Seven Contemporary Short Novels
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Seven Contemporary Short Novels
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Author : Charles Clerc
language : en
Publisher: Scott Foresman
Release Date : 1975-01-01
Seven Contemporary Short Novels written by Charles Clerc and has been published by Scott Foresman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-01-01 with American fiction categories.
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Author : Clerc
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-03-21
Cancel written by Clerc and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-21 with categories.
Seven Contemporary Authors
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Author : Thomas B. Whitbread
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-09-10
Seven Contemporary Authors written by Thomas B. Whitbread and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
These seven critical essays, each on a twentieth-century novelist, are disparate in content, but all are concerned with the problem of evil and inhumanity and with the paradoxes of human existence. Each essay discusses a different author, but this independence of subject is resolved into a central theme through the interpretive approach followed by the seven critics. Each of the contributors presents his subject against the background of the current disillusionment and frustration of our age. Underlying each essay are undertones of the "absurdity" of life today for those who consider it thoughtfully, and the contrast between what men would like reality to be and what they actually find. This unity of theme—the problem of evil, of inhumanity, of meaninglessness, the concern for the human being and his future—is developed in an interesting manner. It was exploited in different ways by the seven modern novelists discussed in the essays, and it is presented with different analytical techniques by the seven critics. Yet the reader senses the unity of feeling and purpose amid the diversity of fictional content and critical evaluation. Besdies the interpretive Introduction by Thomas B. Whitbread, the book contains the following essays: R. W. Lewis, "The Conflicts of Reality: Cozzens' The Last Adam" Alan Friedman, "The Pitching of Love's Mansion in the Tropics of Henry Miller" Roger D. Abrahams, "Androgynes Bound: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts" George Clark, "An Illiberal Education: William Golding's Pedagogy" Vance Ramsey, "From Here to Absurdity: Heller's Catch-22" Anthony Channell Hilfer, "George and Martha: Sad, Sad, Sad" Robert G. Twombly, "Hubris, Health, and Holiness: The Despair of J. F. Powers"
Seven Icelandic Short Stories
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Author : Authors Various
language : en
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2010-04
Seven Icelandic Short Stories written by Authors Various and has been published by Abela Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Fiction categories.
Of the seven Icelandic short stories which appear here, the first was probably written early in the thirteenth century, while the rest all date from the early twentieth century. Since the 12th C. the Icelandic people have continued to tell stories and to compose poems with the greyness of commonplace existence made more bearable when listening to tales of the heroic deeds and sagas of the past. In those past evenings, the living-room (baostofa), built of turf and stone, became a little more cheerful, and hunger was forgotten, while a member of the household read, or sang, about far-away knights and heroes, and the banquets they gave in splendid halls. In their imagination people thus tended to make their environment seem larger, and better, than life, as did Hrolfur with his fishing-boat in the story When I was on the Frigate. So take some time out and travel back to a period before television and radio, a time when tales were passed on orally when families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and a family member would delight and captivate the gathering with stories passed on to them from their parents and grandparents and from time immemorial. The Norsemen who colonized Iceland in the last quarter of the ninth century brought with them the language then spoken throughout all of Scandinavia. This ancestor of the modern Scandinavian tongues has been preserved in Iceland with the oldest preserved Icelandic prose written almost 1000 years ago. Limited communications between Iceland and other countries, frequent migrations inside the island, and, not least important, a long and uninterrupted literary tradition has meant the Icelandic language has not developed any dialects in the ordinary sense. 33% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities, schools and special causes.
Seven Icelandic Short Stories
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Author : Ásgeir Pétursson
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Seven Icelandic Short Stories written by Ásgeir Pétursson and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
Contemporary Chinese Novels And Short Stories 1949 1974
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Author : Meishi Tsai
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Contemporary Chinese Novels And Short Stories 1949 1974 written by Meishi Tsai and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
An annotated bibliography of contemporary Chinese novels and short stories published between 1949 and 1974. Includes succinct summaries and bibliographic detailes, including references to translations, for virtually all fictional works published in China during this period. Also includes author, title, and subject indexes.
Seven Icelandic Short Stories
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Author : Asgeir Petursson
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 1961-01-01
Seven Icelandic Short Stories written by Asgeir Petursson and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Of the seven Icelandic short stories which appear here; the first was probably written early in the thirteenth century; while the rest all date from the early twentieth century. It might therefore be supposed that the earliest of these stories was written in a language more or less unintelligible to modern Icelanders; and that there was a gap of many centuries in the literary production of the nation. This; however; is not the case. The Norsemen who colonized Iceland in the last quarter of the ninth century brought with than the language then spoken throughout the whole of Scandinavia. This ancestor of the modern Scandinavian tongues has been preserved in Iceland so little changed that every Icelander still understands; without the aid of explanatory commentaries; the oldest preserved prose written in their country 850 years ago. The principal reasons for this were probably limited communications between Iceland and other countries; frequent migrations inside the island; and; not least important; a long and uninterrupted literary tradition. As a consequence; Icelandic has not developed any dialects in the ordinary sense.
The Medusa Gaze In Contemporary Women S Fiction
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Author : Gillian M. E. Alban
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2017-08-21
The Medusa Gaze In Contemporary Women S Fiction written by Gillian M. E. Alban and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Medusa Gaze offers striking insights into the desires and frustrations of women through the narratives of the impressive contemporary novelists Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Iris Murdoch, Jeanette Winterson, Jean Rhys and Michèle Roberts. It illuminates women’s power and vulnerability as they construct their own egos in opposition to their hostile alter egos or others facing them in their mirrors, and fixes a panoptic gaze on the women stalking its pages, as they learn how to deflect the menacing gaze of others by returning their look defiantly back at them. Some stare back and win assurance; others are stared down, reduced to psychic trauma, madness and even suicide. The book shows how Freud’s, Sartre’s and Lacan’s androcentric views define the Medusa m/other as monstrous, and how the efforts of mothers to nurture may be slighted as inadequate or devouring. It presents Medusa and other goddess figures as inspirational, repelling harm through the ‘evil eye’ of their powerful gaze. Conversely, it also shows women who are condemned as monstrous Gorgons, trapped in enmity, rivalry and rage. Representing English, American and African American, Canadian and Caribbean writing, the works explored here include realistic, social narrative and magical realist writings, in addition to tales of the past and dystopian narratives.
The Scribner Anthology Of Contemporary Short Fiction
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Author : Michael Martone
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-11-27
The Scribner Anthology Of Contemporary Short Fiction written by Michael Martone and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-27 with Fiction categories.
Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists. Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert Olen Butler, Sandra Cisneros, Peter Ho Davies, Janet Desaulniers, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Stuart Dybek, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Dagoberto Gilb, Ron Hansen, A.M. Homes, Mary Hood, Denis Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Thom Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Leavitt, Kelly Link, Reginald McKnight, David Means, Susan Minot , Rick Moody, Bharati Mukherjee, Antonya Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O’Brien, Daniel Orozco, Julie Orringer, ZZ Packer, Annie Proulx, Stacey Richter, George Saunders, Joan Silber, Leslie Marmon Silko, Susan Sontag, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Alice Walker, and Steve Yarbrough.
John Steinbeck
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Author : Adrian Goldstone
language : en
Publisher: Austin : Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Release Date : 1974
John Steinbeck written by Adrian Goldstone and has been published by Austin : Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Literary Criticism categories.