Lord ByronTwayne Publishers, 1998 - 189 sider Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES AUTHORS, ENGLISH AUTHORS, and WORLD AUTHORS Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume features: a critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works; a brief biography of the author; an accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author; aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography, and an index; and a readable style presented in a manageable length. |
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Peter W. Graham. Chapter Four Tales The generic term tale casts a wide net that holds all narratives with sim- ple plots . Tales can be true or imaginary , exemplary or amoral , prose or verse . Here , “ tale " will serve as the category ...
... tale was an accretive snake , his last two , The Siege of Corinth and Parisina , are patchworks . As McGann's textual schol- arship has shown , these concurrently published tales resulted from Byron's intermittent but persistent ...
... tale that finally became The Siege of Corinth yet remained , and Byron discovered the historical incident onto which he could splice this remnant in a new 1814 edition of Gibbons's Miscellaneous Works . His intent , as McGann puts it ...