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Author : Curtis White
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564781895
For the boy narrator of this tale, to be a man one must kill one's father. He plays out the fantasy as he watches a war movie with him on TV. "My father was a German pontoon bridge ... he had to be taken out."
Author : Rüdiger Ahrens,Klaus Stierstorfer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110449075
While paratexts – among them headnotes, footnotes, or endnotes – have never been absent from American literature, the last two decades have seen an explosion of the phenomenon, including (mock) scholarly footnotes, to an extent that they seem to take over the text itself. In this Special Focus we shall attempt to find the reasons for this astonishing development. In our first (diachronic) section we shall explore such texts as might have fostered the present boom, from fictions by Edgar Allan Poe to Vladimir Nabokov to Mark Z. Danielewski. The second (synchronic) section, will concentrate on paratexts by David Foster Wallace, perhaps the “father” of the post-postmodern footnote, as well as those to be found in novels by Bennett Sims, Jennifer Egan and Junot Diaz, among others. It appears that, while paratexts definitely point to a high degree of self-reflexivity in the author, they equally draw attention to the textual and authorial functions of the works in which they exist. They can thus cause a reflection on the boundaries between genres like fiction, faction, and autobiography, as well as serving to highlight a host of pedagogical and social concerns that exist in the interstices between fiction and reality.
Author : Daniel Grogan
Publisher : Cider Mill Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781604338201
Famous Last Lines features the final sentences from 300 works of literature, from Don Quixote to The Girl on the Train. The closing words of any text carry a lot of weight. Famous Last Lines unpacks more than 300 notable final lines, from classical epics to contemporary short stories. Spanning centuries of writing, each entry, whether for Don Quixote or The Girl on the Train, provides context for these notable last lines, making clear what makes them so memorable and lasting. Famous Last Lines provides readers with a comprehensive collection of brilliant conclusions.
Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : PONS
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 312561547X
2-sprachiger Lektüreband mit einer Erzählung von Jonathan Frantzen und einer Audio-CD mit dem englischen Text; für Lernende mit guten Vorkenntnissen.
Author : Eva Paulino Bueno,Terry Caesar,William Hummel
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0739100920
Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, its unsettling provocations. Despite the considerable critical attention devoted to motherhood in literature-and despite the late-twentieth-century focus on patriarchy-there is surprisingly no comparable collection on fatherhood. This volume was born of the conclusion that critics of modern and contemporary literature may comprehend the father too little for presuming to have comprehended patriarchy so much. Naming the Father begins with a series of nonfiction essays that attempts to locate the missing father in the individual experiences of three scholars at various stages of their careers. The following thematically grouped sections recover and discuss fatherhood in fields ranging from Caribbean fiction to African American drama and in the work of authors as diverse as Rebecca West, Anzia Yezierska, William Burroughs, and Stephen Wright, as well as Henry James and James Joyce. A variety of critical approaches, from biographical to deconstructive, activate and engage with the cultural, national, and global implications of fatherhood for the family and for the future of literary studies. Scholars and students of contemporary literature, cultural studies, and gender studies will find this book a fascinating and invaluable collection.
Author : Scott Rettberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781509516810
Electronic Literature considers new forms and genres of writing that exploit the capabilities of computers and networks – literature that would not be possible without the contemporary digital context. In this book, Rettberg places the most significant genres of electronic literature in historical, technological, and cultural contexts. These include combinatory poetics, hypertext fiction, interactive fiction (and other game-based digital literary work), kinetic and interactive poetry, and networked writing based on our collective experience of the Internet. He argues that electronic literature demands to be read both through the lens of experimental literary practices dating back to the early twentieth century and through the specificities of the technology and software used to produce the work. Considering electronic literature as a subject in totality, this book provides a vital introduction to a dynamic field that both reacts to avant-garde literary and art traditions and generates new forms of narrative and poetic work particular to the twenty-first century. It is essential reading for students and researchers in disciplines including literary studies, media and communications, art, and creative writing.
