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Book Synopsis How to Draw a Novel by : Martin Solares
Download or read book How to Draw a Novel written by Martin Solares and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don’t Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and former publisher Martín Solares In this finely wrought collection of essays, Martín Solares examines the novel in all its forms, exploring the conventions of structure, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out the world of the novel in unique and complex ways. With poetic, graceful prose, that reflects the power of fascination with literary fiction, Solares uses line drawings to realize the ebb and flow of the novel, with Moby Dick spiraling across the page while Dracula takes the form of an erratic heartbeat. A novelist, occasional scholar, and former acquiring editor in Mexican publishing, Solares breaks out of the Anglo-American-dominated canon of many craft books, ranging across Latin and South America as well. He considers how writers invent (or discover) their characters, the importance of place (or not) in the novel, and the myriad of forms the novel may take. Solares’ passion for the form is obvious, and his insights into the construction of the novel are as profound as they are accessible. This is a writer’s book, and an important contribution to the study of craft and fiction.
Book Synopsis The Six-Cornered Snowflake by : Johannes Kepler
Download or read book The Six-Cornered Snowflake written by Johannes Kepler and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1611, Kepler wrote an essay wondering why snowflakes always had perfect, sixfold symmetry. It's a simple enough question, but one that no one had ever asked before and one that couldn't actually be answered for another three centuries. Still, in trying to work out an answer, Kepler raised some fascinating questions about physics, math, and biology, and now you can watch in wonder as a great scientific genius unleashes the full force of his intellect on a seemingly trivial question, complete with new illustrations and essays to put it all in perspective."—io9, from their list "10 Amazing Science Books That Reveal The Wonders Of The Universe" When snow began to fall while he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prague late in 1610, the eminent astronomer Johannes Kepler asked himself the following question: Why do snowflakes, when they first fall, and before they are entangled into larger clumps, always come down with six corners and with six radii tufted like feathers? In his effort to answer this charming and never-before-asked question about snowflakes, Kepler delves into the nature of beehives, peapods, pomegranates, five-petaled flowers, the spiral shape of the snail's shell, and the formative power of nature itself. While he did not answer his original question—it remained a mystery for another three hundred years—he did find an occasion for deep and playful thought. "A most suitable book for any and all during the winter and holiday seasons is a reissue of a holiday present by the great mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler…Even the endnotes in this wonderful little book are interesting and educationally fun to read."—Jay Pasachoff, The Key Reporter —New English translation by Jacques Bromberg —Latin text on facing pages —An essay, "The Delights of a Roving Mind" by Owen Gingerich —An essay, "On The Six-Cornered Snowflake" by Guillermo Bleichmar —Snowflake illustrations by Capi Corrales Rodriganez —John Frederick Nims' poem "The Six-Cornered Snowflake" —Notes by Jacques Bromberg and Guillermo Bleichmar
Download or read book Leopoldo Méndez written by Deborah Caplow and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monografie over leven en werk van de Mexicaanse prentkunstenaar (1902-1969), met de nadruk op de jaren dertig en veertig waarin hij politiek zeer actief was. Ook de invloeden van en naar andere kunstenaars uit zijn tijd komen aan bod.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of Rapa Nui by : Paulus Kieviet
Download or read book A Grammar of Rapa Nui written by Paulus Kieviet and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.
