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William York Tindall (1903–1981)

Author of A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake (Irish Studies)

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Birthdate
1903-03-07
Date of death
1981-09-08
Gender
male
Education
Columbia University (AB|1925, AM|1926, PhD|1934)
Occupations
professor (English)
Organizations
New York University
Columbia University
Nationality
USA
Places of residence
New York, New York, USA
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New York, USA

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5 reviews
This book is useful for quick launches into the text. It offers summary as well as selective line-by-line analysis.
A critical survey of the major forces shaping British literature from 1885 to 1956, covering naturalism, symbolism, the Celtic revival, the impact of Freud and Marx, and the major figures of modernism including Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf. First published by Knopf in 1947; revised Vintage edition 1956. Vintage V-35.

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