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Book Synopsis Betwixt-and-Between by : Jenny Boully
Download or read book Betwixt-and-Between written by Jenny Boully and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.” —John D’Agata “Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without ‘complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.’ Jenny Boully has done it.” —Mary Jo Bang “Jenny Boully is a deeply weird writer—in the best way.” —Ander Monson Jenny Boully’s essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterizes falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy, making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. Betwixt and Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live. Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essay, The Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.
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.
Book Synopsis Pertinent Players by : Joseph Epstein
Download or read book Pertinent Players written by Joseph Epstein and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1993 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers essays about the writings of Italo Svevo, Ben Hecht, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, H.L. Mencken, George Orwell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carl Sandburg, and Anthony Burgess
Book Synopsis A Literary Education by : Joseph Epstein
Download or read book A Literary Education written by Joseph Epstein and published by Axios Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic discusses the pleasure, often forgotten in the modern day, of reading something for no purpose whatsoever in his latest collection of writings.
Download or read book Long Life written by Mary Oliver and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2005-03-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The gift of Oliver's poetry is that she communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" ( Miami Herald ). This has never been truer than in Long Life, a luminous collection of seventeen essays and ten poems. With the grace and precision that are the hallmarks of her work, Oliver shows us how writing "is a way of offering praise to the world" and suggests we see her poems as "little alleluias." Whether describing a goosefish stranded at low tide, the feeling of being baptized by the mist from a whale's blowhole, or the "connection between soul and landscape," Oliver invites readers to find themselves and their experiences at the center of her world. In Long Life she also speaks of poets and writers: Wordsworth's "whirlwind" of "beauty and strangeness"; Hawthorne's "sweet-tempered" side; and Emerson's belief that "a man's inclination, once awakened to it, would be to turn all the heavy sails of his life to a moral purpose." With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has created a breathtaking volume sure to add to her reputation as "one of our very best poets" (New York Times Book Review ).
Book Synopsis The Literary Life by : P A Canon Sheehan
Download or read book The Literary Life written by P A Canon Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of Canon Sheehan's Essays brought out in a shape that, enhances the enjoyment Of perusal, is likely to add to the repute of the author and to be eagerly welcomed by his many admirers.Those who have read Matthew Arnold's preface to his selection of Wordsworth's poems will probably agree that its conclusions apply also to Canon Sheehan's prose essays. The first On the list, " The Literary Life," is a lecture delivered before the Cork Literary Society: itS wealth Of allusions show the breadth Of its author's researches SO that we do not wonder at, his final appeal to our literary leaders. After many helpful hints, he adds -"I feel I am contravening the opinions of each and every section into which modern Ireland is divided when I say that in the work of nation-building the chief requisite should be architects of large, liberal ideas, gathered from the world"s chief thinkers and assimilated so perfectly, that they would be manifested in firmer judgments, wider speculation, more generous Sympathies, and larger toleration than we find in our little world of to-day. And I do not, know where that knowledge is to be acquired unless at the feet of the "masters of those who know" in every age, of every country and clime."If Canon Sheehan spoke the truth of his own literary contemporaries in Ireland, when thus condemning 'provincialism' in thought and scholarship, he would rejoice had he lived to see our day. He seems to describe precisely the spirit of this new and more hopeful time, which may soon be able to show Catholicism to the world in its true sense in every direction-political, social, moral, and religious. This wholly charming and inspiring book will disappoint no one who has the good luck to procure a copy.
Book Synopsis The Definition of Literature and Other Essays by : W. W. Robson
Download or read book The Definition of Literature and Other Essays written by W. W. Robson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Robson considers particular works and authors in the light of the preceding discussion of critical principles.
