W H New: 2 books
Grandchild of Empire
About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Canada's foremost literary critic looks at the politics of irony in modern writing and explains how it relates to imperial history, how it impacts upon personal memories, how it speaks from the margin, and how it indirectly teaches us to resist presumptuous authority. Funny, informed and emotionally...
by The New Yorker Magazine, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
This captivating anthology gathers historic New Yorker pieces from a decade of trauma and upheaval—as well as the years when The New Yorker came of age, with pieces by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Joseph Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, and George Orwell, alongside original reflections on the 1940s...