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Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8122200850
This book is the story of a young girl obsessed by a childhood prophecy of disaster. The author builds up an atmosphere of tension and oppression, in the middle of an Indian summer.
Author : Barkhordar Jahai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517091933
Author : Gina B. Nahai
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743403375
Peacock is jailed in Iran by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. While in prison she recounts her remarkable 116 year life to her fellow inmates.
Author : Gina Barkhordar Nahai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jews
ISBN : OCLC:1029048241
Author : Kajali Sharma
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8170172837
Author : Ruth Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : One-act plays
ISBN : UOM:49015001441022
Author : V. R. Christensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0984697446
After the death of her father, Abbie Gray is offered a place within her wealthy landlord's family. Such an opportunity, however, seems perhaps too good to be true, particularly since her own family's feelings towards Sir Nicholas and Lady Crawford have always been tinged with resentment. But, at last having exhausted all other alternatives, Abbie accepts the invitation, determined to make the most of this extraordinary opportunity. While Abbie is being groomed according to the ideals of Society-and of the eldest son, heir to title and property-the younger brothers attempt to expose her as the mercenary they believe she must be. But when they discover that her mysterious past is disturbingly connected with their own, they are forced to ask themselves some very hard questions about the meaning of integrity and honor. What does it mean to be worthy of the title "gentleman"? And what, after all, is the price of a woman's heart?
Author : Margaret H. Freeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190080426
Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures. Its relation to the worlds of human experience has perplexed writers and readers for centuries, as has the question of evaluation and judgment: what makes a poem "work" and endure. The Poem as Icon focuses on the art of poetry to explore its nature and function: not interpretation but experience; not what poetry means but what it does. Using both historic and contemporary approaches of embodied cognition from various disciplines, Margaret Freeman argues that a poem's success lies in its ability to become an icon of the felt "being" of reality. Freeman explains how the features of semblance, metaphor, schema, and affect work to make a poem an icon, with detailed examples from various poets. By analyzing the ways poetry provides insights into the workings of human cognition, Freeman claims that taste, beauty, and pleasure in the arts are simply products of the aesthetic faculty, and not the aesthetic faculty itself. The aesthetic faculty, she argues, should be understood as the science of human perception, and therefore constitutive of the cognitive processes of attention, imagination, memory, discrimination, expertise, and judgment.
Author : Gina Barkhordar-Nahai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517584751
Author : Vishal Suchak
Publisher : Shriniketan Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789354070334
Exacting a terrible price, the nuclear apocalypse divided humankind into two: Mutated and Untainted. Kilia & Josh, child counselors for the United Nations, are tasked with telling this horrible truth to tween-agers. Yet forced to lie about their own feelings for each other. Despite the UN’s efforts, life is harsh for Mutants and an underground resistance has sprung to life in the Quarantine Zone. Untainted humans living in the safety and comfort of a terrarium, most of them migrant volunteers, remain blissfully unaware of things to come. Under the watchful eyes of the Chief Administrator, life at the UN mission in Diablo Valley unfolds in mundane quietude. But then, the universe begins to conspire. Paying homage to counterculture, The Carol of the Reactors blends scifi, suspense and philosophy in the dystopia of an alternate reality. Laced with pop-culture, real world contemporary and historical references, this novel speculates on the future of humanity in the face of climate change, our dependence on technology and the fears that accompany it.
Author : Rob Wallace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441122896
Improvisation, despite its almost ubiquitous presence in many art forms, is notoriously misunderstood and mysterious. Although earlier strands of American philosophy and art emphasized what might be called improvisational practices, it was during the modernist period that improvisational practice and theory began to make a significant impact on art and culture, specifically via the African American musical forms of jazz and blues. This musical development held important consequences for the larger artistic, cultural, and political life of America as a whole-and, eventually, the world. The historical convergence of jazz and philosophical currents like pragmatism in American culture provides the framework for Wallace's discussion of improvisation in literary modernism. Focusing on poets ranging from Gertrude Stein to Langston Hughes, Wallace's work provides a fresh perspective on the complex circuits of modernist culture. Improvisation and The Making of American Literary Modernism will be of interest to scholars of poetry, music, American and modernist studies, and race and ethnic studies.
Author : Bart Eeckhout,Lisa Goldfarb
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031070327
Wallace Stevens’s musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a polyphonic composition in which they pursue various interlocking perspectives. Their case studies demonstrate how music as a temporal art form may affect a poetic of ephemerality, sensuous experience, and affective intensification. Such a poetic, they argue, invites flexible interpretations that respond to poetry as an art of textual performance. How did Stevens enact the relation between music and memory? How can we hear his verse as a form of melody-making? What was specific to his ways of recording birdsong? Have we been missing the latent music of Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Claude Debussy in particular poems? What were the musical poetics he shared with Igor Stravinsky? And how is our experience of the late poetry transformed when we listen to a musical setting by Ned Rorem? The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens will appeal to experts in the poet’s work, students of Modernism in the arts, and a wider audience fascinated by the dynamics of exchange between music and poetry.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801491851
Offers authoritative readings of the major long poems and sequences, exploring their relationship to one another and to the works of Stevens' precursors.
Author : P. Gray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781403919236
Piers Gray was one of the most brilliant literary writers of his generation. These essays ranging from Oscar Wilde to Levin, from Shakespeare to pulp fiction, use the full resources of literary and linguistic analysis to produce a reading of European culture and society in the twentieth century. In his final posthumous essay On Linearity , Gray summons all his reading and knowledge to deliver his final judgement on life and death.
Author : Debasish Lahiri,Pradipta Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527589797
The essays gathered here alternately adjust the focal length of the critical lens brought to bear upon texts and contexts in the area of Indian writing in English. They bring into view both intense engagements with major voices in this literary scene and the wider socio-historical perspectives in which they have thrived. Three clearly defined sections on the genres of poetry, prose, and drama are augmented by three incisive interviews with the diasporic Indian English poet Bashabi Fraser, the renowned Indian English fiction writer Kunal Basu, and the premier Indian English playwright Mahesh Dattani. The volume will appeal to students and teachers of postcolonial and comparative literatures. It raises crucial and timely questions about the state of culture in India and the world, the crisis of intolerance, and the loss of memory and diversity. It hones a post-millennial perspective on literature written in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
