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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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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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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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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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An outstanding literary achievement, meticulously researched and deeply felt, this portrait of the earliest days of the European settlement of Australia remains unrivalled. The year 1788: the very beginning of European settlement. These were times of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all, they were times of conflict between the Aborigines and the white settlers.
Eleanor Dark brings alive those bitter years with moments of tenderness and conciliation...
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This engrossing story by famous Australian author Ion Idriess is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman, the Cattle King. At the age of 13, Sidney Kidman ran away from home with only five shillings in his pocket. He went on to become a horse dealer, drover, cattle buyer and bush jockey and he also ran a coach business. Above all, Kidman created a mighty cattle empire of more than a hundred stations, fighting droughts, bushfires,...
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Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.
People love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in and out of love, or even get murdered.
A Curious Invitation is a humorous and informative guide to literature's most memorable...
11) Lire des scénarios: Pour une approche interdisciplinaire et renouvelée des pratiques scénaristiques
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Au cours des dernières décennies, la création narrative a connu un essor significatif dans les médias tels le cinéma, la télévision, le web et les jeux vidéo. Dans ce contexte, l'intérêt pour les pratiques scénaristiques s'est étendu tant dans le monde professionnel que dans les milieux de formation et de recherche.
Ce livre met en lumière des perspectives interdisciplinaires et des enjeux intermédiaux liés à la lecture de scénarios....
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Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces from the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New York Times Book Review. Oates states in her preface, "In the essay or review, the dynamic of storytelling is hidden but not absent," and indeed,...
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Living by Fiction is written for -- and dedicated to -- people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary's Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature....
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HONESTLY is a collection of writing on a diverse range of subjects such as motherhood after 40, the end of a close friendship, the joy of a handwritten letter, connecting with nature, the necessity of tweezers, meeting the Queen, and oral sex. Including exclusive new essays, the pieces are full of frank and uplifting insights, hilarious anecdotes, and some painful yet touching truths. Famous for her lyrical honesty and for fearlessly saying those...
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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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A landmark book written by household names in journalism, among them Kerry O'Brien, Chris Masters and Caroline Jones, this is the first book from FOUR CORNERS in 26 years and will be the must-have book for Fathers Day. In the fifty years it's been on air, Four Corners has broken more stories, triggered more headlines, generated more controversy and aired more high quality investigative journalism than any other program in Australia. In today's world...
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Dans la production artistique québécoise s'établit souvent un rapport de force entre des groupes dominants et des exclus, des êtres « gâchés », qui témoigne d'une fabrique de l'exclusion foncièrement injuste et répressive. L'autrice de cet ouvrage observe cette violence dans la littérature et le cinéma par une analyse qui s'inspire non seulement de la sociologie et de l'anthropologie, mais aussi de l'histoire ou de la psychologie. Se...
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Romance, passion, lusty adventure...the story of Matthew Flinders navigator, explorer and lover. When Matthew Flinders, the first man, to chart and circumnavigate Australia, set sail from England in July 1801, he left behind the intrigues of his homeland but also his young bride of only a few weeks, Ann Chappell. He didn't see her again for more than nine years. During that time, he carried out incredible feats of seamanship and navigation, made the...
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Get the Summary of Stanley Fish's How to Write a Sentence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Stanley Fish's "How to Write a Sentence" is a deep dive into the art of sentence construction, emphasizing the importance of form and the role of stylistic choices in writing. Fish argues that sentences are more than just words; they are structures of logical relationships that can be mastered through understanding and practice....
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