Understanding Anthony Powell /:
"Suggesting that the literary world is just beginning to realize the extent of Anthony Powell's achievements, Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Suggesting that the literary world is just beginning to realize the extent of Anthony Powell's achievements, Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns adds to the understanding of how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode." "Birns offers readings of Powell's entire oeuvre, including the novels Afternoon Men, Venusberg, and The Fisher King, and his journals, which appeared in print between 1995 and 1997. Looking especially closely at A Dance to the Music of Time, the twelve-volume sequence of novels that is Powell's masterpiece, Birns sets the series in its social and historical context, emphasizing the role that both world wars and the cold war played in Powell's life and writing. He makes a particular study of the novel's dominating force - the arrogant, opportunistic Widmerpool, a social climber who delights in his own good fortune and gloats over the sufferings of others. While noting Widmerpool's central position, Birns illumines Powell's subtle aesthetic resistance, epitomized by minor characters and the voice of the narrator, against Widmerpool and his ilk. Birns shows that instead of setting forth a single champion against evil, Powell subtly communicates a half-melancholy, half-humorous sensibility in which he invites the reader to share."--Jacket |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xvii, 389 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-378) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423744934 9781423744931 |
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| spellingShingle | Birns, Nicholas Understanding Anthony Powell / Understanding contemporary British literature. Understanding Anthony Powell -- A Company of Giddy-Heads: Understanding Powell's Fiction of the 1930s -- Widmerpool and Theocritus: Understanding A Dance to the Music of Time -- Man's Permitted Limits: Understanding Powell's Fiction of the 1980s -- The Other Side of the Dance: Understanding Powell's Memoirs -- Such Ideas as One Has: Understanding Powell's Journals. Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000 Criticism and interpretation. Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwRPRXp6JkFfXRjr9xqwC Autobiographical fiction, English History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Autobiographical fiction, English fast Literature fast English Literature. hilcc English. hilcc Languages & Literatures. hilcc |
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| title_alt | Anthony Powell Understanding Anthony Powell -- A Company of Giddy-Heads: Understanding Powell's Fiction of the 1930s -- Widmerpool and Theocritus: Understanding A Dance to the Music of Time -- Man's Permitted Limits: Understanding Powell's Fiction of the 1980s -- The Other Side of the Dance: Understanding Powell's Memoirs -- Such Ideas as One Has: Understanding Powell's Journals. |
| title_auth | Understanding Anthony Powell / |
| title_exact_search | Understanding Anthony Powell / |
| title_full | Understanding Anthony Powell / Nicholas Birns. |
| title_fullStr | Understanding Anthony Powell / Nicholas Birns. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding Anthony Powell / Nicholas Birns. |
| title_short | Understanding Anthony Powell / |
| title_sort | understanding anthony powell |
| topic | Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000 Criticism and interpretation. Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000 fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwRPRXp6JkFfXRjr9xqwC Autobiographical fiction, English History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Autobiographical fiction, English fast Literature fast English Literature. hilcc English. hilcc Languages & Literatures. hilcc |
| topic_facet | Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000 Criticism and interpretation. Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000 Autobiographical fiction, English History and criticism. England In literature. Angleterre Dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Autobiographical fiction, English Literature England English Literature. English. Languages & Literatures. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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