Occasional Prose

Author : Flannery O'Connor
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466829046

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Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor Pdf

At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith. The book opens with "The King of the Birds," her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Also included are: three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerning the writer and religion, including "The Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are widely seen as gems. This bold and brilliant essay-collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of contemporary American literature.

Author : Adrian E. Cristobal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philippine literature (English).
ISBN : UOM:39015016988043

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Occasional Prose by Adrian E. Cristobal Pdf

Author : Ted Hughes,William Scammell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312136250

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Winter Pollen by Ted Hughes,William Scammell Pdf

Spanning a period of thirty years, a wide-ranging collection of writing about poetry and literature by the Poet Laureate of England includes reflections on the creative process and such figures as Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath.

Author : Mary McCarthy
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781480441200

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Occasional Prose by Mary McCarthy Pdf

DIVDIVReading and romance, gardening tips, a farewell to a friend, even an opera retold make up this stellar collection from the bestselling author of The Group and Memories of a Catholic Girlhood/divDIV This intriguing nonfiction collection by Mary McCarthy is a cornucopia of literary delights that challenges the mind and captivates the senses./divDIV “On Rereading a Favorite Book” is McCarthy’s reaction to returning to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina after more than thirty years. In “Politics and the Novel,” she shatters a myth about the American versus European style of storytelling. Acts of reading, when consummated, are akin to “Acts of Love.” And “Saying Good-bye to Hannah” is a poignant farewell to the author of The Human Condition and, in particular, The Life of the Mind, the book Hannah Arendt saw as her crowning achievement./divDIV Whether giving us the story of La Traviata in her own words or reviewing a charming and practical book on gardening, McCarthy imbues Occasional Prose with her powerful sense of time and place. Uninhibited and uncensored, it filters the world through her unique gifts of observation and novelist’s masterful eye for detail. This is a book for anyone interested in the life of the mind—and heart. /divDIV This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author’s estate./div/div

Author : Zong-qi Cai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231555166

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How to Read Chinese Prose by Zong-qi Cai Pdf

This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred major texts from antiquity through the Qing dynasty that exemplify major genres, styles, and forms of traditional Chinese prose. For each work, the book presents an English translation, the Chinese original, and accessible critical commentary by leading scholars. How to Read Chinese Prose teaches readers to appreciate the literary merits, stylistic devices, rhetorical choices, and argumentative techniques of a wide range of nonfictional writing. It emphasizes the interconnections among individual texts and across eras, helping readers understand the development of the literary tradition and what makes particular texts formative or distinctive within it. Organized by dynastic period and genre, the book identifies and examines four broad categories of prose—narrative, expository, descriptive, and communicative. How to Read Chinese Prose is suitable for a range of courses in Chinese literature, history, religion, and philosophy, as well as for scholars and interested readers seeking to deepen their knowledge of the Chinese prose tradition. A companion book, How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese, is designed for Chinese-language learners and features many of the same texts.

Author : Fernando Pessoa
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802198501

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The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa Pdf

A selection of prose by “Portugal’s greatest writer of the twentieth century . . . as addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino” (The Washington Post Book World). Building on the wonderful Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems, which was acclaimed by Booklist as “a beautiful one-volume course in the soul of the twentieth century,” translator Richard Zenith has now edited and translated selections from Pessoa’s prose, offering a second volume of this forgotten master’s flights of imagination and melancholy wit. Though known primarily as a poet, Pessoa wrote prose in several languages and every genre—the novel, short stories, letters, and essays. The pieces collected here span intellectual inquiry, Platonic dialogue, and literary rivalries between Pessoa’s many alter egos—a diverse cast of literary voices he called ‘heteronyms’—who launch movements and write manifestos. There are appreciations of Shakespeare, Dickens, Wilde, and Joyce; critical essays in which one heteronym derides the work of another; experiments with automatic writing; and works that toy with the occult. Also included is a generous selection from Pessoa’s masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, freshly translated by Richard Zenith from newly discovered materials. Fernando Pessoa was one of the greatest exponents of modernism. The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa is an important contribution to literature that brings back to life a forgotten but crucial part of the canon.

Author : Zong-qi Cai,Jie Cui,Liu Yucai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780231554787

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How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese by Zong-qi Cai,Jie Cui,Liu Yucai Pdf

This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners. How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese presents more than forty prose works, either excerpts or in full, from antiquity through the Qing dynasty. While teaching readers how to appreciate the rich tradition of Chinese prose in its original form, the book uses these texts to introduce classical Chinese to advanced learners, helping them develop reading comprehension and vocabulary. It offers a systematic guide to classical Chinese grammar and abundant notes on vocabulary, and features an extensive network of notes, exercises, and cross-references. The book includes modern translations of the forty prose works in simplified Chinese, presented alongside the original texts in traditional Chinese. It also includes expert commentaries on each text’s distinctive aesthetic qualities as well as historical and cultural contexts. The book comprises thirty-eight lessons within eight units, organized chronologically to reflect the emergence of major prose genres. It is a major contribution to the teaching and study of classical Chinese language and literature. Audio recordings of all forty texts are available online free of charge.

Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015048893138

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Publications of the Modern Language Association of America by Modern Language Association of America Pdf

Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061864902

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Blue Angel by Francine Prose Pdf

The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose—now the major motion picture Submission “Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials.” —USA Today It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Deliciously risque, Blue Angel is a withering take on today's academic mores and a scathing tale that vividly shows what can happen when academic politics collides with political correctness.

Author : R. Neil Scott,Irwin H. Streight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521828635

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Flannery O'Connor by R. Neil Scott,Irwin H. Streight Pdf

Despite Flannery O'Connor's brief life, her work, comprising novels, short stories, essays, and articles, has had a great impact on American literature and to some extent popular culture, of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her writing has become well loved, well read, and often studied. This book reprints complete book reviews and excerpts from review essays on the works of Flannery O'Connor that appeared in newspapers and periodicals during the author's writing life (1945-64) and after her early death. The more than four hundred edited reviews are prefaced with a substantial Introduction that situates O'Connor within the critical milieu of post-war American letters and Southern literary tradition, and provides an overview of contemporary critical responses to her collected stories, novels, and occasional pieces. An important resource for scholars of O'Connor and of Southern literature generally, this volume reveals much about her early reception and the continuing relevance of her work.

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Verso
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1859848494

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Ethics, Politics, Subjectivity by Simon Critchley Pdf

In Ethics–Politics–Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experience? What can be said of the subject who has this experience? What, if any, is the relation of ethical experience to politics? These questions are approached by way of a critical confrontation with a number of major thinkers, including Lacan, Genet, Blanchot, Nancy, Rorty and, in particular, Levinas and Derrida. Critchley offers a critical reconstruction of Levinas's notion of ethical experience and, questioning the religious pietism and political conservatism of the dominant interpretation of Levinas's work, develops an ethics of finitude which, far from being tragic, opens on to an experience of humour and the comic. Using this reading of Levinas as a way of unlocking the rich ethical potential of Derrida's work, Critchley outlines and defends the political possibilities of deconstruction. On the basis of Derrida's recent work, Critchley attempts to rethink notions of friendship, democracy, economics and technology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z314050507

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“The” Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,William Smith,John Murray,Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle),George Walter Prothero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007828879

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The Quarterly Review by William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,William Smith,John Murray,Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle),George Walter Prothero Pdf

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820338309

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Flashes of a Southern Spirit by Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.

Author : Dennis Patrick Slattery
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791443825

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The Wounded Body by Dennis Patrick Slattery Pdf

Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.