Modern British Farce

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A study of the popular modern dramatists and the continuity of the farce tradition from Pinero to Travers, the Whitehall team and Orton which examines and questions some of the common assumptions about its nature. Farce techniques are shown to be increasingly used in serious drama.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Leslie Smith
Publisher : Springer
Release : 1989-06-18
File : 242 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349097593


New Perspectives On Detective Fiction

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This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Breaking new ground by moving beyond the critical preoccupation with classification of historical types and generic determinants, contributors examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, who experience the provocative, complex process of coming to grips with the unknown and the unknowable. This volume opens up discussion on publically acclaimed, modern works of mystery and on classic pieces, addressing a variety of forms including novels, plays, graphic novels, television series, films, and ipad games. Re-examining the interpretive potential of a genre that seems easily defined yet has endless permutations, the book closely analyzes the cultural function of mystery, the way it intervenes in social and political problems, as well as the literary properties that give the genre its particular shape. The volume treats various texts as meaningful subjects for critical analysis and sheds new light on the interpretive potential for a genre that creates as much ambiguity as it does clarity. Scholars of mystery and detective fiction, crime fiction, genre studies, and cultural studies will find this volume invaluable.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Casey Cothran
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2015-10-14
File : 418 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317435235


Catalogue

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Author : New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
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Release : 1895
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105027886667


Cultural Encounters In The New World

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Genre : America
Author : Harald Zapf
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Release : 2003
File : 466 Pages
ISBN-13 : 3823360442


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Release : 1883
File : 464 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433000290753


Literature And Culture In Modern Britain

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British culture has changed almost beyond recognition since 1956. Angry young men have been displaced by Yuppies, Elvis by the Spice Girls, and meat and two veg by continental cuisine. What is more, as the death of Diana, Princess of Wales showed, the British are now more famous for a trembling lower lip than a stiff upper one. This volume, the last in the series, examines the transformations in literature and culture over the last forty years. An introductory essay provides a context for the following chapters by arguing that although there have been significant changes in British life, there are also profound continuities. It also discusses the rise of 'theory' and its impact on the humanities. Each essay in the volume concentrates on a facet of British culture over the last half century from painting to poetry, from the seriousness of the novel to the postmodern ironies of the computing age. What we get from this selection is not only an informed history of the relations between literature and culture but also a lively sense of cultural change, not least of which is the new found relationship between literature and other arts which ushers us into the new millennium.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-06-11
File : 303 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317897538


Women In Theatre 2 3

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Genre : Art
Author : Julia Pascal
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2005-08-15
File : 133 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135305369


Modern London Or London As It Is By P Cunningham 10 Eds Title Varies

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Author : Peter Cunningham
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Release : 1851
File : 382 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:555050940


The Making Of Modern Britain

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In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ‘How should we live?’ Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page.

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Genre : History
Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Release : 2009-10-02
File : 500 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780230747173


History Modern India

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The Book Has Been Thoroughly Revised By Incorporating Fresh Materials In The Light Of Recent Researches On The Subject. Apart From Meeting The Requirements Of The Students For Plus Two Level Or Higher Secondary, The Book Will Be Helpful To The Candidates Appearing In Competitive Examination Of Both Central And State Civil Services, Including Indian Administrative And Allied Services.Historical Research During The Last Four Decades Has Led To New Insights Into The Study Of Modern Indian History. The Book Incorporates The Major Developments In Historical Research Since Independence. Besides Dealing With The Political Convulsions In India, The Book Furnishes The Socio-Economic Problems With Impoverishment Of The Country, The Cultural And Religious Revival In India, A Brief Survey Of Constitutional Developments, The Genesis And Growth Of Indian Nationalism And An Outline Of Freedom Struggle From Its Inception To The Attainment Of Independence.

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Author : S. N. Sen
Publisher : New Age International
Release : 2006
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : 8122417744