Bottom S Dream

Author : Arno Schmidt
Publisher : German Literature Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Dreams
ISBN : 1628971592

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Bottom's Dream by Arno Schmidt Pdf

"I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was," says Bottom. "I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it," Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt's rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language itself that plays that lead role; and it is certainly about sex in its many Freudian disguises, but about love as well, whether fragile and unfulfilled or crude and wedded. As befits a dream upon a heath populated by elemental spirits, the shapes and figures are protean, its protagonists suddenly transformed into trees, horses, and demigods. In a single day, from one midsummer dawn to a fiery second, Dan and Franzisca, Wilma and Paul explore the labyrinths of literary creation and of their own dreams and desires. Since its publication in 1970 Zettel's Traum/Bottom's Dream has been regarded as Arno Schimdt's magnum opus, as the definitive work of a titan of postwar German literature. Readers are now invited to explore its verbally provocative landscape in an English translation by John E. Woods.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : NYPL:33433003252636

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A Midsummer-night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Michael Schmidt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674369061

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The Novel by Michael Schmidt Pdf

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt does full justice to its complexity. Like his hero Ford Madox Ford in The March of Literature, Schmidt chooses as his traveling companions not critics or theorists but “artist practitioners,” men and women who feel “hot love” for the books they admire, and fulminate against those they dislike. It is their insights Schmidt cares about. Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists and drawing on their biographies, Schmidt invites us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggests how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English. Schmidt believes there is something fundamentally subversive about art: he portrays the novel as a liberalizing force and a revolutionary stimulus. But whatever purpose the novel serves in a given era, a work endures not because of its subject, themes, political stance, or social aims but because of its language, its sheer invention, and its resistance to cliché—some irreducible quality that keeps readers coming back to its pages.

Author : William Shakespeare; Ed. Jim Manis
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare; Ed. Jim Manis Pdf

Author : Xavier Herbert
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 1722 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460703243

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Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert Pdf

'Poor Fellow My Country is an Australian classic, perhaps THE Australian classic' - The Times Literary Supplement. From Australia's oldest publisher comes the longest Australian novel ever published. The winner of the 1975 Miles Franklin Award is now back in print with a new introduction by Russell McDougall. In Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert returns to the region made his own in Capricornia: Northern Australia. Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; but it is not so much a tale of this period as Herbert's analysis and indictment of the steps by which we came to the Australia of today. Herbert parallels an intimate personal narrative with a tale of approaching war and the disconnect between modern Australia and its first inhabitants. With enduring portraits of a large cast of local and international characters, Herbert paints a scene of racial, familial and political disparity. He lays bare the paradoxes of this wild land, both old and wise, young and flawed. Winner of the Miles Franklin award on first publication in 1975, Poor Fellow My Country is masterful storytelling, an epic in the truest sense. This is the decisive story of how Australia threw away her chance of becoming a true commonwealth and it is undoubtedly Herbert's supreme contribution to Australian literature. Will we ever reach the dream of 'Australia Felix' - the happy south land?

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781443441551

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Sonnets by William Shakespeare Pdf

Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare’s sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : Arno Schmidt
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 156478066X

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Collected Early Fiction, 1949-1964: Collected novellas by Arno Schmidt Pdf

The novella was Schmidt's preferred form at the beginning of his writing career, and this volume collects the ten novellas he wrote between "Entymesis" (1949) and "Republica Intelligentsia" (1957). The settings range from ancient Greece to 21st-Century America, but all react to the stifling conservatism and cold prudery of Adenauer Germany. Bursting with intellectual and sexual energies, resuscitating the German language after two decades of Nazi subjugation, these novellas revolutionized German literature in the 1950s and retain their power to shock and delight forty years later. Schmidt has been called a "giant of the modernist tradition, an enormously important talent in the fictional line of cruel comedy that runs from Rabelais through Swift and Joyce" ("New York Review of Books"). This edition of his collected fiction should restore Schmidt to his rightful place at the forefront of 20th-century writing.

Author : Arno Schmidt
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564780902

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Nobodaddy's Children by Arno Schmidt Pdf

Early fiction of one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany, a man often called the German James Joyce due to the linguistic inventiveness of his fiction.

Author : J. G. Barefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:19095161

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Bottom's Dream by J. G. Barefield Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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scenes from a midsummer night's dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Arno Schmidt
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015014316601

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The Egghead Republic by Arno Schmidt Pdf

Author : Alan Poole
Publisher : Samuel French Limited
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0573120269

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Bottom's Dream by Alan Poole Pdf

Who dreamt the Midsummer Night's Dream? What were the reactions of the artisans' relatives to their play-acting activities? The author considers the play from the point of Bottom - and the women as members of the audience. Bottom and his wife are discovered settling down for the night - as twelve o'clock strikes, Bottom dreams a 'most rare vision'. All the artisan scenes are preserved intact - but here the women also have their say.

Author : James L. Calderwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002300841

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by James L. Calderwood Pdf

Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399181825

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Ask a Manager by Alison Green Pdf

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Author : Lois Burdett
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 1552091244

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A Midsummer Night's Dream for Kids by Lois Burdett Pdf

A children's version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.