Pathetic Literature

Author : Eileen Myles
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802157171

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Pathetic Literature by Eileen Myles Pdf

An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word “pathetic” “Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater scripts to prose to anything in between, all exploring the so-called “pathetic” or awkwardly-felt moments and revelations around which lives are both built and undone. Myles first reclaimed the word for a seminar they taught at the University of California San Diego in the early 2000s, rescuing it from the derision into which it had slipped and restoring its original meaning of inspiring emotion or feeling, from the Ancient Greek rhetorical method pathos. Their identification of “pathetic” as ripe for reinvention forms the need for this anthology, which includes a hearty 106 contributors, encompassing canonical global stars like Robert Walser, Jorge Luis Borges, Rumi, and Gwendolyn Brooks, literary libertines like Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, and Bob Flanagan, as well as extraordinary writers on the rise, including Nicole Wallace, Precious Okoyomon, and Will Farris. Wrenching and discomfiting prose by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Jack Halberstam, and Porochista Khakpour rubs shoulders with poems by Natalie Diaz, Victoria Chang, Lucille Clifton, and Ariana Reines, and butts up against fiction from Chester Himes, Djuna Barnes, Chris Kraus, and Qiu Miaojin, among so many others, including Myles’s own opening salvo of their 1992 presidential campaign. The result is a completely anomalous and uplifting anthology that encourages a fresh political discourse on literature, as well as supplying an essential compendium of pained, awkward, queer, trans, gleeful, and ever-jarring ways to think differently and live pathetically on a polarized and fearful planet.

Author : Eileen Myles
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802146366

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Evolution by Eileen Myles Pdf

The new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Chelsea Girls reads like “an arrival, a voice always becoming, unpinnable and queer” (Natalie Diaz, New York Times Book Review). The first all-new collection of poems from Eileen Myles since 2011’s Snowflake/different streets, Evolution follows the author’s critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as a volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice. In these new poems, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that radiates insight, purpose, and risk while channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones. This long-awaited new collection “lopes forward in the strutting style of the witnessing and sincere, but gorgeously nonaustere, poet in New York…The gift of Evolution is its bold depiction of the textually-rendered ‘I’-Eileen” (Kenyon Review). A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

Author : George Augustus Simcox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Latin literature
ISBN : UCBK:C090052950

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A History of Latin Literature from Ennius to Boethius by George Augustus Simcox Pdf

Author : Mildred Cabell Watkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B287529

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American Literature by Mildred Cabell Watkins Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American literature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069273476

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Literary News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frederick Leypoldt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015071098167

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Literary News by Frederick Leypoldt Pdf

Author : George Barnett Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385513693

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Poets and Novelists. A Series of Literary Studies by George Barnett Smith Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author : Bezalel Bar-Kochva,B. Bar-Kochva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521016835

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Judas Maccabaeus by Bezalel Bar-Kochva,B. Bar-Kochva Pdf

An account of Judas Maccabeus' battles against the Seleucid empire between 166 and 160 B.C.

Author : Zoë Lehmann Imfeld,Peter Hampson,Alison Milbank
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567304148

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Theology and Literature after Postmodernity by Zoë Lehmann Imfeld,Peter Hampson,Alison Milbank Pdf

This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a dialogue with interdisciplinary approaches to literature in which theology is alert and responsive to the challenges following postmodernism and postmodern literary criticism. It demonstrates the scope and explanatory power of theological readings across various texts and literary genres. Theology and Literature after Postmodernity explores a reconstructive approach to reading and literary study in the university setting, with contributions from interdisciplinary scholars worldwide.

Author : James De Mille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002427438

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The Elements of Rhetoric by James De Mille Pdf

Author : René Bosch,Piet Verhoeff
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042022911

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Labyrinth of Digressions by René Bosch,Piet Verhoeff Pdf

With their appearance during the 1760s, the five instalments of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman caused something like a booksellers' hype. Small publishers and anonymous imitators seized on Sterne's success by bringing out great numbers of spurious new volumes, critical or ironic pamphlets, and works that in style and title express a congeniality with Tristram Shandy. This study explores these eighteenth-century imitations as indicators of contemporary assumptions about Sterne's intentions. Comparisons between the original, the first reactions, and a number of late eighteenth-century imitations, show that Tristram Shandy was initially read against the background of Augustan and Grub-street satire. The earliest imitators harked back to traditions of banter and folklore, bawdy and grotesque humour, pathetic stories and orthodox religiosity, reaffirming a pattern of moral and aesthetic values that was conservative for its time. Philosophical Sentimentalism appears to have been a late development. It is also argued that, partly because of their bad reputation, some of the authors of forgeries and parodies had a greater influence on the original than the reviewers to whom Sterne is often said to have listened. The imitators followed leads and themes in the first instalments, developing them according to their own conception of Sterne's project and the reasons for his success. As a consequence, they unintentially put a pressure on Sterne to alter his course, and even to abandon some of the narrative lines and themes he had set out for himself. The literature section contains a chronological checklist of English eighteenth-century Sterneana.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175012025485

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Cosmopolis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Ziser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107005433

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Environmental Practice and Early American Literature by Michael Ziser Pdf

This text rethinks American literary history by focusing on the non-human, environmental agents that have shaped its development.

Author : Victor Shea,William Whitla
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405188654

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Victorian Literature by Victor Shea,William Whitla Pdf

Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry—from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Represents the period's major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliography

Author : George S. McWatters
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066202866

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Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters Pdf

"Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives" by George S. McWatters. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.