Randall Stevenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randall Stevenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randall |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevenson |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modernism’s Contemporary Echoes: An Interview with Randall Stevenson
Bowen Wang interviewed Randall Stevenson on the evolving state of modernist literature and its far-reaching legacies across the twentieth century. Stevenson articulates modernism not merely as an experimental movement but as a sustained interrogation of sociocultural values of its historical moment. The conversation covers a broad spectrum of thematic and critical concerns, including modernism’s dialectical relation with modernity, war representa…
Ferris Wheels, Faust, and Forms of Influence in Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene
Ferris Wheels seem to fascinate film-directors – notably Carol Reed in The Third Man (1949), based on Graham Greene’s story and script. Though Ferris Wheels figure less conspicuously in twentieth-century novels, Malcolm Lowry provides an exception in Under the Volcano (1947), a novel also comparable to The Third Man in other ways. One explanation might be that Greene simply drew on Lowry’s example when developing his film-script (later published …
The Clockwork Man: Reification, Relativity and Redemption in 1920s Fiction
One does what one can ( on fait ce qu’on peut )”: Joseph Conrad as Translator
Joseph Conrad’s fiction – Lord Jim especially – contains several instances of characters struggling with translation, or with foreign languages more generally, or transferring speech or syntactic patterns from one language to another. These features have much to suggest about Conrad’s own multilingual early life and his eventual adoption of English for his writing. They also have wider implications concerning his vision and tactics as a novelist …
‘Vision Isolated in Eternity’: Nostalgia Catches the Train
Nostalgia for steam trains in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries offers a further example of the varying responses to railways evident ever since their first development in the nineteenth century. Several of these responses contributed to, and illustrate, the changing roles of temporality, memory and nostalgia in the literature of the modern period. In particular, though modernist literature is often critical of the contribution railwa…
The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
The essential guide for students of literature GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748691326', 'ISBN: 9780748691333']); Extensively tested at the University of Edinburgh, this introduction to the tools required for literary study provides all the skills, background and critical knowledge which students require to approach their study of literature with confidence. This second edition includes 3 new chapters on Reading, Writing an Essay, and …
Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
"The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth centuryThis companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary 'hot spots': Freud's Vienna and Conrad's Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the S…
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
The Last of England?
English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the 60s, and throughout the rest of the century. Drama thrived on its rapidly rebuilt foundations. New freedoms of style and form revitalised fiction. Poetry, too, gradually recovered the variety and inventiveness of earlier years. As well as comprehe…
But what? Elegy: Modernist Reading and the Death of Mrs. Ramsay
Randall Stevenson, Jane Goldman, 'But what? Elegy?': Modernist Reading and the Death of Mrs. Ramsay, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 26, Strategies of Reading: Dickens and after Special Number (1996), pp. 173-186
The British Novel since the Thirties: An Introduction
Part 1 novel 1900-1930. Part 2 In the Thirties: between the acts - politics and literature in the 1930s new realism and the mild Left fantasy, Marxism and class satire and the Right Wing politics and beyond. Part 3 War and post-war 1940-1956: the wartime scene no directions innocence and experience good and evil dream worlds self-condemned conclusion - the death of the heart. Part 4 Recent and contemporary - the novel since the 1950s: The angry d…
But what? Elegy: Modernist Reading and the Death of Mrs. Ramsay
Randall Stevenson, Jane Goldman, 'But what? Elegy?': Modernist Reading and the Death of Mrs. Ramsay, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 26, Strategies of Reading: Dickens and after Special Number (1996), pp. 173-186
The British Novel since the Thirties: An Introduction
Part 1 novel 1900-1930. Part 2 In the Thirties: between the acts - politics and literature in the 1930s new realism and the mild Left fantasy, Marxism and class satire and the Right Wing politics and beyond. Part 3 War and post-war 1940-1956: the wartime scene no directions innocence and experience good and evil dream worlds self-condemned conclusion - the death of the heart. Part 4 Recent and contemporary - the novel since the 1950s: The angry d…
But what? Elegy: Modernist Reading and the Death of Mrs. Ramsay
Randall Stevenson, Jane Goldman, 'But what? Elegy?': Modernist Reading and the Death of Mrs. Ramsay, The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 26, Strategies of Reading: Dickens and after Special Number (1996), pp. 173-186
The Last of England?
English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the 60s, and throughout the rest of the century. Drama thrived on its rapidly rebuilt foundations. New freedoms of style and form revitalised fiction. Poetry, too, gradually recovered the variety and inventiveness of earlier years. As well as comprehe…
The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
"The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth centuryThis companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary-historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary 'hot spots': Freud's Vienna and Conrad's Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the S…
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English
The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
The essential guide for students of literature GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748691326', 'ISBN: 9780748691333']); Extensively tested at the University of Edinburgh, this introduction to the tools required for literary study provides all the skills, background and critical knowledge which students require to approach their study of literature with confidence. This second edition includes 3 new chapters on Reading, Writing an Essay, and …
Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature
‘Vision Isolated in Eternity’: Nostalgia Catches the Train
Nostalgia for steam trains in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries offers a further example of the varying responses to railways evident ever since their first development in the nineteenth century. Several of these responses contributed to, and illustrate, the changing roles of temporality, memory and nostalgia in the literature of the modern period. In particular, though modernist literature is often critical of the contribution railwa…
One does what one can ( on fait ce qu’on peut )”: Joseph Conrad as Translator
Joseph Conrad’s fiction – Lord Jim especially – contains several instances of characters struggling with translation, or with foreign languages more generally, or transferring speech or syntactic patterns from one language to another. These features have much to suggest about Conrad’s own multilingual early life and his eventual adoption of English for his writing. They also have wider implications concerning his vision and tactics as a novelist …
The Clockwork Man: Reification, Relativity and Redemption in 1920s Fiction
Ferris Wheels, Faust, and Forms of Influence in Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene
Ferris Wheels seem to fascinate film-directors – notably Carol Reed in The Third Man (1949), based on Graham Greene’s story and script. Though Ferris Wheels figure less conspicuously in twentieth-century novels, Malcolm Lowry provides an exception in Under the Volcano (1947), a novel also comparable to The Third Man in other ways. One explanation might be that Greene simply drew on Lowry’s example when developing his film-script (later published …
Modernism’s Contemporary Echoes: An Interview with Randall Stevenson
Bowen Wang interviewed Randall Stevenson on the evolving state of modernist literature and its far-reaching legacies across the twentieth century. Stevenson articulates modernism not merely as an experimental movement but as a sustained interrogation of sociocultural values of its historical moment. The conversation covers a broad spectrum of thematic and critical concerns, including modernism’s dialectical relation with modernity, war representa…
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