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John Gardner's essential collection encompassing the fundamentals of fiction writing. In this posthumously published collection of his essays and reviews, acclaimed novelist John Gardner discusses the craft of fiction writing, taking to task some of his best-known contemporaries in the process. Gardner criticizes some for writing disingenuous fiction, and commends others who produce literature that acts as a life-affirming force. He offers insights...
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With the erudition that has distinguished his lifelong study of literary criticism, Wellek considers the trends, theories, and quarrels of recent years. He continues to insist that criticism--whether written by structuralists, phenomenologists, Marxists, or the New Critics--makes judgments and also takes into account "a common humanity that makes all art accessible to us." He also considers the relationship between literature and linguistics and the...
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In this English translation and revision of her acclaimed German-language book, Elke Sturm-Trigonakis expands on Goethe's notion of Weltliteratur (1827) to propose that, owing to globalization, literature is undergoing a profound change in process, content, and linguistic practice. Rather than producing texts for a primarily national readership, modern writers can collate diverse cultural, literary, and linguistic traditions to create new modes of...
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À l'ère du numérique, le courrier se fait de plus en plus rare, mais le texte épistolaire séduit encore. Que peut un livre empruntant la forme d'une lettre, exploitant des correspondances originales ou interpellant ouvertement la lectrice, le lecteur ? En quoi le geste d'écrire des lettres peut-il convenir aux écrivaines et aux intellectuelles en France aujourd'hui ? Que signifie de destiner à autrui chaque mot qu'elles tracent ? À qui s'adressent-elles...
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Les plantes bougent, se déplacent, se transforment, même si leurs mouvements sont souvent imperceptibles à l'oeil humain. Alors, comment faire pour mieux les voir, les percevoir et les sentir ? Les concepts issus des sciences botaniques – phototropisme, géotropisme, hydrotropisme, chimiotropisme – ne permettent pas de décrire leur poéticité ou leur capacité à « faire monde » en nouant des relations avec d'autres organismes vivants et...
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In Rough Country is a sterling collection of essays, reviews, and criticism from Joyce Carol Oates that focuses on a wide array of books and writers-from Poe to Nabokov, from Flannery O'Connor to Phillip Roth. One of our foremost novelists, National Book Award and PEN/Malamud Award winner Oates demonstrates an unparalleled understanding and appreciation of great works of literature with In Rough Country, and offers unique and breathtaking insights...
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A comprehensive study of the work of Lewis Edwards (1809-87), Wales's foremost scholar of the nineteenth century, and one who raised the standard of Nonconformist Wales erudition. A Calvinistic Methodist in his upbringing and through conviction, he was a pious man belonging to his era.
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Originally selected by Faulkner scholars Blotner and Litz for their series on the author, this pathbreaking monograph contains a comprehensive and provocative discussion of Faulkner's historical vision. Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield), and on a wide-ranging body of scholarship on the historical novel (including discussions of Scott, Thackeray, and Conrad), Rollyson...
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La Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg fonctionna, dans les années 1920, comme un véritable laboratoire de recherche sur les formes de transmission des images depuis l'Antiquité. Si Aby Warburg (1866-1929), son fondateur, en est la figure centrale, cette bibliothèque pionnière fut imaginée comme une entreprise collective et aurait été impensable sans l'apport d'autres personnalités comme Fritz Saxl ou Gertrud Bing, dont l'importance...
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David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Narrative Covenant and We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University and the general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.
Comic in tone and serious in intent, this book gives a vivid portrait of academic life in the nineties. With campus populations and critical perspectives changing rapidly, academic debate needs...
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“Proust and the Visual” is an edited volume of essays written by Proustian specialists, concerned with a rich phenomenological category, the "visual" whose prominent role in the novel is at the heart of its modernity. The "visual" is defined as manifesting in the image not only space, but also time. The "visual" is considered as a category that delineates the conditions of possibility of all visibility and constitutes an integral part of both...
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Un adolescente que tiene la oportunidad de seleccionar con quien vivir en la eternidad, opta por rodearse de desconocidos para así tener más historias que escuchar. Un revolucionario ruso pasa su infancia en un pueblo perdido de las estepas ucranianas donde los trabajadores contraen una enfermedad que provoca ceguera nocturna. Una poeta deslumbrante se pone un abrigo de piel sobre los hombros y, con un vodka en la mano, se dirige al garaje de su...
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En esta primera aproximación a los saberes artísticos de la modernidad, Carmen Pardo analiza las metamorfosis experimentadas por la sensibilidad contemporánea a raíz del nacimiento de las formas de reproductibilidad técnica de la fotografía y el fonógrafo; desde sus inicios hasta la fecha, las implicaciones estéticas y éticas de tales fenómenos sobre el sensorium individual y social continúan vigentes, con plena virulencia, como lo muestran...
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Cet ouvrage s'intéresse aux adaptations du roman de Mary Shelley, qui est sans doute l'œuvre ayant subi le plus de transformations dans l'histoire. Cinéma, théâtre, littérature, bande dessinée, jeu vidéo, musique et art visuel ne cessent d'en proposer des versions différentes. Comment expliquer ce succès, jamais démenti ?
Sans équivalent dans la francophonie, avec ses analyses étoffées très variées qui touchent plusieurs formes génériques,...
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La tradición literaria inglesa nos ha legado una profunda obra crítica, que en muchos sentidos logra cautivarnos del mismo modo que su ficción. Por su camino han transitado escritores tan disímiles como Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden y David Lodge. Dentro y fuera de esa tradición se encuentra Gabriel Josipovici. Nació en Niza y se considera un escritor judío, pero ha destinado gran parte de su vida a la academia (trabajó en las...
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This is a fascinating portrait of Miami's Cuban population, the most successful group of immigrants to settle in the United States since the Jews of the nineteenth century.
David Rieff has provided an engrossing look at a group exiled from its homeland, showing how America has affected these immigrants, and what it means to become an American in the late twentieth century.
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Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organizing principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of "arms and the...
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Get the Summary of Michelle Braun's High-Octane Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: American adults fear Alzheimer¹s more than any other disease (including cancer), and because many people do not realize there is no genetic cause for 99 percent of Alzheimer¹s cases, they do not take the necessary steps to change lifestyle factors shown to significantly protect against the disease....
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