Literary Chance

Author : Gerald Vizenor
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788437083735

Get Book

Literary Chance by Gerald Vizenor Pdf

Gerald Vizenor és l'autor indi nord-americà més important d'aquests moments i el que més obres ha publicat. Poeta, assagista, novel·lista, periodista, professor, activista compromés i crític aferrissat de la política racial discriminatòria nord-americana, ha dedicat i continua dedicant la seua vida a estudiar, explorar i redefinir la història passada i present dels nadius nord-americans en la que una vegada fou la seua terra. Autor prolífic 'amb més de trenta títols publicats' i extraordinàriament innovador, ha rebut nombrosos premis i reconeixements. El tret que distingeix la seua producció literària és la unicitat de temes i motius que la recorren amb un estil profundament personal que fon prosa, poesia i assaig sota un denominador comú: el d'un llenguatge on les fronteres entre gèneres desapareixen i donen pas a una literatura única que ben bé es podria encunyar com a vizenoriana. Literary Chance: Essays on Native American Survivance recull quinze assajos en els quals l'autor aprofundeix en com el llenguatge ha creat la imatge del que és l'indi nord-americà; un simulacre que Vizenor tracta de desfer amb un nou vocabulari que pose de manifest aquesta invenció i representació des de la simulació.

Author : Robert Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 098621468X

Get Book

Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind by Robert Day Pdf

Robert Day has invented a new form, the Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind memoirs?brief, whimsical, sometimes touching, reminiscences about his brushes (often friendships) with literary greatness. He treats Shakespeare, William Stafford, Mavis Gallant, John Barth, Ray Carver, Walter Bernstein, and Michael de Montaigne. Some he met and knew in person; others he met in his mind. But the collision is sparkling in its reverent irreverence, airy, gossamer-thin, a playful and informal jeu d?esprit that takes itself not very seriously, yet with flashes of seriousness and wit.

Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317168690

Get Book

Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France by John D. Lyons Pdf

In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from many different horizons: the ancient philosophies of Epicurus, the Stoa, and Aristotle, the renewed reading of the Bible in the wake of the Reformation, a fresh emphasis on direct, empirical observation of nature and society, the revival of dramatic tragedy with its paradoxical theme of the misfortunes that befall relatively good people, and growing introspective awareness of the somewhat arbitrary quality of consciousness itself. This volume is the first in English to offer a broad cultural and literary view of the field of chance in this period. The essays, by a distinguished team of scholars from the U.S., Britain, and France, cluster around four problems: Providence in Question, Aesthetics and Poetics of Chance, Law and Ethics, and Chance and its Remedies. Convincing and authoritative, this collection articulates a new and rich perspective on the culture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France.

Author : Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015014553039

Get Book

Narrative Chance by Gerald Robert Vizenor Pdf

Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views, and trickster discourse.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427027740

Get Book

Chance by Joseph Conrad Pdf

In Conrad's Chance (1913), Marlow again narrate the story as an observer. The story's unusual female protagonist is the most complex of Conrad's heroines, Flora de Barral, a damsel distressed by the neglect of her bankrupt father and rejection from her go

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633550827

Get Book

Chance by Joseph Conrad Pdf

A remarkable book, the story of Flora De Barral, daughter of the Great De Barral, a monumental swindler, and her love for the sea captain who married her. Marlow tells the story in his usual quiet manner which is so dramatic under the quiet, and shows Chance the master hand directing and interfering at any moment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z25272640X

Get Book

Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:30000153515998

Get Book

The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Larsen
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402234033

Get Book

How to Get a Literary Agent by Michael Larsen Pdf

Written by a top literary agent who gives writers an insider's view of how to find and work with an agent throughout the process of getting published. Includes: -- How to know that you're ready for an agent -- 7 ways to find an agent -- Writing a cover letter that grabs attention -- What to do with an agent once you've got one -- What you can expect and what you'd better not hope for -- Making sure this is the right agent for you -- Congratulations, now you have an agent AND an editor -- How to avoid the 7 worst pitfalls for aspiring writers -- And much, much more. In today's highly competitive publishing industry, literary agents are more important than ever. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, reference or children's books, here is everything you need to know about using an agent to launch and sustain your literary career.a

Author : Harilaos Stecopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108604628

Get Book

A History of the Literature of the U.S. South: Volume 1 by Harilaos Stecopoulos Pdf

A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume's contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.

Author : Lindsay Wong
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551527376

Get Book

The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong Pdf

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo”—Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo’s sinister effects; at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay’s foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Author : Edgar Friedenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351531511

Get Book

Anti-American Generation by Edgar Friedenberg Pdf

This book examines the social atti-tudes that distinguish today's youth from their predecessors, identifies the sources of these attitudes in the social experiences of today's youth, and analyzes the stereotype implied in the term "Anti-American Generation." These essays show clearly that the issue between the dissenting, primarily middle-class youth and their elders and most of the working class (regardless of age) is a difference of opinion not about Americanism but about moral behavior and the scope of moral judgment. What distinguishes the generations is not so much their feelings about their country, as' their feelings about what people should do about their feelings and the role feelings should have in the conduct of one's life. The at-titudes of the young are largely in conflict with an older cultural tra-dition that promotes the subordi-nation of impulse and personal conviction to rational control for the sake of common purposes and future acceptability and effective-ness.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : British periodicals
ISBN : UCAL:B3057828

Get Book

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597522601

Get Book

Woman As Hero In Old English Literature by Jane Chance Pdf

The first comprehensive study of heroic women figures in Anglo-Saxon literature investigates English secular and religious prose and poetry from the seventh to the eleventh centuries. Given the paucity of surviving literature from the Anglo-Saxon period, the works which feature major women characters -- often portrayed as heroes -- seem surprisingly numerous. Even more striking is the strength of the female characterizations, given the medieval social ideal of women as peaceful, passive members of society. The task of this study is to examine the existing sources afresh, asking new questions about the depictions of women in the literature of the period. Particular attention is focused on the failed, possibly adulterous women of 'The Wife's Lament' and 'Wulf and Eadwacer', the monstrous mother of Grendel in 'Beowulf', and the chaste but heroic figures and saints Judith, Juliana, and Elene. The book relies for its analysis on recent and standard texts in Anglo-Saxon studies and literature, as well as a thorough grounding in Latin and vernacular historical documents and Anglo-Saxon writings other than the focal literary texts.

Author : Maurice S. Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199985814

Get Book

Uncertain Chances by Maurice S. Lee Pdf

Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.