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- catalog abstract ""Suggesting that the literary world is just beginning to realize the extent of Anthony Powell's achievements, Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns adds to the understanding of how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode." "Birns offers readings of Powell's entire oeuvre, including the novels Afternoon Men, Venusberg, and The Fisher King, and his journals, which appeared in print between 1995 and 1997. Looking especially closely at A Dance to the Music of Time, the twelve-volume sequence of novels that is Powell's masterpiece, Birns sets the series in its social and historical context, emphasizing the role that both world wars and the cold war played in Powell's life and writing. He makes a particular study of the novel's dominating force - the arrogant, opportunistic Widmerpool, a social climber who delights in his own good fortune and gloats over the sufferings of others. While noting Widmerpool's central position, Birns illumines Powell's subtle aesthetic resistance, epitomized by minor characters and the voice of the narrator, against Widmerpool and his ilk. Birns shows that instead of setting forth a single champion against evil, Powell subtly communicates a half-melancholy, half-humorous sensibility in which he invites the reader to share."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Anthony Powell".
- catalog contributor b13326557.
- catalog coverage "England In literature.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Suggesting that the literary world is just beginning to realize the extent of Anthony Powell's achievements, Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns adds to the understanding of how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode." "Birns offers readings of Powell's entire oeuvre, including the novels Afternoon Men, Venusberg, and The Fisher King, and his journals, which appeared in print between 1995 and 1997. Looking especially closely at A Dance to the Music of Time, the twelve-volume sequence of novels that is Powell's masterpiece, Birns sets the series in its social and historical context, emphasizing the role that both world wars and the cold war played in Powell's life and writing. He makes a particular study of the novel's dominating force - the arrogant, opportunistic Widmerpool, a social climber who delights in his own good fortune and gloats over the sufferings of others. While noting Widmerpool's central position, Birns illumines Powell's subtle aesthetic resistance, epitomized by minor characters and the voice of the narrator, against Widmerpool and his ilk. Birns shows that instead of setting forth a single champion against evil, Powell subtly communicates a half-melancholy, half-humorous sensibility in which he invites the reader to share."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-378) and index.".
- catalog description "Understanding Anthony Powell -- A Company of Giddy-Heads: Understanding Powell's Fiction of the 1930s -- Widmerpool and Theocritus: Understanding A Dance to the Music of Time -- Man's Permitted Limits: Understanding Powell's Fiction of the 1980s -- The Other Side of the Dance: Understanding Powell's Memoirs -- Such Ideas as One Has: Understanding Powell's Journals.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 389 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1570035490 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Understanding contemporary British literature".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog spatial "England In literature.".
- catalog subject "823/.912 B 22".
- catalog subject "Autobiographical fiction, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR6031.O74 Z625 2004".
- catalog subject "Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Understanding Anthony Powell -- A Company of Giddy-Heads: Understanding Powell's Fiction of the 1930s -- Widmerpool and Theocritus: Understanding A Dance to the Music of Time -- Man's Permitted Limits: Understanding Powell's Fiction of the 1980s -- The Other Side of the Dance: Understanding Powell's Memoirs -- Such Ideas as One Has: Understanding Powell's Journals.".
- catalog title "Anthony Powell".
- catalog title "Understanding Anthony Powell / Nicholas Birns.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".