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Books on: hard times novel

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Time, Place, and Idea: Essays on the Novel

Book by John Henry Raleigh; Southern Illinois University Press, 1968

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American Fiction--History And Criticism, English Fiction--History And Criticism, Fiction, Place (Philosophy) In Literature, Time In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...divergences, and only Time shall show us whither...20 . Occasionally the time sense becomes incorporated...the main themes of the novel and becomes thus an expression of that theme. In Hard Times the major theme is the...itself. Accordingly time becomes mechanized as...darker world of the later novels, time is generally fatality...
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Time and the Novel

Book by A. A. Mendilow; Peter Nevill, 1952

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Fiction--History And Criticism, Time In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and the probable, the novel proper claimed from the...Reeve for example: The Novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the times in which it is written...likely to happen. The Novel gives a familiar relation...many conventions died hard. Even when we come to...
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The Rules of Time: Time and Rhythm in the Twentieth-Century Novel

Book by R. A. York; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999

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English Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Fiction--Technique, Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th Century, Rhythm, Time In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...sentence is particu- larly hard: the events of the novel are recent at the time of publication (they occur...the cave. But the first-time reader has no reason to know...for another, it marks the time taken by Aziz to get from an...
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Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel

Book by Philip Fisher; Oxford University Press, 1987

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American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, Cities And Towns In Literature, Historical Fiction, American, Popular Literature--United States--History And Criticism, Sentimentalism In Literature, Setting (Literature), Slavery In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of showy wasteful dining." The word "showy" is used many times in the novel to mark the conversion of experience into performance. In...wanted to "exhibit" her daughter Jessica since it had become time for the part of encouraging suitors. The force of the term...
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Doing Time in American Prisons: A Study of Modern Novels

Book by Dennis Massey; Greenwood Press, 1989

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American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Prisoners' Writings, American--History And Criticism, Prisons In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fictional Vampires. By the time Bunker novel on prison life in San Quentin...caught up in it. His first novel, the powerful No Beast So Fierce describes the hard times of a parolee, Max Dembo...violent temper. In both these novels, Bunker gets beneath the stereotypes...

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Journal Articles on: hard times novel

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"Some Fantasy on Earth": Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times as Novel and Film

Journal article by Joanna Rapf; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 13, 1985

Subjects:

Motion pictures, Novels, Violence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Doctorows Welcome to Hard Times as Novel and Film by Joanna...Bluestone in his seminal Novels into Film. A novel, he says, should...understandable obligation to a novel is ill-founded...persuasive. Films and novels are distinct art...happened to Hard Times, Doctorows book...writing. "Real time," Blue tells us...
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Dicken's Pathology of Time in 'Hard Times.'

Journal article by Eric P. Levy; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 74, 1995

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Characters and characteristics in literature--Analysis, Dickens, Charles--Works, Hard Times (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Dickens pathology of time in Hard Times. by Eric P. Levy...historical accuracy of the novel -- investigating...and Discipline in Hard Times," Studies in the Novel 21.1 1989): the...foregoing analysis of time in Hard Times rescues Dickens from...
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Dickens's Literary Architecture: Patterns of Ideas and Imagery in Hard Times

Journal article by John R. Harrison; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 36, 2000

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Dickens, Charles--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Figures of speech--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hard Times (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Novelists--19th century, Style, Literary--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and Imagery in Hard Times. by John...described the novels as "all fragments...experimental novel. Hard Times, however, has...Dickenss other novels-Johnson singled...recorder" murders time, knocks every...Reading of the Novels. London: Macmillan...Holloway, John. "Hard Times: A History...Realism in Hard Times." ELH 59...Pathology of Time in Hard Times...
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Anil's Ghost and Terrorism's Time

Journal article by Margaret Scanlan; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 36, 2004

