Literature in our lives : talking about texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman /: talking about texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Jacobs.
• Authors: Jacobs, Richard, 1952-
• Contents: Introduction The myth of the Fall and its impact: Pullman, Lewis and others Claribel’s story: a few thoughts on gender, race and colonialism in The Tempest Wuthering Heights : myth and the wounds of loss Beckett’s Waiting for Godot : transforming lives Great Expectations : intertextualities, endings and life after plot Emily Dickinson: ‘And then the windows failed’ Emma : rhetoric, irony and the reader’s assault course Dorian Gray : ‘queering’ the text The Fallen Woman: Emma Bovary and (many) others Two transgressive American women: Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Hamlet / Lear : realism / modernism John Keats: three (or is it two?) poems and thoughts on ‘late style’ Republicanism, regicide and ‘The Musgrave Ritual’ Jean Rhys: her texts from the 1930s Twelfth Night : Dream-Gift Please read Proust Paradise Lost : radical politics, gender and education
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809; Literature -- Appreciation; Life in literature; Literature -- Psychology; Change (Psychology); Books and reading; Literature and society
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429581328; 9780429583223; 9780429579103; 9780429199301
• Related ISBNs: 9780367189310; 9780367189341
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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