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This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth
century European and American authors. These volumes will be
available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as
individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 voulme
set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
First published in 1999, this volume perceives that English
literature in under threat as an academic discipline. In
Challenging Theory, Catherine Burgass warns against the recent
trend towards the conflation of literature teaching with cultural
studies in British and American universities. Focusing on theory of
deconstruction, as developed by Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, the
book redresses some common mistenterpretations of Derrinda's work
relating to the status of metaphysical oppositions. Part One
discusses textual differences and the ways in which these may
dissolve and reform according to different cultural contexts. The
practical issues associated with teaching literature and literary
theory in universities are examined in Part Two, while Part Three
high-lights some of the move invidious claims of literary
theorists, and questions the value of metaphysical analysis as a
tool for political critique. Challenging Theory tackles an
important debate that lies at the heart of humanities teaching. It
illuminates the impact on academia of the work of critical
theorists over the last thirty tears, and provides a platform for
future reassessment of the relationships between literature,
philosophy and theory.
First published in 1999, this volume perceives that English
literature in under threat as an academic discipline. In
Challenging Theory, Catherine Burgass warns against the recent
trend towards the conflation of literature teaching with cultural
studies in British and American universities. Focusing on theory of
deconstruction, as developed by Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, the
book redresses some common mistenterpretations of Derrinda's work
relating to the status of metaphysical oppositions. Part One
discusses textual differences and the ways in which these may
dissolve and reform according to different cultural contexts. The
practical issues associated with teaching literature and literary
theory in universities are examined in Part Two, while Part Three
high-lights some of the move invidious claims of literary
theorists, and questions the value of metaphysical analysis as a
tool for political critique. Challenging Theory tackles an
important debate that lies at the heart of humanities teaching. It
illuminates the impact on academia of the work of critical
theorists over the last thirty tears, and provides a platform for
future reassessment of the relationships between literature,
philosophy and theory.
The "Collected Critical Heritage II" comprises 40 volumes covering
19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes
will be available as a complete set, mini boxes sets (by theme) or
as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68
volume set of "Critical Heritage" published by Routledge in October
1995. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of
critical figures in literature. These selected sources include
contemporary reviews from both popular and literary media. This
volume covers English novelist Evelyn Waugh.
A collection of poetry from Martin Stannard. His previous
collections include 'Denying England' and The Flat of the Land'.
The long-awaited biography of one of the great writers of the
twentieth century - 'a wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy
storytelling' (Mail on Sunday). Muriel Spark ended was one of the
great writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a Cinderella story,
the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her
autobiography, Curriculum Vitae (1992), politely blurring the
intensity of her darker moments: her relations with her brother,
mother, son, husband; a terrifying period of hallucinations and
subsequent depression; and the disastrously misplaced love she had
felt for two men she had wanted to marry, Howard Sergeant and Derek
Stanford. Aged nineteen, Spark left Scotland to marry in Southern
Rhodesia, escaping back to Britain on a troopship in 1944 after her
divorce. Her son returned in 1945 to be brought up by her parents
in Edinburgh while she established herself as a poet and critic in
London. After becoming a Roman Catholic in 1954, she began a novel,
The Comforters, and with Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye
and The Bachelors rose rapidly into the literary stratosphere. The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), with its adaptation into a
successful stage-play and film, marked her full translation into
international celebrity and from that point she went to live first
in New York, then Rome, and finally Tuscany where for over thirty
years, until her death in 2006, she shared a house with her
companion, the artist Penelope Jardine.
Stannard has been the first commentator to make me not only
understand but deeply sympathize with the desperate ambivalence in
this great novelist between his passionate Christian concern with
saving souls (including, of course, his own) and his almost
maniacal scorn for the follies and mediocrity of the common man.
Louis Auchincloss"
This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical
edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously
unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive
introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's
manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General
Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of
the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. This is the first
critical edition of Waugh's celebrated novel, a work that is
unapologetically modernist in form and tone. The history of Vile
Bodies presents an intriguing bibliographical and biographical
detective story, not least because Waugh's first wife left him when
he was in the middle of writing it. Drawing on previously
unpublished correspondence, this edition plots the novel's
composition against the cultural backdrop of the 1929 'Flapper's
Election', the world of the Bright Young People, and the Wall
Street Crash. An introduction and textual analysis explores a range
of questions, including: Why were Waugh's corrections to the only
extant typescript ignored? What is the evidence to suggest the very
point in the autograph manuscript at which Waugh broke off upon
learning of his wife's affair? Did he go back over the previous
chapter adding darker touches, and, on returning to composition,
use the book as a form of public letter to his wife? What readings
did the typist invent through mistranscription?
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