Peter Mayer
Overview page. Subjects: Bibliography.
(1936– ) US publisher.
At Avon Books in the 1970s, Mayer launched the trade paperback as an alternative to mass-market paperbacks. He brought a more commercial outlook to Penguin...
Discovery of a Lack: The Last September (1928)
in Elizabeth Bowen
September 2004; p ublished online September 2007 .
Chapter. Subjects: Literary Studies (20th Century onwards). 9872 words.
This chapter offers a reading of Bowen's novel, The Last September, set during the Troubles in Ireland in the 1920s, taking stock of some historical accounts of the period, notably Peter...
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‘In Different Voices’: Modernism Since the 1960s
in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
September 2013; p ublished online December 2013 .
Article. Subjects: Literature; Literary Studies (20th Century onwards); Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets). 8914 words.
Although the era of modernist poetry is often thought to have ended at the mid-century, its experimental spirit has continued to raise questions about lyric voice in post-war Britain. A...
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