Almonds To Zhoof

Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810151499

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Almonds to Zhoof by Richard Stern Pdf

Stern's stories-witty, moving, charged with narrative energy-never sacrifice storytelling to mere elegance or bursts of essayistic wisdom. This collection demonstrates Stern's remarkable ability to portray people's flawed relationships to ideas, their sometimes bizarre relationships with lovers and friends, their often brilliant, if skewed, appraisals of themselves. The stories reflect Stern's compassion for his characters, whoever they are and whatever their origins. Book jacket.

Author : Elizabeth Murphy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496209122

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A Critical Friendship by Elizabeth Murphy Pdf

A chance meeting in the University of North Carolina campus library in 1944 began a decades-long friendship and sixty-year correspondence. Donald Justice (1925-2004) and Richard Stern (1928-2013) would go on to become, respectively, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the acclaimed novelist. A Critical Friendship showcases a selection of their letters and postcards from the first fifteen years of their correspondence, representing the formative period in both writers' careers. It includes some of Justice's unpublished poetry and early drafts of later published poems as well as some early, never-before-published poetry by Stern. A Critical Friendship is the story of two writers inventing themselves, beginning with the earliest extant letters and ending with those just following their first major publications, Justice's poetry collection The Summer Anniversaries and Stern's novel Golk. These letters highlight their willingness to give and take criticism and document the birth of two distinct and important American literary lives. The letters similarly document the influence of teachers, friends, and contemporaries, including Saul Bellow, John Berryman, Edgar Bowers, Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Yvor Winters, all of whom feature in the pair's conversations. In a broader context, their correspondence sheds light on the development of the mid-twentieth-century American literary scene.

Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472050901

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Still on Call by Richard Stern Pdf

"Richard Stern is a literary treasure."---Scott Turow --

Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810151475

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Natural Shocks by Richard Stern Pdf

Stern's brilliantly funny look at modern journalism and its flawed practitioners.

Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810151468

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Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern Pdf

The classic novel of a middle-aged man's affair with a worldly younger woman.

Author : James D. Hart,Wendy Martin,Danielle Hinrichs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192570413

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The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart,Wendy Martin,Danielle Hinrichs Pdf

For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present, with brief biographies of important authors, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the present day. In this second edition of the Concise version, Wendy Martin and Danielle Hinrichs bring the work up to date to more fully reflect the diversity of the subject. Their priorities have been, foremost, to fully represent the impact of writers of color and women writers on the field of American literature, and to increase the usefulness of the work to students of literary theory. To this end, over 230 new entries have been added, including many that cover women authors; Native American, African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and other contemporary ethnic literatures; LGBT, trans, and queer studies; and recent literary movements and evolving areas of contemporary relevance such as eco-criticism, disability studies, whiteness studies, male/masculinity studies, and diaspora studies.

Author : Josh Lambert
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780827610026

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American Jewish Fiction by Josh Lambert Pdf

This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader?s dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to other books that match readers? interests and favorite writers. And the introduction is a fascinating exploration of the history of and important themes in American Jewish Fiction, illustrating how Jewish writing in the U.S. has been in constant dialogue with popular entertainment and intellectual life. Included in this guide are lists of book award winners; recommended anthologies; title, author, and subject indexes; and more.

Author : Richard Stern
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810151482

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Stitch by Richard Stern Pdf

A group of Americans in Venice encounter an Ezra-Pound-like sculptor.

Author : Ted Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691154466

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Thinking of Others by Ted Cohen Pdf

In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see oneself as someone else, whether the someone else is a real person or a fictional character, is to exercise the ability to deal with metaphor and other figurative language. The underlying faculty, Cohen argues, is the same--simply the ability to think of one thing as another when it plainly is not. In an engaging style, Cohen explores this idea by examining various occasions for identifying with others, including reading fiction, enjoying sports, making moral arguments, estimating one's future self, and imagining how one appears to others. Using many literary examples, Cohen argues that we can engage with fictional characters just as intensely as we do with real people, and he looks at some of the ways literature itself takes up the question of interpersonal identification and understanding. An original meditation on the necessity of imagination to moral and aesthetic life, Thinking of Others is an important contribution to philosophy and literary theory.

Author : James A. Kaser
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781461672586

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The Chicago of Fiction by James A. Kaser Pdf

The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published between 1852 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction, as well as literary fiction, are included.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Jewish literature
ISBN : UOM:39015065222773

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Index to Jewish Periodicals by Anonim Pdf

An author and subject index to selected and American Anglo-Jewish journals of general and scholarly interests.

Author : Fredelle Bruser Maynard
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : PaperJacks
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036390453

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Raisins and Almonds by Fredelle Bruser Maynard Pdf

A LOVING AND GRACEFUL TRIBUTE TO HER PARENTS ANIMATES THIS MEMOIR OF A JEWISH CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE OF THE PRAIRIE.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175030094687

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Melvil Dewey,Richard Rogers Bowker,L. Pylodet,Charles Ammi Cutter,Bertine Emma Weston,Karl Brown,Helen E. Wessells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015063375037

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Library Journal by Melvil Dewey,Richard Rogers Bowker,L. Pylodet,Charles Ammi Cutter,Bertine Emma Weston,Karl Brown,Helen E. Wessells Pdf

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Religion and politics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121681097

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First Things by Anonim Pdf