The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist
Autor John Mullanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 oct 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408866825
ISBN-10: 140886682X
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 140886682X
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
As well as an expert on Charles Dickens, John Mullan is a well-known literary figure and a prolific broadcaster and journalist - he spent many years as the Guardian's 'Book Club' columnist and was on the judging panel for the Booker Prize
Notă biografică
John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has published extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. He is also a prolific broadcaster and journalist, and writes on contemporary fiction for the Guardian. In 2009 he was one of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent book is What Matters in Jane Austen? He has lectured widely on both Austen and Dickens in the UK and the US, and makes regular appearances at UK literary festivals. He lives in London.
Recenzii
Splendid . Mullan's book is too rich to capture in a review. Each chapter shoots off in a fresh direction and illuminates it . You must, and should, read Mullan's book. Even if you know a lot about Dickens you will find revelations in it, and if you know nothing about Dickens and want to learn what makes him great it will be the perfect appetiser
In this brilliantly sharp book, John Mullan delves into all the ways in which the Great Boz grabs our attention on page one of his novels and refuses to let go until we are deposited a thousand pages later . Mullan is a professor of English literature, which means that he has a forensic eye for how Dickens produces his spellbinding effects . This vastly entertaining book gives the sense that Mullan is a man with a mission . Mullan makes us see that Charles Dickens was one of the most artful, which is to say skilled, writers the world has ever seen
Mullan has taken the most popular Victorian novelist and, by holding different facets of his literary technique up to the light, found new angles from which to admire the work. By the end of this teacherly but readable analysis, Dickens's novels are sparkling as if spring-cleaned . Surrendering to Mullan's guided tour, we are swept into the world of Pip and Magwitch, Scrooge, the Boffins, Lady Dedlock, and a host of other familiar and much loved, loathed or pitiable characters from his extensive portrait gallery . The Artful Dickens is a fulsome tribute to a writer whose commonly perceived flaws are part of what makes him great
A spritely and surprising study of Dickens . Mullan wears his formidable learning lightly in revealing how a teeming imagination made it on to the page
The Artful Dickens is full of such nuggets. Put it on your Christmas list and spend the post-goose collapse reading the good bits aloud
John Mullan is that rare bird, a literary critic you want to read. His vigorous prose style, his generosity and acumen, his freedom from jargon, and the fact that he is an entertainer in his own right, make him the ideal guide to Dickens' genius. This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book - pointing even the most knowledgeable Dickensians to scenes they hadn't noticed, sentences they hadn't remembered, "tricks and ploys" they'd never sufficiently appreciated. It doesn't go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens
A feast of Dickensian knowledge
Excellent . The closer we look, the better the novels get. The Artful Dickens is both an exposure of the trickster's methods and a celebration of close reading . Enlightening . If Mullan put into his hat a creator of gargoyles and spinner of melodrama, he pulled out an innovator who broke all the rules. The Artful Dickens made me feel that I had been in some form of trance during my earlier reading of these novels
The most enlivening book about Dickens in the last thirty years, and very warmly recommended
In this brilliantly sharp book, John Mullan delves into all the ways in which the Great Boz grabs our attention on page one of his novels and refuses to let go until we are deposited a thousand pages later . Mullan is a professor of English literature, which means that he has a forensic eye for how Dickens produces his spellbinding effects . This vastly entertaining book gives the sense that Mullan is a man with a mission . Mullan makes us see that Charles Dickens was one of the most artful, which is to say skilled, writers the world has ever seen
Mullan has taken the most popular Victorian novelist and, by holding different facets of his literary technique up to the light, found new angles from which to admire the work. By the end of this teacherly but readable analysis, Dickens's novels are sparkling as if spring-cleaned . Surrendering to Mullan's guided tour, we are swept into the world of Pip and Magwitch, Scrooge, the Boffins, Lady Dedlock, and a host of other familiar and much loved, loathed or pitiable characters from his extensive portrait gallery . The Artful Dickens is a fulsome tribute to a writer whose commonly perceived flaws are part of what makes him great
A spritely and surprising study of Dickens . Mullan wears his formidable learning lightly in revealing how a teeming imagination made it on to the page
The Artful Dickens is full of such nuggets. Put it on your Christmas list and spend the post-goose collapse reading the good bits aloud
John Mullan is that rare bird, a literary critic you want to read. His vigorous prose style, his generosity and acumen, his freedom from jargon, and the fact that he is an entertainer in his own right, make him the ideal guide to Dickens' genius. This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book - pointing even the most knowledgeable Dickensians to scenes they hadn't noticed, sentences they hadn't remembered, "tricks and ploys" they'd never sufficiently appreciated. It doesn't go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens
A feast of Dickensian knowledge
Excellent . The closer we look, the better the novels get. The Artful Dickens is both an exposure of the trickster's methods and a celebration of close reading . Enlightening . If Mullan put into his hat a creator of gargoyles and spinner of melodrama, he pulled out an innovator who broke all the rules. The Artful Dickens made me feel that I had been in some form of trance during my earlier reading of these novels
The most enlivening book about Dickens in the last thirty years, and very warmly recommended