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A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.
"Why do we write?"
With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities, in this collection of seminal essays and criticism. Leading her quest is a desire to understand
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"To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herv©♭ Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault. The first half of To Write as if Already Dead is a novella...
3) On democracy
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"Anchored by an introduction by Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems from one of this country's most eminent literary voices sheds much-needed historical context on the state of the nation and offers a ray of hope for the future of our society; for "as long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman...the scene is not desolate.""--
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"Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the figure of the hard-boiled detective, from the Continental Op to Sam Spade--immortalized on film by Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon--and the more glamorous Thin Man, also made iconic with the aid of Hollywood. A brilliant writer, Hammett was a complex...
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A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...
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A wide-ranging collection of essays on the importance and meaning of literature by “one of the most influential thinkers of our time” (Los Angeles Times).
In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his long and celebrated career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false"...
In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his long and celebrated career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false"...
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Margaret Ogilvy (1897) is a biography by J. M. Barrie. Although he is more widely known as a popular storyteller whose Peter Pan books are filled with the wit and wonder of history's greatest fairytales, Barrie was also a gifted memoirist and biographer. Margaret Ogilvy is the story of his mother and their life as a family in Scotland. Written in tribute to her influence on his life as a professional writer, Margaret Ogilvy was a bestselling book...
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"On February 6, 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Naming itself "The Sisterhood," the group would meet over the next two years to discuss the future of Black literary feminism, how to promote and publicize their work, and the everyday pressures and challenges of being a Black woman writer. This network of individuals, which would also come to include Audre...
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In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound-the founders of vorticism-undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building on the initial accomplishment of the magazine Blast, McLuhan's subsequent Counterblast, and the network of artistic and intellectual relationships that...
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This collection of essays by the author of Lady Chatterley's Loverpresents his musings on literature, politics and philosophy in a newly restored text.
Though D. H. Lawrence was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, his works were severely corrupted by the stringent house-styling of printers and the intrusive editing of timid publishers. A team of scholars at Cambridge University Press has worked for more than thirty years to restore...
11) Obra crítica
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Antología de artículos críticos, estudios y conversaciones literarias de Enrique Díez-Canedo, uno de los mejores críticos literarios en lengua española y gran traductor, cuya obra constituye un referente imprescindible a la hora de estudiar la literatura de la primera mitad del siglo xx. Realizada por Alberto Sánchez Álvarez-Insúa, científico titular de Filosofía del CSIC, la selección consta de un conjunto de artículos de crítica teatral...
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Décryptez Le Premier Homme d'Albert Camus avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir du Premier Homme, le roman autobiographique de l'un des plus célèbres écrivains de la littérature française contemporaine ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :
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• Une présentation des personnages principaux...
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"In 1934, Webster's Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information, a kind of one-stop reference work. In 1961, Webster's Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America's newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new dictionary's editor, Philip Gove, had overhauled Merriam's...
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He vuelto a la realidad poco a poco, tratando de rescatar la autoestima y darme cuenta de que Pandafilando de la Fosca Vista no era el gigante que yo creía que era, sino unos cueros donde se almacena el vino del ventero. Por eso empecé a recordar y a considerar los años de editor, recuperando algunas cosas que hice (y deshice) durante esos años y así, con estos textos, poder ver las cosas desde otra perspectiva, una vez que hubiese recorrido...
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The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century—and now the twenty-first.
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality...
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality...
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"Sepich offers his insight and detailed research to the less knowledgeable reader. He crafts a book that will delight the McCarthy specialists." -Western American Literature
Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850, is widely considered...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Jean Starobinski, né en 1920, a commencé sa carrière par une licence ès lettres classiques et des études de médecine. L'interne à la Clinique de thérapeutique de l'hpital cantonal universitaire de Genève projeta une thèse sur la dénonciation du masque et les rapports entre «être» et «paraître». ...
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Selon une perspective historique longue, Alain Michel (né en 1930) édite, présente et commente un riche ensemble de textes sur la rhétorique chrétienne dans ses rapports au Verbe divin, donc à la théologie et à la poésie. La rhétorique ou parole divine est traitée comme l'ensemble des moyens que...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Parce que notre rapport aux lieux, aux livres, au temps est marqué par le périssable et l'éphémère, Philippe Jaccottet note, depuis toujours, tout ce qui l'a touché lors d'une promenade, d'une lecture ou d'un rêve. Écho d'une émotion ou projection de son ombre portée jusqu'au plus secret de ...
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Partez à la découverte de Georges Simenon avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Georges Simenon est l'auteur d'une de ces œuvres qui sont à elles seules tout un univers. Marcel Aymé n'a-t-il pas dit de lui qu'il était "un Balzac, sans les longueurs" ? En effet, comme le souligne Alain Bertrand, "Simenon exprime peu pour sous-entendre beaucoup : nivelée jusqu'à l'indigence, ...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir...
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