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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
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Release Date : 2019-07-05
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Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson examines the techniques of writing, and gives insights into the writing of ""Treasure Island"" and ""The Master of Ballantrae."" CONTENTS On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, The Morality of the Profession of Letters, Books Which Have Influenced Me, A Note On Realism, My First Book: ""Treasure Island,"" The Genesis of ""The Master of Ballantrae"" Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson's life was almost as adventurous as the stories he created. He spent much of it as a traveler, writing about his exploits in such exemplary travel books as TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES.
Why I Write
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Author : George Orwell
language : en
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
Release Date : 2021-01-01
Why I Write written by George Orwell and has been published by Renard Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
The Art Of Writing And Other Essays By Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Release Date : 2021-01-01
The Art Of Writing And Other Essays By Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson examines the techniques of writing, and gives insights into the writing of ""Treasure Island"" and ""The Master of Ballantrae."" CONTENTS On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, The Morality of the Profession of Letters, Books Which Have Influenced Me, A Note On Realism, My First Book: ""Treasure Island,"" The Genesis of ""The Master of Ballantrae"" Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson's life was almost as adventurous as the stories he created. He spent much of it as a traveler, writing about his exploits in such exemplary travel books as TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES. He studied law but never practiced he always wanted to write, and gave himself what amounted to a writing course, studying and copying the style and techniques of his favorite writers. His attempts paid off: his first published novel, TREASURE ISLAND, brought him money and fame. At 29 he fell in love with a married woman--alienating his family--and pursued her to California, where she divorced her husband, after which the couple married and traveled extensively in the U.S., visiting various spas and health resorts in search of a cure for the tuberculosis from which Stevenson suffered all his life. After extensive travel in the South Seas, he finally settled in Samoa, where he became involved in the lives and politics of the islanders. During all his wanderings, he continued to write, producing a total of 12 novels, many short tales, three plays, poetry (including the classic A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES), and dozens of books of essays and travel pieces. He died in Samoa at 44--suddenly, of apoplexy, as he was making a salad for dinner--leaving his last book, THE WEIR OF HERMISTON, unfinished. Keywords: Style, Literary -- Literature, Arts etc British Writers, English LiteratureKeywords: Robert Louis Stevenson Master Of Ballantrae Treasure Island Travels With A Donkey Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes Money And Fame Art Of Writing Technical Elements Married Woman Elements Of Style Realism Exemplary Travel Books Exploits Morality Genesis Profession. Novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. A sickly child, Stevenson was an invalid for part of his childhood and remained in ill health throughout his life. He began studying engineering at Edinburgh University but soon switched to law. His true inclination, however, was for writing. For several years after completing his studies, Stevenson traveled on the Continent, gathering ideas for his writing. His Inland Voyage (1878) and Travels with a Donkey (1878) describe some of his experiences there. A variety of essays and short stories followed, most of which were published in magazines. It was with the publication of Treasure Island in 1883, however, that Stevenson achieved wide recognition and fame. This was followed by his most successful adventure story, Kidnapped, which appeared in 1886. With stories such as Treasure Island and Kidnapped, Stevenson revived Daniel Defoe's novel of romantic adventure, adding to it psychological analysis. While these stories and others, such as David Balfour and The Master of Ballantrae (1889), are stories of adventure, they are at the same time fine studies of character. The Master of Ballantrae, in particular, is a study of evil character, and this study is taken even further in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). In 1887 Stevenson and his wife, Fanny, went to the United States, first to the health spas of Saranac Lake, New York, and then on to the West Coast. From there they set out for the South Seas in 1889. Except for one trip to Sidney, Australia, Stevenson spent the remainder of his life on the island of Samoa with his devoted wife and stepson. While there he wrote The Wrecker (1892), Island Nights Entertainments (1893), and Catriona (1893), a sequel to Kidnapped. He also worked on St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston, which many consider to be his masterpiece. He died suddenly of apoplexy, leaving both of these works unfinished. Both were published posthumously; St. Ives was completed by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, and The Weir of Hermiston was published unfinished. Stevenson was buried on Samoa, an island he had come to love very much. Although Stevenson's novels are perhaps more accomplished, his short stories are also vivid and memorable. All show his power of invention, his command of the macabre and the eerie, and the psychological depth of his characterization.
The Book I Won T Be Writing And Other Essays
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Author : H. Y. Sharada Prasad
language : en
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Release Date : 2003
The Book I Won T Be Writing And Other Essays written by H. Y. Sharada Prasad and has been published by Orient Blackswan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
H. Y. Sharada Prasad Has Lived Through Interesting Times, Turbulent Times, Times Of Great Hope And Dispair. He Has Been Witness To Some Momentous Events Of Recent Indian History. This Book Captures Some Of These Moments In Elegantly Crafted And Sometimes Delightfully Anecdotal Prose.
Essays In The Art Of Writing
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-16
Essays In The Art Of Writing written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with categories.
