Narrative Essays

Author : Annie Dillard
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062433015

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The Abundance by Annie Dillard Pdf

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself “Annie Dillard’s books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event.”—Marilynne Robinson, Washington Post Book World “Annie Dillard is, was, and will always be the very best at describing the landscapes in which we find ourselves.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “Annie Dillard is a writer of unusual range, generosity, and ambition. . . . Her prose is bracingly intelligent, lovely, and human. ”—Margot Livesey, Boston Globe “A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader,” warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction to this stellar collection. Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate both admiring fans and a new generation of readers, having been “re-framed and re-hung,” with fresh editing and reordering by the author, to situate these now seminal works within her larger canon. The Abundance reminds us that Dillard’s brand of “novelized nonfiction” pioneered the form long before it came to be widely appreciated. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life—a commuter chases snowball-throwing children through neighborhood streets, a teenager memorizes Rimbaud’s poetry—with beauty and irony, inviting readers onto sweeping landscapes, to join her in exploring the complexities of time and death, with a sense of humor: on one page, an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another, a man walks into a bar. Reminding us of the indelible contributions of this formative figure in contemporary nonfiction, The Abundance exquisitely showcases Annie Dillard’s enigmatic, enduring genius, as Dillard herself wishes it to be marked.

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473374089

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The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Pdf

This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Author : John Gibson,Wolfgang Huemer,Luca Pocci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135197032

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A Sense of the World by John Gibson,Wolfgang Huemer,Luca Pocci Pdf

A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate. The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic philosophers that combined together provide a comprehensive statement of the variety of ways in which works of fiction can engage questions of worldly interest. It uses the problem of cognitive value to explore: literature’s contribution to ethical life literature’s ability to engage in social and political critique the role narrative plays in opening up possibilities of moral, aesthetic, experience and selfhood This remarkable volume will attract the attention of both literature and philosophy scholars with its statement of the various ways that literature and life take an interest in one another.

Author : Vieda Skultans
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450364

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Empathy and Healing by Vieda Skultans Pdf

For more than three decades the author has been concerned with issues to do with emotion, suffering and healing. This volume presents ethnographic studies of South Wales, Maharashtra and post-Soviet Latvia connected by a theoretical interest in healing, emotion and subjectivity. Exploring the uses of narrative in the shaping of memory, autobiography and illness and its connections with the master narratives of history and culture, it focuses on the post-Soviet clinic as an arena in which the contradictions of a liberal economy are translated into a medical language.

Author : Anne Bogart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317703686

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What's the Story by Anne Bogart Pdf

Anne Bogart is an award-winning theatre maker, and a best-selling writer of books about theatre, art, and cultural politics. In this her latest collection of essays she explores the story-telling impulse, and asks how she, as a ‘product of postmodernism’, can reconnect to the primal act of making meaning and telling stories. She also asks how theatre practitioners can think of themselves not as stagers of plays but ‘orchestrators of social interactions’ and participants in an on-going dialogue about the future. We dream. And then occasionally we attempt to share our dreams with others. In recounting our dreams we try to construct a narrative... We also make stories out of our daytime existence. The human brain is a narrative creating machine that takes whatever happens and imposes chronology, meaning, cause and effect... We choose. We can choose to relate to our circumstances with bitterness or with openness. The stories that we tell determine nothing less than personal destiny. (From the introduction) This compelling new book is characteristically made up of chapters with one-word titles: Spaciousness, Narrative, Heat, Limits, Error, Politics, Arrest, Empathy, Opposition, Collaboration and Sustenance. In addition to dipping into neuroscience, performance theory and sociology, Bogart also recounts vivid stories from her own life. But as neuroscience indicates, the event of remembering what happened is in fact the creation of something new.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Brian Richardson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814208959

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Narrative Dynamics by Brian Richardson Pdf

This anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often unlikely routes from beginning to end." It includes the most widely cited and discussed essays on narrative beginnings, temporality, plot and emplotment, sequence and progression, closure, and frames. The text is designed as a basic reader for graduate courses in narrative and critical theory across disciplines including literature, drama and theatre, and film. Narrative Dynamics includes such classic exponents as E. M. Forster on story and plot; Vladimir Propp on the structure of the folktale; R. S. Crane on plot; Boris Tomashevsky on story, plot, and, motif; M. M. Bakhtin on the chronotope; and Gerard Genette on narrative time. Richardson highlights essential feminist essays by Nancy K. Miller on plot and plausibility, Rachel Blau Duplessis on closure, and Susan Winnett on narrative and desire. These are complimented by newer pieces by Susan Stanford Friedman on spatialization and Robyn Warhol on serial fiction. Other major contributions include Edward Said on beginnings, Hayden White on historical narrative, Peter Brooks on plot, Paul Ricoeur on time, D. A. Miller on closure, James Phelan on progression, and Jacques Derrida on the frame. Recent essays from the perspective of cultural studies, postmodernism, and artificial intelligence bring this collection right up to the present.

Author : Mitchell Jackson
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501131738

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Survival Math by Mitchell Jackson Pdf

“A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a book” (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson survived the Portland, Oregon, of his youth. This “spellbinding” (NPR) book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of “hustle,” and the destructive power of addiction—all framed within the story of Mitchell Jackson, his family, and his community. Lauded for its breathtaking pace, its tender portrayals, its stark candor, and its luminous style, Survival Math reveals on every page the searching intellect and originality of its author. The primary narrative, focused on understanding the antecedents of Jackson’s family’s experience, is complemented by survivor files, which feature photographs and riveting short narratives of several of Jackson’s male relatives. “A vulnerable, sobering look at Jackson’s life and beyond, in all its tragedies, burdens, and faults” (San Francisco Chronicle), the sum of Survival Math’s parts is a highly original whole, one that reflects on the exigencies—over generations—that have shaped the lives of so many disenfranchised Americans. “Both poetic and brutally honest” (Salon), Mitchell S. Jackson’s nonfiction debut is as essential as it is beautiful, as real as it is artful, a singular achievement, not to be missed.

Author : Susan R. Goldman,Arthur C. Graesser,Paul van den Broek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135666064

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Narrative Comprehension, Causality, and Coherence by Susan R. Goldman,Arthur C. Graesser,Paul van den Broek Pdf

This volume provides an excellent overview of the field of discourse processes, capturing both its breadth and its depth. World-renowned researchers present the latest theoretical developments and thought-provoking empirical data. In doing so, they cover a broad range of communicative activities, including text comprehension, conversational communication, argumentation, television or media viewing, and more. A central theme across all chapters concerns the notion that coherence determines the interpretation of the communication. The various chapters illustrate the many forms that coherence can take, and explore its role in different communicative settings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782384762491

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Author : Jon A. Weatherly
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579107383

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Christ's Victorious Church: Essays on Biblical Ecclesiology and Eschatology in Honor of Tom Friskney by Jon A. Weatherly Pdf

Christ's Victorious Church represents the synthesis of concerns that made the teaching of Tom Friskney so influential. Written by some of his former students and colleagues, the essays in this collection combine interests in critically informed exegesis, the construction of a genuinely and comprehensively biblical theology, the lived experience of Christianity, and the proclamation of the gospel to the church and the world. Emphasizing the crucial biblical perspectives on the church as the people of God and the last things as the climax and fulfillment of God's work in the world, this volume celebrates and carries forward the legacy of a quietly inspiring scholar, teacher and minister.From 1954 to 2001, Tom Friskney taught as a professor at Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary. Though his many interests enabled him to teach a variety of subjects, his greatest impact was in New Testament studies. That impact can be seen in a generation of former students - serving as college and seminary educators, ministers and volunteers - who cite him as their formative influence. These essays, written by former students and colleagues to honor their mentor and friend, discuss the twin emphases of Tom Friskney's teaching, the church and the last things. In keeping with the honoree's wide-ranging pursuits, they vary from the scholarly to the homiletical to the reflective.

