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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Paperback)
Thomas Hardy; Introduction by Michael Irwin; Notes by Michael Irwin; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English
Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's
Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards.
Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when
the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as
immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter
of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be
descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for
respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes
the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's
relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the
social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and
the hypocrisy of the age. In addressing the double standards of the
time, Hardy's masterly evocation of a world which we have lost,
provides one of the most compelling stories in the canon of English
literature, whose appeal today defies the judgement of Hardy's
contemporary critics.
Ten original essays examine the transactions between real places
and the literary imagination, including the reinvention of real
places in literary form, from 1800 to the present day. They deal
with different kinds of locations (islands, countries, cities), the
topoi writers use to articulate a sense of place (maps, ruins,
landscape, history), their generic manifestations in fiction,
travel writing, topography, (auto)biography and poetry, and the
theoretical and methodological issues which arise. The focus moves
outwards from local to regional and national issues, covering
questions of cultural identity, space, representation, historicity,
and modernity in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, the
United States, and the South Pacific. The contributors are drawn
from both sides of the Atlantic, and include established scholars
as well as newer voices.
First published in 1979. Most of the great nineteenth century
novelists strove to render in words the people and places that they
invented and most readers of fiction picture in their imagination
these characters and scenes. This book investigates both types of
'picturing', exploring the principles and problems concerned, and
sheds light on the workings of fiction - reassessing a number of
famous novels in the process. By so doing, this work relates the
academic study of the novel to the writing and reading of fiction,
and the teaching of creative writing. This book will appeal to
students of literature.
First published in 1979. Most of the great nineteenth century
novelists strove to render in words the people and places that they
invented and most readers of fiction picture in their imagination
these characters and scenes. This book investigates both types of
'picturing', exploring the principles and problems concerned, and
sheds light on the workings of fiction - reassessing a number of
famous novels in the process. By so doing, this work relates the
academic study of the novel to the writing and reading of fiction,
and the teaching of creative writing. This book will appeal to
students of literature.
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The Diary of a Nobody (Paperback, New edition)
George Grossmith; Illustrated by Weedon Grossmith; Introduction by Michael Irwin; Notes by Michael Irwin; Weedon Grossmith; Series edited by …
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With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of
English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of
a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George
Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For
more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban
life and values has remained in print, a source of delight to
generations of readers, and a major literary influence, much
imitated but never equalled. If you don't recognise yourself at
some point in The Diary you are probably less than human. If you
can read it without laughing aloud you have no sense of humour.
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of
English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury This selection
of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous
illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children
have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere,
and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today
as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple
stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and
extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism
and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and
philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts,
teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness
there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in
glimpses.
With an Introduction, Bibliography and Glossary by Michael Irwin,
Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury.
Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and
Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years
later, when Eliot and Yeats were the leading names in the field.
His extraordinary stamina and a consistent individuality of style
and vision made him a survivor, immune to literary fashion. At the
start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than
it ever did, even in his own lifetime. He is now recognised not
only as a great poet, but as one who is widely loved. He speaks
with directness, humanity and humour to scholarly or ordinary
readers alike.
Michael Irwin's The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and
deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue
and seduction, set in 18th-century England. When Richard Fenwick
returns to London, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an
unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a sedate life in
Worcestershire, but feels the urge to experience, even vicariously,
the extremes of human feeling: love, passion, and something much
more sinister. It becomes apparent that Gilbert desires news filled
with tales of carousing, flirtation, excess, and London's more
salacious side. But Gilbert's elaborate and manipulative
"experiments" into the workings of human behavior soon drag Richard
into a Faustian vortex of betrayal and danger where lives are
ruined and tragedy is only a step away. With echoes of Dangerous
Liaisons, Michael Irwin's The Skull and the Nightingale is an
urgent period drama that seduces the senses.
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of
English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the
great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of
Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real,
partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset, it charts
the rise and self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'.
The fast-moving and ingeniously contrived narrative is
Shakespearian in its tragic force, and features some of the
author's most striking episodes and brilliant passages of
description.
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Desperate Remedies (Paperback)
Thomas Hardy; Introduction by Michael Irwin; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Michael Irwin,
Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kent, Canterbury. The
young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with
literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally
succeeded with Desperate Remedies, a 'sensation novel' in the mode
of Wilkie Collins. Here was a racy specimen of the genre, replete
with sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire and
storm, flight and pursuit. Anyone who enjoys The Woman in White is
likely to enjoy Desperate Remedies. But that is only half the
story. Hardy contrived also, in this unlikely context, to give a
first airing to various of the ideas and technical experiments
which were to characterise his later fiction. The result is an
exhilaratingly uneven work: at any point in the narrative some
brilliant passage of description or metaphor may burst out like a
firework. Desperate Remedies can be relished both for what it is
and for what it promises.
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Wessex Tales (Paperback, New edition)
Thomas Hardy; Introduction by Michael Irwin; Notes by Michael Irwin; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English
Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Wessex Tales was the
first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the
experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven
tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting
realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style,
and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy. In
insisting on the unusual nature of any story worth the telling, and
with his gift for irony and compassion, Hardy achieves more in the
genre of the short story than any English novelist before him.
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Decode (Paperback)
Michelle Irwin
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R344
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Decide (Paperback)
Michelle Irwin
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R195
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This book includes papers written by teachers and how they engage
holistic education in their classrooms. The papers come from a
course taught by Jack Miller at the Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education at the University of Toronto entitled The Holistic
Curriculum. This is a rich and diverse collection of papers showing
how holistic education can be brought into public education despite
the pressures of testing and other accountability measures.
Although most of the teachers teach in public schools there are
also examples from teachers working in private and post secondary
settings. This book can inspire other teachers who are looking for
ways to teach the whole person in a more connected manner. There
are very few texts in the field of holistic education that include
the voices and practices of teachers, particularly those working in
public schools. Many of the examples of holistic education in
practice come from Waldorf, Montessori, Reggio Emilia and
alternative schools. A unique feature of this book is the many
different voices of teachers describing their work in the
classroom; they talk about their successes, the challenges and even
a few failures.
This book includes papers written by teachers and how they engage
holistic education in their classrooms. The papers come from a
course taught by Jack Miller at the Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education at the University of Toronto entitled The Holistic
Curriculum. This is a rich and diverse collection of papers showing
how holistic education can be brought into public education despite
the pressures of testing and other accountability measures.
Although most of the teachers teach in public schools there are
also examples from teachers working in private and post secondary
settings. This book can inspire other teachers who are looking for
ways to teach the whole person in a more connected manner. There
are very few texts in the field of holistic education that include
the voices and practices of teachers, particularly those working in
public schools. Many of the examples of holistic education in
practice come from Waldorf, Montessori, Reggio Emilia and
alternative schools. A unique feature of this book is the many
different voices of teachers describing their work in the
classroom; they talk about their successes, the challenges and even
a few failures.
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