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- 1From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5979)Not much is known of James Curtis (1907-77), who fell down dead in a north-west London chemist's shop forty years ago. Red Letter Days, Andy Croft's survey of the pre-war literary Left--a category in which Curtis...
- 2From:Italica (Vol. 90, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSarah Dunant--a British novelist whose literary interest in Italy stretches back to Mapping the Edge (1999), a postmodern thriller set in Florence--first turned her attention to the early modern landscape with The Birth...
- 3From:Journal of Modern Literature (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhile Teju Cole's 2011 novel Open City has been received as an exemplary cosmopolitan performance, a careful reading of the novel's engagement with memories of suffering and of its evocations of aesthetic experiences...
- 4From:Tolstoy Studies Journal (Vol. 25) Peer-ReviewedResearch on the manuscripts of Resurrection shows how Tolstoy, in his own words, "discarded from" and "hacked away at the pile" ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 171)--in other words, edited. Materials from the six...
- 5From:Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe archive of the Catholic Herald is available online. A search for "Evelyn Waugh" yielded 554 results, and these are sorted by decades from the 1930s (50 hits) to the 2010s (25)....
- 6From:Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn a two-part documentary on BBC4, Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry, first broadcast on 16 February 2014, art historian Jonathan Meades argues that Evelyn Waugh helped to reverse the negative...
- 7From:Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Waugh Book Club in Leicester discussed Vile Bodies in May, A Handful of Dust in June, Mr Loveday's Little Outing and Other Sad Stories in July, later stories in August, and The Loved One in September. For more...
- 8From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLucy Lurie's rejection of legal avenues of redress is perhaps the most notable and inscrutable twist in J. M. Coetzee's 1999 novel Disgrace. In contrast, her father, David Lurie, is the only character in the novel to...
- 9From:Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (Vol. 36, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis article investigates the first novel, I Am a Cat (Wagahai wa neko cle aru. 1905), by Japanese writer Natsume Soseki with respect to its references to other media, *showing that multimodal satire in this novel...
- 10From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the following essay, I will discuss the failure of allegory and the lack of a national foundational myth in what is considered to be the first Haitian novel, Emeric Bergeaud's Stella. As a nineteenth-century text,...
- 11From:Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The persistence of blood imagery throughout Philip Roth's Indignation is undeniable, yet surprisingly few critics have offered a sustained interpretation of its meaning. I suggest here that what has been...
- 12From:Extrapolation (Vol. 55, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis paper focuses on the use of sight as a means of resistance to an all-seeing authority, and the use of vision as a way of remaking one's system of signifying and one's ideology. Through the application of Foucault's...
- 13From:Mythlore (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTerry Pratchett (1) Has been writing the satirical fantasy Discworld series since 1983 and has published forty novels. Over thirty years of writing and publishing, the historical context of Discworld, and the broader...
- 14From:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHerman Charles Bosnian's short stories are stylistically and thematically different from his novels. With the exception of "A Bekkersdal marathon" and "Sold down the river" all Bosman's short stories, numbering more...
- 15From:Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDuring the course of his life Evelyn Waugh maintained a number of important friendships with Roman Catholic priests. His famous association with Father Martin D'Arcy, the sophisticated Jesuit who instructed Waugh and...
- 16From:Style (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that Sheila Quigley's Bad Moon Rising, ostensibly a crime novel, makes its most significant contribution as a regional novel by using point of view operations and dialect representation to confront a...
- 17From:Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRussell Kane chose the life and novels of Evelyn Waugh as his specialist subject and won BBC TV's Mastermind on 11 November 2011....
- 18From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 90, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBRITAIN'S COMMERCIALISM AND COLONIAL EXPANSION both repel and fascinate Matthew Bramble, the peevish Welsh squire in Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). At seemingly polar extremes in the novel's...
- 19From:Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The article identifies salient features of Van de Ruit's novels "Spud: a wickedly funny novel" (2005) and "Spud--the madness continues" (2007) and compares them with the corresponding motifs commonly found...
- 20From:Notes on Contemporary Literature (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhen students first read Alice Munro's often-anthologized story "How I Met My Husband," they are usually surprised by the ending. Most of the story focuses on what seems a blossoming romance between the naive central...