James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 4 (1922) Winner
Percy Lubbock
パーシー・ラブック
Pāshī Rabukku
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1879-06-04 （England）
- Died
- 1965-08-01 （Italy） age 86
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Eton College → King's College, Cambridge → Magdalene College, Cambridge → Gli Scafari, villa on the Gulf of Spezia
Career
- Occupations
- essayist, critic, biographer
- Active Years
- 1906-1965
- Affiliations
- Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Influenced By
- Henry James, E. M. Forster, Edith Wharton
- Influenced
- Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eton College | — | Unknown | — | — | United Kingdom |
| University of Cambridge | King's College | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
Eton College
Unknown
Country:
United Kingdom
University of Cambridge
King's College
Country:
United Kingdom
Later Fellow of Magdalene College, Pepys Librarian
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | Earlham | — | University of Edinburgh | 受賞 |
| — | Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) | — | — | British Government | 受賞 |
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1922
Work:
Earlham
Organization:
University of Edinburgh
Result:
受賞
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Organization:
British Government
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Craft of Fiction
1921 CriticismA critical work analyzing the craft of the novel, emphasizing point of view and influencing modernist criticism.
Point of viewFormalismNovel craft
Earlham
1921 MemoirMemoir of childhood summers at maternal grandfather's house Earlham Hall, winner of James Tait Black Prize.
ChildhoodFamilyNorfolk
Bibliography
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Her Letters
- Samuel Pepys
- A Book of English Prose, Part II
- The Letters of Henry James
- George Calderon - a Sketch from Memory
- Earlham
- The Craft of Fiction
- Roman Pictures
- The Region Cloud
- The Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson
- Mary Cholmondeley: A Sketch from Memory
- Shades of Eton
- Portrait of Edith Wharton
- Percy Lubbock Reader
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- FormalistSystematic analysis of novel craftFocus on point of view
- Recurring Motifs
- Novel structureAuthorial intentionReader experience
Health
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Blindness晩年Read to by Quentin Crewe
Legacy
Known as editor of Henry James and author of The Craft of Fiction, which influenced 1920s novel criticism with its formalist approach, sparking debate.
Trivia
- Homosexual who entered a marriage of convenience for financial security; stepfather to writer Iris Origo.