Essays On Hilda Hilst

Author : Adam Morris,Bruno Carvalho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319563183

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Essays on Hilda Hilst by Adam Morris,Bruno Carvalho Pdf

This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators reflect about various aspects of her work, placing it in the context of Brazil and world literature. During her lifetime, Hilst won several major national literary awards and attracted legions of devoted readers. Her writing spanned styles and genres, encompassing poetry, theatre, and experimental fiction. She was also considered to be “a writer’s writer,” and her literary achievements eluded both mainstream acclaim and international recognition. In recent years, Hilst’s books have enjoyed increased visibility in Brazil and beyond. A host of translators (including three contributors to this volume) have finally made some of her masterpieces available in English. This pioneering collection of essays should excite longtime readers and introduce her to a new audience.

Author : Hilda Hilst
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612193465

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With My Dog Eyes by Hilda Hilst Pdf

Hilda Hilst (1930–2004) was one of the greatest Brazilian writers of the twentieth century, but her books have languished untranslated, in part because of their formally radical nature. This translation of With My Dog-Eyes brings a crucial work from her oeuvre into English for the first time. With My Dog-Eyes is an account of an unraveling—of sanity, of language . . . After experiencing a vision of what he calls “a clear-cut unhoped-for,” college professor Amós Keres struggles to reconcile himself with his life as a father, a husband, and a member of the university with its “meetings, asskissers, pointless rivalries, gratuitous resentments, jealous talk, megalomanias.” A stunning book by a master of the avant-garde.

Author : Luis Álvarez-Castro
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294430

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno by Luis Álvarez-Castro Pdf

A central figure of Spanish culture and an author in many genres, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is less well known outside Spain. He was a surprising writer and thinker: a professor of Greek who embraced metafiction and modernist methods, a proponent of Castilian Spanish although born in the Basque Country and influenced by many international writers, and an early existentialist who was yet religious. He found himself in opposition to both King Alfonso XIII and the military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera and then became involved in the political upheaval that led to the Spanish Civil War. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," gives information on different editions and translations of Unamuno's works, on scholarly and critical secondary sources, and on Web resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," offer suggestions for introducing students to the range of his works--novels, essays, poetry, and drama--in Spanish language and literature, comparative literature, religion, and philosophy classrooms.

Author : Krista Brune
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438480633

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Creative Transformations by Krista Brune Pdf

In Creative Transformations, Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Drawing attention to the travels of Brazilian artists and intellectuals to the United States and other parts of the Americas, Brune argues that experiences of displacement have had a significant influence on their work. Across Brazilian literary and cultural history, translation becomes a way of navigating and representing the resulting encounters between languages, interactions with Spanish Americans, and negotiations of complex identities. While Creative Transformations engages extensively with theories of translation from different national and disciplinary contexts, it also constructs a vision of translation uniquely attuned to the place of Brazil in the Americas. Brune reveals the hemispheric underpinnings of works by renowned Brazilian writers such as Machado de Assis, Sousândrade, Mário de Andrade, Silviano Santiago, and Adriana Lisboa. In the process, she rethinks the dynamics between cosmopolitan and national desires and between center and periphery in global literary markets.

Author : Hilda Hilst,Bruno Carvalho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1937658155

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Letters from a Seducer by Hilda Hilst,Bruno Carvalho Pdf

The first English-language translation of the second volume in Hilda Hilst's dynamic and unnerving erotic-pornographic trilogy

Author : Hilda Hilst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1937658066

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The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst Pdf

The English-language debut of one of Brazil's leading writers of the twentieth century

Author : Laynie Browne
Publisher : Nightboat Books
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1643620258

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A Forest on Many Stems by Laynie Browne Pdf

The Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the prose and poetry of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including: Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes, Kevin Killian, Alice Notley, Leslie Scalapino, Jack Spicer, and Jean Toomer, whose approaches to the novel defy conventions of plot, character, setting and action. The contributors, all poets in their own right like, Brian Blanchfield, Brandon Brown, Mónica de la Torre, Cedar Sigo, and C.D. Wright bring a variety of insights, approaches, and writing styles to the subject with creative and often surprising results.

