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Savage Shorthand

Author : Jerome Charyn
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307431797
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Savage Shorthand written by Jerome Charyn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the first great Soviet writer, Isaac Babel was at once a product and a victim of violent revolution. In tales of Cossack marauders and flashy Odessa gangsters, he perfectly captured the raw, edgy mood of the first years of the Russian Revolution. Masked, reckless, impassioned, charismatic, Babel himself was as fascinating as the characters he created. At last, in renowned author Jerome Charyn, Babel has a portraitist worthy of his quicksilver genius. Though it traces the arc of Babel’s charmed life and mysterious death, Savage Shorthand bursts the confines of straight biography to become a meditation on the pleasures, torments, and meanings of Babel’s art. Even in childhood, Babel seemed destined to leave a mark. But it was only when his mentor, Maxim Gorky, ordered him to go out into the world of revolutionary Russia that Babel found his true voice and subject. His tales of the bandit king Benya Krik and the brutal raids of the Red Cavalry electrified Moscow. Overnight, Babel was a celebrity, with throngs of admirers and a train of lovers. But with the rise of Stalin, Babel became a living ghost. Charyn brilliantly evokes the paranoid shadowland of the first wave of Stalin’s terror, when agents of the Cheka snuffed out artists like candle flames. Charyn’s chilling account of the circumstances of Babel’s death–hidden and lied about for decades by Stalin’s agents–finally sets the record straight. For Jerome Charyn, Babel is the writer who epitomizes the vibrancy, violence, and tragedy of literature in the twentieth century. In Savage Shorthand, Charyn has turned his own lifelong obsession with Babel into a dazzling and original literary work.

L'épuisement du biographique?

Author : Vincent Broqua
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443826294
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book L'épuisement du biographique? written by Vincent Broqua and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pourquoi penser le biographique? N'est-il pas épuisé? Le siècle passé semble l'avoir vidé de son contenu et de sa substance et l'a réduit à un état d'affaiblissement presque complet dans le domaine des sciences sociales comme dans celui de la critique littéraire. L'enjeu de cet ouvrage est d'affirmer que le biographique déborde la biographie et de considérer le biographique comme une condition du retour de la biographie au moyen de son dépassement. Cet ouvrage rassemble des travaux abordant ...

Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Life as an Animal

Author : Laurie Stone
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810134292
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book My Life as an Animal written by Laurie Stone and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman meets a man and falls in love. She is sixty, a writer and lifelong New Yorker raised by garmentos. She thought this kind of thing wouldn’t happen again. He is English, so who knows what he thinks. He is fifty-six, a professor now living in Arizona, the son of a bespoke tailor. As the first of Laurie Stone’s linked stories begins, the writer contemplates what life would be like in the desert with the professor. As we learn how she became the person she is, we also come to know the artists and politics of the downtown scene of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, a cultural milieu that remains alive in her. In sharply etched prose, Stone presents a woman constantly seduced by strangers, language, the streets— even a wildlife trail. Her characters realize that they feel at home in dislocation—in always living in two places at the same time: east and west, past and present, the bed and the grave (or copper urn). Love may not last, the writer knows. Then again, when has anything you thought about the future turned out right?

The London Gazette

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The London Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Society of Arts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Society of Arts

Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bibliotheca Londinensis

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Londinensis written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gregg Writer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book The Gregg Writer written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour

Author : Alexandra Effe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000824187
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour written by Alexandra Effe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autofiction is often associated with humour, irony, and play. Moreover, authors of autofictional texts are frequently criticised for a lack of seriousness or for failing to straightforwardly and in their own voice engage with a given topic. Yet very few autofictional texts are exclusively, or even primarily, playful. Many employ humour and irony to address very serious subject matter. This volume explores how these seemingly opposed characteristics of autofictional texts in fact work together. The contributions in this volume show that autofictional texts often make use of humour and play in a productive and meaningful way, tackling issues such as human rights violations, historical and collective as well as personal trauma, and struggle with psychological or physical illness and abuse. On the basis of geographically wide-ranging case studies, including texts from South America, South Africa, the United States, and Europe, this book explores how, in which contexts, and to which effects autofictional texts reveal their authors’ complex and often painful psychological experiences and engage the emotions of their readers. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Life Writing.

