Titre :	Modernism : Guide to European Literature 1890 - 1930
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Malcolm Bradbury, Auteur
Editeur :	england : Penguin books
Année de publication :	1991
Importance :	687p.
Format :	13x20
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-14-013832-0
Langues :	Français (fre) Langues originales : Français (fre)
Index. décimale :	820 Littérature de langue anglaise
Résumé :	A professor of English literature and American studies who has published numerous critical works, Malcolm Bradbury is also a novelist whose protagonists are academics who make muddles of their personal and professional lives. He maintains that his main concern is to explore problems and dilemmas of liberalism and issues of moral responsibility. The targets of Bradbury's satires include intellectual pretension, cultural myopia, and official smugness. His protagonists are largely sympathetic, if comic, failures at mastering their own fates in a world of absurd rules and regulations. His major novels include Eating People Is Wrong (1959), Stepping Westward (1965), and The History Man (1975). This last, a novel of intellectual and political conflict at an English university in the late 1960s, was made into a successful television minidrama. More recent novels include Rates of Exchange (1983) and Cuts (1987).

Modernism : Guide to European Literature 1890 - 1930 [texte imprimé] / Malcolm Bradbury, Auteur . - england : Penguin books, 1991 . - 687p. ; 13x20.
ISBN : 978-0-14-013832-0
Langues : Français (fre) Langues originales : Français (fre)

Index. décimale :

820 Littérature de langue anglaise

Résumé :

A professor of English literature and American studies who has published numerous critical works, Malcolm Bradbury is also a novelist whose protagonists are academics who make muddles of their personal and professional lives. He maintains that his main concern is to explore problems and dilemmas of liberalism and issues of moral responsibility. The targets of Bradbury's satires include intellectual pretension, cultural myopia, and official smugness. His protagonists are largely sympathetic, if comic, failures at mastering their own fates in a world of absurd rules and regulations. His major novels include Eating People Is Wrong (1959), Stepping Westward (1965), and The History Man (1975). This last, a novel of intellectual and political conflict at an English university in the late 1960s, was made into a successful television minidrama. More recent novels include Rates of Exchange (1983) and Cuts (1987).