The Resource The unexpected professor : an Oxford life in books, John Carey
The unexpected professor : an Oxford life in books, John Carey
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The item The unexpected professor : an Oxford life in books, John Carey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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The item The unexpected professor : an Oxford life in books, John Carey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected to Oxford's oldest English Literature professorship.
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 361 pages
- Note
-
- Originally published: 2014
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9780571310937
- Label
- The unexpected professor : an Oxford life in books
- Title
- The unexpected professor
- Title remainder
- an Oxford life in books
- Statement of responsibility
- John Carey
- Subject
-
- Autobiography: literary
- Biography
- Biography & non-fiction prose
- Biography: literary
- Carey, John, 1934-
- College teachers -- England | Oxford -- Biography
- Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography
- 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
- Higher & further education, tertiary education
- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999
- Literary studies: general
- United Kingdom, Great Britain
- University of Oxford -- Faculty -- Biography
- English
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected to Oxford's oldest English Literature professorship.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1934-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Carey, John
- Dewey number
-
- 378.42574092
- 378.4'2574'092
- 378.42574092
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- LB1778.4
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Carey, John
- College teachers
- University of Oxford
- Authors, English
- Critics
- Biography
- Biography & non-fiction prose
- Autobiography: literary
- United Kingdom, Great Britain
- English
- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999
- 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
- Literary studies: general
- Biography: literary
- Higher & further education, tertiary education
- Summary expansion
- 'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seated next to a senior academic who berated me for my leftist leanings - not what he expected of an Oxford professor...'John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment, looks back on his journey from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary professorship. Books formed the backbone of his life: from Biggles in his boyhood home to G. K. Chesterton in his West London grammar school to rigorous scholarship on Milton, Donne and many others. In this warm and funny memoir, he remembers afresh his encounters with the great (and not so great) works of English literature - the rewards, fulfilment and sheer pleasure to be found there
- Label
- The unexpected professor : an Oxford life in books, John Carey
- Note
-
- Originally published: 2014
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- BDZ0022876755
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- xii, 361 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571310937
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- The unexpected professor : an Oxford life in books, John Carey
- Note
-
- Originally published: 2014
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- BDZ0022876755
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- xii, 361 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571310937
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
Subject
- Autobiography: literary
- Biography
- Biography & non-fiction prose
- Biography: literary
- Carey, John, 1934-
- College teachers -- England | Oxford -- Biography
- Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography
- 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
- Higher & further education, tertiary education
- Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999
- Literary studies: general
- United Kingdom, Great Britain
- University of Oxford -- Faculty -- Biography
- English
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
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