The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135899592
Total Pages : 227 pages
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Book Synopsis The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction by : Catherine Morley

Download or read book The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction written by Catherine Morley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.

Literature and Quest

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Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature and Quest by : Christine Arkinstall

Download or read book Literature and Quest written by Christine Arkinstall and published by Brill. This book was released on 1993 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the word "quest" conjure up? A journey in the hope of fulfillment, an exploration of identities, questions, the nature of research itself, or the darker side of quest in the form of conquest, colonisation and displacement? These are some of the threads taken up and developed in this collection of essays by established and emerging scholars. Germaine Greer, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Serge Doubrovsky, A. S. Byatt, Novalis, Melville, Valéry, Beckett, Stanislao Nievo, Victor Segalen, Sibilla Aleramo, Dacia Maraini, Defoe, Tournier, Coetzee, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Cintio Vitier, Domingo del Monte, Ramón de Palma, Pablo Armando Fernández, Hubert Aquin, Anne Hébert , Homer, Proust, Balzac and Robbe-Grillet provide the literary voices that invite these scholars to embark on their own quests into subjects as diverse as the relationships between texts, authors and readers, the initiatic journey, spirituality and enlightenment, female autobiography and identity, oppression, imperialism and postcolonial discourses, not to mention the history of the quest itself. The result is a rich tapestry of thought-provoking insights into the inexhaustible connections between literature and quest.

Quest

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Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1629697923
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis Quest by : Susan E. Hamen

Download or read book Quest written by Susan E. Hamen and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the role and theme of the quest archetype in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Hunger Games, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It features four analysis papers that consider the quest theme, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme. Critical thinking questions, sidebars highlighting and explaining each thesis and argument, and other possible approaches for analysis help students understand the mechanics of essay writing. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The Quest for Literature

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ISBN 13 : 9780841479470
Total Pages : pages
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The Quest

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
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The Quest (1916)

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ISBN 13 : 9781436510936
Total Pages : 198 pages
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The Quest for Anonymity

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874136210
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Book Synopsis The Quest for Anonymity by : Henry Alley

Download or read book The Quest for Anonymity written by Henry Alley and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Alley shows, no other subject in Eliot branches out so largely, so as to embrace all her artistic concerns, including her vision of her own biography and her need to adopt her pen name. Alley also demonstrates that for Eliot, the transcendent capacity to be unidentified creates a flexibility of mind that allows not only women but also men to shed confining personae and to be, in narrative form, both man and woman at the same time, an ability that imbues only the greatest of artists.

From Question to Quest

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443821918
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis From Question to Quest by : Santiago Sia

Download or read book From Question to Quest written by Santiago Sia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In facing up to life and its challenges, questions inevitably arise. Different situations provoke specific questions—mostly trivial but frequently fundamental—always seeking some kind of answer. While the transition from question to quest is a rather natural one for human beings and the need for answers is a serious human demand, the quest itself is significant, precisely because it is a human task. This book offers a number of literary-philosophical enquiries into these challenges of life. But it is the one set of quests—stimulated, deepened and widened by literature and philosophy as well as developed in a literary and philosophical way. Among the topics covered are: the search for meaning in life, the quest for wisdom, the aim of moral striving, the need for community life, the importance of relationships, the challenge of suffering, the desire for deliverance, and the longing for immortality.

English Literature

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Book Synopsis English Literature by : William Henry Schofield

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Transforming the Rebel Self: Quest Patterns in Fiction by William Styron, Flannery O'Connor and Bobbie Ann Mason

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631609835
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book Transforming the Rebel Self: Quest Patterns in Fiction by William Styron, Flannery O'Connor and Bobbie Ann Mason written by Sharon Therese Nemeth and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written as the author's dissertation.

