Literature
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Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and FrameThis anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often unlikely routes from beginning to end." It includes the most widely cited and discussed essays on narrative beginnings, temporality, plot and emplotment,...
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Melville's Other Lives: Bodies on Trial in the Piazza TalesMelville's Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza Tales-Herman Melville's only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime-and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville's stories. Christopher Sten...
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New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York MagazineThe magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments...
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Belly of Paris PBPart of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced...
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The Sport of the Gods: And Other Essential WritingsPaul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures. This original collection includes the short novel The Sport...
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Borges at Eighty: ConversationsThe words of a genius: Borges at Eighty transcends our expectations of ordinary conversation. In these interviews with Barnstone, Dick Cavett, and Alastair Reid, Borges touches on favorite writers (Whitman, Poe, Emerson) and familiar themes -- labyrinths, mystic experiences, and death -- and always...
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Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003Between Parentheses collects Roberto Bolano's nonfiction: fiercely opinionated articles, speeches, essays, and talks, as well as most of the newspaper columns he wrote during the last five years of his life, when fame had come to him at last. Here we have a tender...
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Oranges & Peanuts for SaleMany of the twenty-eight essays in Oranges & Peanuts for Sale have appeared in translation in seventeen countries; some have never been published in English before. They include introductions for books of avant-garde poets; collaborations with visual artists, and articles for publications such as...
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Classics RevisitedPoet, translator, essayist, and voracious reader--Kenneth Rexroth was an omnivore in the fields of literature. The brief, radiant essays of Classics Revisited discuss sixty key books that are, for Rexroth, "basic documents in the history of the imagination." Ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh...
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Firbank: Five Novels"A person who dislikes Ronald Firbank, quipped W. H. Auden, may, for all I know, possess some admirable quality, but I do not wish ever to see him again. Edmund Wilson pronounced him one of the finest writers of his period. Part high camp...
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James Joyce-Finnegans Wake: A SymposiumB.S. Johnson, House Mother Normal. A geriatric comedy with a bite.Author: James JoycePublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 12/12/1972Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.89h x 5.14w x 0.56dISBN: 9780811204460
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Pushkin on LiteraturePushkin on Literature approaches Pushkin's literary accomplishment from a unique perspective: it focuses on Pushkin the critic, and on his passionate enthusiasm, volatile judgments, joy, frustration, and fascination with the literary world that surrounded him. This is the only English-language edition of the complete...
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The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and PaintingMerleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank even today among the most sophisticated reflections on art in all of twentieth-century philosophy. His essays on painting, Cezanne's Doubt (1945), Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence...
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The Salamander and Other Gothic TalesThe Salamander and Other Gothic Tales contains eight stories by Vladimir Odoevsky (1804-69). These include The Salamander, The Cosmorama, and The Sylph, Odoevsky's three main metaphysical tales. The collection as a whole represents some of the best of Russian Romantic fiction from the first...
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For a New Novel: Essays on FictionAlain Robbe-Grillet, one of the leaders of the new French literary movement of the sixties, has long been regarded as the outstanding writer of the nouveau roman, as well as its major spokesman. For a New Novel reevaluates the techniques, ethos, and limits of...
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Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer"It is the dream of every publisher to hit upon a project that will win praise for contributing to the intellectual and cultural life." John B. Breslin, Theology Today In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant,...
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Cat's CradleOne of this Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Publisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 09/08/1998Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9780808520696Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.8Point Value: 8Interest Level:...
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Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent ReadingReading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, in groups, or individually, in a muffled voice. The text format in which thought has been presented to readers has undergone...
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Essay on the TragicPeter Szondis pathbreaking work is a succinct and elegant argument for distinguishing between a philosophy of the tragic and the poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. The first of the books two parts consists of a series of commentaries on philosophical and aesthetic texts...
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SoapIn this work, begun during the German occupation, the eminent French poet and philosopher began to turn away from the small, perfect poem toward a much more open form, a kind of prose poem that recounted its own process of coming into being along...
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