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Author : Sanford J. Smoller
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Adrift Among Geniuses written by Sanford J. Smoller and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian John Busby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773538186
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book A Gentleman of Pleasure written by Brian John Busby and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Canada's most enigmatic literary figure, a self-described "great practitioner of deceit."
Author : Jay A. Gertzman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081305916X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist written by Jay A. Gertzman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Roth is known to most literary scholars as a bold literary "pirate" for issuing unauthorized editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not be copyrighted, what he did was not illegal. But it did violate the protocols of mutual fair dealing between publishers and authors. Those publications provoked an unprecedented international protest of writers, publishers, and intellectuals, who eventually vilified Roth on two continents. Roth was a man with an uncanny ability to recognize good contemporary writing and make it accessible to popular audiences. Ultimately, his dedication to the publication of these works broke down many of the censorship laws of the time, though he suffered greatly for his efforts. His story portrays a struggle with literary censorship in the mid-twentieth century while providing insights into how modernism was marketed in America.
Author : Craig Monk
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297434
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Writing the Lost Generation written by Craig Monk and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members of the Lost Generation, American writers and artists who lived in Paris during the 1920s, continue to occupy an important place in our literary history. Rebelling against increased commercialism and the ebb of cosmopolitan society in early twentieth-century America, they rejected the culture of what Ernest Hemingway called a place of “broad lawns and narrow minds.” Much of what we know about these iconic literary figures comes from their own published letters and essays, revealing how adroitly they developed their own reputations by controlling the reception of their work. Surprisingly the literary world has paid less attention to their autobiographies. In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known—but still important—expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatriates from the United States.
Author : Mary Dearborn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 052556361X
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Ernest Hemingway written by Mary Dearborn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating fascinating new research, Mary Dearborn’s revelatory investigation of Hemingway’s life and work substantially deepens our understanding of the artist and the man. A St. Louis Post Dispatch Best Book of the Year The “most fully faceted portrait of Hemingway now available” (The Washington Post) draws on a wide array of never-before-used material, resulting in the most nuanced biography to date of this complex, enigmatic artist. Considered in his time the greatest living American writer, Hemingway was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize whose personal demons undid him in the end, and whose novels and stories have influenced the writing of fiction for generations after his death.
Author : K. P. Stich
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776616838
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Reflections written by K. P. Stich and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit’s account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an indepth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature.
Author : Conor Fennell
Publisher : Green Lamp Editions
ISBN 13 : 1907694986
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A Little Circle of Kindred Minds written by Conor Fennell and published by Green Lamp Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at James Joyce's relationship with his friends in Paris: the hard-drinking Robert McAlmon, the gentle James Stephens, the artist Arthur Power, Padraic and Mary Colum, Thomas MacGreevy and Samuel Beckett.
Author : Molly P. Rozum
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803285760
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Grasslands Grown written by Molly P. Rozum and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of modern regionalism and senses of place developing among generations of settler colonial society on North America’s northern grasslands.
Author : Kenneth S. Lynn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674387324
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Hemingway written by Kenneth S. Lynn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-03 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the fiction he created. But behind it all lurked an insecure, troubled man. In this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth S. Lynn explores the many tragic facets that both nurtured Hemingway’s work and eroded his life. Masterfully written, Hemingway brings to life the writer whose desperate struggle to exorcise his demons produced some of the greatest American fiction of this century.
Author : Shari Benstock
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782985
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Women of the Left Bank written by Shari Benstock and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “valuable and intriguing” study of the lives and works of literary women who shaped expatriate Paris (NPR). Focusing on some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century, from Anais Nin to Alice B. Toklas and beyond, this book shines new light on how gender was experienced and expressed during an important moment in modern literary history. "Shari Benstock . . . weaves together, with great skill, the histories of an extraordinary group of talented women—publishers like Sylvia Beach, Caresse Crosby, Margaret Anderson, and Jane Heap, novelists Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, and Edith Wharton. She examines in some depth the writing produced by poets, journalists and novelists, thus combining literary criticism and social history in a seamless running narrative.” —NPR “Through their writings, including unpublished and newly available documentary sources of the period, Djuna Barnes, Nancy Cunard, Jean Rhys, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton and others are revealed as significant in the development of modernism, imagism and other avant-garde movements in which they were overshadowed or ignored by their male counterparts. . . . Benstock tracks the sexually liberated lifestyles and the creative originality of these women with a wealth of documentation.” —Publishers Weekly “An inspiration, setting a standard for literary history and feminist criticism that will be difficult to surpass.” —American Literature
Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597912
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Wagner-Martin's Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is a twenty-first century story. Using cultural and gender studies as contexts, Wagner-Martin brings new information to the story of the Alabama judge's daughter who, at seventeen, met her husband-to-be, Scott Fitzgerald. Swept away from her stable home life into Jazz Age New York and Paris, Zelda eventually learned to be a writer and a painter; and she came close to being a ballerina. An evocative portrayal of a talented woman's professional and emotional conflicts, this study contains extensive notes and new photographs.
Author : Richard Swigg
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380797
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Quick, Said the Bird written by Richard Swigg and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Quick, Said the Bird, Richard Swigg makes the case for acoustics as the basis of the linkages, kinships, and inter-illuminations of a major twentieth-century literary relationship. Outsiders in their home terrain who nevertheless continued to reach back to their own American vocal identities, Williams, Eliot, and Moore embody a unique lineage that can be traced from their first significant works (1909-1918) to the 1960s.
