Margaret Drabble s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has its own unique brilliance. Her penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity, her sense of irony all are on display here, in stories that explore marriage, female friendships, the English tourist abroad, love affairs with houses, peace demonstrations, gin and tonics, cultural TV programs, in stories that are perceptive, sharp, and funny. With an introduction by the Spanish academic Jose Fernandez that places the...
Margaret Drabble s novels have illuminated the past fifty years, especially the changing lives of women, like no others. Yet her short fiction has ...
The essays collected in A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises have been written by a number of lecturers from different Spanish universities in order to offer a picture of the current state of affairs in English Studies, covering the areas of Contemporary Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Feminist and Gender Studies, Globalization and Media, Film, Music, and Crime Fiction, among others. The essays comprised in this volume tackle theoretical issues as well as practical cases, showing the vitality and scholarly rigour of all kinds of literary and cultural manifestations worldwide,...
The essays collected in A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises have been written by a number of lecturers from different Spanish universities in orde...
Margaret Drabble's long affiliation with the theatrical world inspired her to experiment with the dramatic form. She wrote two plays, Laura (1964) and Bird of Paradise (1969). Fernandez's penetrating new critical edition makes both plays available for the first time, giving Drabble fans a new vantage point from which to understand her work.
Margaret Drabble's long affiliation with the theatrical world inspired her to experiment with the dramatic form. She wrote two plays, Laura (1964) and...
Margaret Drabble's long affiliation with the theatrical world inspired her to experiment with the dramatic form. She wrote two plays, Laura (1964) and Bird of Paradise (1969). Fernandez's penetrating new critical edition makes both plays available for the first time, giving Drabble fans a new vantage point from which to understand her work.
Margaret Drabble's long affiliation with the theatrical world inspired her to experiment with the dramatic form. She wrote two plays, Laura (1964) and...
