South Sea Tales - Brossura

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192837001 ISBN 13: 9780192837004

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1999

Riassunto

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of `The Beach at Falesé, the folktale plots of `The Bottle Imp' and `The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross- cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world.

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Product Description:

RO30041812. SOUTH SEA TALES. 1999. In-12. Broché. Parfait état, Couv. fraîche, Dos impeccable, Intérieur frais. 289 pages. Ouvrage en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Contenuti:

The Beach of Falesá; The Bottle Imp; The Isle of Voices; The Ebb-Tide; A Trio and Quartette; The Cart-Horses and the Saddle-Horse; Something In It.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192837001
• ISBN 13: 9780192837004
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Redattore: Jolly Roslyn