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È un libro di scrittura creativa che relaziona la letteratura alla magia. La magia dei momenti del giorno, l'energia delle…
dee Luna e degli dei Sole, l'eterno ritorno, le date magiche, persino i fenomeni atmosferici sono elementi che puoi utilizzare per scrivere, per inventare le tue storie o per rafforzarle. Questo libro ti insegnerà a farlo ed è dedicato agli amanti della cultura e della conoscenza e a coloro a cui piace la magia della vita e della letteratura. E alla fine di ogni tema ci sono delle proposte per scrivere e mettere in pratica ciò che si è appreso.
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Questo saggio delinea un'analisi approfondita di Rustin Cohle, il protagonista della serie televisiva True Detective prodotta dalla HBO. Rustin Cohle…
è un detective che ha il compito di investigare sul caso di una donna assassinata, il cui corpo viene rinvenuto in una strana posizione il giorno del compleanno di sua figlia. È un personaggio riflessivo che si considera una persona realistica, ma in termini filosofici è consapevole di essere pessimista a causa della sua visione della vita e della realtà. Analizzeremo il comportamento di Rustin Cohle, il suo modo di guardare la realtà e la sua psiche (o come lui stesso la definisce, la stanza chiusa a chiave) da un punto di vista psicoanalitico. A questo scopo, ci serviremo della teoria psicoanalitica di Freud e delle recenti ricerche basate sulla teoria del trauma. Altri libri dell'autore: -The Transcendentalism of Kvothe -Crónicas de Gaia: Sangre y Polvo -Donderion, el Cuentacuentos
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This is a book about creative writing that relates literature with magic The magical moments of the day, the energy…
of the Moon goddesses and the Sun gods, the eternal return, the magical dates, even atmospheric phenomena, are elements that you can use to write, to create stories or to make them stronger. This book will teach you how to do this and it is dedicated to lovers of culture and to those of you who like magic in life and literature. And at the end of each theme there are writing suggestions that you can put into practice what you have learnt.
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Grazie a questo libro svilupperete una migliore comprensione delle selezioni di testi, attraverso le domande di discussione e saggio messe…
a disposizione. Con l'aiuto di questo libro, potrete inoltre imparare o anche insegnare agli studenti a: Leggere analiticamente le selezioni tratte da varie epoche. Imparare a relazionare la letteratura con la vita personale. Apprezzate le diverse letterature provenienti da diverse regioni. Confrontare e contrapporre opere letterarie.
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The new edition of American Literature presents an exciting opportunity for readers. In keeping with the first edition, this has…
been created a text that provides a wide variety of selections. Many of the pieces, the readers would expect to see in an American literature text, but included selections that are just as read-worthy, but perhaps not as well known. The readers will recognize most, perhaps all, of the authors of these selections.
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United States history, General non-fiction, Anthologies, Politics and government
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This collection argues that rhetorical history, both as a methodology and as a perspective, offers insights that are central to…
the study of communication and unavailable through other approaches. The conceptualizations and methodologies of rhetorical history will increase in significance during the burgeoning "Communication Age" as we seek to cope with the present and prepare for the future by better understanding the past. This volume serves as an overview of a recently neglected methodological approach and acts as the first step in ending that neglect.
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Anthologies, Criticism
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Dos narradores extraordinarios, Gabo y Mario, el poeta y el arquitecto, Lennon y McCartney, el turco y el indio, protagonizan…
una de las amistades más férreas de toda la literatura universal. Esos mismos amigos, diez años más tarde, terminan su relación con una pelea que llega hasta los puños. Cobijados bajo sus alas, un conjunto de escritores, los mejores del continente latinoamericano, se reúnen, celebran, se escriben y viven juntos aventuras apasionantes. Las novelas más sobresalientes del siglo xx en español, los grandes premios literarios, los contratos millonarios, los congresos y las fiestas, las cartas, todo eso, y mucho más, es lo que llegó a conocerse como el boom de la literatura hispanoamericana. Una pléyade de autores y obras sin parangón en la lengua de Cervantes desde el primer Siglo de Oro. Las décadas de los sesenta y los setenta constituyeron, indudablemente, la segunda edición de una edad privilegiada para las letras hispánicas.
