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Dance Class: American High School Students Encounter Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time - Couverture souple

Gould, John A.

 
9781440129032: Dance Class: American High School Students Encounter Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1440129037 ISBN 13 : 9781440129032
Editeur : iUniverse, 2009

Synopsis

Dance Class offers an extraordinary collection of student essays about Anthony Powell's great comic novel A Dance to the Music of Time. The young authors not only discuss issues of character, plot, and theme, but they also investigate historical background, chart personal relevance, parody characters and situations, even - in one student's case - write a treatment for a drama. In examining Mrs. Erdleigh's fortune-telling mumbo-jumbo, Cassidy Carpenter presents compelling - and original - evidence that the narrator's birthday is the same as Powell's. Will Story provides an invaluable guide to all the military acronyms that percolate through the war novels. Alex Svec creates a brilliant parody of writings by Julian Maclaren-Ross, the real-life model for X. Trapnel. For those who love A Dance to the Music of Time, this book will reveal fresh new ways of looking at the series. And for those who are just discovering it, Dance Class will prove a useful and highly entertaining guide.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Dance Class offers an extraordinary collection of student essays about Anthony Powell's great comic novel A Dance to the Music of Time. The young authors not only discuss issues of character, plot, and theme, but they also investigate historical background, chart personal relevance, parody characters and situations, even - in one student's case - write a treatment for a drama. In examining Mrs. Erdleigh's fortune-telling mumbo-jumbo, Cassidy Carpenter presents compelling - and original - evidence that the narrator's birthday is the same as Powell's. Will Story provides an invaluable guide to all the military acronyms that percolate through the war novels. Alex Svec creates a brilliant parody of writings by Julian Maclaren-Ross, the real-life model for X. Trapnel. For those who love A Dance to the Music of Time, this book will reveal fresh new ways of looking at the series. And for those who are just discovering it, Dance Class will prove a useful and highly entertaining guide.

Biographie de l'auteur

For 26 years John Gould was an instructor in English literature and writing at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. During two of those years he taught a course in Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. He has published a novel, a memoir, two cookbooks, and a grammar textbook. Recently retired, he now lives north of Boston with his wife Jane, an Episcopal priest, and a cat.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1440129037
ISBN 13 
9781440129032
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
228
Coordonnées du fabricant
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