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Anil's Ghost (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Ondaatje, Michael--Criticism and interpretation, Terrorism--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Ghost and Terrorisms Time. by Margaret Scanlan...earlier books, the novel asks the reader...and his earlier novels ("Interview...ruins, gaps in time, Palipana moves...history. In such times, is it not logical...remains for the novel, the deep-rooted...contemporary British novels as A.S. Byatts...light. One of the novels most remarkable...briefest fragments of time, to respect the...nobility, even in times of terror, matches...
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Great Mind Matures Slowly, but Has No Equal in Its Time: Journey to the West as a Genuine Fairytale Novel

Journal article by Wei Shu; Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, Vol. 16, 2006

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Chinese literature--Criticism and interpretation, Chinese literature--Forecasts and trends, Fairy tales--Criticism and interpretation, The Journey to the West (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...but Has No Equal in Its Time: Journey to the West as a Genuine Fairytale Novel. by Wei Shu Books Past...property of the fairytale novel of the Chinese classical...Great Classical Chinese Novels, and largely because...called a mythological novel, a metaphysical novel...novel, s/he would try hard to keep it a secret...

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Magazine Articles on: hard times novel

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Hard Times: False, Fragmented and Unfair, Dickens's 19th-Century London Offers a Grimly Prophetic Vision of the World Today. Terry Eagleton on Why Bleak House Remains One of Our Most Urgently Contemporary Novels

Magazine article by Terry Eagleton; New Statesman, Vol. 132, April 7, 2003

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Bleak House (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Bleak House (Book)--Social aspects, Dickens, Charles, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Political aspects, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Social aspects, London, England--History, London, England--Social aspects

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Hard Times: False, Fragmented and Unfair...Most Urgently Contemporary Novels. by Terry Eagleton Some novels...and human beings are becoming hard to distinguish from bits of...an inventor). They are the hard-headed types who will dispel...
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Face Time a Novel

Magazine article by Rex Roberts; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, March 15, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Face Time (Book)--Reviews

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FACE TIME A NOVEL by Rex Roberts Fiction or...Clintons first term -- and its hard to imagine the chief executives...cuckold -- and Tarloff works hard to transform adultery into...should slug Gretchen; its hard to say since its difficult...
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Hard Times

Magazine article by D.J. Taylor; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, August 1, 2011

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Outward Room (Novel)--Book reviews

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Hard Times. by D.J. Taylor...the interwar American novel have fallen off the...masterpiece from the time of the Calvin Coolidge...honest, and at the same time refreshing and lovely...characters destiny for all time. What connects them...
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Liberalism's Lost Script: Democrats Used to Thrive on Hollywood Endings. Today, Liberalism Is More like a Dark, Complicated Novel. It's Time to Go Back to Making Movies

Magazine article by Neal Gabler; The American Prospect, Vol. 15, April 2004

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Conservatism--Political aspects, Iraq War, 2003--Political aspects, Liberalism--Political aspects, Optimism--Political aspects

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...Is More like a Dark, Complicated Novel. Its Time to Go Back to Making Movies. by...explaining why liberals have had such a hard time in electoral politics recently...well. Rather, it was a form of hard-boiled realism. You had to take...
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The Times That Try Men's Souls : Two New Novels Attempt to Tell the Story of the American Revolution as It Was Fought in the Southern Colonies

Magazine article by J.B. Cheaney; World and I, Vol. 19, January 2004

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Brave Enemies (Book), The Hornet's Nest (Book)

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The Times That Try Mens Souls : Two New Novels Attempt to Tell...House. Her third novel, Hazel Andersens...1973, Gore Vidals novel Burr replaced our...under way by the time of the Bicentennial...profile, mainstream novels scheduled to appear...that unpublishable novels are usually not...book. So when is a novel not a novel? In...obvious; there is no time. The two men must...engaging and at times even moving because...

