Intimate Antipathies

Author : Luke Carman
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925818130

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Intimate Antipathies is the much-anticipated new book by Luke Carman, the award-winning author of the cult classic An Elegant Young Man. The essays in this collection follow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, and in the process explore the connections between writing and dreaming, writing and mental illness, writing and the complications of family life. From his famous jeremiad against arts administrators in ‘Getting Square in a Jerking Circle’, through the psychotic attack brought on by the collapse of his marriage, to his surreal account of meeting with Gerald Murnane at a golf club in the remote Victorian village of Goroke, Carman explores the particular challenges faced by writers who grow up in the contested borderlands of the suburbs — always returning to his great obsession, the home on a small mountain in Sydney’s west, where his antipathies with the real world first began to shape his imagination. Luke Carman’s story collection An Elegant Young Man won the 2015 NSW Premier’s New Writing Award and was shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the Steele Rudd Short Story Prize and the Readings New Writing Award. He was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist for the book, which is about a narrator, also named Luke, who bears many similarities to the essayist in this collection – an outspoken and self-mocking innocent who is beguiled by romance and yearns for transcendence.

Author : Luke Carman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1925818144

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Intimate Antipathies by Luke Carman Pdf

Intimate Antipathies is the much-anticipated new book by Luke Carman, the award-winning author of the cult classic An Elegant Young Man. The essays in this collection follow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, and in the process explore the connections between writing and dreaming, writing and mental illness, writing and the complications of family life.From his famous jeremiad against arts administrators in 'Getting Square in a Jerking Circle', through the psychotic attack brought on by the collapse of his marriage, to his surreal account of meeting with Geral.

Author : Lee Kofman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781920727567

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The Writer Laid Bare by Lee Kofman Pdf

The Writer Laid Bare is a book for everyone who loves the craft of good writing. Be they a voracious reader wanting to know more or an emerging writer themselves, best-selling author and writing coach Lee Kofman has distilled her wisdom, insight and passion into this guide to writing and emotional honesty. A combination of raw memoir and a professional writing toolkit, Lee examines her own life, rich in story and emotion to reveal how committing to a truthful writing practice helped her conquer writer’s block and develop her own authentic voice. ‘Show don’t tell’ has never been so compelling. Inspired by her popular writing courses, Lee also offers practical advice on drafts, edits and how to achieve a life/writing balance. How combining her writing with motherhood led her to recognise that ‘ the pram in the hall’ issue is real. Plus the ultimate reading list of books you really should read, from Chekhov to Elena Ferrante and Helen Garner. ‘The Writer Laid Bare takes us on an intimate journey into the magical, and often challenging, terrain an author inhabits. Kofman courageously shares with the reader her own probing writerly journey of self-discovery.’ - Leah Kaminsky

Author : Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743326947

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Gerald Murnane by Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA Pdf

Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane’s diverse body of work.

Author : Geoffrey Nunberg
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610391764

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Ascent of the A-Word by Geoffrey Nunberg Pdf

It first surfaced in the gripes of GIs during World War II and was captured early on by the typewriter of a young Norman Mailer. Within a generation it had become a basic notion of our everyday moral life, replacing older reproaches like lout and heel with a single inclusive category––a staple of country outlaw songs, Neil Simon plays, and Woody Allen movies. Feminists made it their stock rebuke for male insensitivity, the est movement used it for those who didn’t “get it,” and Dirty Harry applied it evenhandedly to both his officious superiors and the punks he manhandled. The asshole has become a focus of collective fascination for us, just as the phony was for Holden Caulfield and the cad was for Anthony Trollope. From Donald Trump to Ann Coulter, from Mel Gibson to Anthony Weiner, from the reality TV prima donnas to the internet trolls and flamers, assholism has become the characteristic form of modern incivility, which implicitly expresses our deepest values about class, relationships, authenticity, and fairness. We have conflicting attitudes about the A-word––when a presidential candidate unwittingly uttered it on a live mic in 2000, it confirmed to some that he was a man of the people and to others that he was a boor. But considering how much the word does for us, and to us, it hasn’t gotten nearly the attention it deserves––at least until now.

Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000470925

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American Literature and American Identity by Patrick Colm Hogan Pdf

In recent years, cognitive and affective science have become increasingly important for interpretation and explanation in the social sciences and humanities. However, little of this work has addressed American literature, and virtually none has treated national identity formation in influential works since the Civil War. In this book, Hogan develops his earlier cognitive and affective analyses of national identity, further exploring the ways in which such identity is integrated with cross-culturally recurring patterns in story structure. Hogan examines how authors imagined American identity—understood as universal, democratic egalitarianism—in the face of the nation’s clear and often brutal inequalities of race, sex, and sexuality, exploring the complex and often ambivalent treatment of American identity in works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Eugene O’Neill, Lillian Hellman, Djuna Barnes, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Atwood, N. Scott Momaday, Spike Lee, Leslie Marmon Silko, Tony Kushner, and Heidi Schreck.

Author : Luke Carman
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781922725509

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An Ordinary Ecstasy by Luke Carman Pdf

A new collection of stories by the award-winning author of An Elegant Young Man and Intimate Antipathies. The seven stories that make up An Ordinary Ecstasy explore the lives of people whose days are awash with enigma, wonder, and epiphany: a musician who rides the winding railway up into the mountains at dusk, the lost retiree who walks the streets of his suburb at dawn, the new lovers who take to their balcony to watch surfers make their incisions in the surging waves. There are middle-aged men in need of connection, journalists who dream of wild fancies while smiling and nodding through the drudgery of interviews, young couples whose losses are raw, and pass the time in ten-pin bowling. Carman’s new collection is founded on a principle observed by the novelist Joseph Conrad: ‘There is not a place of splendour or a dark corner of the earth that does not deserve, if only in passing, a glance of wonder.’ In stories of desire, grief, and exaltation, the collection reflects, as its title suggests, on life at its most ordinarily ecstatic — life, in other words, such as it is. Praise for Luke Carman: ‘Carman’s writing is characterised by verbal inventiveness, sitting somewhere between swagger and sincerity…street poetry for contemporary Australia.’ — Sydney Morning Herald ‘Brings a vast suburban emptiness to brilliant life.’ — The Australian

Author : Laurie Maguire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470693308

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How To Do Things With Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire Pdf

This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions. A helpful guidebook for anyone trying to think of a new approach to Shakespeare Twelve experts take new critical positions in their field of study using the writings and analysis of Shakespeare, to show how writers (students and academics) find topics and develop their ideas Features autobiographical prefaces that explain how the experts chose their topics and why the editor commissioned these particular essays, topics, and authors Argues that literary research is a reaction to experiences, thoughts or feelings Essays are arranged in small dialogues of two or three, forming a debate Teaches students to respond individually to cultural positions

Author : Shane Herron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108834438

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Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Shane Herron Pdf

Shane Herron demonstrates how eighteenth-century irony was used not only in derision but also to clarify and sharpen emotional investments.

Author : Dagmar Herzog
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351511681

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Intimacy and Exclusion by Dagmar Herzog Pdf

In this pathbreaking work, Dagmar Herzog situates the birth of German liberalism in the religious confl icts of the nineteenth century. During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848, liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of Christianity-a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where liberalism fi rst became an infl uential political movement. Bringing insights drawn from Jewish and women's studies into German history, Herzog demonstrates how profoundly Christianity's problematic relationships to Judaism and to sexuality shaped liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the pre-revolutionary years.In particular, she reveals how often confl icts over the private sphere and the"politics of the personal" determined larger political matters.

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112002814769

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A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes Pdf

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118888358

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A moral antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes Pdf

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547317913

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A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes Pdf

"A Mortal Antipathy" is a medical fiction novel by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Maurice Kirkword, Esq. a young gentle man had rented some rooms of a building in the Stoughton University community. But his reclusive ways and vague answers soon piques the curiosity of the community. A rumour soon developed that Maurice Kirkwood was the subject of a strange, mysterious, unheard-of antipathy to something, nobody knew what; and the whole neighborhood naturally resolved itself into an unorganized committee of investigation...

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Reprint Services Corporation
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780781213868

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A Mortal Antipathy... by Oliver Wendell Holmes Pdf

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781776674077

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A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Pdf

Oliver Wendell Holmes was a physician and Harvard professor who rose to literary acclaim on the strength of his essays, poetry and novels, many of which drew on his medical knowledge. In this, Holmes' third and final novel, a young man who has suffered through a number of awkward romantic encounters develops a toxic and deep-seated fear of women.