Medailonky autorů
Isherwood, Christopher. (1904 - 1986).
L i f e
- emigrated to USA (1939), became an American citizen (1946)
W o r k
- wrote a plain and objective prose fixing an image of observed reality
- eschews an elaborate prosody in favour of...
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Ishiguro, Kazuo. (b. 1954).
L i f e
- born in Nagasaki, moved to England when 6 year old, and accepted British citizenship (1982)
W o r k
- highly subjective: his first person narrators often exhibit human failings and reveal...
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Joyce, James. (1882 - 1941).
W o r k
- concerned exclusively with his native Dublin: a microcosm, a small-scale model of all human life and experience, of all history, and of all geography
Dubliners (1914):
- a series...
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Keats, John. (1795 - 1821).
L i f e
- fell in love with Fanny Brawne x but: his dedication to poetry, poverty, and growing illness made marriage impossible and love a torment
- as an apothecary-surgeon foreboded his early death, died of...
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Kelman, James. (b. 1946).
W o r k
- a libertarian socialist/anarchist: committed to issues of social justice and traditional left-wing causes
- preocuppied with labyrinthine struggles with authority, the search for specific...
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Kennedy, Alison Louise. (b. 1965).
W o r k
- a Scottish novelist, short story writer, reviewer, non-fiction writer, screenwriter, and stand-up comedian
- characteristic for her obsessive and compulsive tone, original language, and dark...
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Kipling, Rudyard. (1865 - 1936).
W o r k
- preocuppied with India, the most important colony of the British empire, in the final decades of the 19th century
- retained the detachment of a European outsider x but: tried to see...
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Larkin, Philip. (1922 - 1985).
W o r k
F i c t i o n :
< influenced by Thomas Hardy: preoccupied with loneliness, age, and death
Jill (1946):
- set in an Oxford forced into egalitarianism by the war
- anticipated the...
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Lawrence, David Herbert. (1885 - 1930).
W o r k
< working-class background: vivid evocations of the countryside and of the mechanical rhythms, monotonies, and economic and spiritual deprivations of industrial England
< inspired by Freud's...
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Lessing, Doris. (b. 1919).
W o r k
- early work: preoccupied with the growth of political awareness amongst native blacks and white settlers in colonial Africa
- later work: rejects conventional realism in favour of ‘inner space...
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Lewis, Alun. (1915 - 1944).
L i f e
- born in Wales x but: rarely specifically Welsh in his work
- entered the army shortly after the outbreak of WW II
- killed by a pistol shot when on duty in Burma (accident/suicide)
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Lewis, Clive Staples. (1898 - 1963).
W o r k
- a versatile personality and prolific author: a scholar, broadcaster, and author of several dozens of books for children, Christian apologetics, and literary criticism
The Allegory of Love...
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Lewis, Matthew Gregory. (1775 - 1818).
W o r k
The Monk (1796):
- a Gothic novel
- set in a Capuchin friary in Madrid: a small world of repression, obsession, ambition, and intrigue
- follows the fall of a saintly monk who...
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Lochhead, Liz. (b. 1947).
W o r k
- a Scottish dramatist, poet, performer, screenwriter, and translator
- typically uses a vigorous Scots vernacular
- preoccupied with the Gothic in both her dramatic and poetic works
- often translates...
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Macaulay, Thomas Babbington. (1800 - 1859).
L i f e
- a succesful politician: a Member of Parliament for different boroughs, to some of them re-elected for more terms
- served in a political office in India: supported bilingualism in...
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