Frederick M. Holmes

Julian Barnes (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive introduction places the work of Julian Barnes into historical and theoretical context. Including a timeline of key dates, this guide explores his characteristic literary techniques, offers extensive readings of all 10 novels and provides an overview of the varied critical reception his work has provoked.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137111050
• Artikelnr.: 62861075

Autorenporträt

FREDERICK M. HOLMES is Professor of English at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. He has taught Julian Barnes's fiction at graduate level and is the author of The Historical Imagination: Postmodernism and the Treatment of the Past in Contemporary British Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: INTRODUCTION
Timeline
Introduction
A Biographical Reading
PART II: MAJOR WORKS
Metroland, and Arthur& George
Flaubert's Parrot , A History of the World in 10 ¿ Chapters and England,
England
Before She Met Me , Talking it Over and Love, etc
Staring at the Sun and The Porcupine
PART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS
Critical Reception
Notes
Bibliography.

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PART I: INTRODUCTION Timeline.- Introduction.- A Biographical Reading.- PART II: MAJOR WORKS Metroland, and Arthur& George.- Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters and England, England.- Before She Met Me, Talking it Over and Love, etc.- Staring at the Sun and The Porcupine.- PART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS Critical Reception.- Notes.- Bibliography.