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Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern

Author : Todd Breyfogle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226074252
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern written by Todd Breyfogle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the Greek tragedies and Herodotus's History, as well as his edition of Hobbes's Thucydides, David Grene has also had a major impact as a teacher and interpreter of texts both ancient and modern. In this book, distinguished colleagues and former students explore the imaginative force of literature and history in articulating and illuminating the human condition. Ranging as widely as Grene's own interests in Greek and Roman antiquity, in drama, poetry, and the novel, in the art of translation, and in English history, these essays include discussions of the Odyssey and Ulysses, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, Mallarmé's English and T. S. Eliot's religion, and the mutually antipathetic minds of Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson. The introduction by Todd Breyfogle sketches for the first time the contours of Grene's own thought. Classicists, political theorists, intellectual historians, philosophers, and students of literature will all find much of value in the individual essays here and in the juxtaposition of their themes. Contributors: Saul Bellow, Seth Benardete, Todd Breyfogle, Amirthanayagam P. David, Wendy Doniger, Mary Douglas, Joseph N. Frank, Victor Gourevitch, Nicholas Grene, W. R. Johnson, Brendan Kennelly, Edwin McClellan, Françoise Meltzer, Stephanie Nelson, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Martin Ostwald, Robert B. Pippin, James Redfield, Sandra F. Siegel, Norma Thompson, and David Tracy

Imagining Culture (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Jonathan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317565045
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Culture (Routledge Revivals) written by Jonathan Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Culture, first published in 1996, discusses literature as a whole rather than a partisan interest in those who are in or out of favour, and how that literature relates to other arts as well as to philosophical, historical, and cultural contexts. This title will be of interest to students of literature and cultural studies.

Fun Home

Author : Alison Bechdel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618871711
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Fun Home written by Alison Bechdel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.

Essays on Modern Popular Literature

Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Modern Popular Literature written by Orestes Augustus Brownson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women

Author : Wendy Martin
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women written by Wendy Martin and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two generations ago, most essayists were men, but in recent decades, women writers have claimed the personal essay, using its freedom to explore contemporary life in all its diversity. Wendy Martin has gathered a wide range of writing, from classics by Maya Angelou and Joan Didion to new voices of younger writers, many appearing here for the first time in book form.

The Image of the City in Modern Literature

Author : Burton Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780835761529
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Image of the City in Modern Literature written by Burton Pike and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction, 1920-1951, Representing the Achievement of Modern American and British Critics

Author : John W. Aldridge
Publisher : New York : Ronald Press Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction, 1920-1951, Representing the Achievement of Modern American and British Critics written by John W. Aldridge and published by New York : Ronald Press Company. This book was released on 1952 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Contemporary American Essay

Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525567321
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary American Essay written by Phillip Lopate and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century—from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate. The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America’s best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic writing. Hilton Als • Nicholson Baker • Thomas Beller • Sven Birkerts • Eula Biss • Mary Cappello • Anne Carson • Terry Castle • Alexander Chee • Teju Cole • Bernard Cooper • Sloane Crosley • Charles D’Ambrosio • Meghan Daum • Brian Doyle • Geoff Dyer • Lina Ferreira • Lynn Freed • Rivka Galchen • Ross Gay • Louise Glück • Emily Fox Gordon • Patricia Hampl • Aleksandar Hemon • Samantha Irby • Leslie Jamison • Margo Jefferson • Laura Kipnis • David Lazar • Yiyun Li • Phillip Lopate • Barry Lopez • Thomas Lynch • John McPhee • Ander Monson • Eileen Myles • Maggie Nelson • Meghan O’Gieblyn • Joyce Carol Oates • Darryl Pinckney • Lia Purpura • Karen Russell • David Sedaris • Shifra Sharlin • David Shields • Floyd Skloot • Rebecca Solnit • Clifford Thompson • Wesley Yang An Anchor Original.

Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature

Author : Katherine O'Callaghan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351865889
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature written by Katherine O'Callaghan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important intervention in the growing field of Words and Music studies. It expands the existing critical debate to include lesser-known writers alongside Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett, a wide-ranging definition of modernism, and the influence of contemporary music on modernist writers. From the rhythm of Tagore’s poetry to the influence of jazz improvisation, the tonality of traditional Irish music to the operas of Wagner, these essays reframe our sense of how music inspired Literary Modernism. Exploring the points at which the art forms of music and literature collide, repel, and combine, contributors draw on their deep musical knowledge to produce close readings of prose, poetry, and drama, confronting the concept of what makes writing "musical." In doing so, they uncover commonalities: modernist writers pursue simultaneity and polyphony, evolve the leitmotif for literary purposes, and adapt the formal innovations of twentieth-century music. The essays explore whether it is possible for literature to achieve that unity of form and subject which music enjoys, and whether literary texts can resist paraphrase, can be simply themselves. This book demonstrates how attention to the role of music in text in turn illuminates the manner in which we read literature.