Author : Susan McCabe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190621222
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book H. D. and Bryher written by Susan McCabe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dual biography takes on the daring task of examining how two women, who didn't feel like women, survived as a couple, raising an illegitimate child during a period when such arrangements were frowned upon, if even recognized. When they met in 1918, H.D. (born Hilda Doolittle in 1886), had already achieved recognition as an Imagist poet, engaged in a lesbian affair, was married to a shell-shocked adulterous poet, and was pregnant by another. She fell in love with Bryher (born Annie Winifred Ellerman in 1894), trapped both in a female body and in the shadow of her father, Sir John Ellerman, a wealthy shipping magnate. They felt a telepathic and electric connection, bonding over Greek poetry, geography, ancient history, and a shared bodily dysphoria. Bryher introduced H.D. to cinema, psychoanalysis, and politics, herself rescuing refugees from Nazis throughout the 1930s. Bryher engaged in legal strategies to protect H.D., marrying Kenneth Macpherson, who adopted H.D.'s child and collaborated with the couple in filmmaking, discovering his queerness. Both H.D. and Bryher were on vision quests, and their cerebral eroticism led them to otherworldly experiences. During World War II, they held séances in London. After "V-J Day" was announced, H.D. had a severe nervous breakdown, which Bryher, taking great pains, ensured she survived. As a love story born out of war and modernism, the book speaks to their struggles to escape binary gender, homophobic and white supremacist agendas, while celebrating their creative triumphs and courageous aspirations"--
Author : William Carlos Williams
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819564907
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky written by William Carlos Williams and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027223482
Total Pages : 7346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Genius of H. G. Wells: 120+ Sci-Fi Novels & Stories in One Volume written by H. G. Wells and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 7346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of fiction works, history and politics. Wells is called a father of science fiction. Table of Contents: A Modern Utopia Ann Veronica Bealby In the Days of the Comet The Chronic Argonauts The First Men in the Moon The Invisible Man The Island of Dr Moreau The New Machiavelli The Passionate Friends The Prophetic Trilogy The Research Magnificent The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Soul of a Bishop The Time Machine The Undying Fire The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The World Set Free Tono-bungay When the Sleeper Wakes Collections of Short Stories Short Stories: A Catastrophe A Deal in Ostriches A Dream of Armageddon A Slip Under the Microscope A Story of the Days to Come A Story of the Stone Age A Tale of the Twentieth Century A Talk with Gryllotalpa How Gabriel Became Thompson How Pingwill Was Routed In the Abyss Le Mari Terrible Miss Winchelsea's Heart Mr. Brisher's Treasure Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation Mr. Marshall's Doppelganger Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland My First Aeroplane Our Little Neighbour Perfect Gentleman on Wheels Pollock and the Porroh Man The Empire of the Ants The Flying Man The Grisly Folk The Inexperienced Ghost The Land Ironclads The Lord of the Dynamos The Loyalty of Esau Common The Magic Shop The Man Who Could Work Miracles The Man with a Nose The Moth The New Accelerator The New Faust The Obliterated Man The Pearl of Love The Presence by the Fire The Purple Pileus The Rajah's Treasure The Reconciliation The Red Room The Sea Raiders The Star The Stolen Body The Story of the Last Trump The Story of the Stone Age The Temptation of Harringay The Thing in No. 7...
Author : A W Strouse
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823294765
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Form & Foreskin written by A W Strouse and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubated The Waste Land inside of his uncut member? In this little book, A. W. Strouse excavates a poetics of the foreskin, uncovering how Patristic theologies of circumcision came to structure medieval European literary aesthetics. Following the writings of Saint Paul, “circumcision” and “uncircumcision” become key terms for theorizing language—especially the dichotomies between the mere text and its extended exegesis, between brevity and longwindedness, between wisdom and folly. Form and Foreskin looks to three works: a peculiar story by Saint Augustine about a boy with the long foreskin; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. By examining literary scenes of cutting and stretching, Strouse exposes how Patristic treatments of circumcision queerly govern medieval poetics.
Author : Robert Scully
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823272575
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book A Scarlet Pansy written by Robert Scully and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1932, A Scarlet Pansy is an extraordinarily vivid and richly textured depiction of American queer life in the early twentieth century, tracing the coming-of-age of androgynous Fay Etrange. Born in small-town Pennsylvania and struggling with her difference, Fay eventually accepts her gender and sexual nonconformity and immerses herself in the fairy subculture of New York City. A self-proclaimed “oncer”—never tricking with same man twice—she immerses herself in the nightclubs, theaters, and street life of the city, cavorting with kindred spirits including female impersonators, streetwalkers, and hustlers as well as other fairies and connoisseurs of rough trade. While reveling in these exploits she becomes a successful banker and later attends medical school, where she receives training in obstetrics. There she also develops her life’s ambition to find a cure for gonorrhea, a disease supposedly “fastened on mankind as a penalty for enjoying love.” A Scarlet Pansy stands apart from similar fiction of its time—as well as that of the ensuing decades—by celebrating rather than pathologizing its effeminate and sexually adventurous protagonist. In this edition, republished for the first time in its original unexpurgated form, Robert J. Corber examines the way in which it flew in the face of other literature of the time in its treatment of gender expression and same-sex desire. He places the novel squarely within its social and cultural context of nearly a century ago while taking into account the book’s checkered publication history as well as the question of the novel’s unknown author. Much more than cultural artifact, A Scarlet Pansy remains a uniquely delightful and penetrating work of literature, resonating as much with present-day culture as it is illuminating of our understanding of queer history and challenging our notions of what makes a man a woman, and vice-versa.
