FIRBANK, RONALD

(Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank), 1886–1926, English author. Of a delicate and eccentric nature, Firbank lived the life of a leisured aesthete. His novels, which have appealed to a small but appreciative audience, include Vainglory (1915), Valmouth (1919), Prancing Nigger (1924), and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). Written in a highly personal, satiric style with no conventional plots, his books are disciplined journeys into a world inhabited by bizarre characters. His writings have had an influence on the novels of such writers as Evelyn Waugh, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Aldous Huxley.

See his complete works (with a preface by A. Powell, 1961); biographies by M. J. Benkovitz (1969) and B. Brophy (1973).

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Three Novels: Vainglory; Inclinations; Caprice
Book by Ronald Firbank; G. Duckworth, 1950
Subjects: Fiction
THREE NOVELS BY RONALD FIRBANK RONALD FIRBANK from a pastel by CHARLES SHANNON, R.A. Ronald Firbank THREE NOVELS VAINGLORY INCLINATIONS CAPRICE With...
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The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland
Book by Ronald Carter, John McRae; Routledge, 2001
Subjects: English Language--History, English Literature--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Intellectual Life, Ireland--Intellectual Life
...Britain and Ireland SECOND EDITION RONALD CARTER AND JOHN McRAE with a foreword...of the Taylor Francis Group 2001 Ronald Carter and John McRae Typeset in Adobe...Cataloging in Publication Data Carter, Ronald. The Routledge history of literature...
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Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History
Book by Ronald J. Grele, Studs Terkel, Jan Vansina, Dennis Tedlock, Saul Benison, Alice Kessler Harris; Praeger Publishers, 1991
Subjects: Oral History
...Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged Ronald J. Grele With: Studs Terkel Jan Vansina...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grele, Ronald J. Envelopes of sound : the art of oral history / Ronald J. Grele with Studs Terkel . . . et...
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures
Book by George E. Haggerty, John Beynon, Douglas Eisner; Garland, 2000
Subjects: Gays--History, Gays--Social Life And Customs
...Durrell, Lawrence English Literature Esenin, Sergey Fiction Fiction: New Queer Narrative Field, Edward Firbank, Ronald Ford, Charles Henri Forster, E(dward) M(organ) French Literature Garcia Lorca, Federico Garcia Marquez...
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Noble Essences: A Book of Characters
Book by Osbert Sitwell; Little, Brown & Company, 1950
Subjects: Fiction
...Edmund Gosse 40 III Ronald Firbank 77 IV Wilfred Owen...Some, like Gosse, are erudite and pernickety, like Firbank, fantastic as a drawing by Callot, or like Ada Leverson...
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'Aggressive, Witty & Unrelenting': Brigid Brophy and Ronald Firbank
Journal article by Peter Parker; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 15, 1995
Subjects: Authors, English--Biography, Brophy, Brigid--Works, Firbank, Ronald--Biography, Women novelists--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...unrelenting: Brigid Brophy and Ronald Firbank. by Peter Parker...Brigid Brophy was reviewing Ronald Firbanks The New Rythum and Other Pieces...Critical Biography in Praise of Ronald Firbank." Once again, it seemed characteristic...
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The Nineteenth (1992) Supplement to a Cross-Referenced Index of Short Fiction Anthologies and Author-Title Listings
Journal article by Landon C. Burns, Elizabeth Buckmaster, Jane E. Cooper; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, 1993
Subjects: Anthologies--Bibliography, English literature--Collections and collecting, Short stories--Bibliography
...The Interruption" Keverne, Richard "Cast-Iron Alibi" Knox, Ronald "The Adventure of the First Clas...
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Something to See: Spectacle and Savagery in Leonora Carrington's Fiction
Journal article by Rachel Carroll; Critique, Vol. 39, 1998
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Mortification" (5) recalls that of Ronald Firbank to whom Ernest Jones, attributes...of Technology P, 1991 . Firbank, Ronald. The Flower Beneath the Foot...1948 . Horder, Mervyn, ed. Ronald Firbank: Memoirs and Critiques . London...
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Brigid Brophy: An Introduction and Checklist
Journal article by Steven Moore; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 15, 1995
Subjects: Authors, English--20th century, Brophy, Brigid--Works, Literature--Aesthetics, Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...of fiction in the form of a critical biography of Ronald Firbank," Prancing Novelist. Her literary career began early...of Fiction in the Form of a Critical Biography of Ronald Firbank. London: Macmillan, 1973; New York: Barnes Noble...
