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27/1/03: H.G. Wells' Tono Bungay.(Literature)(Critical Essay)
THE NOVEL takes a pre-consumerist England and anatomises the onset and progress of consumerism in a way that is acute. The entire world that advertising creates is carefully pinned back like an anatomist's specimen, revealed, its further developments foreshadowed.
In this, in Kipps, The History of Mister Polly, Ann Veronica, HGW is a most acute observer of the intricacies, the pathology, of the English class system and the profound unsettling of the modern world's commerce upon it.
But that said, I note HGW's novels invariably proceed well for the first 100 pages or so as we get to know the characters. Then there comes an inevitable fracture in the momentum of his story. It is as though he loses faith in the adequacy of his interest in human individuals. They drift towards becoming vehicles rather than sustaining their own inner necessity. Ann Veronica suffers from ...
- H.G. Wells' 'Tono-Bungay' individualism and difference.
- Magazine article from: Essays in Literature Simpson, Anne B. March 22, 1995 700+ words
H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay (hereafter T-B) displays a preoccupation with the Other at every level of text: in its narrative commentary, characterization...
- Ann Veronica Janssens at Schipper & Krome.
- Magazine article from: Art in America Trainor, James June 1, 2003 700+ words
...not all the pyrotechnics were outside, however. For her first solo show at Schipper & Krome, the Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens treated viewers to a silent but retinally relentless barrage of flashing images. In a large, pitch-dark room...
- ANN VERONICA JANSSENS.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Pontegnie, Anne December 1, 1999 700+ words
...curator Moritz Kung to participate in Utrecht's fourteenth annual Festival a/d Werf celebrating art, music, and theater, Ann Veronica Janssens took the opportunity to elaborate her notion of "superspace." Comprising twelve works scattered throughout the...
- Gotta hand it to her.(Short Stuff)(Lauren Perrino designed one of the bags in...
- Magazine article from: Girls' Life June 1, 2006 700+ words
OK,so Lauren Perrino, 113, had an "in." Her mom is the owner of Ann Veronica Handprints, which creates custom beach-inspired handbags. BUt it's still cool that Lauren sketched a print, idea for her...
- Ask Tip Sheet.(letter Z's association with sleep)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek June 14, 2004 700+ words
...Kelly, Newfoundland, Canada The letter "Z" is used as an onomatopoeia for soft buzzing--like the sound of bees. In "Tono-Bungay," H. G. Wells laces a character's words with "Zzzzs" because his habit of breathing air through his teeth lent a...
- 2005 bankruptcy law opens door to new client services.
- Magazine article from: Accounting Today Perry, Gail December 19, 2005 700+ words
...stricter guidelines required of companies that are trying to go into bankruptcy," said Ron Fink, president of New York-based Tono-Bungay Consulting. "And they're going to have to have those requirements met very quickly," he added. Fink, a CPA, attorney...
- The Great Good Place: The Country House and English Literature.
- Magazine article from: The Review of English Studies Lewis, Lesley November 1, 1994 700+ words
...became a leading socialist writer after a humble upbringing as the son of the housekeeper at Uppark. He can still see, in Tono-Bungay, his fictional 'Bladesover' as 'the clue to all England', despite his political convictions. We are to follow with...
- Wells: The Scientific Romances and Beyond.
- Magazine article from: Extrapolation Huntington, John December 22, 2008 700+ words
...The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of (he Worlds. The middle three treat other single texts: The Wheels of Chance, Tono-Bungay, and The History of Mr. Polly, all major works which need attention. Two of the final three open issues of Wells' relation...
- High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel SCHEICK, WILLIAM J. September 22, 1998 700+ words
...Edward Mendelson argues that D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love incorporates and revises key matter from H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, which is read as a response to Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and Great Expectations. Lawrence's aim to transform...
- The way wa lives now.(Dirt Music)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Gibbons, Tom November 1, 2002 700+ words
...Nations (1845), through Dickens' late great novels, and into major twentieth-century works such as H.G. Wells' Tono-Bungay (1909). The much-gentrified ghosts of Disraeli's class-divided Two Nations still haunt television's To the Manor...
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