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Author : Martin Seymour-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0711200157
Short history of the novel - crime fiction - science fiction - illustration - ; The novel and cinema - the novel and the book trade - Biographical detail on popular novelists with many portraits.
Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1456 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300182439
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann. Written for all lovers of fiction, Lives of the Novelists succeeds both as introduction and re-introduction, as Sutherland presents favorite and familiar novelists in new ways and transforms the less favored and less familiar through his relentlessly fascinating readings.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195112210
The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.
Author : George Levine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226475745
The Victorian novel clearly joins with science in the pervasive secularizing of nature and society and in the exploration of the consequences of secularization that characterized mid-Victorian England. p. viii.
Author : Diane Setterfield
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371935
A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Thirteenth Tale is part contemporary, part historical with mysterious threads about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling weaving the two together. All children mythologize their birth . . . So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish histories for herself. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary past. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman who is struck by a very curious parallel between Winter's life and her own. As Vida exposes the history she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness, of a remote estate, feral children, a governess, a ghost, and a devastating fire. In this love letter to reading, Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday world.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791093733
Read what Bloom had to say on the world's great novelists including Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemmingway and more.
Author : Jean Hanff Korelitz
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250790743
** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** The Tonight Show Summer Reads Winner ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 ** "Insanely readable." —Stephen King Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot. Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told. In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says. As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?
Author : Mike Bunn
Publisher : The Saylor Foundation
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing. The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing. You are reading to learn about writing. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway), you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. As you read in this way, you think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he/she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. What is it about the way this text is written that makes you feel and respond the way you do?
Author : Monique Jenkinson
Publisher : Bywater Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612942223
Faux Queen: A Life in Drag is the memoir of a ballet-obsessed girl who moves to San Francisco from the suburbs and finds her people at the drag club. It joyously chronicles Monique Jenkinson’s creation of her drag persona Fauxnique, the people and cultural practices that crash her identity into being, her journey through one of the most experimental moments in queer cultural history, and her rise through the nightlife underground to become the first cisgender woman crowned as a major pageant-winning drag queen. Jenkinson finds authenticity through the glee of drag artifice and articulation through the immediacy of performing bodies. She pens a valentine to gay men and their culture while relaying the making of an open-minded feminist and queer ally. Faux Queen finds deep healing in irreverence and posits that it might be possible for us to come together in fabulous difference on the dance floor.
Author : Thomas C. Foster
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0061340405
Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history. Thomas C. Foster—the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor—now examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors' choices about structure—point of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuity—create meaning and a special literary language, How to Read Novels Like a Professor shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.
Author : David Masson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015030839313
Author : MIRIAM. ALLOTT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032398639
Author : Hilary Leichter
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566895743
In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571266104
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the evangelical Deep South. There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes, the 'blind' preacher, and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In desperation Hazel founds his own religion, 'The Church without Christ', and this extraordinary narrative moves towards its savage and macabre resolution. 'A literary talent that has about it the uniqueness of greatness.' Sunday Telegraph 'No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation.' The New Yorker 'A genius.' New York Times
Author : William Somerset Maugham
Publisher : Philadelphia : J. C. Winston Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Authors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045000259