Ivy Compton-Burnett /

Ivy Compton-Burnett is a strikingly original novelist, writing conversation-novels in which talk is the medium and subject. She is innovative like Joyce and Woolf but more accessible and less theoretical, a modernist unawares. She makes readers think and her terse cool witty style reminds us that th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hardy, Barbara, 1924-2016 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Series:Midcentury modern writers.
Subjects:
Compton-Burnett, I. > (Ivy), > 1884-1969 > Criticism and interpretation.
Compton-Burnett, I. > (Ivy), > 1884-1969.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Dedication
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Title and Its Text
  • Chapter 2 Making Conversation
  • Chapter 3 The Narrative Imagination
  • Chapter 4 Languages of Feeling
  • Chapter 5 Creatures and Conditions
  • Chapter 6 Meals and Hospitalities
  • Chapter 7 Games We Play
  • Chapter 8 Books We Read and Write
  • Chapter 9 Elders and Betters
  • Chapter 10 Darkness and Day
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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