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LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA DE LA HIJA DE LA ESPAÑOLA, el último fenómeno de la literatura en castellano:…
traducida en 26 países y comparada con Borges y Coetzee por la crítica internacional «Sencillamente magistral.»Fernando Aramburu Llegué a Mezquite buscando a Visitación Salazar, la mujer que sepultó a mis hijos y me enseñó a enterrar a los de otros. Caminé hasta el fin del mundo, o donde yo creí que el mío había acabado. Todo ocurre en una frontera, la que separa la sierra oriental de la occidental. Angustias Romero huye de la peste con su marido y sus dos hijos atados a la espalda. Los gemelos, sietemesinos, mueren en el trayecto, y, tras guardarlos en sendas cajas de zapatos, el matrimonio se dirige a enterrarlos en El Tercer País, el cementerio ilegal regentado por la mítica Visitación Salazar. Abandonada por su marido, Angustias luchará junto a la sepulturera contra un entorno hostil donde la única ley la dictan quienes van armados, donde el tiempo lo marcan los peces, las fiestas y los misteriosos juguetes que alguien deja sobre las tumbas de los dos niños, mientras el peligro y la violencia crecen hasta el último minuto borrando los límites entre la vida y la muerte. La hija de la española fue la revelación de la literatura en castellano, traducida a veintiséis idiomas y comparada por la crítica con Borges y Coetzee. Con El Tercer País, Karina Sainz Borgo confirma su talento, y su pertenencia a una nueva literatura latinoamericana que que está conquistando a lectores de todo el mundo y funde el thriller, el western, la tragedia clásica y la herencia de los maestros del boom. La crítica ha dicho:«Una novela en la que mascas tierra, donde el polvo se te adhiere al cabello y dondela tierra que pisas no te pertenece. La tierra es de los muertos.»Borja Negrete, Vozpópuli «Una gran historia de aliento feminista donde dos mujeres se enfrentan a la opresión masculina para defender algo de valor universal. [...] Un thriller diferente y que se devora hasta el final.»Elle ("Mujeres que hacen historia") La crítica ha dicho sobre La hija de la española:«La voz de una conciencia. [...] Escritura seca, concisa, directa, de una fuerza expresiva extraordinaria. [...] Sencillamente magistral.»Fernando Aramburu, La Esfera de Papel (El Mundo) «Ecos de Borges. [...] Su escritura es tensa y compleja como la de Coetzee.»The New York Times «Tómense el tiempo y el placer de leer este libro arcaico que viene del futuro. Un lenguaje prodigioso. Una historia universal. [...] Con una voz en perfecto equilibrio entre desapego y melancolía, como la de una cronista que busca y que encuentra la realidad en la ficción, Karina Sainz Borgo cuenta una historia que ya no es suya pues se ha convertido en nuestra.»Concita de Gregorio, La Repubblica «Un libro emocionante y de rabiosa actualidad.»Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung «Dulce y amarga, encantadora y terrible, desconcertante y absorbente. ¡Léanla!»Pilar Castro, El Cultural «Alta literatura escrita desde la rabia, el desarraigo y las cicatrices. Justo el lugar donde nacen las historias.»Ángeles López, La Razón «Mucho más que una gran novela. [...] Una novela táctil. Una novela de auxilio.»Antonio Lucas «Karina es nombre de huracán. De huracán literario.»Charo Lagares, Marie Claire «Excelente debut: un relato desgarrador.»Publishers Weekly
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The story, or novella, as a literary genre has a much shorter history in Russia than in some Western countries,…
but it has nevertheless produced important works by some of the greatest names in Russian literature. This dual-language volume contains 12 such stories — memorable tales by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev, Bunin, and other masters. Each selection is presented here in the original Russian with an excellent literal English translation on the facing pages.Also included are linguistic and cultural notes, a Russian-English vocabulary, study questions and more. In addition, Professor Struve has supplied an enlightening introduction to the Russian short story, as well as concise biographical/critical introductions to each selection. An especially helpful feature for students of Russian is the presence of stress accents in the Russian text, a feature usually found only in primers.
