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The Literary Bent

James D. Bloom
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Author : James D. Bloom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812215982

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What is "literature in these postmodern, postcanonical times? And if a small number of works being written today are "literary," what distinguishes them from those many others that are not? The store managers who shelve books in separate "literature" and "fiction" sections clearly have something in mind, but they're not talking. James Bloom has his own ideas, and he is. With zest and conviction, Bloom argues that traditional aspirations to literariness persist in the poetry and fiction of writers such as Robert Stone, Jane Smiley, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and Robert Pinsky. All, in their various ways, exhibit a critical and playful awareness of their literary antecedents, display and resist the seductions of eloquence, arouse and discipline their readers' curiosity. Bloom deftly shows how their writings negotiate with the nonliterary media that dominate our culture, even as the cultural capital of canonical authors like Shakespeare and Keats is put to work on the pages of mail-order catalogs and the New York Times, on network television, and in the products of the Disney conglomerate.

When Things Are Alive They Hum

Hannah Bent
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Author : Hannah Bent
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781761150272

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Australian Women’s Weekly Great Read Shortlisted Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction Shortlisted MUD Literary Prize​ Shortlisted ABIA Award for General Fiction Shortlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award New Writer of the Year ‘Hannah Bent’s outstanding debut is a wise, wondrous celebration of life.’ – The Australian ‘Hannah Bent has created a literary heroine of such pure beauty she takes your breath away.’ – Australian Women’s Weekly ‘Read it if you like: Your sister, anything by Trent Dalton, having a good cry, and My Sister’s Keeper.’ – Mamamia Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. For Marlowe, they are bound by her fierce determination to keep Harper, born with a congenital heart disorder, alive. Now twenty-five, Marlowe is living abroad when she receives the devastating call that Harper’s heart is failing and she is being denied a transplant by the medical establishment. Marlowe rushes to her childhood home in Hong Kong to be by Harper’s side and soon has to answer the question – what lengths would you go to save your sister? When Things are Alive They Hum poses profound questions about the nature of love and existence, the ways grief changes us, and how we confront the hand fate has dealt us. Intensely moving, exquisitely written and literally humming with wonder, it is a novel that celebrates life in all its guises, and what comes after. PRAISE FOR WHEN THINGS ARE ALIVE THEY HUM ‘When literature is alive it hums, and rattles and warms and hurts and heals. Hannah Bent and her wondrous Harper and Marlowe have changed the way I’ve been going about my days. What a gift.’ – Trent Dalton, author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies ‘A simply beautiful novel.’ – Good Reading ‘...what stayed with me was the achingly beautiful portrayal of the love between the two sisters. If I had a sister, that is how I would like to feel.’ – Nicole Abadee, Sydney Morning Herald ‘heartbreakingly beautiful’ – Family Circle

Bent at the Spine

Nicole Markotić
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Author : Nicole Markotić
Publisher : Book*hug Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1927040086

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Poetry. BENT AT THE SPINE offers a "pronoun"-ced frolic where the "you" is a disconnected third party--the reader is left in the position of an eavesdropper, or a listener, or a karmasurplus author. Its relentless interrogation resonates at an invigorating pace: cultural difference, different bodies, diffident accents, deafening rhymes. Sometimes rapturous, often vulvy, the poems audaciously teach "you" how to read them, allowing the last-minute-cram-session to be a delving, a plunging, a repeating discovery. "Nicole Markotic has created a work of extravagant speech in BENT AT THE SPINE. As her title implies, the book is broken, the back contorted, yet the body o f language is recombined in new and surprising forms. In the tradition of Gertrude Stein's TENDER BUTTONS or Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge Markotic's book offers the pleasures of close listening and uncanny seeing. Or as she might say, 'a nod's as wonky as a tight-lipped pucker.'"--Michael Davidson

A Bend in the River

V S Naipaul
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Author : V S Naipaul
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743295809

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When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. Accompanied by Metty, the son of one of the family slaves, he travels deep into the heart of the continent to become a trader in the town on a bend in the river. As Salim strives to establish himself, he becomes closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly-independent state. V.S. Naipaul unfolds a powerful story of changing Africa, sustaining his superb characterization and dramatic invention right to the memorable conclusion. He uses the troubled continent as a text to preach magnificently upon the sickness of a world losing touch with its past. Together with A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend In The River established V.S. Naipaul as one of the pre-eminent novelists of our time.

