{"title":"Birns Nicholas","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"understanding-anthony-powell-book-birns-nicholas-9781611170511","title":"Understanding Anthony Powell","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of Anthony Powell's career and growing reputation in this introduction to the British writer's nineteen novels and his memoirs and journals. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among the second generation of British modernists. Birns adds to the understanding of how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a next wave modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirns offers readings of Powell's entire oeuvre, including the novels\u003ci\u003e Afternoon Men, Venusberg, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Fisher King, \u003c\/i\u003e and his journals, which appeared in print between 1995 and 1997. Looking especially closely at\u003ci\u003e A Dance to the Music of Time, \u003c\/i\u003ethe twelve-volume sequence of novels that is Powell's masterpiece, Birns sets the series in its social and historical context, emphasizing the role that both world wars and the cold war played in Powell's life and writing. Birns shows that instead of setting forth a single champion against evil, Powell subtly communicates a half-melancholy, half-humorous sensibility in which he invites the reader to share.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49565875470609,"sku":"GOR013744635","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1611170516.jpg?v=1763473878"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-birns-nicholas.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}