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Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling

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Great Writers Inspire
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Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of short stories'.
In this discussion of Rudyard Kipling, Julian acknowledges Kipling's lack popularity with readers, but argues for the greatness of short stories from across his ouvre and positions them as precursors to modernism.

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Series
Great Writers Inspire
People
Julian Thompson
Keywords
#greatwriters
anglo-Indian writing
T.S. Eliot
Chaucerian forgery
modernism
Victorian
Rudyard Kipling
short stories
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 19/09/2012
Duration: 00:20:23

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