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In the Age of Prose

Author : Erich Heller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521254939
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book In the Age of Prose written by Erich Heller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been achieved - such as the comic triumphs of Wilhelm Busch. As elsewhere in Professor Heller's work, Thomas Mann's attempt to outwit and redeem his circumstances through art - 'despite' them, as he said himself - occupies a central place. Three of the present essays are devoted to him. Others consider Kleist, Fontane, Hamsun, Karl Kraus and the crucial figures of Hölderlin (who plays such a central role in Heidegger's later philosophical writings) and Rilke. Written with feeling, and the distinctive elegance and wit that have characterized all of Professor Heller's work, the essays here reaffirm the vital interdependence of literature and human values.

The Victorian Age in Prose

Author : Alan W. Bellringer
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051830507
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Age in Prose written by Alan W. Bellringer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Romantic Age in Prose

Author : Alan W. Bellringer
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789062039814
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Age in Prose written by Alan W. Bellringer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1980 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In an Age of Prose

Author : Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In an Age of Prose written by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What to Read and Why

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062397885
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book What to Read and Why written by Francine Prose and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan and Roberto Bolaño. In an age defined by hyper-connectivity and constant stimulation, Francine Prose makes a compelling case for the solitary act of reading and the great enjoyment it brings. Inspiring and illuminating, What to Read and Why includes selections culled from Prose’s previous essays, reviews, and introductions, combined with new, never-before-published pieces that focus on her favorite works of fiction and nonfiction, on works by masters of the short story, and even on books by photographers like Diane Arbus. Prose considers why the works of literary masters such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Jane Austen have endured, and shares intriguing insights about modern authors whose words stimulate our minds and enlarge our lives, including Roberto Bolaño, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jennifer Egan, and Mohsin Hamid. Prose implores us to read Mavis Gallant for her marvelously rich and compact sentences, and her meticulously rendered characters who reveal our flawed and complex human nature; Edward St. Aubyn for his elegance and sophisticated humor; and Mark Strand for his gift for depicting unlikely transformations. Here, too, are original pieces in which Prose explores the craft of writing: "On Clarity" and "What Makes a Short Story." Written with her sharp critical analysis, wit, and enthusiasm, What to Read and Why is a celebration of literature that will give readers a new appreciation for the power and beauty of the written word.

The Age of Transition: The dramatists and prose writers ; with an introduction by John W. Hales

Author : Frederick John Snell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Transition: The dramatists and prose writers ; with an introduction by John W. Hales written by Frederick John Snell and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Authors of All Ages

Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Great Authors of All Ages written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Literature: From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson, by Edmund Gosse

Author : Richard Garnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book English Literature: From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson, by Edmund Gosse written by Richard Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose

Author : Mary Kinzie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226437354
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose written by Mary Kinzie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs. How this mutual purpose is served, ideally and practically, is the subject of this bracingly polemical collection of essays. A distinguished poet and critic, Kinzie assesses poetry's situation during the past twenty-five years. Ours, she contends, is literally a prosaic age, not only in the popularity of prose genres but in the resultant compromises with truth and elegance in literature. In essays on "the rhapsodic fallacy," confessionalism, and the romance of perceptual response, Kinzie diagnoses some of the trends that diminish the poet's flexibility. Conversely, she also considers individual poets—Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Seamus Heaney, and John Ashbery—who have found ingenious ways of averting the risks of prosaism and preserving the special character of poetry. Focusing on poet Louise Bogan and novelist J. M. Coetzee, Kinzie identifies a crucial and curative overlap between the practices of great prose-writing and great poetry. In conclusion, she suggests a new approach for teaching writers of poetry and fiction. Forcefully argued, these essays will be widely read and debated among critics and poets alike.

The English Language; Its Grammar, History and Literature

Author : John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Language; Its Grammar, History and Literature written by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Age of the Poets

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168569X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Age of the Poets written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the “age of the poets,” which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,” Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.

