The Late Career Novelist

Author : Hywel Dix
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350030077

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The Late-Career Novelist by Hywel Dix Pdf

The first scholarly study of the phenomenon of the 'late-career novel', this book explores the ways in which bestselling contemporary novelists look back and respond to their earlier successes in their subsequent writings. Exploring the work of major novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Graham Swift, The Late-Career Novelist draws for the first time on social psychology and career construction theory to examine how the dynamics of a literary career play out in the fictional worlds of our best-known novelists. From here, Hywel Dix develops and argues for a new mode of reading contemporary writing on the contexts of current literary culture.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451530810

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Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story.

Author : Kate Chopin
Publisher : Namaskar Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin Pdf

As part of the Interactive Library Network, Teen.com and W3T.com, Inc. present the full text of "The Awakening," a novel written by the American author Katherine Chopin (1851-1904), who was known as Kate Chopin. Full-text versions of selected short stories by Chopin are also available online. The stories include "Beyond the Bayou," "Desiree's Baby," "The Kiss," and "A Pair of Silk Stockings."

Author : Andrew Dean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192644824

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Metafiction and the Postwar Novel by Andrew Dean Pdf

Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period, sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of large-scale theorizing, this book centres on the intimacies of writing situations - metafiction as it responds to readers, literary reception, and earlier works in a career. The emergence of archival materials and posthumously published works helps to bring into view the stakes of different moments of writing. It develops new terms for discussing literary self-reflexivity, derived from a reading of Don Quixote and its reception by J.L. Borges - the 'self of writing' and the 'public author as signature'. Across three comprehensive chapters, Metafiction and Postwar Fiction shows how some of the most highly-regarded postwar writers were motivated to incorporate reflexive elements into their writing - and to what ends. The first chapter, on South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, shows with a new clarity how his fictions drew from and relativized academic literary theory and the conditions of writing in apartheid South Africa. The second chapter, on New Zealand writer Janet Frame, draws widely from her fictions, autobiographies, and posthumously published materials. It demonstrates the terms in which her writing addresses a readership seemingly convinced that her work expressed the interior experience of 'madness'. The final chapter, on American writer Philip Roth, shows how his early reception led to his later, and often explosive, reconsiderations of identity and literary value in postwar America.

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525564584

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My Purple Scented Novel by Ian McEwan Pdf

A jewel of a short story from the bestselling, award-winning author of Atonement—“My Purple Scented Novel” follows the perfect crime of literary betrayal, scrupulously wrought yet unscrupulously executed. Published to celebrate Ian McEwan’s 70th birthday. “You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fade. . . . You’d never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with his. To a knowing few, our names remain rigidly attached, like the two ends of a seesaw. His rise coincided with, though did not cause, my decline. . . . I don’t deny there was wrongdoing. I stole a life, and I don’t intend to give it back. You may treat these few pages as a confession.”

Author : Andrea Jarrell
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781631522611

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I'm the One Who Got Away by Andrea Jarrell Pdf

As featured in the New York Times “Modern Love” column * a Redbook Magazine must-read * Rumpus, Hello Giggles, Bustle, and Southern Living magazine Fall book pick Fugitives from a man as alluring as he is violent, Andrea Jarrell and her mother develop a powerful, unusual bond. Once grown, Jarrell thinks she’s put that chapter of her life behind her—until a woman she knows is murdered, and she suddenly sees that it’s her mother’s choices she’s been trying to escape all along. Without preaching or prescribing, I’m the One Who Got Away is a life-affirming story of having the courage to become both safe enough and vulnerable enough to love and be loved.

Author : Chetan Mahajan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351186311

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The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail by Chetan Mahajan Pdf

What happens when a business executive is thrown into a jail in small town Jharkhand? He ends up with an education of a lifetime... When Chetan Mahajan is wrongfully sent to Bokaro jail, he encounters a world completely different from his corporate life in Delhi. From picking the best prison ward, befriending the people who can get him mobile phone access and upgraded food, and training for his upcoming marathon in the tiny prison yard, Chetan soon learns to work the prison system. In the process he makes unlikely friends, and discovers what India’s underbelly really looks like. A true story, The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail, is thought provoking, amusing and touching. It will show you the Indian prison as you have never seen it before.

Author : Jon Sealy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1950182061

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So You Want to Be a Novelist by Jon Sealy Pdf

What does it mean to be a novelist in the 21st century?How do you write a novel? What do you do with it once it's finished? And how do you get a career as a novelist off the ground? Most honest novelists will attribute some combination of talent, hard work and luck in their success, but each of these qualities can be nurtured with a little guidance.In the vein of E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and John Gardner's On Becoming a Novelist, Jon Sealy shares his own story of how fiction works, from writing the first draft to building a multi-book career. Part memoir, part craft analysis, this book breaks apart the elements of fiction and explores one writer's path from student to professional.With clear and honest insight, So You Want to be a Novelist offers aspiring writers a toolkit for understanding fiction-and serves as both guide and warning for the road ahead.

