of the 1930s--including Auden, Isherwood, Spender, Waugh, and Greene-- examines the masterpieces of that momentous decade, not in linguistic isolation, but in the contexts--social, political, historical, ideological, and personal--in which they were composed. Cunningham maps out the dominant images and concerns, nothing less than the central obsessions and imposing images of the '30s imagination. He analyzes the obsession with violence, the "destructive element" of post-World War consciousness; the cult of youth, of schools and schoolmasters; the infatuation with heroes--flyers, mountaineers, and racing car drivers--and the related concern about "being small," weak, or neurotic in an age of mass politics. In order to ... (Lees verder)illustrate this kaleidoscope of themes, Cunningham examines not only the canonical texts, but also "minor" forms and writings, including detective stories, films, and popular songs, showing how these neglected genres also illuminate the work of this period.
Pagina's	530
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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