Smiles On Washington Square

Author : Raymond Federman
Publisher : Sun and Moon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Romance fiction
ISBN : 1557131813

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Smiles on Washington Square by Raymond Federman Pdf

In this, his fifth novel in English (and its first paperback edition), the acclaimed French-born writer and poet, Raymond Federman, has given us the bittersweet tale of Moinous and Sucette who fall in love "across a smile" in Washington Square. Smiles on Washington Square is a charming and complex novel. With the masterful ease of a tightrope walker, Federman plays with our sense of time and space as he creates, with extraordinary compassion, a tale that makes us see our own vulnerability and worthiness. Stylistically, his links to Beckett are evident in the stripped down prose, the remarkable symbolism and word games, and in his focus on the downtrodden and inarticulate cast-aways of an industrialized world. Ultimately, Smiles on Washington Square is a book that teaches us there is no easy story, no safe entrance, no line of action not fraught with obstacles and humiliation; but finally, in the face of the inevitable disappointment of the human condition, Federman shows us how sweet possibility is.

Author : Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438433837

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Federman's Fictions by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Pdf

This collection of essays offers an authoritative examination and appraisal of the French-American novelist Raymond Federman's many contributions to humanities scholarship, including Holocaust studies, Beckett studies, translation studies, experimental fiction, postmodernism, and autobiography. Although known primarily as a novelist, Federman (1928–2009) is also the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. After emigrating to the United States in 1942 and receiving a Ph.D. in comparative literature at UCLA in 1957, he held professorships in the University at Buffalo's departments of French and English from 1964 to 1999. Together with Steve Katz and Ronald Sukenick, he was one of the original founders of the Fiction Collective, a nonprofit publishing house dedicated to avant garde, experimental prose. Far too many accounts treat Federman as merely a member of a small group of writers who pioneered "metafictional" or "postmodern" American literature. Federman's Fiction will introduce (or, for some, reintroduce) to the broader scholarly community a creative and daring thinker whose work is significant not just to considerations of the development of innovative fiction, but to a number of other distinct disciplines and emerging critical discourses.

Author : M. Cornis-Pope
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781403970039

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Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After by M. Cornis-Pope Pdf

Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held cultures hostage to a confrontation between rival ideologies abroad and a clash between champions of uniformity and disruptive others at home. Considering a broad range of narrative projects and approaches (from polysystemic fiction to surfiction, postmodern feminism, and multicultural/postcolonial fiction), this book highlights their solutions to ontological division (real vs. imaginary, wordly and other-worldly), sociocultural oppositions (of race, class, gender) and narratological dualities (imitation vs. invention, realism vs. formalism). A thorough rereading of the best experimental work published in the US since the mid-1960s reveals the fact that innovative fiction has been from the beginning concerned with redefining the relationship between history and fiction, narrative and cultural articulation. Stepping back from traditional polarizations, innovative novelists have tried to envision an alternative history of irreducible particularities, excluded middles, and creative intercrossings.

Author : Emily Kies Folpe
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801870887

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It Happened on Washington Square by Emily Kies Folpe Pdf

An illuminating history of Washington Square Park and its inhabitants.

Author : Marta Tomczok
Publisher : V&R unipress
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783737016780

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Postmodernizing the Holocaust by Marta Tomczok Pdf

Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with “The First Splendor” by Leopold Buczkowski and ending with “The Suspected Dybbuk” by Andrzej Bart. She also presents their rich relationships with selected foreign-language prose, which intensified especially at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The culmination of the entire trend is a discussion around two novels: “Tworki” by Marek Bieńczyk and “Fly Trap Factory” by Andrzej Bart, which reveals the aestheticizing and post-memorial profile of Polish postmodernization and its advantage over the historiosophical trend. This monograph is not only the first such collection of post-Holocaust postmodern novels, but also the first comprehensive study of postmodernism in the literature about the Holocaust, which, thanks to comparative analysis, tries to analyze and explain the circumstances of the appearance and later disappearance of this trend from cultural landscape of the world and Poland.

Author : Welch D. Everman
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809314444

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Who Says This? by Welch D. Everman Pdf

"Who or what gives the text its authority?" Everman offers three main sources of authority: the author, the discourse, and the reader. His first section examines the authority of the author by studying the works of contemporary American writers. An essay on "docufiction" focuses on the paradox of using the techniques of fiction to discover reality. The probability of writers revealing truths about themselves is exemplified by Raymond Federman s quasi-autobiographical novels. The second part discusses the authority of discourse, challenging writers with the possibility that literary form, not the author, is the major force in creating works. The final section explores the authority of the reader. Italo Calvino s "If on a winter s night a traveler "makes the reader the main character of the novel and implicates him in its creation."

Author : Melody Yunzi Li
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978829350

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Transpacific Cartographies by Melody Yunzi Li Pdf

Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are.

