'Janiform Novels' and other Literary Essays

'Janiform Novels' and Other Literary Essays gathers 25 essays by Cedric Watts MA Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of English at Sussex University. Previously published in a diversity of magazines and books these conveniently-gathered literary discussions deal with such authors as Sophocles Chaucer Shakespeare Donne Marvell Milton Defoe Richardson Jane Austen Emily Brontë Conrad Hemingway Graham Greene William Golding Samuel Beckett and Chinua Achebe. Topics include covert plotting the conceit of the conceit the fallacies of structuralist and post-structuralist literary theory delayed decoding Shakespeare's scepticism Conrad's opposition to racism and imperialism Hemingway's profoundly ambiguous style and Lévi-Strauss's ludicrous naivety. Cedric Watts's critical writings have been described as 'fearless' 'perceptive' 'provocative' 'incisive' and 'entertaining' (Neil Sinyard Graham Greene Newsletter).