Author : Shruti Swamy
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643750606

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A House Is a Body by Shruti Swamy Pdf

Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction “A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change the way all stories—short and long—are told, written, and consumed. There is nothing, no emotion, no tiny morsel of memory, no touch, that this book does not take seriously. Yet, A House Is a Body might be the most fun I’ve ever had in a short story collection.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Dreams collide with reality, modernity with antiquity, and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories of A House Is a Body. Set in the United States and India, Swamy’s characters grapple with motherhood, relationships, and their bodies to reveal small but intense internal moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world. In “Earthly Pleasures,” a young painter living alone in San Francisco begins a secret romance with one of India’s biggest celebrities, and desire and ego are laid bare. In “A Simple Composition,” a husband’s professional crisis leads to his wife’s discovery of a dark, ecstatic joy. And in the title story, an exhausted mother watches, hypnotized by fear, as a California wildfire approaches her home. Immersive and assured, provocative and probing, these are stories written with the edge and precision of a knife blade. A House Is a Body introduces a bold and original voice in fiction, from a writer at the start of a stellar career. Don't miss Shruti Swamy's debut novel, The Archer (available September 7, 2021), which has already been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

Author : Nathanal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1643620037

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Hatred of Translation by Nathanal Pdf

A book of essays on dynamic, transgressive 20th century figures and the necessity and perils of translating their work.Hatred of Translation thinks through translation with an emphasis on its disaggregation. These pieces address, sometimes obliquely, often with effrontery, the works of René Char, Hervé Guibert, Hilda Hilst, Danielle Collobert, Frankétienne, Mizoguchi Kenji, Ingeborg Bachmann, Kobayashi Masaki, and Marguerite Duras. Resolutely resistant to anything resembling a theory of a thing, these pieces provoke a persistent commitment to thinking in the place of theorizing. Where the French pensée means both of aphoristic thought and of the pansy, Hatred of Translation seeks a garden in the midst of body such as it is occupied by language.

Author : Nathalie Stephens,Nathanaël
Publisher : BookThug
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : French-Canadian poetry
ISBN : 9780973974263

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Je Nathanaël (Je Nathanael). by Nathalie Stephens,Nathanaël Pdf

"This text explores ways in which language constrains the body, shackles it to gender, and proposes instead an altogether different way of reading, where words are hermaphroditic and in turn transform desire (consequence). Suggesting that one body conceals another, JE NATHANAEL lends an ear to this other body and delights in the anxiety it provokes."--Small Press Distribution.

Author : Bruno Carvalho
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786948595

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Porous City by Bruno Carvalho Pdf

A timely and original cultural history of Rio de Janeiro.

Author : Hilda Hilst,Alexandra Joy Forman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1937658848

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Fluxo-Floema by Hilda Hilst,Alexandra Joy Forman Pdf

Fluxo-Floema is a detective novel of sorts--pornographic, scatological, and spiritual--that ultimately references the failure and success of writing. It's about vocabulary, astrology, dramaturgy, science, a story within a story within a story. It's a celestial map to social interaction and the failure of connection, a crafted examination of the distortions of religion and piety. Here we, the reader, visit nonsense, pathos, violence, and the flights of fancy of human coexistence.

Author : Gillian Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1643620320

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Green Green Green by Gillian Osborne Pdf

The color green is at the center of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of haunting, irreconcilable, opposites: life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experience. In these essays, letters, repetitions, and experiments, poet and scholar Gillian Osborne adds a third, contemporary, term: the environment as both vital and ailing. This is nature writing outside of adventure or argument, ecological thinking as a space of shared homemaking: reading, writing, and living in vicinity with others.

Author : Pola Oloixarac
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374722081

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Mona by Pola Oloixarac Pdf

"Both a wicked satire of the literary élite and an exploration of art and violence . . . Terrifying, brilliant, and dangerous." —The New Yorker Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity—a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings—she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity. When she is nominated for “the most important literary award in Europe,” Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, so she trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged—and mostly male—competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, and Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together. All the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain. As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won’t stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.

Author : Andrew D. Armitage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115513348

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Canadian Essay and Literature Index by Andrew D. Armitage Pdf