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Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (Modern Critical Interpretations)
By Harold Bloom. 1987
Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (Modern Critical Interpretations)
By Harold Bloom. 1987
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (Modern Critical Interpretations)
By Harold Bloom. 1987
Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative
By Aarti Smith Madan. 2017
This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D. F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to…
unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sert#65533;es as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America's first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states. Through a fresh pairing of literary analysis and institutional history, it reveals that words and maps--literature and geography--marched in lockstep to shape national territories, identities, and narratives.Lord Byron's Don Juan (Modern Critical Interpretations)
By Harold Bloom. 1987
Thomas Hardy and History
By Fred Reid. 2017
This book addresses the questions 'What did Thomas Hardy think about history and how did this enter into his writings?'…
Scholars have sought answers in 'revolutionary', 'gender', 'postcolonial' and 'millennial' criticism, but these are found to be unsatisfactory. Fred Reid is a historian who seeks answers by setting Hardy more fully in the discourses of philosophical history and the domestic and international affairs of Britain. He shows how Hardy worked out, from the late 1850s, his own 'meliorist' philosophy of history and how it is inscribed in his fiction. Rooted in the idea of cyclical history as propounded by the Liberal Anglican historians, it was adapted after his loss of faith through reading the works of Auguste Comte, George Drysdale and John Stuart Mill and used to defend the right of individuals to break with the Victorian sexual code and make their own 'experiments in living'.CliffsNotes American Poets of the 20th Century
By Mary Ellen Snodgrass. 2000
This literary companion carries you into the lives and poetic lines of 41 of America's most admired poets from the…
last century. From popular favorites such as Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg to the more esoteric T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, this handbook also introduces you to living poets, such as Rita Dove, who are still inscribing their places in literary history. The book opens with an approach to analyzing poetry, and each author-specific chapter includes sections devoted to Chief Works, Discussion and Research Topics, and a Selected Bibliography.Complete list of authors covered in this comprehensive guide: Edgar Lee Masters, Edward Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle (H. D.), Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, John Crowe Ransom, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jean Toomer, Louise Bogan, Hart Crane, Allen Tare, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Countée Cullen, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, A.R. Ammons, Allen Ginsberg, W. S. Merwin, James Wright, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, Wendy Rose, Joy Harjo, Rita Dove, Cathy SongToni Morrison's Song of Solomon (Modern Critical Interpretations)
By Harold Bloom. 1999
Amy Tan: A Critical Companion
By E. D. Huntley. 1998
Amy Tan has established a reputation as a major novelist of not only the Asian American experience but the universal…
experience of family relationships. With the publication of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club in 1988, which touched the hearts of millions of readers, Tan joined the ranks of major contemporary novelists. Adapting her brand of Chinese traditional talk story as a vehicle for exploring the lives of the mothers and daughters at the center of her novels, Tan allows readers to experience the lives of her characters from multiple perspectives in parallel and intersecting narratives. In this first full-length study of her work, E.D. Huntley explores the fictional worlds Tan has created in her three novels, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, and The Hundred Secret Senses. A biographical chapter discusses the relationship of Tan with her own mother and its influence and that of her family on the subject matter of her novels. A chapter on Tan's literary heritage places her squarely in the tradition of Asian American literature. Each novel is discussed in a separate chapter and includes sections on plot development, character development, narrative structure, literary devices, setting, and major themes. Each chapter also includes an alternative critical reading from which to approach the novel to help readers see the novel in a different light. A complete bibliography of Tan's writings, writings about her work, and a list of reviews of each novel completes the work. This study is the ideal guide for students and readers of Tan's novels.Come Conservare Le Fotografie Di Famiglia
By Amber Richards, E. Franzoni. 2015
Date valore alle vostre foto di famiglia? Allora dovete necessariamente leggere questa guida! Non rischiate di perdere per sempre questi…
tesori insostituibili. Le nostre foto di famiglia non hanno prezzo, sono una ricordo di cosa è successo e di chi amiamo. Si meritano e richiedono delle cure speciali per garantirci che resteranno a nostra disposizione per passarle alla prossima generazione. Molti di coloro che amano la genealogia di famiglia hanno anche una straordinaria collezione di foto che hanno bisogno di una cura particolare per poterle conservare. Imparate come proteggere in pratica le foto, sia quelle fisiche che quelle in formato digitale. Assicuratevi che i vostri tesori sopravvivano e che non li dobbiate mai perdere. Scaricate la vostra copia ora!Fuera Trastos: Simplifica Tu Vida En Tan Solo Un Fin De Semana
By Sarah Goldberg, Sara Del Cueto. 2014
¿Tu casa o tu piso están atestados de cosas y te está volviendo loca? ¿Necesitas deshacerte de toda esa basura…
