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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ioan m williams”
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  • Novel and Romance 1700-1800 (Routledge Revivals)

    A Documentary Record

    by Ioan Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    The documents collected in this volume, first published in 1970, trace the development of novel criticism during one of the most formative periods in the history of fiction: from 1700-1800. The material includes prefaces to collections, translations and original novels; essays written for journals modelled on the Spectator; passages taken from miscellanies and from books written primarily for some ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Criticism of Henry Fielding (Routledge Revivals)

    by Ioan Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding’s criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding’s own critical views, with regard both to his own works and to eighteenth-century life and literature at large. The volume includes many of Fielding’s well-known and important statements on literature, society and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Emyr Humphreys

    by M. Wynn Thomas, Ioan M. Williams ...
    Series series Writers of Wales
    Published to mark the centenary of his birth in 2019, this is the first comprehensive and authoritative study of the life and work (excluding only work for television) of the major Welsh writer Emyr Humphreys. During the course of a career spanning half a century, and dating back to the 1950s when he collaborated with the likes of Graham Greene, Patrick Heron, Saunders Lewis, Richard Burton, Sian ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Meredith

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Ioan Williams ...
    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling the student and researcher to read the material themselves. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Ioan Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historical perspective not normally available in one volume. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    by Jeremy Paxman ...
    In The English Jeremy Paxman sets out to find about the English. Not the British overall, not the Scots, not the Irish or Welsh, but the English. Why do they seem so unsure of who they are?Jeremy Paxman is to many the embodiment of Englishness yet even he is sometimes forced to ask: who or what exactly are the English? And in setting about addressing this most vexing of questions, Paxman discovers ... Read more

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  • The English

    A Portrait of a People

    by Jeremy Paxman ...
    The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this "witty, argumentative book bursting with good things" ( The Daily Telegraph).A Sunday Times Top Ten BestsellerBeing English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has ... Read more

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  • The Irish Story

    Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland

    by Professor R F Foster ...
    Each of Foster's books has generated vigorous discussion, but in THE IRISH STORY he breaks fresh ground even by his own standards. Driven by his sense of the seriousness of history and a fascination with those who distort it, THE IRISH STORY examines how key facets of Ireland's past have been tampered with to serve a multiplicity of purposes.THE IRISH STORY is endlessly varied, surprising and ... Read more

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  • Inventing Ireland

    The Literature of a Modern Nation

    by Declan Kiberd ...
    Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland. This is the perspective from which he views Irish culture. His history of ... Read more

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  • Oxford Revisited

    by Justin Cartwright ...
    Oxford is a world-renowned stronghold of knowledge, a lush medieval city dotted with beautiful gardens. But it also has a symbolic meaning well beyond these things. It stands for something deep in our minds - excellence, a kind of privilege, a charmed life, deep-veined liberalism, a respect for tradition. It is an ivory tower: a quiet, thoughtful place, yet one whose scholars and ideas affect us ... Read more

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    by Roy Foster ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
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  • Modern English Books Of Power

    by George Hamlin Fitch ...
    This edifying book analyzes the most memorable classics of English Literature in a befitting and gracious manner. Fitch studies and discusses several celebrated authors and their brilliant masterpieces in a manner that is guaranteed to arouse any readers interest in them. A fascinating treasure trove of information! ... Read more

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