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Author : Charles Alphonso Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book What Can Literature Do for Me? written by Charles Alphonso Smith and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Bloom
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Shelley's Mythmaking written by Harold Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Mack
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441119140
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book How Literature Changes the Way We Think written by Michael Mack and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Author : Joseph Luzzi
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008100640
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love written by Joseph Luzzi and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of love and grief. ‘I became a widower and a father on the same day’ says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.
Author : Beth Ann Fennelly
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609480
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs written by Beth Ann Fennelly and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A surprisingly maximalist portrait of a life.” —New York Times Book Review The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Alternatingly wistful and wry, ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-memoirs build on one another to shape a life from unexpectedly illuminating moments.
Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307277127
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Use and Abuse of Literature written by Marjorie Garber and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim “literature” from the periphery of our personal, educational, and professional lives and restore it to the center, as a radical way of thinking. But what is literature anyway, how has it been understood over time, and what is its relevance for us today? Who gets to decide what the word means? Why has literature been on the defensive since Plato? Does it have any use at all, other than serving as bourgeois or aristocratic accoutrements attesting to one’s worldly sophistication and refinement of spirit? What are the boundaries that separate it from its “commercial” instance and from other more mundane kinds of writing? Is it, as most of us assume, good to read, much less study—and what would that mean?
Author : Joseph McElroy
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ISBN 13 : 9780979312397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Women and Men written by Joseph McElroy and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York - from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate overlay of scenes, voices, fact, and myth, this expanding fiction finds its way also across continents and into earlier and future times and indeed the Earth, to reveal connections between the most disparate lives and systems of feeling and power. At its breathing heart, it plots the fuguelike and fieldlike densities of late-twentieth-century life. McElroy rests a global vision on two people, apartment-house neighbors who never quite meet. Except, that is, in the population of others whose histories cross theirs believers and skeptics; lovers, friends, and hermits; children, parents, grandparents, avatars, and, apparently, angels. For Women and Men shows how the families through which we pass let one person's experience belong to that of many, so that we throw light on each other as if these kinships were refracted lives so real as to be reincarnate. A mirror of manners, the book is also a meditation on the languages, rich, ludicrous, exact, and also American, in which we try to grasp the world we're in. Along the kindred axes of separation and intimacy Women and Men extends the great line of twentieth-century innovative fiction.
Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036344
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book "The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings written by Simone de Beauvoir and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Highlights of the volume include a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, the unpublished 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow," the fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," and an eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, "What Can Literature Do?" The collection includes critical introductions by Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell, Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison, Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and Veronique Zaytzeff.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Opportunity written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031553977
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
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Author : David Mason
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589881729
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us? written by David Mason and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Witty and heartfelt essays, shaken and stirred."—Kirkus Reviews "David Mason believes in literature as a weather event—even an extreme one. He reads to be changed—drenched, burned, blown away. He has no wish to have his standing position confirmed, and is alert to the ways in which his subjects are changed, both by their writing and its reception. These essays move comfortably from the lines of a Nobel Prize-winning poet to the dwelling of a Greek peasant who could have stepped out of Homer, on to the perils of literary biography. Mason is a reader as much as he is a writer. He looks into the political in order to find the personal—not the other way round. Incarnation & Metamorphosis is engaging all the way through, not least when Mason acts on the assumption, 'The imagination is free.'”—James Campbell, author of Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin “Literary criticism,” David Mason writes, “ought to entertain as well as illuminate.” In these essays Mason tells stories about embodiment and change, incarnation and metamorphosis, drawing connections between art and life without confusing the two. Mason considers the many kinds of change we encounter in our lives, our desire for justice, and the ways great writers complicate that desire. He discusses the lives and works of writers like Montaigne, Diderot, and Neruda as well as his colorful father’s fascination with a fictional character. He takes up such contemporary figures as the daring Australian writer Helen Garner, the playwright Tom Stoppard, and the poet-critic Dana Gioia; has fresh things to say about the perils of fame in the careers of Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney; and mourns the loss of poet Michael Donaghy. Incarnation & Metamorphosis is a book about living with literature—Mason writes that literature “is telling us that we are seen, warts and all. Criticism, such as the essays in this book, is a way of seeing back.”
Author : Arthur Hobson Quinn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801857300
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe written by Arthur Hobson Quinn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-11-25 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies. "
Author : Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Cambridge Public Library Bulletin written by Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 630 pages
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Download or read book New York Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496847717
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard written by Bob Blaisdell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) made a literary mark on his home country in 1998, when his debut novel won the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. His fame continued to grow with the publication of his six-volume autobiographical series Min Kamp, or My Struggle. Translated into English in 2012, the critically acclaimed and controversial series garnered global attention, as did its author. Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard is a collection of twenty-two interviews, each conducted during the ten-year span in which Knausgaard’s literary prowess gained worldwide recognition. Knausgaard is both a daring writer and a daring interviewee. He grounds his observations in the ordinary aspects of the world around him, which, he insists, is the same world in front of most of his readers. He regards his appearances in newspapers, magazines, and literary festivals as “a performance,” where he plays himself. While that role may differ from his inner life, it is consistent with the role he plays in his autobiographical novels. Fans of Knausgaard will easily recognize this public persona, an embodiment of the protagonist, husband, and father featured in My Struggle and in the Seasons quartet. Knausgaard discusses his work, aspects of his personal life, and his writing routines and practices in marvelous detail. He comments on literary and artistic world classics and on international contemporary authors. A bilingual speaker, he is accustomed to appearing before the press and in front of audiences in his roles as a famous author and as the publisher and cofounder of the publishing house Pelikanen (Pelican). Remarkable for his candor and directness, Knausgaard delivers the same variety and number of surprises in these interviews as he does in his most thrilling books.
Author : Virginia State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Virginia State Library written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
