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Author : Katherine Bode
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130854
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book A World of Fiction written by Katherine Bode and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes a new basis for data-rich literary history
Author : Sybil Marcus
Publisher : Pearson PTR Interactive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book A World of Fiction written by Sybil Marcus and published by Pearson PTR Interactive. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in A World of Fiction , Second Edition, by Sybil Marcus, embrace a variety of themes, literary and linguistic styles, and time frames. Advanced students will sharpen their reading, speaking, vocabulary, and writing skills as they discover the pleasure and reward of reading fiction. This anthology provides complete and unabridged selections by: Woody Allen � Kate Chopin � Nadine Gordimer � James Joyce � D.H. Lawrence � Bernard Malamud � Katherine Mansfield � William Maxwell � Frank O'Connor � Grace Paley � Anne Petry � Budd Schulberg � James Thurber � Anne Tyler � Arturo Vivante � Kurt Vonnegut � Alice Walker � Tobias Wolf � Monica Wood � Virginia Woolf Features Five new stories Updated author biographies "Focus on Language" sections that highlight grammatical structures and vocabulary Exploration of literary elements such as time, setting, action, and motive A wide variety of stimulating discussion and writing topics
Author : Bernard DeVoto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (186 download)
Download or read book The World of Fiction written by Bernard DeVoto and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sybil Marcus
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 : 9780133046175
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (461 download)
Download or read book A World of Fiction 2 written by Sybil Marcus and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2014 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly expanded for high-intermediate readers, A World of Fiction now features 32 unabridged stories ideal for literary analysis, language practice, and lively cross-cultural discussion. Each chapter in this two-volume anthology is based on a complete short story. The approach to literary exploration calls upon students' diverse language and critical thinking skills. A World of Fiction guides students through understanding the plot, exploring themes, analyzing style, making judgments and cross-cultural connections, and debating the issues that are explored. Students also examine grammar in context, expand their vocabulary skills, and practice writing. A World of Fiction 1 includes 16 shorter stories, explanations and exercises designed for high-intermediate and low-advanced readers. Selections include noteworthy authors such as Raymond Carver, Dorothy Parker, Tim O'Brien, and William Saroyan. For more advanced readers, A World of Fiction 2 features an additional 16 selections by renowned writers including James Joyce, Louise Erdrich, Woody Allen, and Alan Paton. Both books in the series help students sharpen their reading, vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills as they discover the pleasure and reward of reading fiction. Features: Reading selections represent a variety of themes, literary styles, and cultural settings to stimulate student conversation and debate. Extended Vocabulary in Context sections cover idioms, phrasal verbs, and many other areas of vocabulary enrichment. Writing activities include both expository and creative assignments in which students are led to incorporate the language skills featured in the chapter. Expanded Critical Thinking sections encourage students to analyze stories and connect them to their own experience.
Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 080214764X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Elements of Fiction written by Walter Mosley and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned novelist and author of This Year You Write a Novel shares a “compact but insight-rich” guide to fiction writing (Publishers Weekly). In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. For writers who want to approach the genius of Melville, Dickens, or Twain, The Elements of Fiction is a must-read. Mosley demonstrates how to master fiction’s most essential elements: character and char-acter development, plot and story, voice and narrative, context and description, and more. The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from the blank page to the first draft to rewriting, and rewriting again. Throughout, The Elements of Fiction is enriched by brilliant demonstrative examples that Mosley himself has written here for the first time.
Author : Beth Driscoll
Publisher : Page and Screen
ISBN 13 : 9781625346612
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Genre Worlds written by Beth Driscoll and published by Page and Screen. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside three popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal tastes, social connections, and industry knowledge shape genre worlds. Attuned to both the pleasure and the profession of producing genre fiction, the authors investigate contemporary developments in the field?the rise of Amazon, self-publishing platforms, transmedia storytelling, and growing global publishing conglomerates?and show how these interact with older practices, from fan conventions to writers? groups. Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, fan studies, and studies of the book and publishing cultures, Genre Worlds considers how contemporary genre fiction is produced and circulated on a global scale. Its authors propose an innovative theoretical framework that unfolds genre fiction?s most compelling characteristics: its connected social, industrial, and textual practices. As they demonstrate, genre fiction books are not merely texts; they are also nodes of social and industrial activity involving the production, dissemination, and reception of the texts.
