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Dostoevsky's unfinished early novel Netochka Nezvanova reflect the young author's view of literature as a kind of metaphorical enchantment. About three decades after E.T.A. Hoffmann invents the magic library of Archivist Lindhorst as a portal to the poetic realm in "Der goldne Topf" (1814), Fyodor Dostoevsky constructs another library, grounded in a far less phantasmic dimension but marked by an equally hypnotic propensity. In Dostoevsky's library,...
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This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell's life (1621-1678) and of the great events which found reflection in his work and in which he and his writings eventually played a part. At the same time, considerable space is afforded to reflecting deeply on the modes and meanings of Marvell's art, redressing the balance of recent biography and criticism which has tended to dwell on the public and political aspects...
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The public face of Washington-the gridiron of L'Enfant's avenues, the buttoned-down demeanor Sloan Wilson's archetypal "Man in the Grey Flannel Suit," the monumental buildings of the Triangle-rarely gives up the secrets of this city's rich life. But, beneath the surface there are countless stories to be told. From the early swamp days to the Civil War, the "gilded age" to the New Deal and McCarthy eras, as the center of world power to its underlying...
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In the very first sentence of "Spiegel, das Kätzchen" (1855), Gottfried Keller delineates what this story is about: economy, language, and psychology. The artistic tradition has endowed mirrors with the power to speak the truth and to reveal what otherwise falls in the blind spot of reason. Cats, on the other hand, with their experience as witches' sidekicks, decorated with boots and golden chains, are dressed to narrate and to represent obscure...
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Most of the readers and writers we know, far from being the sort to only haunt the recesses of their town's library or curl up on the couch when the sun's shining, like to get out and visit the places they've read about. Or the places that inspire them.
Lone Star Literary Life polled our staff about the places in Texas that fueled their bookish imaginations. What literary destinations called to them, to get out the map, get in the car, and go? Was...
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The question of whether Sylvia Plath was a confessional poet or not, has dominated and been at the centre of most critical studies of her work, ever since the publication of her final collection of poems. In this book, I will try to do more than show how similar her poetry is to that of other confessional poets, like Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton.
To achieve this purpose, I will present a very brief comparison of "Daddy", one of...
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Taking a page from a character's project in a Bulwer Lytton novel, the author, a distinguished Victorian man of letters, presents an amusing compendium of errata, misprints, misquotations, mistranslations, imaginings, absurd etymologies, faulty classifications, abuses of upper and lower case, ludicrous student answers to exams, hotel-keepers' English, and more.
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Seeking to keep the flame of literature burning during the dark days of the Great War, Sir Edward Cook collected his reflections on reading and writing in 1918. Subjects of his essays include the arts of biography and indexing, the style of John Ruskin, literary and modern journalism, words and their relation to war, and more.
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Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth century. Rather than focusing on the dramatic events of Wilde's life, this volume documents Wilde's impressive forays into education, religion, science, philosophy, and social reform. In so doing, it provides an accessible and yet detailed account that reflects Wilde's own commitment to the "contemplative life." Suitable for seasoned...
10) Literary Places
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Inspired Traveller's Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature's best and brightest authors, movements and moments – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter provides comprehensive and atmospheric outlines of the history and culture of 25 literary places around the globe, as well as how they intersect with the...
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Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction. Patricia Laurence counters the popular image of Bowen as a mannered, reserved Anglo-Irish writer and presents her as a bold, independent woman who took risks and made her own rules in life and writing. This biography distinguishes itself from others in the depth of research into...
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This collection of saunters through the literary world includes the following essays: "Travelling Companions," "The Classics in Daily Life," "A Ramble in Pliny's Letters," "The Art of Editing," "Poets as Critics," "A Short Study in Words," "Single-Poem Poets," "The Charm of the Greek Anthology," and a conversational preface on the pleasurable writing of each piece. The Bookman said the work "fittingly rounded off the life's work of a man full in the...
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This 1906 collection of essays by a noted American educator and lecturer covers the lives, works, and character of nineteen authors-including Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Francis Parkman, and Walt Whitman. This was a break-out work because it was the first of its kind to prominently feature American writers publishing after 1789....
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Have a Dream of Being An Author?
Frustrated with Banging Your Head Against the Publishing Wall?
(Let's Face It...Why Else Would You Be Reading This?)
Don't Worry. You Are By No Means Alone!
Success in publishing is equal parts skill, determination, knowledge, and pure, dumb luck. If you have the drive, and you have the skill, but you're missing that little bit of insight into the industry, this book might just be the edge you're looking...
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This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years, and the first to encompass his entire career as a writer, from the science fiction of the 1890s through his fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells' importance as a novelist, short-story writer, a theorist of social prophecy and utopia, journalist and commentator, offering...
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Going to a foreign country and wondering how you will fit in or adapt to living there? This book will help you. Are you a recent arrival into a different cultural system and are facing difficulties? This book will help you. Want to know how (and why) to do things the way your friends and colleagues of a different culture do? This book will help you. Wondering why other cultures act so differently to yours? This book will tell you. Based on the actual...
17) Literary Theory
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In the time span of last 30 or 40 years literary theory has
been playing a central role in academic studies that are related
to social science and humanities. Various competing or
non-competing perspectives, principals and approaches granted
most of the scholar awareness about importance of
methodological concerns in literary theory. Criticism no longer
confines itself to the study of literature, it discourses are now
stretched beyond literature....
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Creativity is power
Sunspot seeks out diverse fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography and art from around the world.
This year, discover Malick Ceesay's play, "a mascu-poem," which rivals the opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow, for emotional impact. Peter Newall plays words like notes in "Konrad's Bukovina Khosidl," while Jana Harris probes themes of gender, class, and art in and around 19th Century Paris with three poems from The...
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As a modernist woman writer, H.D. could best be described as an advocate of experimentation and change. F. S. Flint, an early representative member of the movement of Imagism, discusses the ideological core of this generation that does not endorse a single form but demonstrates "a free spirit". Flint's remarks reveal that the aim of this new generation is to discover new forms of artistic expression. His views match equally well with H.D.'s heretic...
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