"1979, hardcover edition, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 140-page critical overview of the writer. In 1974, in a review, Jean Rhys was called "quite simply the best living English novelist." The author died in 1979 and her life is examined in this interesting title."
Dorothy Richardson by ThomasF. Staley 145 Pages, Published 1976 by Twayne Publrs, Us ISBN-13: 978-0-8057-6662-2, ISBN: 0-8057-6662-6
DLB 36(1st Edition) British Novelists, 1890-1929: Modernists (Dictionary of Literary Biography) by ThomasF. Staley Hardcover, 359 Pages, Published 1985 by Gale Research Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8103-1714-7, ISBN: 0-8103-1714-1
"When Virginia Woolf wrote that in or about December 1910 human character changed she was reacting specifically to the first impressionist exhibition in England. But her statement also summed up a feeling shared by the so-called modernist writers of that period, who, in the context of World War I, were beginning to think and write in new ways about their government and social structures, their place in the world and their universe. Altho ..."
DLB 34 British Novelists 1890-1929: Traditionalists (Dictionary of Literary Biography) by ThomasF. Staley Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1984 by Gale Research Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8103-1712-3, ISBN: 0-8103-1712-5
"The forty years between 1890 and 1929 were the most fertile and diverse period of the British novel. The first of two volumes covering these years, DLB Volume 34 focuses on the Traditionalists whose works by and large reflect an affinity in form and content with the novelistic tradition established in the 19th century. Although many of the novelists included in this volume reveal a new awareness of the moral self, an irony exists at the ..."
"This is the second DLB volume of a planned series on British mystery writers. Because there has been little scholarship devoted to individual mystery writers except for the most prominent, this volume is particularly useful as a stimulus to further study. Mystery fiction arose in Britain when the middle 19th-century phenomenon of 'middle-culture' literary art blurred the distinction between serious literature and popular fiction. With p ..."
James Joyce Today Essays on the Major Works, Commemorating the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of His Death by ThomasF. Staley, Felicia Heman Textbook Binding, Published 1966 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-14420-1, ISBN: 0-253-14420-5
Make It New The Rise of Modernism by Kurt Heinzelman, ThomasF. Staley Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2003 by Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70284-4, ISBN: 0-292-70284-1
"What was Modernism, and why does it still matter? The term itself first gained currency in the 1930s, describing a kind of art that already may have peaked, some would say as early as 1922. Whatever its ups and downs in its own time, as the novelist Julian Barnes claims in one of the twenty essays commissioned for the present volume, Modernism never vanished. It remains our immovable feast. Modernism was international in scope; it left ..."
DLB 87 British Mystery and Thriller Writers since 1940, First Series (Dictionary of Literary Biography) by Bernard Benstock, ThomasF. Staley Hardcover, 419 Pages, Published 1989 by Gale ISBN-13: 978-0-8103-4565-2, ISBN: 0-8103-4565-X
"The period since 1940 has seen a backlash against the traditional British genteel-puzzle mystery. It's characterized by the serial detective-Holmes, Poirot, Wimsey-who dominates through force of personality or even idiosyncrasy. Suspense novels, crime novels, psychological thrillers and spy stories have increasingly displaced the 'pure' detective novel. This volume offers career biographies of 25 of the best British mystery and thriller ..."
"Stuart Gilbert's friendship with James Joyce began in Paris in 1927 after Gilbert read several pages from a forthcoming French translation of Ulysses in the window of Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company book shop and went in to tell Beach that the translation was poorly done. She reported the encounter to Joyce, who subsequently sought out Gilbert. Their meeting began a literary collaboration and friendship that lasted until Joyce's ..."
"Om: Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Olivia Manning, Barbara Pym, Susan Hill, P.D. James, Margaret Drabble, Muriel Spark, Edna O'Brien, Jennifer Johnston."
"Om: Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Olivia Manning, Barbara Pym, Susan Hill, P.D. James, Margaret Drabble, Muriel Spark, Edna O'Brien, Jennifer Johnston."
"Scholars of James Joyce offer critical analysis of his work Ulysses. Five essays interpret the character of the novel; four deal with the literary style of presentation, the last focuses on the problems of translation.Contributors: Robert R. Boyle, S.J.; David Hayman; Richard M. Kain; Darcy O’Brien; Weldon Thornton; Erwin R. Steinberg; William M. Schutte; Fritz Senn; H. Frew Waidner; and the editors."
'Ulysses', fifty years by ThomasF. Staley Hardcover, 190 Pages, Published 1974 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-36160-8, ISBN: 0-253-36160-5
"Graduate Institute of Modern Letters Thomas F. Staley ... This turning - over is
summed up neatly and vigorously in a recent collection of essays by Gregory
Bateson called Steps to an Ecology of Mind ... It would be a strange comment on
the ecology of ideas if Catholicism could persist for two millennia without a grain
of truth ..."
"Scholars of James Joyce offer critical analysis of his work "Ulysses." Five essays interpret the character of the novel; four deal with the literary style of presentation, the last focuses on the problems of translation. Contributors: Robert R. Boyle, S.J.; David Hayman; Richard M. Kain; Darcy O Brien; Weldon Thornton; Erwin R. Steinberg; William M. Schutte; Fritz Senn; H. Frew Waidner; and the editors.""
The Shapeless God(1st Edition) Essays on Modern Fiction by Harry John Mooney, ThomasF. Staley Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1968 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8409-2, ISBN: 0-8229-8409-1
"Nine noted literary critics examine the spiritual and religious elements in the fiction of such diverse writers as James Baldwin, J. F. Powers, Graham Greene, Par Lagerkvist, and Flannery O’Connor.Contributors: Robert Boyle, S.J.; Robert McAfee Brown; A. A. Devitis; Herbert Howarth; Maralee Frampton; Nathan A. Scott, Jr.; Albert Sonnenfeld; Winston Weathers; and the editors"