Ruling the Savage Periphery

Author : Benjamin D. Hopkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674246144
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Ruling the Savage Periphery written by Benjamin D. Hopkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative case that “failed states” along the periphery of today’s international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial design. From the Afghan frontier with British India to the pampas of Argentina to the deserts of Arizona, nineteenth-century empires drew borders with an eye toward placing indigenous people just on the edge of the interior. They were too nomadic and communal to incorporate in the state, yet their labor was too valuable to displace entirely. Benjamin Hopkins argues that empires sought to keep the “savage” just close enough to take advantage of, with lasting ramifications for the global nation-state order. Hopkins theorizes and explores frontier governmentality, a distinctive kind of administrative rule that spread from empire to empire. Colonial powers did not just create ad hoc methods or alight independently on similar techniques of domination: they learned from each other. Although the indigenous peoples inhabiting newly conquered and demarcated spaces were subjugated in a variety of ways, Ruling the Savage Periphery isolates continuities across regimes and locates the patterns of transmission that made frontier governmentality a world-spanning phenomenon. Today, the supposedly failed states along the margins of the international system—states riven by terrorism and violence—are not dysfunctional anomalies. Rather, they work as imperial statecraft intended, harboring the outsiders whom stable states simultaneously encapsulate and exploit. “Civilization” continues to deny responsibility for border dwellers while keeping them close enough to work, buy goods across state lines, and justify national-security agendas. The present global order is thus the tragic legacy of a colonial design, sustaining frontier governmentality and its objectives for a new age.

Shakespeare's Caliban

Author : Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458177
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Caliban written by Alden T. Vaughan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Caliban examines The Tempest's "savage and deformed slave" as a fascinating but ambiguous literary creation with a remarkably diverse history. The authors, one a historian and the other a Shakespearean, explore the cultural background of Caliban's creation in 1611 and his disparate metamorphoses to the present time.

Conversations with Jerome Charyn

Author : Sophie Vallas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626743185
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Jerome Charyn written by Sophie Vallas and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear here in print for the first time as well. As one of his autobiographical volumes claims, Jerome Charyn is a “Bronx Boy,” a child born from immigrant parents who went through Ellis Island in the 1920s like so many other travelers without luggage, a “little werewolf” who grew up on his own in the chaos of the Bronx ghetto. “I think I was defined by two things: World War Two and the movies.” His work remains deeply marked by this childhood largely forgotten by the American Dream. If Charyn has spent much of his life in Paris, he has paradoxically never left the Bronx: “‘El Bronx’ is there inside my head, and I revisit it the way Hemingway would fish the Big Two-Hearted River in his dreams.” His whole work is a long attempt at evoking his own history and celebrating his lifelong marveling at the power of language—“our second skin”—as well as his deep, unflinching belief in the promises of fiction. Since 1964, Charyn has published more than fifty books ranging from fiction to nonfiction and including short stories, very popular crime novels, graphic novels co-written with European artists, essays on American culture and cinema as well as on New York, autobiography and biography—an ever-changing production that has made it difficult for critics to classify him. And yet in many ways Charyn’s writing thrives on constant currents: the words “voice,” “song,” “undersong,” or “rhythm” return frequently in his interviews as he explains what literature is to him and ceaselessly asserts that he is trying “to find a music for a musicless world,” a language for “people who cannot speak.”

New York Stories

Author : Constance Rosenblum
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814775721
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book New York Stories written by Constance Rosenblum and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best essays and reportage from The New York Times City section over the past four years includes contributions from such literary luminaries as Phillip Lopate, Vivian Gornick, Thomas Beller, and Laura Shaine Cunningham, among others. Simultaneous.

New York Sketchbook

Author : Jerome Charyn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312353693
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book New York Sketchbook written by Jerome Charyn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In time for the holidays comes this innovative exploration of America's biggest, and most exciting metropolis. In sketch and water color, Fabrice Moireau captures the dizzying heights, steep canyons and teeming multitudes of the Big Apple.

Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

Author : Charles King
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393080528
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams written by Charles King and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a National Jewish Book Award "Fascinating.…A humane and tragic survey of a great and tragic subject." —Jan Morris, Literary Review From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of original sources and offering the first detailed account of the destruction of the city's Jewish community during the Second World War, Charles King's Odessa is both history and elegy—a vivid chronicle of a multicultural city and its remarkable resilience over the past two centuries.

We Could Be Heroes

Author : Philip Ellis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593542495
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book We Could Be Heroes written by Philip Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear high heels and a wig. Patrick's acting career is on the rise, and the superhero movie he's filming might put him on the map . . . if the endless reshoots ever stop. Meanwhile, Will, a secondhand bookseller and part-time drag queen, is just trying to live his best life. After a chance encounter on a particularly chaotic night, a curious friendship sparks between the two men. At least, that’s what they tell each other. Sure, Patrick finds Will captivatingly hilarious, and Will can’t help but keep thinking about who is really behind the perfect mask Patrick shows the rest of the world, but nothing could ever really happen, right? Superheroes don’t date drag queens, after all. When reality crashes into the fantasy world they’ve built together, Will has to make a choice between the man of his dreams and being true to himself. Can Patrick be the hero Will’s been waiting for, or will Will be the one to save Patrick after all? Uproarious and touching, We Could Be Heroes is an ode to queer joy and a romance that just might save the world.