Download or read book Al filo del agua written by Agustín Yáñez and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fauna written by Erik Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than 25 years of dabbling with Fauna, I find it difficult to reduce to a few words what this creative writing project is all about. My first thought is that your relationship with Fauna should not be defined or limited by my authorial interpretation. What I mean is that I want you to be free to experience this one-of-a-kind "wanthology" on your own, and form your unique opinion of it. Or perhaps I should say, form your unique opinion of her.Yes, Fauna personified is female, the name of the Roman goddess of the animals, among other things. That leads to the most commonly known denotation of Fauna, as Webster's puts it, "the animals characteristic of a region..." Does that mean that Fauna is primarily about animals, or the goddess of the animals? Well... yes, the animals of the imaginary lands of Vaporfornia and Ja Ja Listo, but it's more than that.Fauna began as a creative writing assignment at the Escuela de Escritores SOGEM (the SOGEM School for Writers) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, around 1994. I was a young North American primate who had moved to Mexico to study translation and interpretation at a fauniversity there, and who ended up surviving by teaching English to some native coatis, cocker spañiels, and she-coyotes.After a translatress that I knew convinced me that the Master's program was unnecessary, I dropped out and enrolled at the SOGEM. I especially enjoyed the Taller de Narrativa, or Narrative Workshop; the Taller de Poesía, or Poetry Workshop; and Lectura Comentada, or Reading With Commentary. Each week in Narrativa we were to write a new story, and bring it to the class in the form of photocopies for everyone. Now, looking back, I don't believe I actually wrote much, but rather scratched a little here and there. My greatest success was a review I wrote about Pedro Páramo for Lectura Comentada, which when I read it out loud to the class generated a hearty round of applause.There were different topics that we wrote, or scratched, about; for example there was suspense, there was romance, and then one week there was an assignment to write a short story about animals. That was the beginning of Fauna. I got the idea to write in English and Spanish from Juan Hernandez Senter (Centaur?), who had been my professor of translation in a class I took at California State University, Long Beach. He had a book signing at the SOGEM on a visit of his to Guadalajara, and I bought a couple of his bilingual books of poems. I thought the bilingual nature of his books, the translation equivalents and so on, to be quite bland. In short, I thought I could do better.I began to brainstorm in English and Spanish, mostly titles of short stories, and characters, and some potential plots for the stories. But I did not have a short story to present to the class the following week. When I finally had some pages to photocopy, it may have even been the next semester, I believe. But everyone thought the humor evident in my writings was contagious, and gave me very positive reviews of what I had so far.Now Fauna is the result of years of creation and evolution. I would describe Fauna as a kind of mixture of creative writing, translation, narrative and poetry, ostensibly about animals. In the beginning, as I attempted to write multiple short stories at the same time, what came out were shape poems and concrete poetry. So there is a heavy dose of forms and shapes along my quest of the elusive short story. But wait, was there a short story hidden, buried in the 296 pages of my writings? Or more than one story? That is for you to determine. Good luck! ¡Buena suerte!
Book Synopsis The Elementary Particles by : Michel Houellebecq
Download or read book The Elementary Particles written by Michel Houellebecq and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence. Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
Book Synopsis Writing from the Heart by : Nancy Slonim Aronie
Download or read book Writing from the Heart written by Nancy Slonim Aronie and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1998-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With warm, lively, often humorous anecdotes, advice, and lessons, this unique approach to creative writing as a path to healing the self shows how to reverse the damaging effects done to writers in school, where red pens disciplined grammar and taught them to mistrust their natural ability as storytellers--freezing them in their creative tracks NPR sponsorships .
Book Synopsis How to Be Luminous by : Harriet Reuter Hapgood
Download or read book How to Be Luminous written by Harriet Reuter Hapgood and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Reuter Hapgood's beautiful writing radiates with color in How to be Luminous, a lyrical and engrossing story about the aftermath of tragedy and the power of self-belief and love. Minnie Sloe and her sisters have weathered it all together—growing up without fathers, living an eccentric lifestyle with a pet rabbit named Salvador Dali, and riding out their famous artist mother’s mental highs and lows. But then their mother disappears, and Minnie, who was supposed to follow in her footsteps, starts seeing the world in monochrome. Literally. How can she create when all she sees is black-and-white? As grief threatens to tear the three sisters apart, Minnie fears she could lose everything: her family, her future, her first love . . . and maybe even her mind.
Book Synopsis El Ministerio de la Palabra Escrita - Ministerio series AETH by : Association for Hispanic Theological Education
Download or read book El Ministerio de la Palabra Escrita - Ministerio series AETH written by Association for Hispanic Theological Education and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El ministerio de la palabra escrita constituye una guía práctica para todas las personas que estén contemplando la idea de escribir y publicar un libro. De una manera amena y entretenida, Justo González nos introduce en el mundo del escritor y las dinámicas de publicación. El autor ofrece en este volumen sus años de experiencia como escritor y editor, y anima al lector a participar en la producción de material escrito para el pueblo hispano-latino con afán de solventar su escasez. This title, translated as "the ministry of the written word" constitutes a practical guide for all who contemplate writing and publishing a book. In a practical, and easy-to-understand manner, Justo González introduces to the world of the writer and the dynamics of publication. The author offers in this volume his many years of experience as the writer and publishing, and encourages readers to participate in the production of material written for the Hispanic-latino American communities where there is a shortage of quality ministerial books.
