Judging Shaw: The Radicalism of GBS - Hardcover

O'Toole, Fintan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190899715X ISBN 13: 9781908997159

Verlag: Royal Irish Academy, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

GBS was the first great brand – discover how he created this most modern of concepts.The fourth book in the Royal Irish Academy’s award-winning ‘Judging’ series looks at the legacy of George Bernard Shaw, Nobel prizewinner for literature.George Bernard Shaw has left a vast legacy of theatrical, fictional, polemical, critical and philosophical writing. The first person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award, Shaw bridges the Victorian era and the contemporary culture of celebrity. The GBS brand came to be recognised globally as referring to an Irish provocateur with a red beard and startling opinions. He was a master of self-invention, a nobody who captured the zeitgeist and one of the first private individuals to understand fully how to generate—and how to use—global fame.The timing of Judging Shaw is fortuitous, as it will serve to reintroduce GBS to an Irish and international readership. The book is an interesting, informative, and well-written survey of Shaw/GBS and will be a welcome addition to the library of those who know Bernard Shaw perhaps only as the author of Pygmalion, his most popular and frequently performed play.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Royal Irish Academy
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 190899715X
• ISBN 13: 9781908997159
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 358
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