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Newspaper Articles on: hard times novel

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Hard Times Reflect Spirit of Dickens; THE Spirit of Dickens Is Keeping the Spectre of Cutbacks at Bay in Northumberland. DAVID WHETSTONE Sees a New Show Taking Shape

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 19, 2010

Subjects:

The Old Curiosity Shop (Novel)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Hard Times Reflect Spirit of Dickens...storytellers own father did time in a debtors prison. In...story will chime with the times when it hits the road in...is also a product of the times. This time last year, when deciding...
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Lean's Birth Centennial Calls for Recognition; Oversight Hard to Understand for Director of Many Classics over Four-Decade Career

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 28, 2008

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A Passage to India (Novel)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Leans Birth Centennial Calls for Recognition; Oversight Hard to Understand for Director of Many Classics over Four-Decade Career. Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The centennial of David Leans birth, on March 25, 1908, in Croydon...
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Tran-Spotting New Role for Gritty Author of 'Hard Man' Cult Novel as Irvine Welsh Crosses over into a Woman's World

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 20, 2007

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Cults

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...for Gritty Author of Hard Man Cult Novel as Irvine Welsh Crosses...former heroin addict whose novels, portraying the gritty...best known for his novel Trainspotting, which...said: This guy is a hard man in Leith but he gets...Interviewed in the Radio Times, he said: He Tommy...falling forward all the time. It made me feel quite...
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Ring Favourite Foley's Novel New Profession; Hard-Core Wrestling Legend Mick Foley Tells Tom Scotney about Life as a Novelist, and How Writing Children's Books Is Just as Exciting as Being a WWE Champion

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 23, 2007

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Children's books, Foley, Mick, Novelists

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Ring Favourite Foleys Novel New Profession; Hard-Core Wrestling Legend...moon if their maiden novel was praised by literary...Foley released his first novel Tietam Brown, he was...of autobiography, two novels and a series of childrens...what I missed the first time" with his wife and four...many strange and painful times, but Foley says one...
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I Taught Ian McEwan Brain Surgery, but I Wouldn't Swap Jobs ... Writing Novels Sounds Such Hard Work; Brain Surgeon Neil Kitchen Showed Novelist Ian McEwan the Secrets of Neurosurgery for His New Bestseller, Saturday. This Is How Kitchen Reached the Top of His Profession ..

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 31, 2005

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McEwan, Ian

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Swap Jobs ... Writing Novels Sounds Such Hard Work; Brain Surgeon...house in Essex the entire time. It was near Epping...parents were around at meal times and in the early evening...mess around. By the time I was 13, Id settled...character in his new novel, Saturday, was a neurosurgeon...him, though. Writing novels, thats what I call really...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: hard times novel

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Dickens, Charles

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...than one novel at a time, and usually finished...the most popular novels of his day. When...1842) and the novel Martin Chuzzlewit...years other short novels and stories written...string of triumphant novels including David...his own favorite novel, which was partly...House (1853); Hard Times (1854); Little...
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Doctorow, E. L

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in American history. His first work was a novel of the 19th-century West, Welcome to Hard Times (1960), but he did not win wide recognition...and fictional characters. Doctorows other novels include Ragtime (1975), which recreates...
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Oklahoma

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...entered ahead of the set time were the nicknamed the...development. At the same time, cotton, wheat, and...1920s the state fell upon hard times. Recurrent drought burned...theme of John Steinbecks novel The Grapes of Wrath...water and, at the same time, meeting irrigation needs...
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Minnesota , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...famous for its old-time boomtowns, lie rolling...inhabited long before the time of the Mound Builders...Minneapolis). At the time the French arrived, the...Minnesota particularly hard because of land speculation, but difficult times did not prevent the achievement...for experimentation in novel features of local government...
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Mystery

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Hammett initiated the "hard-boiled" detective...of the detective novel is the espionage...convoluted in plot, these novels emphasize action...authors of espionage novels are Graham Greene...make the mystery novel their own. For example...Ruth Rendell for her novels combining character...Haycroft, The Life and Times of the Detective...

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