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Sentimental Tales

Author : Mikhail Zoshchenko
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780231545150

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Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoshchenko Pdf

“Dralyuk’s new translation of Sentimental Tales, a collection of Zoshchenko’s stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author’s wit to life.”—The Economist Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a writer not very good at his job, who takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces. Yet beneath Kolenkorov’s intrusive narration and sublime blathering, the stories are genuinely moving. They tell tales of unrequited love and amorous misadventures among down-on-their-luck musicians, provincial damsels, aspiring poets, and liberal aristocrats hopelessly out of place in the new Russia, against a backdrop of overcrowded apartments, scheming, and daydreaming. Zoshchenko’s deadpan style and sly ventriloquy mask a biting critique of Soviet life—and perhaps life in general. An original perspective on Soviet society in the 1920s and simply uproariously funny, Sentimental Tales at last shows Anglophone readers why Zoshchenko is considered among the greatest humorists of the Soviet era. “A book that would make Gogol guffaw.”—Kirkus Reviews “If you find Chekhov a bit tame and want a more bite to your fiction, then you need a dose of Zoshchenko, the premier Russian satirist of the twentieth century . . . Snap up this thin volume and enjoy.”—Russian Life “Mikhail Zoshchenko masterfully exhibits a playful seriousness. . . . Juxtaposing joyful wit with the bleakness of Soviet Russia, Sentimental Tales is a potent antidote for Russian literature’s dour reputation.”—Foreword Reviews “Superb.”—Los Angeles Review of Books

The Culture of Sentiment

Author : Shirley Samuels
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195362527

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The Culture of Sentiment by Shirley Samuels Pdf

Samuels's collection of critical essays gives body and scope to the subject of nineteenth-century sentimentality by situating it in terms of "women's culture" and issues of race. Presenting an interdisciplinary range of approaches that consider sentimental culture before and after the Civil War, these critical studies of American literature and culture fundamentally reorient the field. Moving beyond alignment with either pro- or anti-sentimentality camps, the collection makes visible the particular racial and gendered forms that define the aesthetics and politics of the culture of sentiment. Drawing on the fields of American cultural history, American studies, and literary criticism, the contributors include Lauren Berlant, Ann Fabian, Susan Gillman, Karen Halttunen, Carolyn L. Karcher, Joy Kasson, Amy Schrager Lang, Isabelle Lehuu, Harryette Mullen, Dana Nelson, Lora Romero, Shirley Samuels, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Lynn Wardley, and Laura Wexler.

The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Albert J. Rivero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108418928

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The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century by Albert J. Rivero Pdf

Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.

The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780–1835

Author : Neil Ramsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351885676

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The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780–1835 by Neil Ramsey Pdf

Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Ramsey shows, the military memoir achieved widespread acclaim and commercial success among the reading public of the late Romantic era. Ramsey assesses their influence in relation to Romantic culture's wider understanding of war writing, autobiography, and authorship and to the shifting relationships between the individual, the soldier, and the nation. The memoirs, Ramsey argues, participated in a sentimental response to the period's wars by transforming earlier, impersonal traditions of military memoirs into stories of the soldier's personal suffering. While the focus on suffering established in part a lasting strand of anti-war writing in memoirs by private soldiers, such stories also helped to foster a sympathetic bond between the soldier and the civilian that played an important role in developing ideas of a national war and functioned as a central component in a national commemoration of war.

Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861

Author : Heather S. Nathans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521870115

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Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861 by Heather S. Nathans Pdf

For almost a hundred years before Uncle Tom's Cabin burst on to the scene in 1852, the American theatre struggled to represent the evils of slavery. Slavery and Sentiment examines how both black and white Americans used the theatre to fight negative stereotypes of African Americans in the United States.

Novel Definitions

Author : Cheryl L. Nixon
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781460401491

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Novel Definitions by Cheryl L. Nixon Pdf

Novel Definitions captures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel is accompanied by a rise in popular literary criticism. The over 135 pieces here, many newly-discovered, include essays, prefaces, reviews, and sermons written by authors ranging from Aphra Behn to Walter Scott. Novel Definitions brings together authors' commentary on their work; debates concerning the novel’s formal qualities and cultural position, including who should read novels; reviewers' definitions of the qualities that make a novel successful; and literary historians' first attempts to write the history of the novel.

A Tale Blazed Through Heaven

Author : Oliver J. Noble-Wood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191016998

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A Tale Blazed Through Heaven by Oliver J. Noble-Wood Pdf

A Tale Blazed Through Heaven examines developments in the representation of the classical tale of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan in the literature and painting of the Golden Age of Spain (c.1526-1681). Anchored in close analysis of individual primary texts, the five chapters that comprise this study assess how poets and painters breathed new life into the tale inherited from Homer, Ovid, and others, examining some of the ways in which the story of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan was disguised, developed, expanded, mocked, combined with or played off against different subjects, or otherwise modified in order to pique the interest of successive generations of readers and viewers. Each chapter discusses what particular changes and shifts in emphasis reveal about the tale itself, specific renderings, the aims and intentions of individual poets and painters, and the wider context of the literary and visual culture of Early Modern Spain. Discussing a range of poems by both canonical (Garcilaso de la Vega, Luis de Góngora, Lope de Vega, etc.) and less well-known writers (Juan de la Cueva, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina, etc.), and culminating in detailed examination of select mythological works by Philip IV's court painter, Diego Velázquez, this book sheds light on questions relating to aspects of classical reception in the Renaissance, the rise of specific poetic styles (epic, mock-epic, burlesque, etc.), the interplay between the sister arts of poetry and painting, and the continual process of imitation and invention that was one of the defining features of the Spanish Golden Age.

History of Prose Fiction

Author : John Colin Dunlop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000118579907

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Convention and Innovation in Literature

Author : Theo d'. Haen,Rainer Georg Grübel,Helmut Lethen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789027222091

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Convention and Innovation in Literature by Theo d'. Haen,Rainer Georg Grübel,Helmut Lethen Pdf

This work is a critical evaluation of the concepts of convention and innovation as applied in the study of changing literary values, hierarchies and canons. Two approaches are analyzed: (1) the linking of convention and the subject's awareness of convention, and (2) systems theory. The merits of both approaches are discussed and an attempt is made to combine them and to regard systems of literary communication primarily as systems of conventions. Specific cases of changing conventions and innovation are illustrated with examples from the field of versification (Rimbaud), reception studies (Puskin, Goethe, George Eliot), the dichotomy of forgetting/remembering (Nietzsche, Proust), avant-garde, the American dream, and popular genres assimilated in Postmodernism.

Iconotropism

Author : Ellen Spolsky
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780838755426

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Iconotropism by Ellen Spolsky Pdf

"The essays in this collection expand the boundaries of inter-art studies, claiming that human beings have evolved to draw nourishment from pictures. Ellen Spolsky argues in a polemical introduction that the recognition of our embodied need for pictures, that is, our human iconotropism, provides a fresh way of understanding the relationship of works of art to their historical contexts."--Jacket.

The Languages of Psyche

Author : G. S. Rousseau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520910430

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The Languages of Psyche by G. S. Rousseau Pdf

The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts—science, medicine, philosophy, literature, and everyday society. No other recent book provides such an in-depth, suggestive resource for philosophers, literary critics, intellectual and social historians, and all who are interested in Enlightenment studies.