Author : Gregory Currie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521381277
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (812 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Fiction written by Gregory Currie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book provides a theory about the nature of fiction, and about the relation between the author, the reader and the fictional text. The approach is philosophical: that is to say, the author offers an account of key concepts such as fictional truth, fictional characters, and fiction itself. The book argues that the concept of fiction can be explained partly in terms of communicative intentions, partly in terms of a condition which excludes relations of counterfactual dependence between the world and the text. This communicative model is then applied to the following problems: how can something be 'true in the story' without being explicitly stated in the text? In what ways does interpreting a fictional story depend upon grasping its author's intentions? Is there always a unique best interpretation of a fictional text? What is the correct semantics for fictional names? What is the nature of our emotional response to a fictional work? In answering these questions the author explores the complex interaction between author, reader, and text. This interaction requires the reader to construct a 'fictional author' - a character in the story whose personality, beliefs and emotional states must be interpreted if the reader is to grasp the meaning of the work.
Author : Douglas Bauer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472031535
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Stuff of Fiction written by Douglas Bauer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006-08-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master storyteller and teacher talks about the tools of the fiction writer's craft
Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804270
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Sophie's World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a mystery, but also a complete and entertaining history of philosophy.
Author : Martin Seymour-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711200159
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Novels and Novelists written by Martin Seymour-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1980-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short history of the novel - crime fiction - science fiction - illustration - ; The novel and cinema - the novel and the book trade - Biographical detail on popular novelists with many portraits.
Author : Karen Stolz
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781740640244
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The World of Pies written by Karen Stolz and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warm, funny and touching, this is a charming account of American small town life in the 1960's and beyond. Spanning almost 30 years, we follow Roxanne's life through all its tenderness, poignancy, sorrow, great humour, and plenty of baking moments, as each chapter ending in old fashioned dessert recipes from people in the town.
Author : Lester del Rey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000378764
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976 written by Lester del Rey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1980, is a guide to the major forces in the subculture of science fiction. It analyses the history of the field and the related developments, for instance the Bomb, that have shaped the literature. It examines the complex of activity and background tradition, the body of accepted beliefs and conventions, and the ethics and values of the world of science fiction.
Author : Christina Baker Kline
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062356283
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book A Piece of the World written by Christina Baker Kline and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A must-read for anyone who loves history and art.” --Kristin Hannah From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World. "Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy.
Author : John Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135197032
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book A Sense of the World written by John Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate. The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic philosophers that combined together provide a comprehensive statement of the variety of ways in which works of fiction can engage questions of worldly interest. It uses the problem of cognitive value to explore: literature’s contribution to ethical life literature’s ability to engage in social and political critique the role narrative plays in opening up possibilities of moral, aesthetic, experience and selfhood This remarkable volume will attract the attention of both literature and philosophy scholars with its statement of the various ways that literature and life take an interest in one another.
Author : Judith Ridge
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763696714
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)
Download or read book The Book that Made Me written by Judith Ridge and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Author : Joshua Gaylord
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316297925
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book When We Were Animals written by Joshua Gaylord and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this chilling Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novel, a small, quiet Midwestern town is unremarkable save for one fact: when the teenagers reach a certain age, they run wild. When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife, a devoted mother. In fact, she never thought she would escape her small and peculiar hometown. When We Were Animals is Lumen's confessional: as a well-behaved and over-achieving teenager, she fell beneath the sway of her community's darkest, strangest secret. For one year, beginning at puberty, every resident "breaches" during the full moon. On these nights, adolescents run wild, destroying everything in their path. Lumen resists. Promising her father she will never breach, she investigates the mystery of her community's traditions and the stories erased from the town record. But the more we learn about the town's past, the more we realize that Lumen's memories are harboring secrets of their own. A gothic coming-of-age tale for modern times, When We Were Animals is a dark, provocative journey into the American heartland. Nominated for the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel
Author : Benjamin Labatut
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375664
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book When We Cease to Understand the World written by Benjamin Labatut and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger—these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.
