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Essays for Richard Ellmann: Omnium Gatherum
Richard EllmannTerence. Diggory. The new value assigned to the condition of indeterminacy in current critical discussion extends even to literary history, last bastion of positivism. That bastion was undermined in its foundation by the disjunction of the two ...
Yeats, The Man And The Masks
Richard EllmannIn this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.
The Identity Of Yeats
Richard EllmannThrough his knowledge of Yeats’ life as well as his published and unpublished work, Ellmann recreates Yeats’ ways of thinking, seeing, and writing and clarifies his difficult poems.
The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James ...
Maud EllmannOne of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book.
The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920
John McCourtScholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edifice but have failed to construct anything that might stand alongside it. The Years of Bloom is arguably the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann.
A long the riverrun: selected essays
Richard EllmannPresents eighteen biographical and literary essays on Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Washington Irving, Oscar Wilde and other notable authors
Lady of the Cards
Rosita G. FantoLady of the Cards documents the relationship of publisher and artist Rosita Fanto, and Richard Ellmann, famed biographer of W.B.Yeats, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde.
Poems and Contexts: Yeats Annual No. 16: A Special Number
More editionsWe have reused Rosita Fanto's affecting study of Richard Ellmann beside the Edmund Dulac memorial plaque to W. B. Yeats in Roquebrune cemetery, 26 May 1985, from Yeats Annual 8. The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art ...
Yeats Annual No 7: including Essays in Memory of Richard Ellmann
Preview(However, see also “Wilde Book: Report Denied”, letters from Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson and a full apology to Rosita Fanto by Roger Lewis and The Sunday Times, The Sunday Times, 27 Sep, 1987, p. 41.) Liu, Aiyi, “Introducing W. B. ...
yes I said yes I will Yes.: A Celebration of James Joyce, ...
Preview... huge lithograph blow-ups of "The James Joyce Playing Cards" created by the Joyce biographer Richard Ellmann and the graphic designer Rosita Fanto, in which Molly Bloom, naturally, is the Queen of Hearts and James Joyce is the Joker.
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A ...
PreviewMaud Ellmann, "The Name and the Scar: Identity in The Odyssey and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." Based on Maud Ellmann, "Polytropic Man: Paternity, Identity, and Naming in The Odyssey and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ...
The hunger artists: starving, writing, and imprisonment
Maud EllmannHow has the act of eating become a metaphor for compliance, starvation the language of protest?
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Maud EllmannThis collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, ...
The World that is the Book: Paul Auster's Fiction
Aliki Varvogli29 Maud Ellmann reads this appetite as a metaphor for writing: To write, for Rimbaud, is to hunger, and it is only through a diet of stone- crop that the poet can accede to the inhuman solitude of art. This visionary hunger also resembles the ...
Temporality in Life As Seen Through Literature: ...
PreviewHarmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 150–151. 5 Bernard Richards (1988) English Poetry of the Victorian Period. New York: Longman. p. 319. 6 Quoted in R. Ellmann (1964) The Identity of Years (Reprinted 1968, 1975). City: Publisher. pp. 239–240.
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work
Henry SavageRichard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page
Maud EllmannElizabeth Bowen is one of the finest writers of fiction in English in the twentieth century. She is also one of the strangest. Born in 1899 into the Anglo-Irish Protestant ascendancy, she saw herself as the same age as her war-torn century.
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...
Richard S. NewmanBishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama
Richard WilsonRichard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third
Alice Ida Perry WoodIn 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run
Rob Stone... Richard Linklater Cinematography: Richard Linklater Editor: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Daniel Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold, Erin MCafée, Denise Montgomery, ...
Richard III
Richard AndersenRichard Andersen. Berger, Harry Jr. "Conscience and Complicity in Richard III," in Richard III, edited by Thomas Cartelli. New York: Norton, 2009. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
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