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Sto caricando le informazioni... George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction (2020)di Christopher Wixson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a good entry in the series, offering an accessible overview of a writer whose output was so prodigious that it can be hard to get a handle on his oeuvre. Wixson does a good job. After a brief biographical chapter entitled 'GBS', we get six thematic chapters that are also broadly chronological ('Unpleasant', 'Pleasant', 'Puritan', 'Political', 'Extravagant' and 'Farfetched'). Each chapter looks at several plays in depth and outlines its plots and themes, as well as highlighting the key events in Shaw's literary life at that moment. While the scope of the book and its design is good, the writing is sometimes torturous. Long, long sentences laden with multiple clauses collapse under their own semantic weight. It is often becomes difficult to discern exactly what the writer is saying without re-reading and the over-all effect is to make Shaw's ideas unclear and muddy. For me, it actively detracted from what was otherwise a fine introduction to this playwright. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures seventy years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity. This Very Short Introduction looks at Shaw's life, starting with his upbringing in Ireland, and then takes a chronological approach through his works. Considering Shaw's committed antagonism on behalf of a range of socio-political issues; his use of comedy as a mode for communicating serious ideas; and his rhetorical style that pushes conventional boundaries, Christopher Wixson provides an overview of the creative evolution of core themes throughout Shaw's long career. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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