Author : Paul Andre Harris,Michael Crawford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004138117

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Time and Uncertainty by Paul Andre Harris,Michael Crawford Pdf

The essays in this volume all originated at the 2001 conference of the International Society for the Study of Time. The theme 'Time and Uncertainty' sounds redundant, but the contributions try to come to terms with the irreducible openness of time and the impermanence of life. The essays from various disciplines have been grouped around 'fracture and rupture' (grappling with time and uncertainty as a breach) and 'rapture and structure (solving uncertainty into pattern).

Author : Nathalie Camerlynck
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785277979

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Raymond Federman and Samuel Beckett by Nathalie Camerlynck Pdf

This book is about Raymond Federman and his incredible textual obsession with Samuel Beckett. Federman was a scholar of Beckett, postmodern theorist, a self-translator and avant-garde novelist. Born in Paris in 1928, all of his immediate family perished in the Holocaust. Federman escaped thanks to his mother, who hid him in a closet. After the war, he migrated to America and devoted his life to scholarship and creative writing. In both, he devoted his life to Beckett. Federman’s creative and theoretical writings contaminate and pervert each other just as, in his novels, French contaminates English and fiction perverts reality. His work is centered on the details of his survival, enacting a perpetual return to the closet, as previous studies have demonstrated. By examining Beckettian (and by extension Joycean) intertextuality in the novels of Raymond Federman, this study traces the contours of a second closet.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Washington Square (華盛頓廣場) by Henry James Pdf

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Author : Erich Goode
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479893126

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The Taming of New York's Washington Square by Erich Goode Pdf

The surprising and unofficial system of social control and regulation that keeps crime rates low in New York City’s Washington Square Park Located in New York City’s Greenwich Village, Washington Square Park is a 9.75-acre public park that is perhaps best known for its historic Washington Square Arch, a landmark at the foot of 5th Avenue. Hundreds, if not thousands, pass through the park every day, some sit on benches enjoying the sunshine, play a game of chess, watch their children play in the playground, take their dog to the dog runs, or sit by the fountain or, sometimes, buy or sell drugs. The park has an extremely low crime rate. Sociologist, and local resident, Erich Goode wants to know why. He notes that many visitors do violate park rules and ordinances, even engaging in misdemeanors like cigarette and marijuana smoking, alcohol consumption, public urination, skateboarding and bike riding. And yet, he argues, contrary to the well-known “broken windows” theory, which suggests that small crimes left unchecked lead to major crimes, serious crimes hardly ever take place there. Why with such an immense volume of infractions—and people—are there so little felonious or serious, and virtually no violent, crime? With rich and detailed observations as well as in-depth interviews, Goode demonstrates how onlookers, bystanders, and witnesses—both denizens and your average casual park visitor—provide an effective system of social control, keeping more serious wrongdoing in check. Goode also profiles the parks visitors, showing us that the park is a major draw to residents and tourists alike. Visitors come from all over; only a quarter of the park’s visitors live in the neighborhood (the Village and SoHo), one out of ten are tourists, and one out of six are from upper Manhattan or the Bronx. Goode looks at the patterns of who visits the park, when they come, and, once in the park, where they go. Regardless of where they live, Goode argues, all of the Park’s visitors help keep the park safe and lively. The Taming of New York’s Washington Square is an engaging and entertaining look at a surprisingly safe space in the heart of Manhattan.

Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822321475

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The Other Henry James by John Carlos Rowe Pdf

Rowe uses recent work on the oppressive treatment of gays, women and children in his analysis of Henry James, arguing that James mounts a critique of bourgeois values and lack of historical consciousness.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781480423312

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The Wizard of Washington Square by Jane Yolen Pdf

DIVDIVDIVUnder the fountain in Washington Square Park, there lives an incompetent wizard . . . /divDIV David has just moved to New York City from Connecticut, and he’s a bit lonely. He hasn’t made any friends yet, and the city is so big. But one Saturday afternoon in Washington Square Park, David and his dog, D. Dog, meet a girl named Leilah. Leilah tells David that there’s a wizard in the park—a wizard who lives under the Washington Square fountain. At first, David thinks Leilah is just making things up—until he encounters the real live wizard! Unfortunately, the wizard’s spells work at the most inconvenient times, and he accidentally turns David’s dog into a marble statue. Before the wizard can change D. Dog back, a sneaky antiques dealer grabs the statue and races uptown to sell it. Can David’s new friends help him get D. Dog back?/divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a personal history by Jane Yolen including rare images from the author’s personal collection, as well as a note from the author about the making of the book./div/div/div

Author : Brian Rust
Publisher : New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:49015002904655

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The American Dance Band Discography 1917-1942: Irving Aaronson to Arthur Lange by Brian Rust Pdf

Author : Ekay Music, Incorporated
Publisher : Shacor, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : Parties
ISBN : 9780943748825

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The Great Sing Along Party Book by Ekay Music, Incorporated Pdf