Mudrick, Marvin

Conrad : a collection of critical essays by Marvin Mudrick( Book )

25 editions published between 1966 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thirteen essays exploring Conrad's dramatic and moral concepts, especially the importance of action and sacrifice

Jane Austen : irony as defense and discovery by Marvin Mudrick( Book )

44 editions published between 1952 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,533 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The literary pretext: irony versus sentiment (Juvenilia) -- The literary pretext continued: irony versus Gothicism (Northanger Abbey) -- The literary pretext concluded: irony and convention versus feeling (Sense and Sensibility) -- Irony as discrimination (Pride and Prejudice) -- Gentility: ironic vision and conventional revision (Lady Susan and The Watsons) -- The triumph of gentility (Mansfield Park) -- Irony as form (Emma) -- The liberation of feeling (Persuasion) -- The liberation of irony (Sanditon)

Fifty years of the American short story : from the O. Henry awards, 1919-1970 by William Miller Abrahams( Book )

1 edition published in 1970 in English and held by 1,139 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selections from Prize stories

On culture and literature by Marvin Mudrick( Book )

7 editions published between 1970 and 2018 in English and held by 706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On Culture and Literature displays the style, brio, and independence of thought that makes Marvin Mudrick one of the few literary critics who is read for pleasure

Books are not life, but then, what is? by Marvin Mudrick( Book )

2 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 634 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Marvin Mudrick insists on seeing authors and their characters as people. He describes and judges them frankly as we do when we tell our friends about people we want to, or have to, spend time with. A collection such as this is an invitation to meet some of them. We meet heroes and monsters and plenty of people in between: Chaucer, Pepys, Rochester, Boswell, Jane Austen (and Anne Elliot), Dickens (and Pecksniff), Pushkin, Tolstoy, Kafka, Edmund Wilson, and many other novelists, scholars, and critics. We get to know them, so vivid are Mudrick's quotation and commentary. Essay after essay demonstrates that good criticism is itself good life and good literature. - Jacket flap

The man in the machine by Marvin Mudrick( Book )

9 editions published between 1975 and 2018 in English and held by 604 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Man in the Machine consists of lively, iconoclastic assessments of major writers and critics by Marvin Mudrick, about whom the critic Roger Sale wrote: ""T. S. Eliot was not so good a reviewer as Marvin Mudrick.""

Nobody here but us chickens by Marvin Mudrick( Book )

9 editions published between 1981 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 321 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a virtuoso display of literary and historical portraiture by Marvin Mudrick, whom the Washington Post called a ""literary curmudgeon, randy iconoclast, and a delight.""

Persuasion by Jane Austen( Book )

9 editions published between 1964 and 1980 in English and held by 254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this, Jane Austen's last novel, appears her most honorable heroine- Anne Elliot, a young women of perfect breeding, profound depth of emotion, and unswerving integrity. These virtues, however, exist in a world - the world of country gentry in Regency England- in which shallowness and hypocrisy thrive and ever threaten to win domination

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens( Book )

6 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 98 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Martin Chuzzlewit's wealthy grandfather forces him to emigrate to America after the selfish Martin falls in love with the wrong girl. Upon his return, Martin seems to prove his worth

Books are not life but then what is? by Marvin Mudrick( )

11 editions published between 1979 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is? demonstrates how much Marvin Mudrick loved life and celebrated the dignity of life in literature