Love Friendship And Narrative Form After Bloomsbury

Author : Jesse Wolfe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350328846

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Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury by Jesse Wolfe Pdf

Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group's cutting-edge thinkers-Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster-understood the intimacy of friends, lovers, spouses, and families as historically unfolding phenomena, this book offers a compelling account of modernism's legacies in contemporary fiction and demonstrates the myriad ways in which intimacy was a guiding and persistent idea explored by writers across the 20th-century and up to the present day. Often modernists have been celebrated for their insights into social and civilizational sickness but this book unearths a strain of modernist thought that is more complex and inspiring than this. It discusses how Bloomsbury's thinkers wrestled with the question “Does intimate life improve?” as sexual egalitarianism expands, as taboos against same-sex love, interracial love, and singlehood wane, and as parents and children relate less formally and often more warmly toward one another. And it discusses how many of today's major novelists, such as Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan and Rachel Cusk, look to Bloomsbury's thematic and formal examples when they reformulate this question for our time.

Author : Jesse Wolfe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139497527

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Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy by Jesse Wolfe Pdf

Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy integrates studies of six members and associates of the Bloomsbury group into a rich narrative of early twentieth century culture, encompassing changes in the demographics of private and public life, and Freudian and sexological assaults on middle-class proprieties Jesse Wolfe shows how numerous modernist writers felt torn between the inherited institutions of monogamy and marriage and emerging theories of sexuality which challenged Victorian notions of maleness and femaleness. For Wolfe, this ambivalence was a primary source of the Bloomsbury writers' aesthetic strength: Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and others brought the paradoxes of modern intimacy to thrilling life on the page. By combining literary criticism with forays into philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, and the avant-garde art of Vienna, this book offers a fresh account of the reciprocal relations between culture and society in that key site for literary modernism known as Bloomsbury.

Author : Robert Thacker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1474231020

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Alice Munro by Robert Thacker Pdf

"The award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), and her final collection Dear Life (2012). With chapters written by the world's leading critics of Munro's work, the short story form and contemporary Canadian writing, this book explores such themes as love and marriage, sex, fate, gender, and humor in her writings as well as her approaches to narrative form and autobiography. In these three late collections Munro sharply articulates, again and again, the mysteries of being itself."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UOM:39076002833759

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The Platform of Time by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Taking family, friends and servants as her subjects, Woolf presents a series of impressions of the people around her. And as she describes their lives - including a piece on her nephew Julian Bell, and sketches on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Lady Strachey - she also reveals her attitudes - to her writing, war and education.

Author : Frances Macken
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786077677

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You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here by Frances Macken Pdf

'This atmospheric debut looks like a rural Irish coming-of-age novel, but it’s cleverer, darker, more unreliable.' Daily Mail AN IRISH INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH INDEPENDENT CRITICS CHOICE FOR CHRISTMAS WINNER OF THE BERYL BAINBRIDGE BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD, 2020/2021 AN IRISH TIMES, IRISH INDEPENDENT and SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'TITLE TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2020' Katie, Maeve and Evelyn have been friends forever. Outspoken, unpredictable and intoxicating, Evelyn is the undisputed leader of the trio. But Katie’s dream of escaping their tiny rural town for a new life in Dublin confronts her with a choice: to hold onto a friendship that has made her who she is, or risk leaving her best friend behind. Told from Katie’s witty, quirky perspective and filled with unforgettable characters, this moving, immersive and very funny study of sisterhood takes a keen-eyed look at the delights and complexities of female friendship, the corrosive power of jealousy and guilt, and the people and places that shape us. Compellingly readable and effortlessly sharp, fizzing with the voices of rural Ireland, this is an unmissable novel from a dazzling new talent.

Author : Anna Moran,Sorcha O'Brien
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781472517197

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Love Objects by Anna Moran,Sorcha O'Brien Pdf

Love Objects is the first anthology on the concept of 'love' to interrogate across a range of contexts its design and other material manifestations.

