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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198734751

ISBN-139780198734758

eBay Product ID (ePID)227666807

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHenry Green : Class, Style, and the Everyday

Publication Year2016

SubjectModern / 20th Century, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

AuthorNick Shepley

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-960982

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Nick Shepley is the latest writer to enter this perilous ring, and has done so with an intelligent, elegant book that takes the need for openendedness as its premiss...So it was time for [Henry Green] to have a new book to himself, and this one does him justice." --Lara Feigel, The Times Literary Supplement

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal823.912

Table Of ContentIntroduction: 'A Terrific Dichotomy'1. Biography: Henry Vincent Yorke, Henry Green, and the early fiction: College Days and Blindness2. Style: Deconstructing names in Blindness, Living, Party Going, Back, and Concluding3. Style: Symbolic flight from Living to Party Going4. Class: The art of not 'going over' in Living, Party Going and Loving5. The everyday: Caught in Back: The presence of war in daily life6. The everyday and the non-event: Doting on NothingConclusion

SynopsisHenry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday offers a critical prism through which Green's fiction--from his earliest published short stories, as an Eton schoolboy, through to his last dialogic novels of the 1950s--can be seen as a coherent, subtle, and humorous critique of the tension between class, style, and realism in the first half of the twentieth century. The study extends on-going critical recognition that Green's work is central to the development of the novel from the twenties to the fifties, acting as a vital bridge between late modernist, inter-war, post-war, and postmodernist fiction. The overarching contention is that the shifting and destabilizing nature of Green's oeuvre sets up a predicament similar to that confronted by theorists of the everyday. Consequently, each chapter acknowledges the indeterminacy of the writing, whether it be: the non-singular functioning (or malfunctioning) of the name; the open-ended, purposefully ambiguous nature of its symbols; the shifting, cinematic nature of Green's prose style; the sensitive, but resolutely unsentimental depictions of the working-classes and the aristocracy in the inter-war period; the impact of war and its inconsistent irruptions into daily life; or the ways in which moments or events are rapidly subsumed back into the flux of the everyday, their impact left uncertain. Critics have, historically, offered up singular readings of Green's work, or focused on the poetic or recreative qualities of certain works, particularly those of the 1940s. Green's writing is, undoubtedly, poetic and extraordinary, but this book also pays attention to the clichéd, meta-textual, and uneventful aspects of his fiction., Henry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday offers a critical prism through which Green's fiction-from his earliest published short stories, as an Eton schoolboy, through to his last dialogic novels of the 195s-can be seen as a coherent, subtle, and humorous critique of the tension between class, style, and realism in the first half of the twentieth century. The study extends on-going critical recognition that Green's work is central to the development of the novel from the twenties to the fifties, acting as a vital bridge between late modernist, inter-war, post-war, and postmodernist fiction. The overarching contention is that the shifting and destabilizing nature of Green's oeuvre sets up a predicament similar to that confronted by theorists of the everyday. Consequently, each chapter acknowledges the indeterminacy of the writing, whether it be: the non-singular functioning (or malfunctioning) of the name; the open-ended, purposefully ambiguous nature of its symbols; the shifting, cinematic nature of Green's prose style; the sensitive, but resolutely unsentimental depictions of the working-classes and the aristocracy in the inter-war period; the impact of war and its inconsistent irruptions into daily life; or the ways in which moments or events are rapidly subsumed back into the flux of the everyday, their impact left uncertain. Critics have, historically, offered up singular readings of Green's work, or focused on the poetic or recreative qualities of certain works, particularly those of the 194s. Green's writing is, undoubtedly, poetic and extraordinary, but this book also pays attention to the clichéd, meta-textual, and uneventful aspects of his fiction., Henry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday offers a critical prism through which Green's fiction--from his earliest published short stories, as an Eton schoolboy, through to his last dialogic novels of the 1950s--can be seen as a coherent, subtle, and humorous critique of the tension between class, style, and realism in the first half of the twentieth century. The study extends on-going critical recognition that Green's work is central to the development of the novel from the twenties to the fifties, acting as a vital bridge between late modernist, inter-war, post-war, and postmodernist fiction. The overarching contention is that the shifting and destabilizing nature of Green's oeuvre sets up a predicament similar to that confronted by theorists of the everyday. Consequently, each chapter acknowledges the indeterminacy of the writing, whether it be: the non-singular functioning (or malfunctioning) of the name; the open-ended, purposefully ambiguous nature of its symbols; the shifting, cinematic nature of Green's prose style; the sensitive, but resolutely unsentimental depictions of the working-classes and the aristocracy in the inter-war period; the impact of war and its inconsistent irruptions into daily life; or the ways in which moments or events are rapidly subsumed back into the flux of the everyday, their impact left uncertain. Critics have, historically, offered up singular readings of Green's work, or focused on the poetic or recreative qualities of certain works, particularly those of the 1940s. Green's writing is, undoubtedly, poetic and extraordinary, but this book also pays attention to the cliched, meta-textual, and uneventful aspects of his fiction., Henry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday combines biography, social-historical context, and close readings of all of Green's novels to provide a clearer vantage-point from which to see into the challenges and pleasures awaiting the reader of Green's fiction.

LC Classification NumberPR6013.R416