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Criticism of Woolf is often polarised into viewing her work as
either fundamentally progressive or reactionary. In this 2007 book,
Steve Ellis argues that her commitment to anxiety about modernity
coexists with a nostalgia and respect for aspects of Victorian
culture threatened by radical social change. Ellis tracks Woolf's
response to the Victorian era through her fiction and other
writings, arguing that Woolf can be seen as more 'Post-Victorian'
than 'modernist'. He explains how Woolf's emphasis on continuity
and reconciliation related to twentieth-century debates about
Victorian values, and he analyses her response to the First World
War as the major threat to that continuity. This detailed and
original investigation of the range of Woolf's writing attends to
questions of cultural and political history and fictional
structure, imagery and diction. It proposes a fresh reading of
Woolf's thinking about the relationships between the past, present
and future.
This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural
context for T. S. Eliot's writings of the 1930s and 1940s,
particularly Four Quartets, and attempts to disprove the widespread
belief in Eliot's unproblematic commitment to England, and the
'Englishness'. The book traces Eliot's classicism not only in
linguistic and formalist terms but also in his construction of
England in the Quartets and Quartets-related essays. His practice
is related to the vigorous polemic concerning the definition of
England found in the 1930s and 1940s, in material as diverse as
landscape painting, advertising, travel literature and the
detective novel. This original and provocative text will not only
be of interest to students and teachers of Eliot, but to those
interested in representations of nationality.
This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural
context for T. S. Eliot's writings of the 1930s and 1940s,
particularly Four Quartets, and attempts to disprove the widespread
belief in Eliot's unproblematic commitment to England, and the
'Englishness'. The book traces Eliot's classicism not only in
linguistic and formalist terms but also in his construction of
England in the Quartets and Quartets-related essays. His practice
is related to the vigorous polemic concerning the definition of
England found in the 1930s and 1940s, in material as diverse as
landscape painting, advertising, travel literature and the
detective novel. This original and provocative text will not only
be of interest to students and teachers of Eliot, but to those
interested in representations of nationality.
This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides
an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has
influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is
still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary
community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many
of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns
itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On
the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the
Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by
feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and
anthropological theories to name but a few. The book provides an
introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the
most important work in the field, including excerpts from
book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative
journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail
the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above
approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen
as reflecting them all. This convenient single volume collection of
key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some
journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be
indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature
and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their
understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.
This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides
an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has
influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is
still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary
community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many
of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns
itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On
the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the
Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by
feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and
anthropological theories to name but a few. The book provides an
introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the
most important work in the field, including excerpts from
book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative
journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail
the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above
approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen
as reflecting them all. This convenient single volume collection of
key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some
journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be
indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature
and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their
understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.
This important text offers a balanced coverage of an area of major human and environmental significance. Lying at the interface of the geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere, soils are of major importance to an understanding of both natural environmental processes and thoses affected by human activity. Soils and Environment examines the ways in which soils both influence, and are influenced by, the environment. assuming only a basic scientific knowledge, the book analyses the constituents and properties of soils, and the processes and pathways of soil formation within the context of environmental change. examining soils as components of natural environmental systems, this book offers an understanding of soil-human interactions in landuse systems, environmental problems and landuse management, and soil survey and land evaluation.
This book considers the literary construction of what E. M. Forster
calls 'the 1939 State', namely the anticipation of the Second World
War between the Munich crisis of 1938 and the end of the Phoney War
in the spring of 1940. Steve Ellis investigates not only myriad
responses to the imminent war but also various peace aims and plans
for post-war reconstruction outlined by such writers as T. S.
Eliot, H. G. Wells, J. B. Priestley, George Orwell, E. M. Forster
and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. He argues that the work of these
writers is illuminated by the anxious tenor of this period. The
result is a novel study of the 'long 1939', which transforms
readers' understanding of the literary history of the eve-of-war
era.