Author : Henry Green
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681371443

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Nothing by Henry Green Pdf

Years ago, Jane Weatherby had a torrid affair with John Pomfret, the husband of her best friend. Divorces ensued. World War II happened. Prewar partying gave way to postwar austerity, and Jane and John’s now-grown children, Philip and Mary, both as serious and sober as their parents were not, seem earnestly bent on marriage, which John and Jane consider a mistake. The two old lovers conspire against the two young lovers, and nothing turns out quite as expected. Nothing, like the closely related Doting, is a book that is almost entirely composed in dialogue, since in these late novels nothing so interested Green as how words resist, twist, and expose our intentions; how they fail us, lead us on, make fools of us, and may, in spite of ourselves, even save us, at least for a time. Nothing spills over with the bizarre and delicious comedy and poetry of human incoherence.

Author : Lloyd Fernando
Publisher : University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c[1977]
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005350874

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"New Women" in the Late Victorian Novel by Lloyd Fernando Pdf

Most of the major challenges of the women's liberation movement, argues this book, were reflected in late 19th-century fiction, and this concern had a significant effect on the art of the novel. Although primarily a work of criticism, the presentation is informed more than is customary by social history since the period covered was "a particularly tumultuous phase of the women's liberation movement" throughout Europe. Professor Fernando's book was inspired by dissatisfaction with both the literary and social history of the late Victorian era. For one thing, histories of the women's emancipation movement are presented in conventional political terms, neglecting "the degree of imaginative adjustment individuals were called upon to make in response to the movement"--leaving that to the best novelists. For another, there is a common assumption that the interest of the major English novelists in the women's issue "was marginal to their art compared to their minor contemporaries." This book demonstrates that the ideas generated by the women's movement not only contributed to the abandonment of older ethical values, but also materially affected the greatest fictional achievements. Following an introduction relating the novel to ideology in the period 1865-95, Professor Fernando presents chapters on George Eliot, Meredith, Moore, Gissing, and Hardy. He concludes with an epilogue showing echoes from these novelists in the writings of current supporters of the women's movement. The result is a work establishing links between an influential historical movement and the development of a modern literary genre.

Author : Erin L. Webster-Garrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000116864350

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The Literary Career of Novelist Mary Shelley After 1822 by Erin L. Webster-Garrett Pdf

This book explores the neglected end of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's literary career, questioning inherited images of her as a bourgeois satellite of masculine genius and as a child-prodigy whose genius faded after The Last Man. The study contextualizes Shelley's post-1822 career in terms of the rise of discourses of influence to describe sociopolitical, cultural, spiritual, and sexual relationships, and in terms of the rise of Romantic cultural anxieties regarding the ascendance of the popular novel and romance to positions of cultural influence.

Author : Helen DeWitt
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811225519

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The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt Pdf

Called “remarkable” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an ambitious, colossal debut novel” (Publishers Weekly), Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai is back in print at last Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.) Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn’t know: his father’s name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He’ll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775456773

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The Job by Sinclair Lewis Pdf

American writer Sinclair Lewis was interested in the social implications of the aggressive brand of capitalism that began to emerge in the U.S. the early twentieth century. In The Job, he focuses on the rising stature of women in the workforce, detailing the triumphs and travails of a young woman named Una Golden, who discovers that she has an inborn talent for real estate -- and that she must fight against the nearly overwhelming chauvinism in the industry to stake her claim.

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : English essays
ISBN : UOM:39015066498729

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Hours in a Library: De Foe's novels. Richardson's novels. Pope as a moralist. Mr. Elwin's edition of Pope. Some words about Sir Walter Scott. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Balzac's novels. De Quincey by Leslie Stephen Pdf

Author : Aaron Shulman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062484215

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The Age of Disenchantments by Aaron Shulman Pdf

A gripping narrative history of Spain’s most brilliant and troubled literary family—a tale about the making of art, myth, and legacy—set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and beyond In this absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative, journalist Aaron Shulman takes us deeply into the circumstances surrounding the Spanish Civil War through the lives, loves, and poetry of the Paneros, Spain’s most compelling and eccentric family, whose lives intersected memorably with many of the most storied figures in the art, literature, and politics of the time—from Neruda to Salvador Dalí, from Ava Gardner to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Bolaño. Weaving memoir with cultural history and biography, and brought together with vivid storytelling and striking images, The Age of Disenchantments sheds new light on the romance and intellectual ferment of the era while revealing the profound and enduring devastation of the war, the Franco dictatorship, and the country’s transition to democracy. A searing tale of love and hatred, art and ambition, and freedom and oppression, The Age of Disenchantments is a chronicle of a family who modeled their lives (and deaths) on the works of art that most inspired and obsessed them and who, in turn, profoundly affected the culture and society around them.