Medailonky autorů
Galloway, Janice. (b. 1956).
W o r k
- novelist and short story writer, poet, and librettist
- represents Scottish postmodern writing: employs an ironic world-weary humour, depicts the Scottish urban experience in late Capitalism, and...
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Galsworthy, John. (1867 - 1933).
W o r k
- the last major story-teller of the Victorian era (his traditional methods) and/or one of the first writers of the Edwardian era (his challenging some of the ideals of the Victorian society)
- author...
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Gascoyne, David. (1916 - 2001).
W o r k
S u r r e a l i s m :
A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935):
- one of the most determined British apologists for the surreal experiment
Man’s Life is This Meat (1936) and Hölderlin’s...
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Gaskell, Elizabeth. (1810 - 1865).
W o r k
- preoccupied with Manchester = the urban phenomenon of the age
> commercial success of manufacture, pioneering of the factory system, and use of huge amounts of human and...
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Gibbon, Lewis Grassic. (1901 - 1935).
W o r k
- a Scottish novelist, one of the figures of the Scottish Renaissance
- preoccupied with Scottish rural life
A Scots Quair (1932 - 1934):
- a trilogy combining realist and naturalist narrative and...
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Gray, Alasdair. (b. 1934).
W o r k
- a Scottish novelist, short story writer, painter, illustrator, non-fiction writer, dramatist, and screenwright
- often combines his diverse artistic talents within single works: composes...
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Green, Henry. (1905 - 1973).
W o r k
< influenced by his domestic circumstances during WW I when the family house became a convalescent home for wounded officers
< the attempted suicide of one of the officers, his brother's...
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Greene, Graham. (1904 - 1991).
W o r k
- preoccupied with political and religious problems
- projects his anti-imperialism and Catholic faith in his writing
- considers Christianity a single ray of hope x his characters perceive God as...
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Gregory, Augusta. (1852 - 1932).
W o r k :
- a dramatist and folklorist, author of a number of short plays and books retelling stories from Irish mythology
- a cultural nationalist: the main organiser and driving force of the ‘Irish Literary...
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Hardy, Thomas. (1840 - 1928).
W o r k
< Darwinism: displaces humankind from its assumption of superiority, challenges the idea of a benevolent Creator and the comforting Providence
< religion: his fictional world lacks...
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Heaney, Seamus. (b. 1939).
W o r k
- established himself as a political poet x but: felt constrained by this role and left his native Northern Ireland for the Irish Republic, accepting Irish citizenship
- strongly rooted...
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. (1844 - 1889).
L i f e
- converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Jesuit priest
- a friend of Robert Bridges who became his literary executor and editor
W o r k
- hailed as a pioneering...
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Hughes, Ted. (1930 - 1998).
L i f e
- husband of the American poet Sylvia Plath who commited suicide in 1963
W o r k
- preocuupied with nature as the world of raw sensation
- sees nature through the eyes of the...
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Hulme, Thomas Ernest. (1883 - 1917).
L i f e
- a critic and later a war correspondent for The New Age
- enlisted in WW I, killed in action
W o r k
- promoter of Modernist poetry: founded Imagism, assisted by the birth of Vorticism
- a poet: x...
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Huxley, Aldous. (1894 - 1963).
W o r k
- well-read and self-consciously literary: in his titles uses phrases of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, and others
- author of satirical pictures of the self-conscious pursuit of modernity on...
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