FIRST COLLIER BOOD EDITION. 1977 Macmillan trade paperback, Bernard Bergonzi (A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel). Reverend Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and a Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Bergonzi, Bernard

Collier

Heroes' Twillight, a study of the Literature of the Great War

Constable Co Ltd

A Short History of English Literature

Literature & Fiction

Evans, Ifor

Literary

Penguin??Books

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Penguin

In this book, literary critic and English teacher Bernard Bergonzi examines the state of contemporary English studies. He discusses the developments and changes seen in the United States and England since 1959, including the impact of the Thatcherite transformation of the academy on traditional practices, and the influence of the "rainbow coalition," comprising poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and feminism. Drawing on recent critical theory, intellectual history, and the sociology of knowledge, the book provides valuable insights into the field, and offers some positive suggestions about future developments.

Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture (Clarendon Paperbacks)

History & Criticism

Clarendon Press

Literary critic and English teacher, Bernard Bergonzi, examines the state of contemporary English studies. He discusses the developments and changes seen in the United States and England since 1959, including the impact of the Thatcherite transformation of the academy on traditional practices, and the influence of the "rainbow coalition," comprising poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and feminism. Drawing on recent critical theory, intellectual history, and the sociology of knowledge, the book provides valuable insights into the field, and offers some positive suggestions about future developments.

Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture

Oxford University Press

Bernard Bergonzi has written an absorbing and fascinating biography of Thomas Arnold the Younger (1824-1900), son of the celebrated headmaster of Rugby and younger brother of Matthew, father of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, and grandfather of Aldous Huxley. A scholar, teacher, and self-styled "wanderer," Arnold's path in life took him, after a brilliant start at Oxford, to colonial New Zealand, to Tasmania, to Dublin, back to Oxford, and once more to Dublin, where he died in 1900. This biography explores Arnold's diverse path through academia, his complex relationship with Catholicism, and his acquaintances with such luminaries as Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, Lewis Carroll, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and James Joyce.

A Victorian Wanderer: The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger

Biographies & Memoirs

A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel

Bernard Bergonzi has been reading Graham Greene for many years; he still possesses the original edition of The End of the Affair that he bought when it was published in 1951. After so much recent attention to Greene's life he believes it is time to return to his writings; in this critical study Bergonzi makes a close examination of the language and structure of Greene's novels, and traces the obsessive motifs that recur throughout his long career. Most earlier criticism was written while Greene was still alive and working, and was to some extent provisional, as the final shape of his work was not yet apparent. In this book Bergonzi is able to take a view of Greene's whole career as a novelist, which extended from 1929 to 1988. He believes that Greene's earlier work was his best, combining melodrama, realism, and poetry, with Brighton Rock, published in 1938, a moral fable that draws on crime fiction and Jacobean tragedy, as the masterpiece. The novels that Greene published after the 1950s were very professional examples of skilful story-telling but represented a decline from this high level of achievement. Bergonzi challenges assumptions about the nature of Greene's debt to cinema, and attempts to clarify the complexities and contradictions of his religious ideas. Although this book engages with questions that arise in academic discussions of Greene, it is written with general readers in mind.

British & Irish

Bernard Bergonzi has been reading Graham Greene for many years; he still possesses the original edition of The End of the Affair that he bought when it was published in 1951. After so much recent attention to Greene's life he believes it is time to return to his writings; in this critical study Bergonzi makes a close examination of the language and structure of Greene's novels, and traces the obsessive motifs that recur throughout his long career. Most earlier criticism was written while Greene was still alive and working, and was to some extent provisional, as the final shape of his work was not yet apparent. In this book Bergonzi is able to take a view of Greene's whole career as a novelist, which extended from 1929 to 1988. He believes that Greene's earlier work was his best, combining melodrama, realism, and poetry, with Brighton Rock, published in 1938, a moral fable that draws on crime fiction and Jacobean tragedy, as the masterpiece. The novels that Greene published after the 1950s were very professional examples of skilful story-telling but represented a decline from this high level of achievement. Bergonzi challenges assumptions about the nature of Greene's debt to cinema, and attempts to clarify the complexities and contradictions of his religious ideas. Although this book engages with questions that arise in academic discussions of Greene, it is written with general readers in mind.

The twentieth century, (History of literature in the English language)

Barrie Jenkins

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