The Academy and Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
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The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes, with a New Translation, by Samuel Cox. A Commentary for Laymen

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318216
Total Pages : 273 pages
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Book Synopsis The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel by : Stephen E. Tabachnick

Download or read book The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel written by Stephen E. Tabachnick and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic novels, and in The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel, Stephen E. Tabachnick takes readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore themes of Jewish identity and belief. The creators of Superman (Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster), Batman (Bob Kane and Bill Finger), and the Marvel superheroes (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby), were Jewish, as was the founding editor of Mad magazine (Harvey Kurtzman). They often adapted Jewish folktales (like the Golem) or religious stories (such as the origin of Moses) for their comics, depicting characters wrestling with supernatural people and events. Likewise, some of the most significant graphic novels by Jews or about Jewish subject matter deal with questions of religious belief and Jewish identity. Their characters wrestle with belief—or nonbelief—in God, as well as with their own relationship to the Jews, the historical role of the Jewish people, the politics of Israel, and other issues related to Jewish identity. In The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel, Stephen E. Tabachnick delves into the vivid kaleidoscope of Jewish beliefs and identities, ranging from Orthodox belief to complete atheism, and a spectrum of feelings about identification with other Jews. He explores graphic novels at the highest echelon of the genre by more than thirty artists and writers, among them Harvey Pekar (American Splendor), Will Eisner (A Contract with God), Joann Sfar (The Rabbi’s Cat), Miriam Katin (We Are On Our Own), Art Spiegelman (Maus), J. T. Waldman (Megillat Esther), Aline Kominsky Crumb (Need More Love), James Sturm (The Golem’s Mighty Swing), Leela Corman (Unterzakhn), Ari Folman and David Polonsky (Waltz with Bashir), David Mairowitz and Robert Crumb’s biography of Kafka, and many more. He also examines the work of a select few non-Jewish artists, such as Robert Crumb and Basil Wolverton, both of whom have created graphic adaptations of parts of the Hebrew Bible. Among the topics he discusses are graphic novel adaptations of the Bible; the Holocaust graphic novel; graphic novels about the Jews in Eastern and Western Europe and Africa, and the American Jewish immigrant experience; graphic novels about the lives of Jewish women; the Israel-centered graphic novel; and the Orthodox graphic novel. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography. No study of Jewish literature and art today can be complete without a survey of the graphic novel, and scholars, students, and graphic novel fans alike will delight in Tabachnick’s guide to this world of thought, sensibility, and artfulness.

The Turkish Novel and the Quest for Rationality

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004366040
Total Pages : 202 pages
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Quest and Vision

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Book Synopsis Quest and Vision by : William James Dawson

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Academy and Literature

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Total Pages : 476 pages
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The Feminization of Quest-Romance

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292762623
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Book Synopsis The Feminization of Quest-Romance by : Dana A. Heller

Download or read book The Feminization of Quest-Romance written by Dana A. Heller and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a woman dares to imagine herself a hero? Questing, she sets out for unknown regions. Lighting a torch, she elicits from the darkness stories never told or heard before. The woman hero sails against the tides of great legends that recount the adventures of heroic men, legends deemed universal, timeless, and essential to our understanding of the natural order that holds us and completes us in its spiral. Yet these myths and rituals do not fulfill her need for an empowering self-image nor do they grant her the mobility she requires to imagine, enact, and represent her quest for authentic self-knowledge. The Feminization of Quest-Romance proposes that a female quest is a revolutionary step in both literary and cultural terms. Indeed, despite the difficulty that women writers face in challenging myths, rituals, psychological theories, and literary conventions deemed universal by a culture that exalts masculine ideals and universalizes male experience, a number of revolutionary texts have come into existence in the second half of the twentieth century by such American women writers as Jean Stafford, Mary McCarthy, Anne Moody, Marilynne Robinson, and Mona Simpson, all of them working to redefine the literary portrayal of American women's quests. They work, in part, by presenting questing female characters who refuse to accept the roles accorded them by restrictive social norms, even if it means sacrificing themselves in the name of rebellion. In later texts, female heroes survive their "lighting out" experiences to explore diverse alternatives to the limiting roles that have circumscribed female development. This study of The Mountain Lion, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Housekeeping, and Anywhere but Here identifies transformations of the quest-romance that support a viable theory of female development and offer literary patterns that challenge the male monopoly on transformative knowledge and heroic action.