- Fiction
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191611271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplanted from Europe creates the first classic American short stories, 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow'. The result was not only a hugely successful travel book; it exerted a strong formative influence on American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe to Henry James, and is well worth rediscovery in its own right today. Based on Irving's final revision of his most popular work, this new edition includes comprehensive explanatory notes of The Sketch-Book's sources for the modern reader. In her introduction, Susan Manning suggests that the author forged a new idiom, the 'Literary Picturesque', to accommodate and turn to advantage his dilemma of dual literary allegiances. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Released on 1998-05-211998-05-21
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191611271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book (1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. He sketches a series of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parent nation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplanted from Europe creates the first classic American short stories, 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow'. The result was not only a hugely successful travel book; it exerted a strong formative influence on American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe to Henry James, and is well worth rediscovery in its own right today. Based on Irving's final revision of his most popular work, this new edition includes comprehensive explanatory notes of The Sketch-Book's sources for the modern reader. In her introduction, Susan Manning suggests that the author forged a new idiom, the 'Literary Picturesque', to accommodate and turn to advantage his dilemma of dual literary allegiances. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Tappan Zee Edition of Irving's Works: The sketch-book
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. By the author of the Sketch book (W. I.). With a biographical notice
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The sketch book
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages :
Book Description
The Sketch Book
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Sketchbook
Author: Gerd Presler
Publisher: XinXii
ISBN: 3969318122
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Sketchbooks are an outstanding feature in more than a few exhibitions: they have a downright prominent place in showcases, above them monitors where all sheets can be seen on touch screens – a visual pleasure and an exciting event. Unfortunately, however, many people continue to be rather baffled by sketchbooks. What goes on there? Most are convinced that the purpose of a sketchbook is to prepare for a work – typically a painting. Its pages contain impressions of a preliminary nature, sketched in a few strokes, which are completed at another time and another place. But things have changed, and this is a development we have to examine at long last in greater depth: sketchbooks can accomplish more; they plough a field other than that of “pre-liminarity”! To date there is no publication that explores their true significance within the creative process. Is it not called for to take a close look at the weight artists attach to the “silent companion in their jacket pocket”? This is the purpose of this book.
The Sketch Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788492731961
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 600
Book Description
A Cézanne Sketchbook
Author: Paul Cézanne
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486247908
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Great artist experiments with tonal effects, light, mass, other qualities in over 100 drawings. A revealing view of developing master painter, precursor of Cubism. 102 black-and-white illustrations.
The Paris Sketch Book
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