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Journals and memoirs, Anthologies
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From a writer whose work has been called &“breathtaking and dazzling&” by Roxane Gay, this moving, illuminating, and multifaceted memoir…
explores, in a series of essays, the emotional scars we carry when dealing with mental and physical illnesses—reminiscent of The Collected Schizophrenias and An Unquiet Mind. In this stunning debut, Laura Lee weaves unforgettable and eye-opening essays on a variety of taboo topics. In &“History of Scars&” and &“Aluminum&’s Erosions,&” Laura dives head-first into heavier themes revolving around intimacy, sexuality, trauma, mental illness, and the passage of time. In &“Poetry of the World,&” Laura shifts and addresses the grief she feels by being geographically distant from her mother whom, after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer&’s, is relocated to a nursing home in Korea. Through the vivid imagery of mountain climbing, cooking, studying writing, and growing up Korean American, Lee explores the legacy of trauma on a young queer child of immigrants as she reconciles the disparate pieces of existence that make her whole. By tapping into her own personal, emotional, and psychological struggles in these powerful and relatable essays, Lee encourages all of us to not be afraid to face our own hardships and inner truths.
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The seventh issue of a digital journal created to alleviate the malaise of social distancing with exceptional writing and artwork.…
The Quarantine Review celebrates literature and art, connecting readers through reflections on the human condition — our lived experiences, afflictions, and dreams. As we face a pandemic with profound implications, the essays within offer a variety of perspectives on the current predicament, encouraging readers to reflect on the world we knew before and contemplate how society can be reshaped once we emerge. Through The Quarantine Review, Dupuis and Sarfraz hope to give voice to the swirling emotions inside each of us during this unprecedented moment, to create a circuit of empathy between the reader, the work itself, and the wider world beyond the walls of our homes. This issue includes works by Kirti Bhadresa, Sydney Warner Brooman, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Veronique Darwin, Catherine Graham, Joy Gyamfi, Pamela Hensley, Mark Laliberte, Donna Langevin, Mike Lee, H. C. Phillips, Robert Priest, Kenneth Sherman, Jillian Stirk, and Jasper Wrinch.
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Anthologies, Poetry
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A collection of haunting, mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have…
never before been translated into EnglishOne night I held between my handsyour face. The moon fell upon it.In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented the writer Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems, meticulously copied out in his own hand, which bore the title "Poems to Night." This cycle of poems which came about in an almost clandestine manner, are now thought to represent one of the key stages of this master poet's development.Never before translated into English, this collection brings together all Rilke's significant night poems in one volume.
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Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the…
1980s. Minae is a Japanese expatriate graduate student who has lived in the United States for two decades but turned her back on the English language and American culture. After a phone call from her older sister reminds her that it is the twentieth anniversary of their family’s arrival in New York, she spends the day reflecting in solitude and over the phone with her sister about their life in the United States, trying to break the news that she has decided to go back to Japan and become a writer in her mother tongue.Published in 1995, this formally daring novel radically broke with Japanese literary tradition. It liberally incorporated English words and phrases, and the entire text was printed horizontally, to be read from left to right, rather than vertically and from right to left. In a luminous meditation on how a person becomes a writer, Mizumura transforms the “I-novel,” a Japanese confessional genre that toys with fictionalization. An I-Novel tells the story of two sisters while taking up urgent questions of identity, race, and language. Above all, it considers what it means to write in the era of the hegemony of English—and what it means to be a writer of Japanese in particular. Juliet Winters Carpenter masterfully renders a novel that once appeared untranslatable into English.
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United States history, Anthologies, Nature
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Fall under the spell of Florida’s natural environment In this captivating collection, Florida’s most notable authors, poets, and environmentalists take…
readers on a journey through the natural wonders of the state. Continuing in the legacy of the beloved classic The Wild Heart of Florida, this book features thirty-four pieces by a new slate of well-known and emerging writers.In these pages, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff describes the beauty of Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park. Environmental writer Cynthia Barnett listens to seashells on Sanibel Island. Legendary journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas records the sights and sounds of the Everglades in the 1920s. Miccosukee elder Buffalo Tiger relates traditional stories of his community’s deep relationship with the land. Presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco muses on the shifting vista of the ocean in “Some Days the Sea.”These writers and many others recount memories of how their lives have been enriched by the state’s varied and brilliant landscapes. Some tell of encounters with alligators, pythons, manatees, turtles, and otters, while others marvel at the unique character of flowing springs and piney scrub. Together, they highlight the need to protect pristine ecosystems and restore ones that have been damaged due to development. The Wilder Heart of Florida will inspire readers to explore and celebrate the Florida wilderness.
