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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | W. H. Auden | It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | Kate Summerscale
writes that these diary entries magically remade the scenes that had passed, no longer dissecting her longings but instead allowing them to infuse her recollections . . . the diary could conjure up... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | Here CS
attacked the fairly recently launched theory that Francis Bacon
was the true author of the publications of William Shakespeare
. She writes in her preface to the second edition that the great Shakespearean... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Emily Shore | The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria
's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Stopes | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | The ten women here share varying degrees and varying combinations of sexual, political, or literary notoriety. Two of them—Elizabeth Inchbald
and Lady Blessington
—hold the status of professional authors. Two more—Becky Wells (whom... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Naden | Many of the sonnets are anchored, like a few poems earlier in the volume, to the place and date of their composition. In the Lanes between Stratford and Shottery, May 14th, 1880, envisages... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laura Riding | LR
has been credited with this book's first introduction into Britain of the word Modernism, which was already current in the USA. (Ten years later than this, Ezra Pound
still believed that the movement... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ruth Padel | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clemence Dane | It treats the relationship between Shakespeare
and Sir William Davenant
. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
includes among her topics Edith Sitwell
, Shakespeare
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
, and Proust
: these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | The contents of this volume span the years 1959-1968. While most consist of literary criticism, some explore social and cultural issues. The volume begins with essays on Rabindranath Tagore
and Shakespeare
, and a review... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Noel Streatfeild | NS
opened here a new field in fiction for children: that of the serious work and ambition necessary for even the youngest recruits to the world of theatre and ballet. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ
's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca West | This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature. British Book News. British Council. (1958): 739 |
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