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Communication Breakdown and the 'Twin Genius' of Brophy's 'In Transit.'
Journal article by Patricia Lee; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 15, 1995
Subjects: Black humor (Literature)--Psychological aspects, Brophy, Brigid--Works, In Transit (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Brophy shows in Prancing Novelist, Ronald Firbank and other psychological writers...Critical Biography in Praise of Ronald Firbank (New York: Barnes Noble, 1973...Boulder. She delivered a paper on Firbank at the 1994 MLA Convention.
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Creating a Fuhrer
Magazine article by Brooke Allen; New Criterion, Vol. 16, May 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Making History (Book)--Reviews, The Smithsonian Institution (Book)--Reviews
...funny but pointless, not so much Jonathan Swift as Ronald Firbank: when T. meets Lindy, for example, the only question...the British and American presses with Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Firbank, E. F. Benson, Monty Python, and Oscar Wilde himself...
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Sins & Sensibility
Magazine article by William Logan; New Criterion, Vol. 17, December 1998
Subjects: A Working Girl Can't Win (Poem)--Works, Babylon in a Jar (Poem)--Works, Blizzard of One (Poem)--Works, Hay (Poem)--Works, Poetry--Works, Sweet Machine (Poem)--Works, Ten Commandments (Poem)--Works, The Bird Catcher (Poem)--Works
...pearled. When he mingles disgust and the aesthetic, you think, Ronald Firbank, look out! Occasionally, Doty makes some gesture toward the...
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Experience
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000
Subjects: English writers, Memoirs
...that book. I have nothing against Martin Amis in particular or the dandy school of letters in general, but a story by Ronald Firbank that was set in the trenches of Passchendaele would have been incongruous, to say the least, or "my novel about the...
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The Prisoner of Cool: Elmore Leonard's Talents Have Increasingly Become Cooped Up in His Hallmark Tough-Guy Aesthetic
Magazine article by B.R. Myers; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 296, November 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Hot Kid (Book)--Book reviews
...Though pioneered a century ago by the English dandy Ronald Firbank, and then popularized by a man whose first name was...pride in it. Unfortunately, it compels him (as it did Firbank and Waugh) to stick to talkative characters. This excludes...
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Letters of Kingsley Amis
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000
Subjects: Amis, Kingsley, English writers, Letters (Correspondence)
...that book. I have nothing against Martin Amis in particular or the dandy school of letters in general, but a story by Ronald Firbank that was set in the trenches of Passchendaele would have been incongruous, to say the least, or "my novel about the...
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newspaper articles on: Firbank Ronald  - 3 results

 
 
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Time to Take a Stand and Stop Just Chewing the Fat the Fat
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 7, 2006
Subjects: Food industry, Obesity
...forced to assimilate. As a parting thought, heres my favourite quotation from the comic novelist Ronald Firbank. More than 80 years ago, Firbank was asked by a friend what one should order in that previous generation of fast food outlets, a Lyons...
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Going Down the Slippery Slide with Auntie
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 30, 2007
...for the BBCmyself intermittently includedthe relationship has always been on a love-hate basis. What the novelist Ronald Firbank said of a certain complacent countryOoh, I could shake Switzerland!says it all. But at the end of the long and rainy...
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The Pick of Summer Reading; FICTION Which Books to Take on Holiday? David Sexton Tips the Ones to Pack - and Some to Avoid
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 4, 2005
...herself. "She moved in her own accelerated element, her own garlanded perspective ..." Its the funny, bitchy novel Ronald Firbank would have written were he alive today. NON-FICTION Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Cape...


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encyclopedia articles on: Firbank Ronald  - 1 result

 
 
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Firbank, Ronald
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FIRBANK, RONALD (Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank), 1886 1926, English author. Of a delicate and eccentric nature, Firbank lived the life of a leisured aesthete. His novels, which have...


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