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Writerly Ambitions
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Author : Timothy Underwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-16
Writerly Ambitions written by Timothy Underwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-16 with categories.
Mr. Darcy could not marry Elizabeth Bennet, for Darcy, whilst in want of a wife, was a man with a list, and Elizabeth did not meet every particular upon his list. She did not even meet most of them. Darcy has spent years determined to find the perfect wife, attending every ball at Season, and dancing every dance. But each girl he met lacked something. His friends don't believe him anymore when he insists he wants to marry.Elizabeth started writing novels after she was banished to London following an unfortunate incident when she was trapped in a hunting lodge with Mr. Wickham during a freak blizzard. Her literary endeavours proved popular, and now she has a modest independent income, and a determination to never depend on anyone.How will the find love together?A romantic story with lots of laughs and a little angst65,000 words long Excerpt: "You, I have been informed, you do hope to marry." Elizabeth smiled at Mr. Darcy"I assure you, I do seek a proper wife - to make a woman the lady of Pemberley, that shall be a great honor, and she must be worthy of such a position, and of my great lineage - I am proud, yes, very proud. I see your smile. We are a great family, and it is my duty to continue a line which extends deep into the mists of time.""Poor woman! To face such expectation - it shall take a paragon not to crumple underneath the weight of Pemberley and all its heavy pile.""I assure you, I seek a woman who is a paragon. Only such is worthy of a man such as me."Elizabeth laughed, delighted by him. She liked Mr. Darcy very much, the more for his open vanity. For he was kind as well."I wish you well - I would never marry a man who expects so much. Even should you come to mistake me for such a paragon, you are safe. One must know their own limits."Mr. Darcy frowned, as if disquieted.She laughed. "Surely you do not expect every woman to fall before your feet.""I do - it is a simple matter of reason. I am aware of my virtues, and those of my estate. Any rational woman who is not high born herself will know there is no better match they can make.""I do not doubt that your estate is most superior. Your character though - I assure you a sensible woman would not be so quick to marry a man so certain of his own superiority."Mr. Darcy replied with a slightly hurt voice, "Then it is fortunate for us both, that whatever your virtues - you are extremely clever, and I like your mind, and your conversation, and your... eyes..." Darcy trailed off.Elizabeth could not help but blush at his evident admiration of her.He continued in a firmer tone. "I require of myself a wife with the highest connections, the cleanest and most sterling reputation, and the... further I am determined that she ought be near twenty years of age, and I think you to be much past that.""Zounds! Forget being refused - have you ever been slapped?" Elizabeth grinned at Mr. Darcy, most amused by his pique. "You do not take to rejection kindly."Mr. Darcy winced. "Miss Bennet, allow me to apologize, I hardly know what I said. I certainly did not mean to say such, and-""No, no, no! I despise pretense. And I adore ridiculousness. But your pomposity - you are clever enough to perhaps improve. But, this shall go deep in my stores of memories. But I forgive you this for your kindness earlier this evening. You, sir, were very kind, and I would be the worst sort of woman if I in turn savaged you."Mr. Darcy shook his head. "Even though you consider me vain and ridiculous.""Merely vain! - I know my deficits. I am, as you perceived, seven and twenty, without a sterling reputation, and my connections are more to trade than nobility. So there is nothing to be done for it. No matter how much you like my eyes" - Mr. Darcy flushed, but also smiled - "No matter how much I admire your superior estate and your person, we can never make a match of it. All that is left is to be friends."
Material Ambitions
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Author : Rebecca Richardson
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Material Ambitions written by Rebecca Richardson and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with History categories.
"The book traces the early history of the self-help genre and the literary depiction of ambition in Victorian British fiction. Stories of hardworking characters who bring themselves out of rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In chapters featuring the works of novelists, the author demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition and problematized it as well"--
A Ladder To The Sky
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Author : John Boyne
language : en
Publisher: Hogarth
Release Date : 2018-11-13
A Ladder To The Sky written by John Boyne and has been published by Hogarth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Fiction categories.
“A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller . . . An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne’s own.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful – but desperately lonely – older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice’s first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall. . . . Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso. Praise for A Ladder to the Sky “Boyne's mastery of perspective, last seen in The Heart's Invisible Furies, works beautifully here. . . . Boyne understands that it's far more interesting and satisfying for a reader to see that narcissist in action than to be told a catchall phrase. Each step Maurice Swift takes skyward reveals a new layer of calumny he's willing to engage in, and the desperation behind it . . . so dark it seems almost impossible to enjoy reading A Ladder to the Sky as much as you definitely will enjoy reading it.”—NPR “Delicious . . . spins out over several decades with thrilling unpredictability, following Maurice as he masters the art of co-opting the stories of others in increasingly dubious ways. And while the book reads as a thriller with a body count that would make Highsmith proud, it is also an exploration of morality and art: Where is the line between inspiration and thievery? To whom does a story belong?”—Vanity Fair
How To Watch Television
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Author : Ethan Thompson
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2013-09-16
How To Watch Television written by Ethan Thompson and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-16 with Psychology categories.
