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"In 2018, New York magazine convened group of critics to name the best novel of the twenty-first century. Their selection of Helen DeWitt's comic, experimental novel, The Last Samurai, published in 2000, was hardly a conventional choice. In the novel, DeWitt charts the relationship between Ludo, who may or may not be a child genius, and his mother Sibylla, who encourages her son's intellectual interests by immersing him in the classics. The novel,...
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"The definitive biography of the world's most popular novel. Putting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form, this new approach to a classic of world literature is written for a wide general readership. Packed full of information about the book's origins and later career on stage and screen, The Novel of the Century brings to life the extraordinary story of how Victor Hugo managed...
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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...
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New Grub Street (1891) is a novel by George Gissing. Inspired by his own struggles as a working writer and unhappily married man, Gissing crafts a tale of talent, ambition, and the strain placed on romance by financial need. New Grub Street poses important questions about convention in Victorian England while proving surprisingly relevant for our own times. In 18th century London, Grub Street was where the desperate writer went once their dreams of...
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The question of whether Sylvia Plath was a confessional poet or not, has dominated and been at the centre of most critical studies of her work, ever since the publication of her final collection of poems. In this book, I will try to do more than show how similar her poetry is to that of other confessional poets, like Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton.
To achieve this purpose, I will present a very brief comparison of "Daddy", one of...
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A substantial part of the core of H.D.'s classicism is undeniably Euripidean. In Hellenism, Gregory calls Euripides "architectonic" for H.D.'s writing and career. Despite H.D.'s fascination with Sappho and her experiments with other lyric poets, such as Meleager, her "flirtations" with Theocritus, Pausanias and Plato, it is Euripides' work she extensively reads, interprets, comments on, embeds, translates, and cites. Where her contemporaries, like...
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Euripides' Ion constitutes another demanding work in which H.D. processes and amplifies her task as poet and translator. This play signals a turning point in H.D.'s Euripidean studies since the text embeds a complex pattern of generic and mythic patterns which she infuses into the prose captions, that is, the preludes to the lyric and dramatic parts. In addition, it is her first work that receives critical attention following her first poetic period....
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As a modernist woman writer, H.D. could best be described as an advocate of experimentation and change. F. S. Flint, an early representative member of the movement of Imagism, discusses the ideological core of this generation that does not endorse a single form but demonstrates "a free spirit". Flint's remarks reveal that the aim of this new generation is to discover new forms of artistic expression. His views match equally well with H.D.'s heretic...
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This book will be dedicated to the examination of all the important manifestations of Plath's poetry: namely political, romantic, modernist, feminist and psychoanalytic, in order to move a step further away from traditional criticism and to prove that the personae Sylvia Plath created were nothing but masks, whose multiplicity are open to interpretation and this interpretation is left to the inclination of individual readers.
This poetry is so well...
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When it comes to a subjective form of art, especially poetry, the answer to the above question is even more difficult. Some critics say that one needs to have had a somewhat similar experience in order to write about something as big as the Holocaust, for example; others say that poetry written by someone who belongs to a different generation than the actual survivor, is a mere recording of the facts and lacks the sparkle that will lift the poem to...
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The Modernist quest for the renewal of poetry does not cease with World War Two. As Pound, Eliot, Williams and Crane conceive it, the new epic, provides the generic cradle for the inception of a new form. Hélène Aji summarizes certain theoretical precepts Pound received from Robert Browning's long poems. In his early Cantos, Pound adheres to Browning's dicta though later on his writing he begins to change as he starts questioning tradition and poetic...
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This analysis attempts to present the theoretical discussions of Plath's poetry within the general context of feminist criticism and writing by women and the problems faced by women as authors and poets. The book deals with the representation of the female body in Plath's poetry, by examining the views of such critics as Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Simone de Beauvoir, and specifically, how the body is represented in particular poems, like "Tulips"...
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In recent decades, Heliodora has received greater attention since it contains H.D.'s translation and poetic expansion of four Sapphic fragments. Along with her investigation of the Sapphic and lyric poems, H.D. is gradually creating her own archive, the unpublished Notes on Euripides, Pausanias and Greek Lyric Poets. H.D. has produced a range of poems, translation exercises from the Greek Anthology and poems that work palimpsestically within the context...
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Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know it when I see it."
In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that tone is relational, belonging to shared experience...
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¿Qué tienen en común el neurólogo Oliver Sacks, los problemas de la traducción, el escritor centroeuropeo Joseph Roth, la lectura en los transportes públicos, el poeta chileno Raúl Zurita, la ciencia ficción hispánica, la estación de Retiro y Diego Armando Maradona? Que han sido analizados por Marcelo Cohen. Además de ser uno de los grandes autores de ficción y traductores iberoamericanos, Cohen es un extraordinario narrador y pensador...
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Hadithi is a new hybrid birthed from the collaboration of two writers with heritage in the African diaspora.
It features seven short stories - three original - of ancestry, soul, continuity, discontinuity as well as steampunk, cyberfunk and a dieselfunk superhero story set in the '20s, together with a scholarly dialogue on the global state of black speculative fiction. Hadithi offers the kind of afrofuturistic diversity you might expect from a duality...
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This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It features seven chapters in English and five in French, with a bilingual introduction. The contributors invite us to recognize local intersections that are so easily overlooked, yet are so important. They reveal the unities and fractures in national understanding,...
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»Sei gespannt auf das, was in deinem Schreiben noch passieren kann!«
Was bedeutet es, zu schreiben, und welche Momente sind für ein Schreibprojekt von entscheidender Bedeutung? Diese umfassende Einführung öffnet den Blick für die Grundlagen und Möglichkeiten des literarischen Schreibens. Sandro Zanetti zeigt, wie Literatur entsteht – von der ersten Idee bis zur Veröffentlichung. Am Beispiel herausragender Schriftsteller:innen – von Friedrich...
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This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell's life (1621-1678) and of the great events which found reflection in his work and in which he and his writings eventually played a part. At the same time, considerable space is afforded to reflecting deeply on the modes and meanings of Marvell's art, redressing the balance of recent biography and criticism which has tended to dwell on the public and political aspects...
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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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