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...isolation. A fine antidote to this trend is John Burrow's A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century, an ambitious and accessible account of the historian's craft over the last 2,500 years. In the tradition of Ford Madox Ford's The March of Literature and Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, Burrow's book is at once idiosyncratic and encyclopedic. A former professor of European thought at Oxford University, Burrow marshals a lifetime of knowledge and guides the reader effortlessly across the ages...
...years after coming to Radcliffe, Madox has written articles for The Economist, the London Times and the Daily Telegraph. She’s authored eight books and won two Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the British Silver Pen Award, a Whitbread Award nomination and the Critics Circle Award for her writing...
...modern literature, of course, the watershed event was World War I, when a new generation of writers was affected by violence they had never imagined; it later found an outlet in their novels and poetry. Though the impact wasn't immediate - it took a decade for works like Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front to emerge - the war introduced new voices and a new seriousness to Western literature...
...first it seems as if Jong has deliberately created a boorish, self- deluded heroine, like the flawed narrator in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, whose unreliable confessions the reader learns to unravel and reinterpret. Nope. No such luck. Jong takes Leila Sand seriously. Worse yet, she expects the reader to do the same...
...waters and fluids in Hemingway -- lake water and trout stream and Gulf Stream and the rain after Caporetto and the endless washes of alcohol refracting in his brain. His style was a stream with the stones of nouns in it and a surface of prepositional ripples. Ford Madox Ford wrote that a Hemingway page "has the effect of a brook-bottom into which you look down through the flowing water. The words form a tesselation, each in order beside the other...