The profession of letters has been lately debated in the public prints; and it has been debated, to putthe matter mildly, from a point of view that was calculated to surprise high-minded men, and bring ageneral contempt on books and reading. Some time ago, in particular, a lively, pleasant, popularwriter [47b] devoted an essay, lively and pleasant like himself, to a very encouraging view of theprofession. We may be glad that his experience is so cheering, and we may hope that all others, whodeserve it, shall be as handsomely rewarded; but I do not think we need be at all glad to have thisquestion, so important to the public and ourselves, debated solely on the ground of money. Thesalary in any business under heaven is not the only, nor indeed the first, question. That you shouldcontinue to exist is a matter for your own consideration; but that your business should be firsthonest, and second useful, are points in which honour and morality are concerned. If the writer towhom I refer succeeds in persuading a number of young persons to adopt this way of life with aneye set singly on the livelihood, we must expect them in their works to follow profit only, and wemust expect in consequence, if he will pardon me the epithets, a slovenly, base, untrue, and emptyliterature. Of that writer himself I am not speaking: he is diligent, clean, and pleasing; we all owehim periods of entertainment, and he has achieved an amiable popularity which he has adequatelydeserved. But the truth is, he does not, or did not when he first embraced it, regard his professionfrom this purely mercenary side. He went into it, I shall venture to say, if not with any noble design, at least in the ardour of a first love; and he enjoyed its practice long before he paused to calculate thewage. The other day an author was complimented on a piece of work, good in itself andexceptionally good for him, and replied, in terms unworthy of a commercial traveller that as thebook was not briskly selling he did not give a copper farthing for its merit. It must not be supposedthat the person to whom this answer was addressed received it as a profession of faith; he knew, onthe other hand, that it was only a whiff of irritation; just as we know, when a respectable writer talksof literature as a way of life, like shoemaking, but not so useful, that he is only debating one aspectof a question, and is still clearly conscious of a dozen others more important in themselves and morecentral to the matter in hand. But while those who treat literature in this penny-wise and virtuefoolish spirit are themselves truly in possession of a better light, it does not follow that the treatmentis decent or improving, whether for themselves or others. To treat all subjects in the highest, themost honourable, and the pluckiest spirit, consistent with the fact, is the first duty of a writer. If hebe well paid, as I am glad to hear he is, this duty becomes the more urgent, the neglect of it the moredisgraceful. And perhaps there is no subject on which a man should speak so gravely as thatindustry, whatever it may be, which is the occupation or delight of his life; which is his tool to earnor serve with; and which, if it be unworthy, stamps himself as a mere incubus of dumb and greedybowels on the shoulders of labouring humanity
Essays On Art And Language
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Author : Charles Harrison
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003-09-12
Essays On Art And Language written by Charles Harrison and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-12 with Art categories.
Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement. These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of view of Art & Language, the artistic movement based in England—and briefly in the United States—with which Harrison has been associated for thirty years. Harrison uses the work of Art & Language as a central case study to discuss developments in art from the 1950s through the 1980s. According to Harrison, the strongest motivation for writing about art is that it brings us closer to that which is other than ourselves. In seeing how a work is done, we learn about its achieved identity: we see, for example, that a drip on a Pollock is integral to its technical character, whereas a drip on a Mondrian would not be. Throughout the book, Harrison uses specific examples to address a range of questions about the history, theory, and making of modern art—questions about the conditions of its making and the nature of its public, about the problems and priorities of criticism, and about the relations between interpretation and judgment.
Essays In The Art Of Writing
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Essays In The Art Of Writing written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Although several of Robert Louis Stevenson's major works -- Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- have been enshrined in the Western canon of popular literature, these novels represent only a fraction of a prodigious body of writing that spans virtually every genre. Stevenson was a prolific and preternaturally skilled writer, and in these essays, he offers insight, tips, and inspiration that will capture the imagination of both fans of his work and would-be writers.
Coming To Writing And Other Essays
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Author : Hélène Cixous
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1991
Coming To Writing And Other Essays written by Hélène Cixous and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, here Hélène Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes--viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning--manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts. These superb translations do full justice to Cixous's prose, to its songlike flow and allusive brilliance.
Against Interpretation And Other Essays
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Author : Susan Sontag
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Against Interpretation And Other Essays written by Susan Sontag and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Literary Collections categories.
A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equal value as valid topics, shown here in her epoch-making pieces 'Notes on Camp' and 'Against Interpretation'. Here too are impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Lévi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis and contemporary religious thought. Originally published in 1966, this collection has never gone out of print and has been a major influence on generations of readers, and the field of cultural criticism, ever since. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels - The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won the 2000 US National Book Award for fiction - a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. If you enjoyed Against Interpretation and Other Essays, you might like Sontag's On Photography, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A dazzling intellectual performance' Vogue 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times
Women Art And Power And Other Essays
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Author : Linda Nochlin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-12
Women Art And Power And Other Essays written by Linda Nochlin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-12 with Art categories.
Women, Art, and Power?seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history?brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.