Louis de Bernieres

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories , The Sappho Companion , Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology (with Angela Leighton) and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts . She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's long running 'Adventures in Poetry'. Klappentext This exciting new series provides readers with an introduction to some of the best works in contemporary literature. Each is a guide to the works of the subject author, his or her themes, genre and narrative technique. Each guide features an exclusive interview with the author giving valuable insights into their writing. The guide also offers an introduction to their themes and methods as well as questions for essays and discussion, contextual materials, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, a picture essay, extracts from reviews, a biography, bibliography, reading list of literary criticism and a glossary of literary terms. Included are detailed reading plans for Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts. Zusammenfassung A guide to the works of Louis de Bernieres. It deals with de Bernieres' themes, genre and narrative technique, and includes a close reading of the texts that are accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Noakes, Noakes Jonathan, Margaret Reynolds
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2002
• EAN: 9780099437574
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943757-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Vintage Living Texts; Living Texts; Vintage Living Texts; Living Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Bernières, Louis de : Erläuterungen zum Werk, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Other ELT Examinations, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form