Verbal and non-verbal ways of expressing understatement (based on the material of modern British literature)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Vlasova
Keyword(s):  
British Literature ◽  
Modern British Literature

Stuart Succession Literature

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
British Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Distinct Category ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Distinguished Group ◽  
Modern British Literature

Moments of royal succession, which punctuated the Stuart era (1603–1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefiting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.

Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature (review)

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 650-653
Author(s):  
Paul K. Saint-Amour
Keyword(s):  
British Literature ◽  
Modern British Literature

Prodigals and Profligates; or, a Short History of Modern British Drama

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
John Stokes
Keyword(s):  
British Literature ◽  
Short History ◽  
Prodigal Son ◽  
King's College ◽  
Inaugural Lecture ◽  
British Drama ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern British Literature

In 1996 John Stokes was appointed to the first endowed Chair in Modern British Literature at King's College, London, where English has been taught since the 1830s. In this version of his inaugural lecture, delivered on 6 November 1997, he traces the transformations undergone by the figure of the prodigal son in the drama of the last hundred years and argues for recognition of the part played by actors in determining the course of theatrical history.

scholarly journals WILLIAM GOLDING AS A MAN AND CREATOR IN ENGLISH WRITERS’ ESSAYS

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 918-923
Author(s):  
Yu.A. Shanina
Keyword(s):  
British Literature ◽  
English Literature ◽  
British Novel ◽  
William Golding ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern British Literature ◽  
New Tradition ◽  
Moral Questions

This research is devoted to the interpretation of William Golding’s works by his younger contemporaries. The solution of this purpose allows to determine the significance of Golding’s novels in modern British literature and culture. The subject of our research is several essays such as David Lodge’s “William Golding” (1964), Ian McEwan’s “Schoolboys” (1986), John Fowles’s “Golding and 'Golding” (1986), Craig Raine’s “Belly without Blemish: Golding’s sources” (1986), Nigel Williams’s “William Golding: A frighteningly honest writer” (2012). Some of them present the memoirs, the others contain the literary critique. The analysis shows that Golding’s novels are seeing as extraordinary, original creations, as the beginning of a new tradition in the consideration of childhood and moral questions in the English literature. They mark the next stage in the history of the British novel, which is characterized by new plots, characters and motives.

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