Criticism of Woolf is often polarised into viewing her work as
either fundamentally progressive or reactionary. In this 2007 book,
Steve Ellis argues that her commitment to anxiety about modernity
coexists with a nostalgia and respect for aspects of Victorian
culture threatened by radical social change. Ellis tracks Woolf's
response to the Victorian era through her fiction and other
writings, arguing that Woolf can be seen as more 'Post-Victorian'
than 'modernist'. He explains how Woolf's emphasis on continuity
and reconciliation related to twentieth-century debates about
Victorian values, and he analyses her response to the First World
War as the major threat to that continuity. This detailed and
original investigation of the range of Woolf's writing attends to
questions of cultural and political history and fictional
structure, imagery and diction. It proposes a fresh reading of
Woolf's thinking about the relationships between the past, present
and future.
This book is a history of the influence of Dante on English poetry.
The focus us not primarily upon stylistic influences or attempts to
imitate Dante's manner of writing, but rather on the different
guises in which the enormous presence of Dante has made itself
felt, and how that presence has affected some of the central
concerns of the poets in question. The poets considered are
Shelley, Byron, Browning, Rossetti, Yeats, Pound and Eliot. In
addition to analysing the way Dante is approached by these poets in
their major poetry, Dr Ellis also discusses relevant critical
works: Shelley's Defence of Poetry, Pound's The Spirit of Romance
and Yeats' A Vision. The critical survey is unified by the attempt
to show certain recurrent preoccupations in the work of these
writers, such as the need to define a tradition in which Dante is a
necessary forerunner. Ellis also shows that Dante has been read in
a very partial way by these poets and the images of him which
emerge in their works are inevitably varied and contradictory.
This study of Geoffrey Chaucer addresses both recent theoretical
approaches to his work, as well as various popular tropes - 'Father
of English Poetry', poet of 'Merrie England' - that have enshrined
his status within a nationalist ideology. Feminist criticism and
the work of Bakhtin receive particular attention as two of the most
prominent concerns in recent Chaucer studies, and new readings that
reconsider the political and social context of his writings are
also discussed. Full allowance is paid to his Chaucer's pre-Tales
works, alongside the Canterbury Tales themselves.
The narrator of The Bromsgrove Business, beset by hapless marital
and familial relationships, is writing a novel about academic life
which is gradually taken over by spirit communicators revealing the
solution to the murder of a local cricketer in Bromsgrove in the
1930s... This intriguing mixture of the fantastic with the
poignantly plausible will test your powers of deduction and keep
you chortling!
Seething with tension in monsoon heat and humidity, Red on Green is
a captivating story of love across cultural barriers, corruption,
abuse of humanitarian aid and sexual exploitation. British aid
worker, Ben Altringham, meets medical student, Ayesha, through her
father, Dr Abdur Rahman. He is a kind and highly skilled doctor who
volunteers to help people struggling to survive in desperate
poverty and squalor. Ayesha and Ben's relationship is a dangerous
liaison in the turbulent aftermath of a savage civil conflict on
the Indian subcontinent. The war had ended. But recrimination and
revenge were rife. Fuelling the danger, Ayesha's closest friend,
Khalida, asks for help to escape the clutches of a government
minister's son. She was being coerced into a suffocating marriage.
Driven by his love for Ayesha, Ben risks his liberty and life in a
plot to help Khalida flee the country. The novel is set in
Bangladesh, a year after the nine-month civil war in 1971.
Unfortunately, the nine-month 'War of Liberation' did not free the
population from poverty, disease and natural disasters, nor endemic
corruption, nepotism and discrimination. Former 'freedom fighters'
took revenge against those accused of being traitors and
collaborators during the conflict. Blood continued to flow into the
new nation's lush landscape - hence the title, Red on Green.
