Conversations with Julian Barnes by Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts
Conversations with Julian Barnes collects eighteen interviews, conducted over nearly three decades, by journalists and correspondents. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Julian Barnes's varied works and provide readers the most vivid portrait yet of contexts and influences behind his ten novels, his short stories, and his essays.
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Gr. 9-12. One of 5 volumes in the Backgrounds to American Literatureseries, this book focuses on American Romantic literature and transcendentalism. In addition to discussions of those two movements, the book also addresses the historical and philosophical foundations of Romantic thought; the impact of social reform movements, such as the abolitionists, on literature; and the emergence of uniquely American poets, specifically Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. The brief chapter on transcendentalism offers no more information than what one would find in a standard American literature textbook, and the book also glosses over a discussion comparing the American and English Romantic movements.
Heart of Darkness (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide.
Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples fromSir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James andRudyard Kipling,amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.
