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Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling

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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.

Date Published: 19 September 2012
Contributors:
Julian Thompson
In Collection(s): Rudyard Kipling
Keywords:
#greatwriters, Rudyard Kipling, Short stories, victorian, modernism, anglo-Indian writing, T.S. Eliot, Chaucerian forgery
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling by Julian Thompson at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/julian-thompson-rudyard-kipling. Published on 19 September 2012. Accessed on 08 November 2024.

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