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Author : Charles B. Harris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025201037X
Author : Lee Thayer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781984520494
Thayer always serves up a seven-course meal, and Leadership Virtuosity is a great banquet! (Chris Comeaux, president/CEO, Four Seasons). What you have in your hands is the most unique and potent book on leadership you could lay your hands on. It introduces the concept of virtuosity as the crowning achievement in all leadership. In these twenty lessons, Lee Thayer, one of the worlds leading consultants, brings you the building blocks for becoming a virtuoso leader: 1. The lucky leader 2. The good leader 3. The real-world leader 4. The imaginative leader 5. The trustworthy leader 6. The triangulating leader 7. The articulate leader 8. The responsible leader 9. The defining leader 10. The caring leader 11. The accomplishment-minded leader 12. The learning leader 13. The seductive leader 14. The intolerant leader 15. The potent leader 16. The omnipresent leader 17. The frugal leader 18. The strategic leader 19. The passionate leader 20. The performing leader You will return again and again to the wisdom you can partake here. You may be challenged but rewarded all at the same time. As one reviewer puts it, The son of a gun made me think. Thats what Dr. Thayer aims to do in this book. Becoming a virtuoso requires mastery of the basics. Beyond that, it requires a new and different way of thinking about the role of a leader. This book provides that in a provocative but practical wayas only the virtuoso executive coach and consultant Lee Thayer could do it.
Author : Charles Martin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300052006
The most popular of the Roman poets, Catullus is known for the accessibility of his witty and erotic love poems. In this book Charles Martin, himself a poet, offers a deeper reading of Catullus, revealing the art and intelligence behind the seemingly spontaneous verse. Martin considers Catullus's life, habits of composition, and the circumstances in which he worked. He places him among the modernists of his age, who created a new ironic and subjective poetics, and he shows the affinity between Catullus and the modernists of our own age. Martin offers original interpretations of Catullus's poems, viewing the love poems to "Lesbia" as a unified, artfully arranged poetic sequence, and the short poems, often dismissed as unworthy of serious critical attention, as the irreverent products of a sophisticated poetic innovator. Unlike Horace, Virgil, and Ovid, Catullus did not influence our literary culture until the beginning of the modern era, but he is now regarded as a poet who speaks to our age with a singular directness. Pointing to Catullus's self-awareness, playfulness, and comic invention and to the elaborate complexity of his experiments in poetic form, Martin gives both the scholar and the general reader a fresh appreciation of his poetic art.
Author : Tony Hilfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317871248
In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction and black humour, the fiction of social protest, women's writing, and the traditions of African-American, Southern and Jewish-American fiction. Key writers discussed include William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Vladimir Nabokov and Joyce Carol Oates. The book concludes by exploring contemporary trends through detailed case-studies of Donald Barthelme and Toni Morrison.
Author : Eugene W. Kelly
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015032610530
Author : Susan Strehle
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807843652
In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gaddis, John Barth, Margaret Atwood, and Donald Barthelme. According to Strehle, the actualists balance attention to questions of art with an engaged meditation on the external, actual world. While these actualist novels diverge markedly from realistic practice, Strehle claims that they do so in order to reflect more acutely what we now understand as real. Reality is no longer "realistic"; in the new physical or quantum universe, reality is discontinuous, energetic, relative, statistical, subjectively seen, and uncertainly known_all terms taken from new physics. Actualist fiction is characterized by incompletions, indeterminacy, and "open" endings unsatisfying to the readerly wish for fulfilled promises and completed patterns. Gravity's Rainbow, for example, ends not with a period but with a dash. Strehle argues that such innovations in narrative reflect on twentieth-century history, politics, science, and discourse.
Author : Debra Spark
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0472068970
Lively and engaging essays on aspects of the writer's craft from an acclaimed novelist
Author : Allard den Dulk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628923339
The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an 'aesthetic sea change' in contemporary American literature. 'Post-postmodernism' and 'New Sincerity' are just two of the labels that have been attached to this trend. But what do these labels mean? What characterizes and connects these novels? Den Dulk shows that the connection between these works lies in their shared philosophical dimension. On the one hand, they portray excessive self-reflection and endless irony as the two main problems of contemporary Western life. On the other hand, the novels embody an attempt to overcome these problems: sincerity, reality-commitment and community are portrayed as the virtues needed to achieve a meaningful life. This shared philosophical dimension is analyzed by viewing the novels in light of the existentialist philosophies of Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Camus.
Author : Peter J. Bailey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0252011724
Author : Rick DeMarinis
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781504036856
The Art & Craft of the Short Story explores every key element of short fiction, including story structure and form; creative and believable characters; how to begin and where to end; and the generation of ideas; as well as technical aspects such as point of view; plot; description and imagery; and theme. Examples from the work of a wide variety are used. The author includes five of his own stories to demonstrate these topics.
Author : Michael LeMahieu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199890415
Fictions of Fact and Value argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of literary postmodernism, exerts a determining influence on the development of American fiction in the three decades following 1945, in what amounts to a constitutive encounter between literature and philosophy at mid-century: after the end of modernism, as it was traditionally conceived, but prior to the rise of postmodernism, as it came to be known. Two particular postwar literary preoccupations derive from logical positivist philosophy: the fact/value problem and the correlative distinction between sense and nonsense. Even as postwar writers responded to logical positivism as a threat to the imagination, their works often manifest its influence, specifically with regard to "emotive" or "meaningless" terms. Far from a straightforward history of ideas, Fictions of Fact and Value charts a genealogy that is often erased in the very texts where it registers and disowned by the very authors that it includes. LeMahieu complicates a predominant narrative of intellectual history in which a liberating postmodernism triumphs over a reactionary positivism by historicizing the literary response to positivism in works by John Barth, Saul Bellow, Don DeLillo, Iris Murdoch, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. As LeMahieu compelling demonstrates, the centrality of the fact/value problem to both positivism and postmodernism demands a rethinking of postwar literary history. A trenchantly argued study that unearths an important part of postwar literary history, Fictions of Fact and Value will interest anyone concerned with postmodernism, modernist studies, analytic philosophy, or the history of ideas.
Author : Sunka Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791453499
Explores contemporary uses of letters and letter writing—including electronic mail—in literature, film, and art.
Author : Maximillien de Lafayette
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359773152
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410351517
Author : Robert Sanders
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781490779690
Separated into 10 subject matters, the book contains numerous poems and short stories reflecting how my life experiences and the hundreds of books I have read. The subjects are relevant to everyone; Passing, Man, Wisdom, Time, Personal, History, Life, Woman, Metaphysics, and Religion.
