Laurence Lerner
Autor/a de Shakespeare's Tragedies: An Anthology of Modern Criticism
Sobre l'autor
Laurence Lerner was Professor of English at the University of Sussex and then at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee.
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Obres de Laurence Lerner
Dickon & David 1 exemplars
The Novelist as Innovator, with an Introduction By Walter Allen (1965) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The directions of memory : poems, 1958-1963 1 exemplars
Thomas Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge": Tragedy or Social History? (Text & Context) (1975) 1 exemplars
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Western Art 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (1988) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Lerner, Laurence David
- Data de naixement
- 1925-12-12
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- South Africa
UK - Lloc de naixement
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Llocs de residència
- Cape Town, South Africa
USA
England, UK - Educació
- University of Cape Town
Cambridge University (Pembroke College) - Professions
- literary critic
poet
novelist - Organitzacions
- University of Sussex
Queen's University, Belfast
Vanderbilt University
Membres
Ressenyes
The two Cinnas: Quakerism, revolution and poetry: a… de Laurence Lerner
Friends are used to challenging themselves for not living up to their principles; the purpose of the 1984 Swarthmore lecture is to ask questions about the principles themselves, and to state the position of someone who finds it hard to accept the Quaker testimony on nonviolence because it seems to him politically timid, and of someone who cannot accept the austere moral earnestness of Quakerism because it seems to her closed to the delight of experiencing the world in its richness.
Examines the debate about the value of the Quaker principles of non-violence and simplicity through a dialogue between the conspirator Cinna and poet Cinna from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and a modern Friend. DQMH 2015.
1172. Thomas Hardy and his readers: A Selection of Contemporary Reviews, edited by Laurence Lerner and John Holmstrom (read 22 Jul 1972) This was fun reading though I recognized that it was ephemeral, and acknowledged it would be more worthwhile to read more thoughtful and considered studies of Hardy. I concluded it was fortunate that some of the censorious reviewers did not live to our time, since they'd have been horrified at the stuff being published now, illustrating the truth of the maxim that when one can't stand the times anymore one'll gain surcease thru death.… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 29
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 332
- Popularitat
- #71,553
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 47