A Concise History of English Literature

Author : William Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781463648596
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of English Literature written by William Long and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Summary:(1) A brief, accurate summary of historical events and social conditions in each period, and a consideration of the ideals which stirred the whole nation, as in the days of Elizabeth, before they found expression in literature.(2) A study of the various literary epochs in turn, showing what each gained from the epoch preceding, and how each aided in the development of a national literature.(3) A readable biography of every important writer, showing how he lived and worked, how he met success or failure, how he influenced his age, and how his age influenced him.(4) A study and analysis of every author's best works, and of many of the books required for college-entrance examinations.(5) Selections enough-especially from earlier writers, and from writers not likely to be found in the home or school library-to indicate the spirit of each author's work; and directions as to the best works to read, and where such works may be found in inexpensive editions.(6) A frank, non-technical discussion of each great writer's work as a whole, and a critical estimate of his relative place and influence in our literature.(7) A few review questions for essays or discussion.(8) Throughout this book we have sought to encourage the student to read widely for herself, to choose the best books, and to form her own judgment about what the first Anglo-Saxon writers called "the things worthy to be remembered."Chapter Contents:A Concise History of English LiteraturePreface1 The Meaning Of Literature2 The Old-English PeriodThe First PoetryAnglo-Saxon LifeChristian Writers Of The Anglo-Saxon Period3 The Anglo-Norman Period Historical IntroductionLiterature Of The Norman Period4 The Age Of ChaucerChaucer's Contemporaries5 The Revival Of LearningHistory Of The PeriodLiterature Of The Revival6 The Elizabethan AgeHistory Of The PeriodThe Non-Dramatic PoetsThe First English DramatistsPeriods In The Development Of The DramaShakespeareContemporaries and SuccessorsThe Prose Writers7 The Puritan AgeHistorical SummaryLiterature Of The Puritan PeriodProse Writers Of The Puritan Period8 The RestorationThe Age Of French Influence9 Eighteenth-Century LiteratureThe Augustan AgeThe Revival Of Romantic PoetryThe First English Novelists10 The Age Of RomanticismThe Poets Of RomanticismProse Writers Of The Romantic Period11 The Victorian Age The Poets Of The Victorian AgeMinor Poets Of The Victorian AgeThe Novelists Of The Victorian AgeEssayists Of The Victorian Age12 Summary of English LiteratureContents in detail for one chapter:6 The Elizabethan AgeHistory Of The PeriodPolitical SummaryCharacteristics Of The Elizabethan AgeThe Non-Dramatic PoetsEdmund SpenserLife Of SpenserSpenser's WorksArgument Of The Faery QueenPoetical FormMinor PoemsImportance Of The Shepherd's CalendarCharacteristics Of Spenser's PoetryComparison Between Chaucer And SpenserMinor PoetsThomas Sackville George ChapmanMichael DraytonThe First English DramatistsThe Origin Of The DramaPeriods In The Development Of The DramaThe Religious Period The Moral Period Of The DramaThe Artistic Period Of The DramaClassical Influence Upon The DramaShakespeare's Predecessors In DramaChristopher MarloweMarlowe's WorksVariety Of Early DramaShakespeareLife Of ShakespeareWorks Of ShakespeareClassification According To SourceClassification According To Dramatic TypeDoubtful PlaysShakespeare's PoemsShakespeare's Place And InfluenceContemporaries and SuccessorsDecline Of The DramaBen JonsonLife Of Ben JonsonWorks Of Ben JonsonBeaumont And FletcherJohn WebsterThomas MiddletonThomas HeywoodThomas DekkerMassinger, Ford, ShirleyThe Prose WritersFrancis BaconLife Of BaconWorks Of BaconThe Instauratio MagnaThe EssaysMiscellaneous WorksBacon's Place And WorkRichard HookerSidney And RaleighJohn FoxeCamden And KnoxHakluyt And PurchasThomas NorthSummary Of The Age Of ElizabethQuestions

English Prose From Bacon to Hardy (Classic Reprint)

Author : Edmund Kemper Broadus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483262140
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book English Prose From Bacon to Hardy (Classic Reprint) written by Edmund Kemper Broadus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Prose From Bacon to Hardy The choice of passages has often been guided by what is characteristic of an author or period rather than by what is intrinsically best. In the case of Dickens, fer instance, the chapter on the death of Little Nell has been included because it represents an important side of the novelist's work better than some passages less open to criticism. In most cases, fortunately, it has been possible to reconcile the two principles of selection. An attempt has been made, in a way not usually done in books of selections, to present the various aspects of an author's work. Thus Bacon is represented not only by some of his essays, but also by passages from The Advancement of Learning and The Life of Henry VII. Other examples which illustrate the same purpose are Swift, Johnson, Scott, Coleridge, and Stevenson. One feature of the book which may be mentioned is the selection from the essayists and letter-writers of the eighteenth century. The main purpose in this case is to throw some light on the social background of literature at the time, and to represent fairly liberally two types of literature peculiarly characteristic of the period. No similar selections from the nineteenth century have been given because the compact literary society of the previous age had disappeared and the more complex conditions which replaced it could not be illustrated in the same simple way. There is also the reason that many of the greatest nineteenth-century letter-writers are known chieﬂy as poets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Book of Modern Catholic Prose

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Modern Catholic Prose written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Victorian Age

Author : John Wilson Bowyer
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Age written by John Wilson Bowyer and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1954 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Age of Transition, 1400-1580: The poets

Author : Frederick John Snell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Transition, 1400-1580: The poets written by Frederick John Snell and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134569076
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature written by Neil Cornwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and émigré writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature. With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike.