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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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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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In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving...
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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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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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Asentir o desestabilizar reúne por primera vez los trabajos de crítica literaria y opinión que Chirbes escribió para publicaciones como Ozono, Saida, Reseña o La Calle entre 1975 y 1980. Una recopilación que recoge desde reseñas y artículos hasta entrevistas a grandes personalidades de la literatura española que el joven Chirbes realizó antes de debutar como novelista y que restituyen, en su conjunto, una imagen precisa y a contracorriente...
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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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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...
10) Lewis Edwards
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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.
11) Indiana Winter
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A sensitive writer's imaginative essay-stories about spiritual boundaries and values in the state of Indiana and everywhere.
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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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Passionate, headstrong and imaginative, Sybylla Melvyn is one of the most endearing heroines of Australian literature. 'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and riotous first novel by Miles...
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Los apuntes de Canetti podrían leerse de diversas maneras. Una de ellas, la que guía este libro, es una lectura que sigue las letras del alfabeto y establece un diálogo directo con los temas esenciales de su escritura.
En palabras de Canetti, "La resistencia contra el tiempo necesita sus frases cortantes, de lo contrario permanece obtusa y desvalida. Es difícil guardar para sí las frases que uno mismo ha encontrado y son cortantes. Sin embargo,...
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Get the Summary of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton...
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El siglo XX fue una época de florecimiento de escritores que sobrevivieron al terror de Estado y a las purgas, con todas las ambivalencias morales y políticas que ello conlleva. ¿Fueron tan fuertes como para no capitular ante el poder? ¿Sobrevivieron gracias a su clarividencia o inteligencia, o más bien a sus relaciones? ¿Escaparon de la prisión, del campo de concentración y de la muerte por una suerte rayana en el milagro o ello se debió...
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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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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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A partir de una consigna médica del siglo XIX - "La salud es el silencio de los órganos"-, Andrea Kottow entrelaza las lecturas que la han conmovido y estimulado en los últimos años, con una escritura que posee altos grados de intuición, placer y libertad. El resultado es este conjunto de cinco ensayos, sobre la enfermedad, el secreto, el deseo, el psicoanálisis y el duelo, en un libro que deja la impresión de que la autora recurre a una forma...
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