Peter Widdowson

Gebundenes Buch

Graham Swift

Beschreibung

This study offers a close reading of each of Swift's novels, exploring the innovative formal strategies and identifying such recurrent themes as the presence of the past in the present, the blurring of distinctions between 'history' and 'story', fact and fiction, and the possibilities of redemption in a contemporary social and emotional wasteland.

Autor

>Literature (1999); The Palgrave Guide to English Literature and Its Contexts, 1500-2000 (2004); A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, 5th edtn. (with Raman Selden and Peter Brooker (2005); Graham Swift (2005). But he is perhaps best known for his writings on Hardy: Hardy in History: A Study in Literary Sociology (1989); (ed.), Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A New Casebook (1993); On Thomas Hardy: Late Essays and Earlier (1998); (ed.) Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose (1996); (ed. with Tim Dolin), Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies (2004), several of which contain essays on Hardy and film

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780746311042
• ISBN-10: 0746311044
• Artikelnr.: 35732034