The Sphinx of Bloomsbury: The Literary Essays and Biographies of Lytton StracheyAkademiai Kiado, 2006 - 208 pagina's The Sphinx of Bloomsbury focuses on Lytton Strachey's literary critical essays and his major biographies. By placing his work in the broader context of the Modernist canon, this book offers a picture of the writer who wrote 'the first book of the twenties, ' who has been regarded as one of the cleverest men of his generation and one of the most prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, and who has been known for his stylish ease and elegance. Not only do Strachey's essays provide the ground for advocating his wide critical horizon, they also exemplify his essential critical attitude the attitude that dismisses a whole critical school of evaluative, prescriptive criticism. His biographies contain the biographer's musings and meditations on his craft and on the question of historiography, thus coming closer to Postmodernist issues. They point to the 'bio-graphical' tenet whereby knowledge is mediated through texts, and are tied up with acts of interpretation and narration. Strachey has |
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... Eminent Victorians ) With the publication of Eminent Victorians in 1918 , Lytton Strachey became what current jargon would call an instant hit and a celebrity . Three years later in 1921 he published another historical study , Queen ...
... Eminent Victorians ) With the publication of Eminent Victorians in 1918 , Lytton Strachey became what current jargon would call an instant hit and a celebrity . Three years later in 1921 he published another historical study , Queen ...
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... - ic sifting of those Victorian pretensions that seemed to have led civilization into a holocaust of unparalleled magnitude . " claims that Strachey's book thus " came to them as 101 On Heroes and Hero-Worship - Eminent Victorians.
... - ic sifting of those Victorian pretensions that seemed to have led civilization into a holocaust of unparalleled magnitude . " claims that Strachey's book thus " came to them as 101 On Heroes and Hero-Worship - Eminent Victorians.
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... Eminent Victorians " , On the Margin , Chatto & Windus , 1971 , pp . 141–147 . Iyengar , K. R. Srinivasa , Lytton ... Eminent Victorian , Harrington Park Press , 2002 . Unsigned articles , " Landmarks in French Literature " , TLS , 1 ...
... Eminent Victorians " , On the Margin , Chatto & Windus , 1971 , pp . 141–147 . Iyengar , K. R. Srinivasa , Lytton ... Eminent Victorian , Harrington Park Press , 2002 . Unsigned articles , " Landmarks in French Literature " , TLS , 1 ...
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Preface | 9 |
Abbreviations | 17 |
The Age of Louis XIV | 36 |
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