Автор: Steven Moore Название: William Gaddis: Expanded Edition ISBN: 1628926449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628926446 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5587.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella Agape Agape, along with updated introductory and concluding chapters.
This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five of Gaddis's novels, providing essential biographical information, two chapters each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions and J R, and a chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A concluding chapter locates his place in American literature and notes his influence on younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the main themes of each novel and discusses the literary techniques Gaddis deployed to dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an erudite, allusive novelist, Moore clarifies his references and explains how they enhance his themes.
Автор: James Название: The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature ISBN: 0521728738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521728737 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Since Tolkien, Pratchett, Rowling, Pullman and Meyer, fantasy literature has become one of the most popular genres in the English-speaking world. This book puts this publishing phenomenon in a historical context, suggests different ways of reading and appreciating this literature, and examines some of its varieties and subgenres.
Автор: Warner, Marina Название: Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 019953215X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199532155 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1767.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Marina Warner guides us through the rich world of fairy tale, from Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel to Snow White and Pan`s Labyrinth. Exploring pervasive themes of folklore, myth, the supernatural, imagination, and fantasy, Warner highlights the impact of the genre on human understanding, history, and culture.
Автор: Garth, John Название: Worlds of j.r.r. tolkien ISBN: 0711241279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780711241275 Издательство: Frances Lincoln Рейтинг: Цена: 3795.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: An expertly written investigation of the places that shaped the work of one of the world`s best loved authors, exploring the relationship between worlds real and fantastical.
Автор: David Название: The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel ISBN: 0521182158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521182157 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This second edition has been updated fully, taking account of new research and critical methodologies, and includes four brand new chapters. Designed to appeal to students, teachers and readers, these essays reflect the very latest approaches to reading and understanding Victorian fiction.
Автор: Andrew Plowman, Kate Roy, Lyn Marven Название: The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 1640140468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640140462 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers readings of key contemporary trends and themes in the vibrant genre of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with attention to major practitioners and translations of two representative stories.
Автор: Boulter Jonathan Название: Posthuman Space in Samuel Beckett`s Short Prose ISBN: 1474430260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474430265 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4623.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jonathan Boulter offers the reader a way of understanding Beckett`s presentation of the human, more precisely, posthuman, subject in his short prose.
Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence. With maturity comes the shift from infinite possibilities to imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the forces that pushed us toward adulthood and away from the familiar ground of youth that must be left behind if we are to learn how to soar on our own.
This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling’s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling’s characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. This book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in Kipling’s personality, instead setting his use of the practical joke in the wider social context of his time.
In this book Kipling’s writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values rather than what it is supposed to disguise or conceal. Although he endorsed British colonial rule, Kipling was frank about the slackness, endemic rule-breaking and second-rate nature of British rule in India. He also criticised some of the widespread cultural, religious and moral phenomena of his time, which he thought harmful. Many of his short stories contain an implied but serious criticism of Victorian beliefs, from attitudes to death-beds, and schoolboys to Positivism.
Автор: David Huddle Название: Not: A Trio ISBN: 0268036519 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268036515 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Acclaimed novelist, short story writer, and poet, David Huddle captivates us with a new collection. Not: A Trio is a sequence of three related stories that, taken together, form a unified work of fiction. This faceted approach is especially suited to a work that reveals the intricate connections among Danny Marlow, Claire McClelland, and Ben McClelland.Danny, Claire and Ben are thoughtful people who know each other well—yet hardly at all. Danny narrates the first story, introducing the reader to Claire, a therapist who has, he says “lived a life that would drop most men in their tracks.” The second story, told in the third person, explores the character of Claire’s second husband Ben. These two men and their stories set the stage for the appearance of Claire in the third and most powerful story. Claire informs the reader at the outset that a crisis looms: “At any rate, I’m not going to be able to go on with the life I have so carefully constructed for myself here in town.”Huddle is especially concerned with the forces that separate these singular individuals from each other—and from themselves—as well as with the romantic and sexual energy pulling Danny and Claire together and with the wistful intimacy briefly held between Claire and Ben. In the process, the book also draws a darkly humorous picture of small-town life in contemporary Vermont.Critics have praised David Huddle for his skill in creating individual voices and selves that work together to reveal intimately connected lives. He has done so once again in Not: A Trio, leaving the reader with what feels like a secret understanding of these three people and the forces that move them.
Автор: Einhaus Название: The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story ISBN: 1107446015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107446014 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Featuring fourteen essays from international experts, this Companion provides an accessible overview of English-language short fiction outside of North America. It discusses the development and impact of the short story - including a variety of subgenres such as detective fiction and flash fiction - from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Автор: Helen Rydstrand Название: Rhythmic Modernism: Mimesis and the Short Story ISBN: 150136667X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501366673 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6358.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contrary to the common view that cultural modernism is a broadly anti-mimetic movement, one which turned away from traditional artistic goals of representing the world, Rhythmic Modernism argues that rhythm and mimesis are central to modernist aesthetics. Through detailed close readings of non-fiction and short stories, Helen Rydstrand shows that textual rhythms comprised the substance of modernist mimesis. Rhythmic Modernism demonstrates how many modernist writers, such as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf, were profoundly invested in mimicking a substratum of existence that was conceived as rhythmic, each displaying a fascination with rhythm, both as a formal device and as a vital, protean concept that helped to make sense of the complex modern world.
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