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703. Conrad's Heart of Darkness

Author

Neilson, Renn G.

Subjects
Heart of Darkness (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1987

704. Crane's The Open Boat

Author

Muhlestein, Daniel K.

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1987

705. The great writers of history

Author

Donnell, David

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, News, opinion and commentary, Regional focus/area studies
Published
1985

706. Dickey's Deliverance

Author

Thompson, Terry W.

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1988

707. They say tacky, I say phooey

Author

Haran, Maeve

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Business, Business, international, Retail industry
Abstract

The literary establishment is often very critical of 'blockbuster' novels, but it still remains fascinated with the form. Such novels account for 80% of the paperback bestseller lists, but reviewers often ignore them completely. However, commercial novels often very closely reflect changing social patterns, making them very popular, they have a strong element of drama and storytelling and are often optimistic.

Published
1994

708. A festive fiction farrago

Author

Carver, Robert

Subjects
Book reviewing -- Personal narratives, Booksellers -- Personal narratives, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Political science
Published
1989

709. The prophet

Subjects
Winterson, Jeanette -- Biography, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Women novelists -- Behavior, Literature/writing, Political science
Published
1989

710. Sacred truth, novelistic truths

Author

Fuentes, Carlos

Subjects
The Satanic Verses (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism -- Analysis, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Islam in literature -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1989

711. 'Man thinks, God laughs.' (transcript)

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, European literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature and science -- Speeches, lectures and essays, Literature/writing
Published
1985

712. 'Sensibility' and the novel

Author

Ward, Robert

Subjects
Authors -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1985

713. Stranger than fiction

Author

Anscombe, Roderick

Subjects
Reality -- Analysis, Reality in literature -- Analysis, Authors -- Practice, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1987

714. Novels of the road; ten scenic tours, no dead ends

Author

Lewis, Mary Beth

Subjects
Lolita (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, On the Road (Kerouac, Jack) (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1987

715. John Locke (1632-1704)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Locke, John (English political theorist) -- Criticism and interpretation, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Essay) -- Criticism and interpretation, Two Treatises of Government (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

From a Puritan family background, Locke was educated at Oxford and became a physician, although he never established a general medical practice. He lived a quiet and contemplative life. He [...]

Published
1992

716. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Pepys, Samuel -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, Diary: A Novel (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

Although his family background was Puritan rather than royalist, Pepys (pronounced 'Peeps') was able to keep his position in the admiralty office after the Restoration. Like most English people, he [...]

Published
1992

717. John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Bunyan, John (English clergy) -- Criticism and interpretation, Grace Abounding (Autobiography) -- Criticism and interpretation, The Pilgrim's Progress (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

The son of a poor tinker, (that is, a traveling mender of pots and pans,) John Bunyan produced one of the most popular and influential books of the Restoration period [...]

Published
1992

718. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Hobbes, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, The Dark Journey (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

of the day, especially by Francis Bacon, whose secretary and disciple Hobbes had become. He applied the type of systematic and skeptical thinking that Bacon advocated to the study of [...]

Published
1992

719. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Bacon, Francis (English philosopher, 1561-1626) -- Criticism and interpretation, The Advancement of Learning (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Essays (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

After receiving legal training Bacon entered government service while Elizabeth I was still Queen of England. During the reign of King James I, Bacon rose to be lord chancellor of [...]

Published
1992

720. Robert Burton (1577-1640)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Burton, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, Anatomy of Melancholy (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

Burton, a widely read and learned man, spent his entire adult life at Oxford University. He had no other interest but books, no other activities than reading, studying, and writing. [...]

Published
1992

721. The Bible

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Bible (Sacred work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Bible as literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Bible and literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

The one great exception to the trend toward natural simplicity of expression was the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible, commissioned by King James I to correct and supersede the [...]

Published
1992

722. Sir Thomas Hoby (1530-1566)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Hoby, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, The Courtier (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation -- Translations and translating, The Courtier (Nonfiction work) -- Translations and translating -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

A staunch Protestant, Hoby was educated at Cambridge University and traveled widely in Germany, France, and especially in Italy, where he encountered the courtesy book Il Cortegiano, or The Courtier. [...]

Published
1992

723. John Lyly (1554-1606)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Lyly, John -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

Lyly was a student at Oxford University in the early 1570s, when the study of rhetoric was reaching a superrefined state. After taking an M.A., Lyly went to London in [...]

Published
1992

726. Back and forth

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Palindromes
Published
1986

727. In search of compassionate fiction

Author

Yardley, Jonathan

Subjects
Red Baker (Book) -- Authorship, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1985

728. The triumph of Jean Valjean

Author

Will, George F.

Subjects
Les Miserables (Play) -- Criticism and interpretation, Les Miserables (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Authors, French -- Criticism and interpretation, Hugo, Victor -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1987

729. On reading fiction

Author

Warren, Robert Penn

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Education
Published
1989

730. Future imperfect

Author

Farmer, Penelope

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Young adult literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Education
Published
1989

732. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Newton, Isaac (English physicist) -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, The Letter (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

During this era, philosophy encompassed what we now call science. Newton was the most creative scientific thinker of the Enlightenment. It was he who discovered that all motions in nature, [...]

Published
1992

733. Roger Ascham (1515-1568)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Ascham, Roger -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, The Schoolmaster (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Toxophilus (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

The educator Ascham was a scholar of Latin and Greek at Cambridge, but he insisted that studying the great writers in these languages was only a way to gain clarity [...]

Published
1992

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