The Channel of Monsters, Chesney Rosemary

Автор: Oates Jonathan
Название: Chesney: The Middle Class Murderer
ISBN: 1911273094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911273097
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Цена: 87360.00 T
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RONALD CHESNEY could have been a fictional criminal character. Educated at public school, attended a top British university and fought as a naval officer in World War Two, Ronald Chesney could have been a character out of an Agatha Christie novel. Furthermore, he devised a 'perfect murder' to enable him to have a strong alibi. His criminal career harked back to his teenage years, when he literally got away with murder. Running through his inherited wealth he became a professional criminal; mainly indulging in fraud and smuggling until his luck and money ran out. A despicable man in many ways, yet highly attractive to women throughout his life. This new study presents an account of a career criminal from the 1920s to the 1950s, through war and peace. JONATHAN OATES obtained a PhD from Reading University in History in 2001. Apart from being Ealing's Borough Archivist since 1999 he has had 26 books and over 30 articles published on a wide variety of historical subjects; criminal, military, local and genealogical. He has a particular interest in 1940s and 1950s crime. This book is his third biography of a major post war British murderer.

Автор: Chesney George
Название: The Battle of Dorking
ISBN: 1162688610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781162688619
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Цена: 23230.00 T
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Автор: Chesney, Duncan Mccoll
Название: Serious fiction
ISBN: 1433134047 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433134043
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Serious Fiction explores the novels of J.M. Coetzee, in dialogue with key works of the European literary tradition and several contemporary masterworks of world literature, in order to flesh out an ethico-aesthetic ideal for the contemporary novel. Serious refers back to the Aristotelian definition of tragedy to revive a certain communal, political-ethical task of the artwork; fiction, also referring back to Aristotle and the subsequent poetic tradition, stresses the element of play in the artwork in contrast to the seriousness of the world of daily survival, business, and life. Following post-Enlightenment thinkers from Schiller and Arnold to Leavis and Auerbach, as well as more contemporary literary theorists, the argument maintains a delicate balance between seriousness as a sort moral criterion of literary assessment and playfulness as a necessary stage in the creation of any artwork, adding the formal and epistemological obligations of the realist novel as the dominant literary genre of the long nineteenth century. Coetzee is presented as a contemporary model of serious fiction writing, balancing elements of realism and play/imagination, tragedy and the prosaic, aesthetic semi-autonomy and ethical responsibility. Major works by Coetzee are discussed - Waiting for the Barbarian, Life & Times of Michael K., Disgrace, Diary of a Bad Year - as well as other of his works, fictional and non-fictional, along with important traditional and contemporary works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Joyce, Kakfa, and Beckett as well as Imre Kert sz, W.G. Sebald, Eimear McBride, Cormac McCarthy, Jiang Rong, and others.

Автор: Chesney, Duncan Mccoll
Название: Silence nowhen
ISBN: 1433122472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433122477
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Duncan McColl Chesney addresses many of the main issues in Beckett criticism by focusing on a key aspect of Beckett`s work throughout his long career: silence. Chesney links Beckett`s language and silence back to his predecessors, especially Joyce and Proust - laterally to contemporary movements of minimalism in the sister arts and theoretically in in-depth discussions of Blanchot and Adorno.