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Author : Samuel Ayscough
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Manuscripts Preserved in the British Museum Hitherto Undescribed: written by Samuel Ayscough and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valerie Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317872789
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Short Story written by Valerie Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries - by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.
Author : William Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1258 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Earinus-Nyx written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Fusco
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041129
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Maupassant and the American Short Story written by Richard Fusco and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maupassant and the American Short Story isolates and develops more fully than any previous study the impact of Maupassant's work on the writing of Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry, Kate Chopin, and Henry James. It introduces a new perspective to assess their canons, reviving the importance of many often-ignored stories and, in the cases of Maupassant and O. Henry, reasserting the necessity of studying such writers to understand the history of the genre. An important moment in the history of the short story occurred with the American misreading of Maupassant's use of story structure. At the turn of the century, writers such as Bierce and O. Henry seized upon the surprise-inversion form because Maupassant's translators promoted him as championing it. Only a few writers, such as James and Chopin, both of whom read Maupassant in French, appreciated his deft handling of form more fully. Their vision and the impact of Maupassant upon their fiction was largely ignored by later generations of writers who preferred to associate Maupassant and O. Henry with the &"trick ending&" story. This book details the origins and consequences of this misperception. The book further contributes to the study of the short-story genre. Through an adaptation of Aristotelian concepts, Richard Fusco proposes an original approach to short-story structure, defining and developing seven categories of textual formulas: linear, ironic coda, surprise-inversion, loop, descending helical, contrast, and sinusoidal. As a practitioner of all these forms, Maupassant established his mastery of the genre. By studying his use of form, the book asserts a major reason for his pivotal importance in the historical development of the short story.
Author : Erin Fallon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313007160
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English written by Erin Fallon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-12-30 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years, and especially in recent decades. Though many outstanding novels have been written in the 20th century, most of these writers have also published short fiction. And in many cases, their short stories exhibit a greater degree of coherence and integrity than their longer works. The rise of creative writing programs in the 1960s helped fuel the growth of the short story and brought academic attention to it. So, too, the emergence of multiculturalism encouraged authors of diverse backgrounds to write about their cultures. This reference is a guide to the contemporary English-language short story. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for roughly 50 English-language short story writers from around the world, such as Chinua Achebe, John Barth, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, and Amy Tan. More than half the American writers profiled are from historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans. Most of these authors have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biographical material, a brief review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume begins with a detailed introduction to the short story genre and concludes with an annotated bibliography of major works on short story theory.
Author : Craig MacKenzie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900449037X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Oral-Style South African Short Story in English written by Craig MacKenzie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study deals with a particular kind of short story in South African English literature - a kind of story variously called the fireside tale, tall tale, skaz narrative or (the term used here) the 'oral-style' story. Most famously exemplified in the Oom Schalk Lourens narratives of Herman Charles Bosman, the oral-style story has its roots in the hunting tale and camp-fire yarn of the nineteenth century and has dozens of exponents in South African literature, most of them long forgotten. Here this neglect has been addressed. A.W. Drayson's Tales at the Outspan (1862) provides a point of departure, and is followed by discussions of works by William Charles Scully, Percy FitzPatrick, Ernest Glanville, Perceval Gibbon, Francis Carey Slater, Pauline Smith, and Aegidius Jean Blignaut, all of whom used the oral-style story genre. In the work of Herman Charles Bosman, however, the South African oral-style story comes into its own. In his Oom Schalk Lourens figure is invested all of the complexity and 'double-voicedness' that was latent - and largely dormant - in the earlier works. Bosman demonstrates his sophistication particularly in his metafictional use of the oral-style story. The study concludes with a discussion of the use of oral forms in the work of more recent black writers - among them Bessie Head, Mtutuzeli Matshoba, and Njabulo Ndebele.
Author : Michael Basseler
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839446422
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book An Organon of Life Knowledge written by Michael Basseler and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of 'life knowledge'. Echoing the resurgence of short story scholarship in recent years, it thus contributes a genre-focused perspective to the growing field of 'literature and knowledge' studies. Drawing on stories from the late 19th century to the present by authors such as Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Junot Díaz, and Alice Munro, Michael Basseler examines how knowledge about life and how to live it is generically constituted and, vice versa, how literary genres such as the short story are embedded in broader cultural frameworks of knowledge production.
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Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Finding List of Books and Periodicals in the Central Library ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine A. Brekus
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807866547
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Strangers and Pilgrims written by Catherine A. Brekus and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth," an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844--these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Brekus examines the lives of more than a hundred female preachers--both white and African American--who crisscrossed the country between 1740 and 1845. Outspoken, visionary, and sometimes contentious, these women stepped into the pulpit long before twentieth-century battles over female ordination began. They were charismatic, popular preachers, who spoke to hundreds and even thousands of people at camp and revival meetings, and yet with but a few notable exceptions--such as Sojourner Truth--these women have essentially vanished from our history. Recovering their stories, Brekus shows, forces us to rethink many of our common assumptions about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American culture.
Author : Alban Butler
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Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarke, Robert and Co
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Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to America ... With a Descriptive List of the Ohio Valley Historical Series. For Sale by Robert Clarke & Co written by Clarke, Robert and Co and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Blanche H. Gelfant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231110995
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story written by Blanche H. Gelfant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource provides information on a popular literary genre - the 20th century American short story. It contains articles on stories that share a particular theme, and over 100 pieces on individual writers and their work. There are also articles on promising new writers entering the scene.
Author : Maik Nwosu
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653107
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Critical Imagination in African Literature written by Maik Nwosu and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African studies, the “Echeruoan ideal” is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a broadness of vision as well as a depth of analysis. The essays gathered in this volume celebrate that ideal and honor Echeruo’s contribution to the African intellectual tradition. Editors Nwosu and Obiwu explore the driving forces in the literature of Africa and the African diaspora. Contributors examine such themes as migration and exile, trauma and repression, violence and rebellion, and gender and human rights. Showcasing a rich diversity of cultural and academic backgrounds, this volume inaugurates a new paradigm for further examination of African literature as world literature and for analysis of African literature through the lens of psychoanalytic semiotics. While varied in modes of inquiry, the essays are unified in their ambition to explore new theoretical directions, reinvigorating the conversation around how African literature is read and studied.
Author : Sheo Bhushan Shukla
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176252690
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Indian English Novel in the Nineties written by Sheo Bhushan Shukla and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Author : Ellen Eslinger
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813147808
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Running Mad for Kentucky written by Ellen Eslinger and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crossing of America's first great divide—the Appalachian Mountains—has been a source of much fascination but has received little attention from modern historians. In the eighteenth century, the Wilderness Road and Ohio River routes into Kentucky presented daunting natural barriers and the threat of Indian attack. Running Mad for Kentucky brings this adventure to life. Primarily a collection of travel diaries, it includes day-to-day accounts that illustrate the dangers thousands of Americans, adult and child, black and white, endured to establish roots in the wilderness. Ellen Eslinger's vivid and extensive introductory essay draws on numerous diaries, letters, and oral histories of trans-Appalachian travelers to examine the historic consequences of the journey, a pivotal point in the saga of the continent's indigenous people. The book demonstrates how the fabled soil of Kentucky captured the imagination of a young nation.
Author : Robert Watt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature: Subjects written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
