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Author : David Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136057946
This book meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' loves by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body, or illness.
Author : Edward Sorel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0747582874
Presents biographies by the acclaimed caricaturist Edward Sorel, who has long believed, that next to composers, writers are the craziest people in the world.
Author : Philip Zaleski,Carol Zaleski
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374713799
C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every week in Lewis's Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature, religion, and ideas; read aloud from works in progress; took philosophical rambles in woods and fields; gave one another companionship and criticism; and, in the process, rewrote the cultural history of modern times. In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. The result is an extraordinary account of the ideas, affections and vexations that drove the group's most significant members. C. S. Lewis accepts Jesus Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, maps the medieval and Renaissance mind, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. J.R.R. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into gripping story in The Lord of the Rings, while conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship and elucidating, for family and friends, the Catholic teachings at the heart of his vision. Owen Barfield, a philosopher for whom language is the key to all mysteries, becomes Lewis's favorite sparring partner, and, for a time, Saul Bellow's chosen guru. And Charles Williams, poet, author of "supernatural shockers," and strange acolyte of romantic love, turns his everyday life into a mystical pageant. Romantics who scorned rebellion, fantasists who prized reality, wartime writers who believed in hope, Christians with cosmic reach, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century's darkest years-and did so in dazzling style.
Author : P. Mallett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403937759
This is a study of the forces and influences that shaped Kipling's work, including his unusual family background, his role as the laureate of empire and the deaths of two of his children, and of his complex relations with a literary world that first embraced and then rejected him.
Author : J. Bak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137308474
This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.
Author : Posy Simmonds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9780224072694
This book consists of approximately fifty 'Literary Life' cartoons which were serialised weekly every Saturday in the Guardian's Review section from November 2002 until December 2004, and two short stories, 'Murder at Matabele Mansions' and 'Cinderella'. Posy Simmonds examines the pretensions of the literary world with her customary flair for light, witty satire and social observation. Women writers suffer 'Rustic Block' after moving to the countryside, type their sexual fantasies into their laptop, and (in 'Enemies of Promise') juggle the dilemmas of feminism and motherhood. Male authors are shown suffering the ego-perils of coming into contact with the public at book signings, and complain about reviewers and 'media hoops'. Jealousies and rivalries emerge out of reading groups; struggling small booksellers have to deal with recalcitrant customers or sales reps pushing the latest celebrity book. Simmonds' penchant for literary pastiche and parody is given full rein, as in 'Murder at Matebele Mansions'. And she wickedly suggests a family's fixed smiles as a young girl explains the plot of her Harry Potter book ... Funny, insightful and beautifully drawn, Literary Life will delight fans of Gemma Bovery.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNDON000960724
Author : Francis Bowen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : SRLF:A0014577076
Author : Robert Hendrickson
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0156527871
Presents a collection of unusual and entertaining facts and myths about writers, books, word origins, publishers, critics, grammar, and other aspects of the world of literature
Author : Mark Doty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324006053
“[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book Review Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet’s life and work.
Author : Gerri Kimber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474439671
Reconsiders of Arendt's philosophy of natality in terms of biopolitical theory and feminism to defend women's reproductive choices
Author : Arnold Weinstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691254791
A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor’s life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of literature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. As an identical twin, Weinstein experienced early the dislocation of being mistaken for another person—and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Sophocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, undone by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature’s knowing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters’ lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge—and come to understand its cost. In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters because we never stop discovering who we are.
Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547195672
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Gaudy Night" by Dorothy L. Sayers. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Kenneth David Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300180824
Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell's seminal 1970 study, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an important world author, one of the inventors of literary modernism whose writings profoundly influenced some of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, including José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom Susan Sontag called “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” and whom Allen Ginsberg hailed as “another Kafka.” Philip Roth has said of him that “like Beckett, he is ironic about suffering.” And Harold Bloom has remarked of Machado that “he's funny as hell.”
Author : Elizabeth Lynn Linton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086672276
