Sophie And The Sibyl

Author : Patricia Duncker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632860651

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Sophie and the Sibyl by Patricia Duncker Pdf

In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: the Sibyl, or Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot,who is writing the final installment of her bestselling serial Middlemarch. Max is as fond of gambling and brothels as Wolfgang is of making a profit and berating his spendthrift brother, but Max is given a chance to prove his worth by visiting the Sibyl and her not-quite-husband Lewes, to finalize the publishing rights to her new novel. The Sibyl proves to be as enthralling and intelligent as her books, bewitching Max and all of those around her. But Wolfgang has an ulterior motive for Max's visit; he wants his brother to consider the beautiful eighteen-year-old Countess Sophie von Hahn as a potential wife. An acquaintance from Max's childhood, she comes from a German family of great wealth. However, Sophie proves to be nothing like the angelic vision of domesticity Max envisaged; wild and willful, she gambles recklessly yet always wins, rides horses fiercely, and is happy to disobey authority, especially when it comes to her idol, George Eliot. Enchanted by this whirlwind of a woman, Max nevertheless fears he will never be able to tame her. With its vivid portrayal of George Eliot and how she lived her life, and the turbulent love story of the countess and Max, Sophie and the Sibyl is both a compulsive read and a high literary achievement.

Author : Dirk Göttsche,Rosa Mucignat,Robert Weninger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027260369

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Landscapes of Realism by Dirk Göttsche,Rosa Mucignat,Robert Weninger Pdf

Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary exploration of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this first volume tackles in its five core essays and twenty-five case studies such questions as why realism emerged when it did, why and how it developed such a transformative dynamic across languages, to what extent realist poetics remain central to art and popular culture after 1900, and how generally to reassess realism from a twenty-first-century comparative perspective.

Author : Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031090196

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Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction by Julia Novak,Caitríona Ní Dhúill Pdf

This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. Attentive to various approaches to fictionalisation that reclaim, appropriate or re-invent their ‘raw material’, the volume assesses the critical, revisionist and deconstructive potential of biographical fictions while acknowledging the effects of cliché, gender norms and established narratives in many of the texts under investigation. The introduction of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Derek Neale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429842573

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Writing Talk by Derek Neale Pdf

Writing Talk includes interviews with nineteen well-known contemporary writers, exploring the ways in which they research and find their original ideas. Working across genres such as fiction, scriptwriting, radio, life writing, biography and more, the writers offer insight into how they interpret, hone and develop these ideas. The conversations examine the roles of technique, craft, language, reading, memory, serendipity, habit and persistence. They offer technical detail about the creative process and give unique insights into the borderlands between genres as well as offering rich, personal insights and universal resonances. A wide-ranging introduction surveys the reasons why we are intrigued by the mysteries of individual writing practice and how these illuminate critical attitudes to literature and performance. Offering a rare glimpse into the creative process of some of this generation’s most eminent voices, Writing Talk is a must read for anyone interested in how stories are found and made. Interviewees: Alan Ayckbourn, Iain Banks, Helen Blakeman, Louis de Bernières, Sarah Butler, Andrew Cowan, Jenny Diski, Patricia Duncker, David Edgar, Tanika Gupta, Richard Holmes, Hanif Kureishi, Bryony Lavery, Toby Litt, Kareem Mortimer, Michèle Roberts, Jane Rogers, Willy Russell and Sally Wainwright.

Author : Oliver Lovesey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137332127

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Postcolonial George Eliot by Oliver Lovesey Pdf

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004434356

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Neo-Victorian Biofiction by Anonim Pdf

Highlighting neo-Victorian biofiction’s crucial role in reimagining and augmenting the historical archive, this volume explores the complex ethical consequences of a creative movement of historiographic revisionism, combining biography and fiction in a dialectic tension of empathy and voyeuristic spectacle.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175023709895

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Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Siân Evans
Publisher : Two Roads
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473618046

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Queen Bees by Siân Evans Pdf

Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefax. Written with wit, verve and heart, Queen Bees is the story of a form of societal revolution, and the extraordinary women who helped it happen. In the aftermath of the First World War, the previously strict hierarchies of the British class system were weakened. For a number of ambitious, spirited women, this was the chance they needed to slip through the cracks and take their place at the top of society as the great hostesses of the time. In an age when the place of women was uncertain, becoming a hostess was not a chore, but a career choice, and though some of the hostesses' backgrounds were surprisingly humble, their aspirations were anything but. During the inter-war years these extraordinary women ruled over London society from their dining tables and salons - entertaining everyone from the Mosleys to the Mitfords, from millionaires to maharajahs, from film stars to royalty - and their influence can still be felt today.

Author : Marguerite Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350021242

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Antipodean Antiquities by Marguerite Johnson Pdf

Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.

Author : Sophie MAY (pseud. [i.e. Rebecca Sophia Clarke.])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024283150

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Fairy book. By Sophie May by Sophie MAY (pseud. [i.e. Rebecca Sophia Clarke.]) Pdf

Author : American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Cattle
ISBN : UGA:32108026108806

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Herd Register by American Jersey Cattle Club Pdf

Author : Sophie Geoffroy,Amanda Gagel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003830023

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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856–1935 by Sophie Geoffroy,Amanda Gagel Pdf

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was an active correspondent who included many well-known figures among her circle. This scholarly edition of her letters makes a selection from more than 30 archives worldwide.

Author : Rolf Giesen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476635330

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The Nosferatu Story by Rolf Giesen Pdf

Director F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, made in 1921, right after the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic, has become the ultimate cult classic among horror film buffs around the world. For years there was much speculation about the production background, the filmmakers, and their star, the German actor Max Schreck. This book tells the complete story drawing on rare sources. This book tells the complete story, drawing on rare sources. The trail leads to a group of occultists with a plan to establish a leading film company that would produce a momentous series of horror movies. Along the way, the author touches upon other classic German fantasy silents, such as The Golem, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN : CORNELL:31924090176276

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House & Garden by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : PRNC:32101064241753

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The Black Cat by Anonim Pdf