Book Synopsis The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico by : Stephanie J. Smith
Download or read book The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico written by Stephanie J. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive measures toward dissenters. While artists and intellectuals, some of them professed Communists, sought free expression in matters both artistic and political, Smith reveals how they simultaneously learned the fine art of negotiation with the increasingly authoritarian government in order to secure clout and financial patronage. But the government, Smith shows, also had reason to accommodate artists, and a surprising and volatile interdependence grew between the artists and the politicians. Involving well-known artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as some less well known, including Tina Modotti, Leopoldo Mendez, and Aurora Reyes, politicians began to appropriate the artists' nationalistic visual images as weapons in a national propaganda war. High-stakes negotiating and co-opting took place between the two camps as they sparred over the production of generally accepted notions and representations of the revolution's legacy—and what it meant to be authentically Mexican.
Book Synopsis Current Perspectives in Spanish Lexical Development by : Irene Checa-García
Download or read book Current Perspectives in Spanish Lexical Development written by Irene Checa-García and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New quantitative methodology and the development of corpus and experimental linguistics tools have recently made researching lexical comprehension and production more accessible. While several tools and data sets are available in English (Coh-metrix, CELEX) and a few other languages, the development of resources and empirical research is still lacking in Spanish. This volume brings together original empirical research and theoretical perspectives that examine lexical development in Spanish L1, L2 and L3, with a focus on different teaching approaches and textbook coverage of Spanish lexicon in L2 curricula and the use of corpus linguistics in methodological investigations. Some questions addressed include the role of lexical development in mapping grammatical acquisition phases, the potential transfers of L1 to L2 lexical abilities, the effect of explicit vocabulary learning techniques in L2, how affective meaning modulates L2 acquisition, or how a typological understanding of lexical organization can help in teaching more effectively the lexicon of a language, among many others. The book offers an overview of what is currently being done in the field of Spanish lexical acquisition through a myriad of approaches and topics.
Book Synopsis The Discreet Hero by : Mario Vargas Llosa
Download or read book The Discreet Hero written by Mario Vargas Llosa and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A tale of two cities—Piura and Lima—rocked by scandal, and the disintegrating bonds of loyalty between the generations Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires—which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings. The Discreet Hero is also a chance to revisit some of our favorite players from previous Vargas Llosa novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly—and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters. A novel whose humor and pathos shine through in Edith Grossman's masterly translation, The Discreet Hero is another remarkable achievement from the finest Latin American novelist at work today.
Book Synopsis Catalog by : University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection
Download or read book Catalog written by University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Write a Novel in 90 Days by : Conrad Jones
Download or read book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days written by Conrad Jones and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise guide tells you how to write a novel by using a systematic approach to writing. This guide is written by an author not a 'guru'. A simple step by step breakdown of how to plan each day. No fillers and no theory, just the hard facts in a concise guide. There are many guides about writing novels on the market but how many of them are written by prolific published authors? The answer is ‘not many'. How can anyone write a guide unless they have been through the writing process many times before? The simple answer to this question is they can't because they cannot feed on their own actual experiences to help another writer to avoid the mistakes and pitfalls. Most guides regurgitate information which they have picked up from creative writing books or sites. How can they give you advice when they have never sat down and focused on creating a novel which will sell, many times over? Writing a novel is the same as any other task we undertake as individuals. We have to learn how to do it in order to do it well. When you first learn to drive, you need lessons. No one walks into the kitchen and creates a gourmet dish on their first attempt. If you want a system to apply to writing a book, then you need to take advice from an ‘author’ who has taken years to develop the process via experience.
Book Synopsis World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality by : Gesine Müller
Download or read book World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality written by Gesine Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.
Download or read book Avanzando written by Carmen Salazar and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This traditional intermediate-level book organized by grammatical structure and a theme that reviews spoken and written Spanish grammar is updated to feature more balance in length and difficulty of grammar scope and sequence. It also incorporates updated vocabulary and topics covering new technology. Complemented by a selection of short stories by well-known Spanish and Latin American writers, this book presents grammar explanations and cultural presentations in straightforward, easy-to-understand Spanish with numerous examples, contextualized exercises and activities.