Book Synopsis The Literary Life and Other Essays by : P. A. Canon Sheehan
Download or read book The Literary Life and Other Essays written by P. A. Canon Sheehan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface: CANON SHEEHAN needs no editor's introduction, even to the present generation, though it has lived to see an Ireland vitally different from that so affectionately described in his reminiscent essay, "The Moonlight of Memory" as different, perhaps, as that rather unheroic epoch was from the time of Sarsfield. That essay and another, "Lenten Time in Doneraile," in which he tells of an aspect of our national life which is splendidly unchanging, were written only a year or two before his death. The rest are of much earlier date. The papers on literature were delivered as lectures some thirty years ago. The political and religious essays are for the most part the work of the same period of Canon Sheehan's life, and any topical allusions in them explain themselves. 1896 is the date of the admirable but discarded preface to "The Triumph of Failure," which was itself first published in 1899. "The Dawn of the Century" was delivered as a lecture in 1904. In editing this work I have taken no liberties with the manuscript beyond some trifling alterations in punctuation. The editor of a posthumous work is always faced with this difficulty, that he must pass some things, be they many or few, which he feels sure the author would not have allowed to remain as they are here and there a little roughness or infelicity of expression which would pass unnoticed, or, indeed, be perhaps not out of place in a lecture, must consequently find its way in a permanent form into the published work of a writer who has made for himself his own high place in Anglo-Irish literature. This cannot be helped; but it is only fair to Canon Sheehan's reputation as a finished writer of English to remind the reader of the form in which these essays were left by their author. And, indeed, it is perhaps remarkable that the number of these evidences of lack of care and polish is so few.
Download or read book On Stories written by C. S. Lewis and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-10-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this collection is the excellence of the Story, especially the kind of story dear to Lewis-fantasy and science fiction, which he fostered in an age dominated by realistic fiction. On Stories is a companion volume to Lewis’s collected shorter fiction, The Dark Tower and Other Stories. Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.
Book Synopsis HOW I WROTE JUBILEE by : MARGARET WALKER
Download or read book HOW I WROTE JUBILEE written by MARGARET WALKER and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays by : Hans Walter Gabler
Download or read book Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays written by Hans Walter Gabler and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of composition in literature and music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in book design, and in the canonisation of works of literature and their authors. Distinctive and ambitious, these essays move beyond the concerns of the community of critics and scholars. Gabler responds innovatively to the issues involved and often endeavours to re-think their urgencies by bringing together the orthodox tenets of different schools of textual criticism. He moves between a variety of topics, ranging from fresh genetic approaches to the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, to significant contributions to the theorisation of scholarly editing in the digital age. Written in Gabler’s fluent style, these rich and elegant compositions are essential reading for literary and textual critics, scholarly editors, readers of James Joyce, New Modernism specialists, and all those interested in textual scholarship and digital editing under the umbrella of Digital Humanities.
Book Synopsis The Body and the Book by : Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Download or read book The Body and the Book written by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays by poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf focusing on aspects of Mennonite life. Essays examine issues of gender, cultural, and religious identity as they relate to the emergence and exercise of literary authority"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Bookmarked written by Ann Camacho and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than 50 essays, young people from a wide range of backgrounds reflect on how words from literature connect with and influence their lives, goals, and personal philosophies. The essays explore topics including suffering the death of a parent, facing a life-threatening illness, letting go of perfectionism, making friends, realizing goals, and grappling with questions of faith and sexuality. Books cited range from The Grapes of Wrath and The Great Gatsby to Twilight and Lord of the Rings. Each essay includes a brief biographical sketch letting the reader know where the essay writer is today. Teachers, guidance counselors, and parents working with teens on personal essays— including for college applications—will find that the book presents a varied, intriguing group of essays to use as samples, models, and inspiration. Teachers of literature, writing, and language arts classes can also use these essays as a way to help teens explore literature—and their own responses to it—through writing. Following each essay are questions to prompt conversation, writing, and deeper consideration of the issues raised. The back matter includes tips and ideas for teachers and teens on how to use the book, including ways to use it as a jumping-off point for creating personal essays.
Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Book Synopsis The Writer of Modern Life by : Walter Benjamin
Download or read book The Writer of Modern Life written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank. More than a series of studies of Baudelaire, these essays show the extent to which Benjamin identifies with the poet and enable him to explore his own notion of heroism."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Literary Life and Other Essays by : HardPress
Download or read book The Literary Life and Other Essays written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Book Synopsis This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by : Ann Patchett
Download or read book This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage written by Ann Patchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'So compellingly personal you feel you're looking over her shoulder as she sits down to write' New York Times 'Electrically entertaining ... Funny, generous, spirited and kind' The Times This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible blend of literature and memoir revealing the big experiences and little moments that shaped Ann Patchett as a daughter, wife, friend and writer. Here, Ann Patchett shares entertaining and moving stories about her tumultuous childhood, her painful early divorce, the excitement of selling her first book, driving a Winnebago from Montana to Yellowstone Park, her joyous discovery of opera, scaling a six-foot wall in order to join the Los Angeles Police Department, the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, starting her own bookshop in Nashville, her love for her very special dog and, of course, her eventual happy marriage. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is a memoir both wide ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom, told with wit, honesty and irresistible warmth.