y simplificar tu vida AHORA MISMO? ¿Te avergüenza que tus amigos (¡o tu madre!) vengan a casa porque lo tienes todo manga por hombro? Entonces este es tu libro. Únete a los miles de personas que ya se han descargado este libro superventas y que ya han conseguido simplificar su vida ¡en un solo fin de semana!Mira, yo también tuve una casa desastrosa hace tiempo. ¡Lo admito! Mi casa era un desastre con todas las cosas de los niños por medio, las de mi marido y los trastos que terminan apoyados en todas partes. ¡Me estaba volviendo loca! Pasaba una vergüenza terrible cada vez que venían los vecinos a casa, lo juro, me daba la sensación de que tenía cachivaches en todas partes.Pero eso se acabó. Decidí invertir UN FIN DE SEMANA de mi vida en deshacerme de los trastos inservibles para siempre. ¡Y funcionó! Ahora quiero ayudar a otros a que puedan hacer lo mismo, porque es MARAVILLOSO quitarse cacharros de encima y dejar tu casa como una patena. Además, puedes vender todo lo que te sobra en eBay y hacerte con un dinerito extra.Este libro te llevará, a lo largo de un fin de semana, desde la tarde del viernes a la tarde del domingo, de viaje y te guiará paso a paso hasta conseguir que tu casa vuelva a estar ordenada. Puede parecer una tarea complicada, pero no decaigas: no tienes nada que perder y las opciones de convertir tu casa en un lugar más vivible son muy elevadas.Además, al final del libro encontrarás recomendaciones sobre soluciones de almacenaje (cajas, cubos, estanterías, baldas, etc.) que te ayudarán en tu empresa de conseguir una casa libre de trastos.Que no te dé vergüenza tu casa atestada de cacharros. Empieza hoy, compra este libro, escoge un fin de semana y ¡fuera trastos!Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
By William Godwin. 2001
Godwin worked with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley at the turn of the 19th century to advocate for social progress. In these,…
his memoirs, he reflects on that work as well as his and Shelley's various other passions. The work here was severely criticized at the time and long unavailable. Here, Clemit and Walker provide context, explication, and an introduction to Godwin's memoir.Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor
By Christy Wampole. 2016
People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth--and nations--from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole…
looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root--surfacing often in an unexpected variety of places, from the family tree to folk etymology to the language of exile--developed in twentieth-century Europe. Wampole examines both the philosophical implications of this metaphor and its political evolution. From the root as home to the root as genealogical origin to the root as the past itself, rootedness has survived in part through its ability to subsume other compelling metaphors, such as the foundation, the source, and the seed. With a focus on this concept's history in France and Germany, Wampole traces its influence in diverse areas such as the search for the mystical origins of words, land worship, and nationalist rhetoric, including the disturbing portrayal of the Jews as an unrooted, and thus unrighteous, people. Exploring the works of Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Celan, and many more, Rootedness is a groundbreaking study of a figure of speech that has had wide-reaching--and at times dire--political and social consequences.The Refracted Muse: Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain
By Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas. 2017
Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news…
of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence—not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well. While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo-Tomás tells a different story, one that reveals Golden Age Spanish literature to be in close dialogue with the New Science. Drawing on the work of writers such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo, he helps us trace the influence of science and discovery on the rapidly developing and highly playful genre of the novel. Indeed, García Santo-Tomás makes a strong case that the rise of the novel cannot be fully understood without taking into account its relationship to the scientific discoveries of the period.Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
By Daniel Boyarin. 2009
What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues…
of Plato. In these ancient texts he finds similarities, both in their unique combination of various genres and topics and in their dialogic structure. But Boyarin goes beyond the typological parallelism between the texts, arguing also for a cultural relationship. In Socrates and the Fat Rabbis, Boyarin suggests that these dialogues are not dialogic at all. Using Michael Bakhtin's notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, Boyarin demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually monologic in spirit. At the same time, he shows that there are other elements that manifest genuine dialogicality. Boyarin ultimately singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre with which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, pointing out their seriocomic peculiarity. An innovative contribution to rabbinic studies, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis makes a major contribution to scholarship on the discursive and cultural practices of the ancient Mediterranean.My Childhood
By Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks. 1966
The Rainbow Quest of Thomas Pynchon
By Douglas A. Mackey. 1980
Letters of E. B. White
By E. B. White, Dorothy Lobrano Guth. 1976
The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work Of Christopher Isherwood
By Chris Freeman, James J. Berg. 2000
Called “the best English prose writer of this century” by Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood is best known for Goodbye to…
Berlin—the inspiration for the musical Cabaret—but is also the author of plays, novels, and diaries. The Isherwood Century gathers twenty-four essays and interviews offering a fresh, in-depth view of Isherwood, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence as both a literary and a gay pioneer.To Be Continued
By Michele Karlsberg, Karen X. Tulchinsky. 1998