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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019958933X
ISBN-13
9780199589333
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038248292
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Publication Name
Maurice Bowra : Alife
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Cultural Heritage, General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Educators, Linguistics / General, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Education, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
21.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Mitchell's [Maurice Bowra: A Life] is a refreshingly concise and focused book on a subject with a larger-than-life correspondence and a great many connections." --Journal of British Studies "Definitive." --Forward, Mitchell's book draws on much new material, and he does a creditable job of depicting a curious and influential mentor., This balanced, widely researched, objective and well written biography...gives readers an insight into a not unimportant part of twentieth centiry English life., "Leslie Mitchell's book is richly embroidered and captures, warts and all, the man who impressed so many of his peers." --Melvyn Bragg, Daily Telegraph 21/03/2009, "Mitchell's [Maurice Bowra: A Life] is a refreshingly concise and focused book on a subject with a larger-than-life correspondence and a great many connections." --Journal of British Studies "Definitive." -- Forward, "We are in Leslie Mitchell's debt for bringing Bowra so convincingly to life, recapturing so vividly both the attractive and the repellent features of an extraordinary academic icon" --Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement 20/03/2009, "...stylish biography... Mitchell makes a spirited effort to bring Bowra back to life: he draws a perceptive and sympathetic portrait, one which allows us to hear distant echoes of the voice and to persuade ourselves that we have some inkling of his power and charm." --Stefan Collini, London Review of Books 12/02/2009, "Leslie Mitchell is a sure guide to the world Bowra inhabited. If anyone can resurrect Bowra for the twenty-first century, it is he." --Adam Sisman, Literary Review 01/02/2009, "Mitchell's [Maurice Bowra: A Life] is a refreshingly concise and focused book on a subject with a larger-than-life correspondence and a great many connections."--Journal of British Studies"Definitive."--Forward, "...deeply illuminating and carefully researched... Leslie Mitchell's vivid and accomplished study reminds us above all of an old-fashioned faith in the value of a university education as an end in itself" --Mark Bostridge, The Independent 21/02/2009, 'Review from previous edition ...absorbing book...'Hugh Cecil, The Spectator'Leslie Mitchell's book is richly embroidered and captures, warts and all, the man who impressed so many of his peers.'Melvyn Bragg, Daily Telegraph'We are in Leslie Mitchell's debt for bringing Bowra so convincingly to life, recapturing so vividly both the attractive and the repellent features of an extraordinary academic icon'Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement'...stylish biography... Mitchell makes a spirited effort to bring Bowra back to life: he draws a perceptive and sympathetic portrait, one which allows us to hear distant echoes of the voice and to persuade ourselves that we have some inkling of his power and charm.'Stefan Collini, London Review of Books'...richly detailed biography.'Noel Malcom, Standpoint Magazine'...meticulous and elegant...'Peter Wilby, New Statesman'Leslie Mitchell is a sure guide to the world Bowra inhabited. If anyone can resurrect Bowra for the twenty-first century, it is he.'Adam Sisman, Literary Review'...deeply illuminating and carefully researched... Leslie Mitchell's vivid and accomplished study reminds us above all of an old-fashioned faith in the value of a university education as an end in itself'Mark Bostridge, The Independent'This beautifully written book conveys a vivid portrait of the man and his time.'Network Review'...learned, readable, and sympathetic biography.'Piers Brendon, Oldie, "Mitchell's [Maurice Bowra: A Life] is a refreshingly concise and focused book on a subject with a larger-than-life correspondence and a great many connections."--Journal of British Studies "Definitive."--Forward
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
378.42574092
Table Of Content
PrefacePart I: Formation1. From China to Cheltenham2. War: 1914-19183. New College: 1919-1922Part II: Fundamentals4. Greece5. Poetry6. Sex and SexualityPart III: Action7. Oxford, 1922-19388. Bowra and the Wider World, 1922-19399. Germany and America10. Warden of Wadham, 1938-197011. Bowra at Large, 1945-1970Part IV: Reflection12. The 1960s13. Heaven or HellEndnotesSelect BibliographyIndex
Synopsis
Maurice Bowra was, according to one's point of view, either the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early twentieth century. Classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and Warden of Wadham College for over thirty years, he met nearly everyone of consequence in the worlds of literature and politics and had stories to tell about them all, from Jean Cocteau to Virginia Woolf, from Adolf Hitler to the Kennedys, from Isaiah Berlin to Charlie Chaplin. By force of personality and intellectual range, he influenced the thinking of almost everyone with whom he came into contact. Above all, brought up in Edwardian England, he was able to chart the ways in which the values of his youth were tested by new democratic ideas. His experiences allowed him to develop and employ theories of education that were startling, and which would mould the thinking of a generation of English intellectuals. Based upon a wide range of interviews and previously unpublished manuscript material, this is the first ever biography of Bowra, and covers every aspect of his life, from soldier on the Western Front to Oxford classicist, from celebrated wit to frustrated poet manque., Maurice Bowra was, according to one's point of view, either the most distinguished or the most notorious Oxford don of the early twentieth century. Classicist, poet, wit, raconteur extraordinary, and Warden of Wadham College for over thirty years, he met nearly everyone of consequence in the worlds of literature and politics and had stories to tell about them all, from Jean Cocteau to Virginia Woolf, from Adolf Hitler to the Kennedys, from Isaiah Berlin to Charlie Chaplin. By force of personality and intellectual range, he influenced the thinking of almost everyone with whom he came into contact. Above all, brought up in Edwardian England, he was able to chart the ways in which the values of his youth were tested by new democratic ideas. His experiences allowed him to develop and employ theories of education that were startling, and which would mould the thinking of a generation of English intellectuals. Based upon a wide range of interviews and previously unpublished manuscript material, this is the first ever biography of Bowra, and covers every aspect of his life, from soldier on the Western Front to Oxford classicist, from celebrated wit to frustrated poet manqué., The first ever biography of Maurice Bowra - classicist, poet, wit , raconteur extraordinary, and the most famous don of his generation.
LC Classification Number
LB1778.4
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