Examines social and cultural phenomena through the lens of different television shows We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program’s cultural significance, creative strategies, and its place in a broader social context. How to Watch Television brings together forty original essays from today’s leading scholars on television culture, writing about the programs they care (and think) the most about. Each essay focuses on a particular television show, demonstrating one way to read the program and, through it, our media culture. The essays model how to practice media criticism in accessible language, providing critical insights through analysis—suggesting a way of looking at TV that students and interested viewers might emulate. The contributors discuss a wide range of television programs past and present, covering many formats and genres, spanning fiction and non-fiction, broadcast and cable, providing a broad representation of the programs that are likely to be covered in a media studies course. While the book primarily focuses on American television, important programs with international origins and transnational circulation are also covered. Addressing television series from the medium’s earliest days to contemporary online transformations of television, How to Watch Television is designed to engender classroom discussion among television critics of all backgrounds.
Gabriel Garc A M Rquez
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Author : Michael Bell
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1993-10-05
Gabriel Garc A M Rquez written by Michael Bell and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Much good criticism of Mrquez came in the wake of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the perception of his fiction has been dominated by that novel. It seemed the implicit goal to which the earlier fiction has been striving. By concentrating on the later novels, including The General in his Labyrinth, this study brings out the internal dialogue between the novels so that One Hundred Years of Solitude then stands out, like Don Quixote in Cervantes' oeuvre, as untypical yet more deeply representative. Behind the popular impact of its 'magical realism' lies Mrquez' abiding meditation on the nature of fictional and historical truth.
Pacific Literatures As World Literature
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Author : Hsinya Huang
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-05-04
Pacific Literatures As World Literature written by Hsinya Huang and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Pacific Literatures as World Literature is a conjuration of trans-Pacific poets and writers whose work enacts forces of “becoming oceanic” and suggests a different mode of understanding, viewing, and belonging to the world. The Pacific, past and present, remains uneasily amenable to territorial demarcations of national or marine sovereignty. At the same time, as a planetary element necessary to sustaining life and well-being, the Pacific could become the means to envisioning ecological solidarity, if compellingly framed in terms that elicit consent and inspire an imagination of co-belonging and care. The Pacific can signify a bioregional site of coalitional promise as much as a danger zone of antagonistic peril. With ground-breaking writings from authors based in North America, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hawaii, and Guam and new modes of research – including multispecies ethnography and practice, ecopoetics, and indigenous cosmopolitics – authors explore the socio-political significance of the Pacific and contribute to the development of a collective effort of comparative Pacific studies covering a refreshingly broad, ethnographically grounded range of research themes. This volume aims to decenter continental/land poetics as such via long-standing transnational Pacific ties, re-worlding Pacific literature as world literature.
The House Where My Soul Lives
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Author : Maryemma Graham
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
The House Where My Soul Lives written by Maryemma Graham and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with African American authors categories.
"This first biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-98) offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the 20th century. Without defining herself as a radical or even a feminist, Walker followed the precepts of both. She promoted the idea of the artist of tradition and social change, a public intellectual and an institution builder. Among the first to recognize the impact of black women in literature, Walker became a chief architect of what many have called the new Black South Renaissance. Her art was influenced early by Langston Hughes, her political understanding of the world by Richard Wright. Walker expanded both into a comprehensive view on art and humanism, which became a national platform for the center she founded in Mississippi that now bears her name. The House Where My Soul Lives provides a full account of Walker's life and new interpretations of her writings before and after the publication of her most well-known poem in the 1930s in Chicago. The book rejects the widely held view of Walker as the "angry black woman" and emphasizes what contemporary American culture owes to her decades of foundational work in what we know today as Black Studies, Women's Studies, and the Public Humanities. She was fierce in her claim to be "black, female and free" which gave her the authority to challenge all hierarchies, no matter at what cost. Featuring 80 archival photos and documents and based on never before examined personal papers and interviews with those who knew Walker personally, this book is required reading for all readers of biographies of American writers."--Amazon.com.
Victims Of The Book
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Author : François Proulx
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2019
Victims Of The Book written by François Proulx and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-si?cle novel of formation in France. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen's masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie st?rile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, Fran?ois Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, many of which have rarely been studied, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen's reading habits. Against this cultural backdrop, he illuminates all that was at stake in representations of the male reader by prominent novelists of the period, including Jules Vall?s, Paul Bourget, Maurice Barr?s, Andr? Gide, and Marcel Proust. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Fin-de-si?cle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, paradoxically proposing their own novels as potential cures. In the early twentieth century, this corpus was critically revisited by a new generation of writers. Victims of the Book shows how Gide and Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-si?cle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader.
Sixteenth Century Poetry
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Author : Gordon Braden
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Sixteenth Century Poetry written by Gordon Braden and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selections from lesser-known authors. Includes complete works or substantial extracts of longer poems wherever possible, including Book III of the ‘Faerie Queene’ and the whole of ‘Astrophil and Stella’. Covers a range of genres, including the love lyric, mythological narrative, sacred poetry and political poetry. Encourages readers to discover unusual and interesting connections and contrasts between poems and poets. Detailed annotations facilitate close reading of the poems.
Searching For Cioran
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Author : Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-07
Searching For Cioran written by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. This move led to his transformation into one of the most famous French moralists of the 20th century. As an enthusiast of the anti-rationalist philosophies widely popular in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century, Cioran became an advocate of the fascistic Iron Guard. In her quest to understand how Cioran and other brilliant young intellectuals could have been attracted to such passionate national revival movements, Zarifopol-Johnston, herself a Romanian emigré, sought out the aging philosopher in Paris in the early 1990s and retraced his steps from his home village of Rasinari and youthful years in Sibiu, through his student years in Bucharest and Berlin, to his early residence in France. Her portrait of Cioran is complemented by an engaging autobiographical account of her rediscovery of her own Romanian past.