Author : Leah Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781408862636

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Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas Pdf

Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends Ollie into debilitating seizures, while Moritz has a heart defect and is kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz. Through an exchange of letters, the two boys develop a strong bond of friendship which becomes a lifeline during dark times – until Moritz reveals that he holds the key to their shared, sinister past, and has been keeping it from Ollie all along.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 0192838121

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The Waves by Virginia Woolf Pdf

One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.

Author : Virginia Woolf,Maria Antònia Oliver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 8435033880

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Les Ones by Virginia Woolf,Maria Antònia Oliver Pdf

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 0701209984

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The Waves by Virginia Woolf Pdf

One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555080539

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Morning light [afterw.] The New-Church weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Briallen Hopper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781632868794

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Hard to Love by Briallen Hopper Pdf

A sharp and entertaining essay collection about the importance of multiple forms of love and friendship in a world designed for couples, from a laser-precise new voice. Sometimes it seems like there are two American creeds, self-reliance and marriage, and neither of them is mine. I experience myself as someone formed and sustained by others' love and patience, by student loans and stipends, by the kindness of strangers. Briallen Hopper's Hard to Love honors the categories of loves and relationships beyond marriage, the ones that are often treated as invisible or seen as secondary--friendships, kinship with adult siblings, care teams that form in times of illness, or various alternative family formations. She also values difficult and amorphous loves like loving a challenging job or inanimate objects that can't love you back. She draws from personal experience, sharing stories about her loving but combative family, the fiercely independent Emerson scholar who pushed her away, and the friends who have become her invented or found family; pop culture touchstones like the Women's March, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, and the timeless series Cheers; and the work of writers like Joan Didion, Gwendolyn Brooks, Flannery O'Connor, and Herman Melville (Moby-Dick like you've never seen it!). Hard to Love pays homage and attention to unlikely friends and lovers both real and fictional. It is a series of love letters to the meaningful, if underappreciated, forms of intimacy and community that are tricky, tangled, and tough, but ultimately sustaining.

Author : Claire King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620400210

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The Night Rainbow by Claire King Pdf

It is summer in the south of France, and Pea and her little sister Margot spend their days running free, inventing games in the meadow behind their house. But Pea has worries beyond her five and a half years. Her father has died in an accident, and her mother has just lost a baby. Maman is English, already isolated in this small, foreign village, and in her compounded grief, she has retreated even further. Pea and Margot stay out of her way and try to make things better, but they can't make Maman happy again. When Pea befriends Claude, a man who seems to love the meadow as she does, she wonders if he could be a new papa. But why do the other villagers view Claude with suspicion, and what secrets does his large empty house hold? Beautifully written, haunting, and full of surprises, The Night Rainbow is a novel about innocence and experience, grief and compassion, and the blessings and perils of imagination.

Author : Sarah Crossan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Young Adult
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 140886813X

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Toffee by Sarah Crossan Pdf

_______________'Utterly sublime' - Cecelia Ahern'Impossible not to read it in a single gulp' - The Times'Undoubtedly one of the best books of the year' - Irish Times_______________SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDSWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG YA AWARD_______________I am not who I say I am.Marla isn't who she thinks she is.I am a girl trying to forget.Marla is a woman trying to remember.When Allison runs away from home, she doesn't expect to be taken in by Marla, an elderly woman with dementia, who mistakes her for an old friend called Toffee. Allison is used to hiding who she really is and trying to be what other people want her to be. And so Toffee is who she becomes. But as her bond with Marla grows, Allison begins to ask herself: Where is home? What is a family? And, most importantly, Who am I, really?_______________'Compelling and beautifully wrought' - The Sunday Times'A book that changes its reader for the better' - Guardian'One of our most original writers' - John Boyne_______________Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation...Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, One, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water.

Author : Mary Ann Shaffer,Annie Barrows
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408803318

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer,Annie Barrows Pdf

The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.