The Literature of Place

Author:   Norman Page ,  Peter Preston
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 1993
ISBN:  

9781349115075


Pages:   241
Publication Date:   01 January 1993
Format:   Paperback
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This collection of essays discusses writers who have in common their use of the English language. The authors are from all over the world and their subject matter ranges from Shakespeare to Hardy, from Margaret Oliphant to Kazuo Ishiguro and from the Canadian prairies to the Falklands War.

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Author:   Norman Page ,  Peter Preston
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 1993
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9781349115075


ISBN 10:   134911507
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   01 January 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Region today - some reflections on Geoffrey Hill, D.H. Lawrence and region tone, R.P. Draper; Shakespeare's garden of eloquence - the poetry of the whole land, Charles Calder; Byron, Lawrence and the spirit of place, Michael Herbert; Hardy's choreographic art, Dennis Taylor; ""The Woodlanders"" - a metaphor of character, Azize Ozguven; the Scottish stories of Margaret Oliphant, Merryn Williams; haunted houses - places and dispossession in Kipling's world, Elliot L. Gilbert; self as region - the case of Conrad, Peter Casagrande; E.M. Forster's Alexandrian essays, Hilda D. Spear; MacDiarmid and English identity, Robert Crawford; the romantic nationalism of R.S. Thomas, Tony Brown; the reader in a floating world - the novels of Kazuo Ishiguro, Valerie Purton; the debatable land - frontier women writers, Rosemarie Morgan; portraits of the prairies in Western Canadian literature, Winnifred M. Boggards; the quiet chameleon - the poetry of Malawi, Adrian Roscoe; the Falklands War - history as myth and metaphor, David Monaghan."

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