In the third collection of the hit webcomic THE ONLY LIVING BOY,
Erik Farrell finds himself at the mercy of the villainous Doctor
Once. But, of course, Doctor Once has NO mercy! Surrounded by
strange creatures and sinister experiments, Erik's very life hangs
in the balance. Even if he finds the strength to escape the hideous
laboratory, Erik won't be able to escape his tragic past, or his
destiny. Gallaher and Ellis' daring adventure series about an
ordinary boy on an extraordinary planet continues in "Once Upon A
Time" - the newest book in the acclaimed Only Living Boy series.
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The Divine Comedy (Paperback)
Dante Alighieri; Translated by Steve Ellis
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Discover this fresh, pacy, modern translation of an enduring
literary classic. Halfway through life, you find yourself lost,
unsure of the right path. Greed, deception and pride have led you
away from the ideals and dreams you cherished in younger days. How
do you go on? This is the starting point of one of the most
extraordinary and important journeys in western literature, a
stunningly ambitious flight of imagination and philosophy which has
reverberated down the years since Dante Alighieri first wrote it
down in the fourteenth century. The Divine Comedy is a vision of
the afterlife, the three regions of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise,
through which the narrator must journey in order to better
understand the workings of the universe, the love of God, and his
place in the world. Poet and translator Steve Ellis translated the
Inferno in 1994, and it was greeted with great acclaim. Now Ellis's
translation of the entire poem is published here for the first
time, and Dante's epic can be experienced afresh and in new
glorious life and colour, the physicality and immediacy of Dante's
verse rendered in English as never before. A NEW TRANSLATION BY
STEVE ELLIS
From the award-winning team behind THE ONLY LIVING BOY, David
Gallaher and Steve Ellis bring you the sequel THE ONLY LIVING GIRL,
an action-packed adventure perfect for fans of AMULET, MS. MARVEL,
and DC SUPER HERO GIRLS. Zandra 'Zee' Parfitt is one of the last
human survivors of a cosmic disaster that merged hundreds of
planets into the mysterious patchwork wasteland of Chimerika. After
learning that the experiments of her late father, the diabolical
Doctor Once, created this world, Zee and her companions - classmate
Erik Farrell and mermaid warrior Morgan - embark on a dangerous
quest filled with robots, monsters, unknown civilizations, and
unlikely allies. Together they push back against the relentless
Consortium, who want control of this new world at any cost. Through
it all, Zee searches for the truth of her past so she can redeem
her father's legacy.
One man. One love. One war. He must leave her to fight. Duty calls.
After three years' service in the British Army, Private Samuel
Ogden travels to France at the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Fiancee Alice is left in the village, marriage on hold. But
Havercake Lad is not a love story. It is a gritty tale of daily
life as a rifleman in frontline fighting. Based on official
military records, this novel plots many of the war's key
characters, events and battles. Samuel Ogden is fiction. But the
heroic activities of Havercake Lads, men of the Duke of
Wellington's Regiment, 2nd Battalion, are based firmly on fact.
Steve Ellis explores the trauma of war, the psychology of
soldier-killing and the personal consequences of being constantly
surrounded by casualties and corpses.
T. S. Eliot is one of the most celebrated twentieth-century poets
and one whose work is practically synonymous with perplexity. Eliot
is perceived as extremely challenging due to the multi-lingual
references and fragmentation we find in his poetry and his
recurring literary allusions to writers including Dante,
Shakespeare, Marvell, Baudelaire and Conrad. There is an additional
difficulty for today's readers that Eliot probably didn't envisage:
the widespread unfamiliarity with the Christian belief and culture
that his work becomes increasingly steeped in. Steve Ellis
introduces Eliot's work by using his extensive prose writings to
illuminate the poetry. As a major critic, as well as poet, Eliot
was highly conscious of the challenges his poetry set, of its
relation and difference to the work of previous poets, and of the
ways in which the activity of reading was problematised by his
work, so by taking his prose as a starting point helps to clarify
his poetic writing. The guide also offers an overview of key
critical debates concerning Eliot's work.
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