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The Waves

Virginia Woolf

It hardly features at all, for example, in Alex Zwerdling's classic account of Virginia Woolf and the Real World. 'Conversation, observable action, setting, circumstantial reality of every kind have been virtually eliminated,' Zwerdling comments.19 ...

Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial ...

Phillip Wegner

For a discussion of Orwell's relationship to contemporary socialist and communist theory and practice, see Alex Zwerdling, Orwell and the Left (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974), chap. 1. Zwerdling maintains that while Orwell saw ...

Orwell and the Left

Alex Zwerdling

Virginia Woolf and the Real World

Alex Zwerdling

Discusses the influence of historical events, politics, and social movements on Woolf's fiction, describes her ideology, and examines her major works

Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the ...

Alex Zwerdling

Looks at four American expatriate writers, Henry Adams, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Henry James

Yeats and the Heroic Ideal

Alex Zwerdling

"The difficulties in a democracy have been a central theme in much of Western literature during the twentieth century--a theme that finds explicit presentation in the writings of W.B. Yeats.

The Rise of the Memoir

Alex Zwerdling

Reconstructing this process in which a dubious project eventually becomes a compelling product-a "memoir" that will last-illuminates both what was at stake, and why this serially invented open form has reshaped the expectations of readers ...

Twentieth century interpretations of 1984: a collection of ...

Samuel Lynn Hynes

Orwell and the Techniques of Didactic Fantasy by Alex Zwerdling "A writer's political and religious beliefs are not excrescences to be laughed away, but something that will leave their mark even on the smallest detail of his work." George ...

The Perennial Satirist: Essays in Honour of Bernfried Nugel, ...

Peter Edgerly Firchow

Both Hermione Lee and Alex Zwerdling emphasize the poetic quality of Woolfs Sketch of the Past: "The Sketch analyses its own procedures of remembering as it records the memories."14 In A Sketch of the Past, Woolf expresses her desire to ...

Alex As Well

Alyssa Brugman

But the other Alex-the boy Alex-has a lot to say about that. Heartbreaking and droll in equal measures, Alex As Well is a brilliantly told story of exploring gender and sexuality, navigating friendships, and finding a place to belong.

The Great War and the Language of Modernism

Vincent Sherry

Karen L. Levenback, Virginia Woolfand the Great War (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1999); Alex Zwerdling, Virginia Woolf and the Real World ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). Levenback's main critical point about ...

I, Alex Cross: (Alex Cross 16)

James Patterson

A Cross family member is murdered, and the case catapults Alex into a world where power masks unfathomable evil.

ALEX FERGUSON My Autobiography

Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson's compelling story is always honest and revealing he reflects on his managerial career that embraced unprecedented European success for Aberdeen and 26 triumphant seasons with Manchester United.

Alex Bag:

Alex Bag

Since the mid 1990s, the American artist Alex Bag has been one of the most interesting protagonists of video performance, and she is regarded as a vital reference point by an entire generation of younger artists such as Cory Arcangel and ...

Janine and Alex, Alex and Janine

Michael Levin

Due to their similar appearances, Alex switches places with supermodel Janine and gets to experience the party scene and what it feels like to be a glamorous, high-profile celebrity in the public eye, while Janine tries to become a normal ...

Alex Ferguson - Mon autobiographie

Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson a créé les conditions de ce succès en donnant une âme aux « Red Devils » et en leur permettant de se maintenir au plus haut niveau. Tout le monde admire sa longévité et ses résultats.

Badiou Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

Alex Ling

Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts Alex Ling. Published in 2017 by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd London • New York www.ibtauris.com Copyright © 2017 Alex Ling The right of Alex Ling to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by ...

Alex Katz portraits

Alex Katz

Alex Katz (b.1927) is one of the most prominent artists of his generation.

GOLDEN DREAMS OF BORNEO

Managing My Life: My Autobiography: My Autobiography

Alex Ferguson

This book is about the beginning of Sir Alex's football career, until the year 2000. 1999 was an outstanding year for Alex Ferguson - not only did he lead Manchester United, the most glamorous club in the world, to a unique and outstanding ...