Essays on the Characteristics of a Superior Popular Literature

Author : William Bathgate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Characteristics of a Superior Popular Literature written by William Bathgate and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature

Author : John Kerrigan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199269174
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature written by John Kerrigan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes essays on Shakespeare originally published 1987-1997.

Agitations

Author : Arthur Krystal
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300145608
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Agitations written by Arthur Krystal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of temperament and taste in the forming of aesthetic and ideological opinions. In provocative chapters about reading and writing, about the relation between life and literature, about knowledge and certainty, about God and death, and about a gradual disaffection with the literary scene, the book demonstrates that opposing points of view are based more on innate predilections than on disinterested thought or analysis.

Popular Fictions

Author : Peter Humm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136492569
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Popular Fictions written by Peter Humm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Amongst a time of rapid and radical social change, New Accents is a positive response to change, with each volume seeking to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study. All the essays collected here deal in their different ways with 'popular fictions', but they were all, also, first published in the journal Literature and History. In that sense, then, they are quite literally 'essays in literature and history'.

Dhalgren

Author : Samuel R. Delany
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480461687
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Dhalgren written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nebula Award Finalist: Reality unravels in a Midwestern town in this sci-fi epic by the acclaimed author of Babel-17. Includes a foreword by William Gibson. A young half–Native American known as the Kid has hitchhiked from Mexico to the midwestern city Bellona—only something is wrong there . . . In Bellona, the shattered city, a nameless cataclysm has left reality unhinged. Into this desperate metropolis steps the Kid, his fist wrapped in razor-sharp knives, to write, to love, to wound. So begins Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany’s masterwork, which in 1975 opened a new door for what science fiction could mean. A labyrinth of a novel, it raises questions about race, sexuality, identity, and art, but gives no easy answers, in a city that reshapes itself with each step you take . . . This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.

Adorno and "A Writing of the Ruins"

Author : James Martin Harding
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791432709
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Adorno and "A Writing of the Ruins" written by James Martin Harding and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-02-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extends critical discussion of Adorno to works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka, arguing that Adorno's work can best be assessed in terms of its relevance in specific localized contexts.

Essays on Modern Novelists

Author : William Lyon Phelps
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539511564
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Modern Novelists written by William Lyon Phelps and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of the collection of essays originally published in book form in 1910. The first impression the book makes, on re-reading its interesting and at times brilliant criticisms, is the ever changing meaning of the word "modern." We are sure that if Professor Phelps were issuing such a book to-day, his choice of subjects would differ, both in omission and inclusion, from the list as here given. De Morgan, Bjornson, Sienkiewicz, and Blackmore would probably disappear, and those who could take their places would more than fill the volume. For, to mention only one, the greatest of "modern novelists," Mrs. Wharton, is not here, although The House of Mirth was published in 1905. Professor Phelps gives sound and discriminating criticism on Hardy, Howells, Mark Twain, Stevenson, Kipling, and Sudermann. He does not, we think, appreciate Mrs. Humphry Ward's portrayal of the atmosphere in which she places her characters, but he puts his finger on her weaknesses. He rightly protests against the Continental criticism of English and American novels on account of their reticence, for it is not a question of morality only, it is a question of the proper proportions in which one draws life. An interesting appendix contains his plea for the study of contemporary literature and an account of his experiences when he began to give a course on "The Modern Novel" at Yale about 1896. We remember the surprise we felt at that time, when this course was hailed as a great novelty, for we had taken a course in modern fiction at Pennsylvania with Professor Schelling several years before; but this essay, read now, proves again how fast time flies. Courses in modern literature are given everywhere now, and Professor Phelps can rightly be congratulated on being one of the pioneers in bringing trained academic judgment where it is vitally needed, that is, to the reading public who have to be told constantly what they should or should not read. -Educational Review, Vol. 64

Temperamental Journeys

Author : Michael Kowalewski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820314310
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Temperamental Journeys written by Michael Kowalewski and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays which focus on 20th-century travel writing. Though travel writing has sometimes been viewed as a second-rate literary form, the essays in this volume aim to reinvigorate an appreciation of the genre as a blend of self-scrutiny, social comment and intercultural exchange. The contributors to Temperamental Journeys address issues ranging from the special role of women travellers and the dangers of cultural chauvinism in a postcolonial world to the response of postmodern literary travellers exploring the same territory as previous writers.