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A selection of speeches from the book of the same title. Includes Malcolm's 1965 interview with the Young Socialist magazine.
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Anthologies, Travel and geography
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Cuando la felicidad casi ha llegado, cuando el camino está trazado, y fuera la hora de cambiarlo todo… «La felicidad…
no está tan lejos. Elisa la toca con un dedo. Sin duda, su futuro se resolverá con la boda y el confeti y todo saldrá bien. Sin embargo, en medio de ese perfecto día de tranquilidad, ese miércoles trece de febrero de 2013, hacia las catorce horas cuarenta y cinco, cuando todavía está en la oficina, su móvil empieza a vibrar. Número desconocido». Elisa, en la treintena, no sabe que una llamada telefónica puede cambiar una vida. Al aceptar las increíbles oportunidades que le ofrecen, Elisa se embarca en un sorprendente viaje que la llevará a descubrir el Pacífico Sur, en la Nueva Caledonia
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Humour, Anthologies
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Dante published his ambitious and unusual poem, Divine Comedy, more than seven hundred years ago. In the ensuing centuries countless…
retellings, innumerable adaptations, tens of thousands of fiery sermons from Catholic bishops and Baptist preachers, all those New Yorker cartoons, and masterpieces of European art have afforded Dante&’s fictional apparition of hell unending attention and credibility. Dinty W. Moore did not buy in. Moore started questioning religion at a young age, quizzing the nuns in his Catholic school, and has been questioning it ever since. Yet after years of Catholic school, religious guilt, and persistent cultural conditioning, Moore still can&’t shake the feelings of inadequacy, and asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing a myth that merely makes us miserable? In To Hell with It, Moore reflects on and pokes fun at the over-seriousness of religion in various texts, combining narratives of his everyday life, reflections on his childhood, and religion&’s influence on contemporary culture and society.
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Anthologies, Poetry
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More in Time is a celebration and tribute to Ted Kooser, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize…
for Poetry, and Presidential Professor of the University of Nebraska. Through personal reflections, essays, and creative works both inspired by and dedicated to Kooser, this collection shines a light on the many ways the midwestern poet has affected others as a teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend, as well as a fellow writer and observer-of-the-world. The creative responses included in this volume are reflective of the impact Kooser has had in his connections to other writers, while also revealing glimpses of his distinct way of seeing.
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May Sarton's lifetime of work as a poet, novelist, and essayist inform these illuminating reflections on the creative life In…
"The Book of Babylon," May Sarton remarks that she is not a critic--except of her own work. The essay addresses questions that have haunted Sarton's own creative practice, such as the concept of "tension in equilibrium"--balancing past and present, idea and image. She also cites poems written by others to describe the joy of writing and how we must give ourselves over to becoming the instruments of our art. "The Design of a Novel" is about fiction writing--where ideas come from, how theme and character determine plot, the mistakes many fledgling authors make, and how and why the novel differs from the poem. Further texts examine the act of composing verse, one's state of mind when writing poetry, the role of the unconscious, how revising is the loftiest form of creation, and how to keep growing as an artist. Throughout the collection, Sarton also warns about the dangers of trying to analyze the creative process too closely. A book that doesn't separate art from the artist's life, Writings on Writing is filled with Sarton's trademark imagery and insights, letting us know we're in the hands of a master.
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&“For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes…
from companies named things like Shrimp & Grits. Why? Because identity is complicated.&” Elizabeth Passarella is content with being complicated. She grew up in Memphis in a conservative, Republican family with a Christian mom and a Jewish dad. Then she moved to New York, fell in love with the city—and, eventually, her husband—and changed. Sort of. While her politics have tilted to the left, she still puts her faith first—and argues that the two can go hand in hand, for what it&’s worth. In this sharp and slyly profound memoir, Elizabeth shares stories about everything from conceiving a baby in an unair-conditioned garage in Florida to finding a rat in her bedroom. She upends stereotypes about Southerners, New Yorkers, and Christians, making a case that we are all flawed humans simply doing our best. Good Apple is a hilarious, welcome celebration of the absurdity, chaos, and strange sacredness of life that brings us all together, whether we have city lights or starry skies in our eyes. More importantly, it&’s about the God who pursues each of us, no matter our own inconsistencies or failures, and shows us the way back home.