Bent

Martin Sherman
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Author : Martin Sherman
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : 0573640319

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This play dramatizes the plight of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. Singing, 2 acts, 11 scenes, 11 men, 4 interiors, 3 exteriors.

New Englander and Yale Review

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015066914386

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Translation and Opposition

Dimitris Asimakoulas,Margaret Rogers
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Author : Dimitris Asimakoulas,Margaret Rogers
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694331

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Translation and Opposition is an edited volume that brings together cultural and sociological perspectives by examining translation through the prism of linguistic/cultural hybridity and inter/intra-social agency. In a collection of diverse case studies, ranging from the translation of political texts to interpreting in concentration camps, the book explores issues of power struggle, ideology, censorship and identity construction. The contributors to the volume show how translators, interpreters and subtitlers as mediators put their specific professional and ethical competences to the test by treading the dividing lines between constellations of ‘in-groups’ and cultural or political ‘others’.

One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets

David Herschell Edwards
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Author : David Herschell Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English poetry
ISBN : NWU:35556040872798

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Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, 1758–1848

Siobhán McIlvanney
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Author : Siobhán McIlvanney
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786949936

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Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, 1758–1848 by Siobhán McIlvanney Pdf

The origins and early years of the French women’s press represent a pivotal period in the history of French women’s self-expression and their feminist and cultural consciousness. Through a range of insightful textual analyses, this book highlights the political significance of this critically neglected literary medium.

Bent Heavens

Daniel Kraus
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Author : Daniel Kraus
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250151681

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“Kraus gets under your skin with brutal, elegant efficiency. Necessarily horrifying, devastatingly timely.”—Kiersten White, New York Times-bestselling author of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein and Slayer From New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Kraus comes a breakneck, genre-defying YA thriller perfect for fans of Kiersten White, Neal Shusterman, and M. T. Anderson. Liv Fleming’s father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Liv has long accepted that he’s dead, though that doesn’t mean she has given up their traditions. Every Sunday, she and her lifelong friend Doug Monk trudge through the woods to check the traps Lee left behind, traps he set to catch the aliens he so desperately believed were after him. But Liv is done with childhood fantasies. Done pretending she believes her father’s absurd theories. Done going through the motions for Doug’s sake. However, on the very day she chooses to destroy the traps, she discovers in one of them a creature so inhuman it can only be one thing. In that moment, she’s faced with a painful realization: her dad was telling the truth. And no one believed him. Now, she and Doug have a choice to make. They can turn the alien over to the authorities...or they can take matters into their own hands. On the heels of the worldwide success of The Shape of Water, Daniel Kraus returns with a horrifying and heartbreaking thriller about the lengths people go to find justice and the painful reality of grief. “Bent Heavens is the darkest, angriest alien horror story that I've ever encountered. Hell. Yes.”—Stephanie Perkins, New York Times-bestselling author of There's Someone Inside Your House

Memory'S Ghost

Philip J. Hilts
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Author : Philip J. Hilts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780684823560

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In an experiment that occurred some forty years ago, Henry M.'s memory was stolen from him during a highly controversial operation performed to cure his epilepsy. Part poetic reflection and philosophical meditation, part popular science and investigative journalism, Memory's Ghost is an unforgettable journey into the mysteries of the human mind.

Historical Dictionary of Eritrea

Dan Connell,Tom Killion
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Author : Dan Connell,Tom Killion
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810875050

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The history of Eritrea is told in this reference through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Eritrea's history from the earliest times to the present. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Eritrea.