Author : Joshua Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108838276
This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.
Author : Jacques Roubaud
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785466
Kalniete's book is a moving and eloquent testimony to her family and to the Latvian nation--to their shared fate during more than fifty years of occupation. It is an indictment of the inhuman repression of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above all, it is the story of human survival, and it has become the most-translated Latvian book in recent history.
Author : Michal Ajvaz
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564784919
A hymn to the invisible 'other' Prague, lurking on the peripheries of the town so familiar to tourists.
Author : Juan Goytisolo
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785275
This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.
Author : Dumitru Țepeneag
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785343
A man lies sleepless in a foul-smelling room while raucous noises come from next door, and women--past and present, real or imagined--pass through his mind. From these few elements, Romanian author Dumitru Tsepeneag builds a dreamlike world both ancient and contemporary, and as mesmerizing as that in his critically acclaimed "Vain Art of the Fugue." Praised by Emil Cioran for its precise and masterly evocation of sensual detail, "The Necessary Marriage" confirms Tsepeneag's position as one of the most important Eastern European writers of the post-communist era.
Author : Rikki Ducornet
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785190
In some 30 pieces, ranging in length from a single paragraph to nine pages, Ducornet explores the bonds of marriage and female friendship, takes on the worlds of art and academe, plays with language, spins fairy tales, and looks to a future of limited sensory experience in which a generation lacks mouth, tongue, and teeth. In "Poet," an insomniac titles her book The Greenhouse as Gas Chamber after accepting a grant from the Fossil Fuel Foundation; in the title story, a shopping trip intended to find "one marvelous thing" has unintended consequences, and in "The Dickmare", a bivalve, increasingly unhappy with her husband and at the height of her beauty after shedding her shell, contemplates her future.
Author : Nicholas Mosley
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781564785398
Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace they have to discover this. But what should inform them--custom? need? duty? ambition? desire? Forces pull in different directions--fidelity versus adventurousness, probity versus fun. During the war, Mosley found himself having to combine fondness for his father, Oswald Mosley, with the need to speak out against his post-war politics. In times of peace, his love for his wife and children, too, seemed riddled with paradoxes. He sought answers in Christianity, but came to see organized religion as primarily a social institution. How does caring not become a trap?
Author : Lucian Dan Teodorovici
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785565
"Every day, the Birdman performs the same ritual: he climbs out onto his window ledge to see if he can manage to kill himself and never does. The Birdman is a member of a loose-knit group of failed suicides, each pursuing absurd ways to end their lives: one saving up lost-dog reward money to buy enough good whiskey to drink himself to death, another hoping to contract a fatal disease by sleeping with as many women as possible. Just when it seems these routines will continue indefinitely, the Birdman meets a "professional" suicide: the dangerous and inscrutable "man with orange suspenders," who makes a living by trying to hang himself whenever he sees a potential rescuer approaching. This chance encounter, which leads at last to a real death, will force the Birdman to confront the roots of his desire to escape from life, and to see firsthand that dying is more than just a rehearsal." --Book Jacket.
Author : Momus
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564785619
Imagine a universe where every joke you've ever heard is solid, real, and occasionally dangerous--and all happening, one after the other, to the same small group of people. Detailing a series of filthy and ludicrous episodes in the life of a single family, saddled with a super-eccentric, sexually rapacious father, "The Book of Jokes" tells the story of the youth and education of a bland young boy doomed to record--in an incongruously serious, autobiographical mode--all the ridiculous incidents befalling his household. With their lives dictated by set ups and punchlines, the boy's family quickly becomes luridly dysfunctional, and he realizes that the only way to escape his tragicomic fate is by trying to take control of the joke-telling himself. Channeling the spirits of Chaucer, Rabelais, Flann O'Brien, and Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, the Vatican secretary who compiled the first known book of jokes in 1451, "The Book of Jokes" is a happy raspberry in the face of life as we know and tell it.