Author : Anthony Barker,Maria Eugénia Pereira,Maria Teresa Cortez,Paulo Alexandre Pereira,Otília Martins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319668512

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Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18) by Anthony Barker,Maria Eugénia Pereira,Maria Teresa Cortez,Paulo Alexandre Pereira,Otília Martins Pdf

This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so "Great" about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the war. These fall broadly into two categories. Firstly personal, micro-narratives that deal directly with the experience of war, often derived from contemporary interest in diaries and oral histories. Presenting both a close-up view of the viscerality, and the tedium and powerlessness of personal situations, these same narratives also address the effects of the war on hitherto under-regarded groups such as children and animals. Secondly, the authors look at the impact of the course of the war on theatres, often left out in reflections on the main European combatants and therefore not part of the regular iconography of the trenches in places such as Denmark, Canada, India, the Levant, Greece and East Africa.

Author : R.P. Tomar
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789353221270

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Essays For R.A.S. Mains Examination by R.P. Tomar Pdf

Contents Preface —Pgs.iii Part I: Understanding Essay Writing at its Best Introduction —Pgs.3 Tools and Techniques —Pgs.7 Types and Formats —Pgs.10 Selected Ideal Essay Topics —Pgs.19 Topic 1: Efficient and Smart City: A New World —Pgs.19 Topic 2: Globalisation: A Blessing or a Curse for a Developing Country? —Pgs.23 Topic 3: Make in India: A Giant’s Step to Promote Manufacturing —Pgs.29 Topic 4: Sustainable Development during Climate Change —Pgs.36 Topic 5: Judicial Activism: Hope of Justice for the Underprivileged Section —Pgs.42 Topic 6: Empowerment of Women in India —Pgs.47 KSA and its Importance in the USA —Pgs.54 Essay Writing —Pgs.56 Strategy for Writing Excellent Essays —Pgs.58 Easy Way to Write an Essay —Pgs.62 How to Write an Excellent Introduction and Conclusion —Pgs.64 Guidelines for Writing Appropriate Essays —Pgs.66 Do’s and Don’ts —Pgs.70 ......(cont)

Author : Bonnie Holzinger
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780557004430

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Essays as Easy as T 1, 2, 3! Home School Edition 2nd Edition by Bonnie Holzinger Pdf

This is a step by step book that teaches your child how to write a good Narrative, Expository, and/or Persuasive essay! Most children write well but when it comes to writing it in essay format they lack the structure of the essay. This book teaches your child a simple method to use that will help them write a good essay every time. It is really as easy as T 1, 2, 3! Using the author created organizational device the kids stay focused on their topic and are able to elaborate on their main ideas using examples and details. This book was written by a teacher to help kids across America become better writers. This method works for any student in any state. There are even resources listed in the book so that parents can find what their individual state requires on their state's writing test. This method can be used with anyone at any age. If you are in technical school or college and have difficulty with organizational skills, then this book will help you.

Author : Mark A. Husbands
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351939225

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Essays Catholic and Critical by Mark A. Husbands Pdf

This book presents the most significant work of the highly esteemed contemporary theologian George Schner, who died in 2000. Gathering together his writing in the areas of theology and the philosophy of religion, it offers a distinct contribution to our understanding of the prospects and perils of undertaking theology in the Christian tradition at the present juncture. Engaging key texts in philosophy of religion from the modern period, recent official Roman Catholic teaching related to the basis and doing of theology, and the work of key representatives of the so-called 'Yale School' of post-liberal theology, the essays collected here represent acute and historically informed judgment upon the problematique of the practice of contemporary theology. Drawing together a substantial body of work of recognized intellectual scope, philosophical rigour and theological richness, this volume provides invaluable insight into key questions regarding theological method, the importance of modern philosophy of religion, the nature of theological discourse and contemporary Catholic theological reflection.