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The Literature of Struggle

Ian Haywood
The Literature of Struggle Book PDF

Author : Ian Haywood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317243069

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The Literature of Struggle by Ian Haywood Pdf

First published in 1995. Chartism inspired a prodigious literary output, based on its own newspapers and journals. However, while some Chartist political writings have been reprinted, the aesthetic texts of the movement have largely been neglected. This selection of short stories and extracts from longer fiction aims to remedy this situation and covers a diversity of authors, genres and themes. Ian Haywood has written a cogent and wide-ranging review of the Chartist movement and its literature as an introduction to this collection of little-known and revealing stories. The diction is divided into the following areas: the condition of England, Ireland, revolution, women and Chartism itself. This title will be of interest to students of history.

My Struggle: Book Four

Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle Book Four Book PDF

Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671176

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My Struggle: Book Four by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

At eighteen years, old Karl Ove moves to a tiny fisherman's village in the far north of the arctic circle to work as a school teacher. No interest in the job itself, his intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine. He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable locals, and receives flattering attention from several beautiful local girls. But as the darkness of the long arctic nights start to consume the landscape, Karl Ove's life takes a darker turn. His writing repeats itself, his drinking escalates to some disturbing blackouts, his attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation and shame, and to his distress, he also develops romantic feelings towards one of his students. Along the way, there are flashbacks to his high school years and the roots of his current problems. Ever present is the long shadow cast by his father, whose own sharply increasing alcohol consumption serves as an ominous backdrop to the author's lifestlye.

The Literature of Struggle

Ian Haywood
The Literature of Struggle Book PDF

Author : Ian Haywood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317243052

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The Literature of Struggle by Ian Haywood Pdf

First published in 1995. Chartism inspired a prodigious literary output, based on its own newspapers and journals. However, while some Chartist political writings have been reprinted, the aesthetic texts of the movement have largely been neglected. This selection of short stories and extracts from longer fiction aims to remedy this situation and covers a diversity of authors, genres and themes. Ian Haywood has written a cogent and wide-ranging review of the Chartist movement and its literature as an introduction to this collection of little-known and revealing stories. The diction is divided into the following areas: the condition of England, Ireland, revolution, women and Chartism itself. This title will be of interest to students of history.

My Struggle: Boyhood

Karl Ove Knausgård
My Struggle Boyhood Book PDF

Author : Karl Ove Knausgård
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Autobiographical fiction, European
ISBN : LCCN:2011048978

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My Struggle: Boyhood by Karl Ove Knausgård Pdf

The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf" but has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.

Some Rain Must Fall

Karl Ove Knausgaard
Some Rain Must Fall Book PDF

Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345815569

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Some Rain Must Fall by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

The fifth installment in the epic six-volume My Struggle cycle is here, highly anticipated by Karl Ove Knausgaard's dedicated fan club--and the first in the cycle to be published separately in Canada. The young Karl Ove moves to Bergen to attend the Writing Academy. It turns out to be a huge disappointment: he wants so much, knows so little, and achieves nothing. His contemporaries have their manuscripts accepted and make their debuts while he begins to feel the best he can do is to write about literature. With no apparent reason to feel hopeful, he continues his exploration of and love for books and reading. Gradually his writing changes; his relationship with the world around him changes too. This becomes a novel about new, strong friendships and a serious relationship that transforms him until the novel reaches the existential pivotal point: his father dies, Karl Ove makes his debut as a writer and everything disintegrates. He flees to Sweden, to avoid family and friends.

My Struggle: Book 3

Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle Book 3 Book PDF

Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374534165

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My Struggle: Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf" but has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.

My Struggle:

Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle Book PDF

Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374534141

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My Struggle: by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

An autobiographical novel focuses on a young man trying to make sense of his place in the disjointed world that surrounds him.

My Struggle: Book Six

Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle Book Six Book PDF

Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0914671995

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My Struggle: Book Six by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

The final installment in the long awaited, internationally celebrated My Struggle series. The full scope and achievement of Knausgaard's monumental work is evident in this final installment of his My Struggle series. Grappling directly with the consequences of Knausgaard's transgressive blurring of public and private Book Six is a troubling and engrossing look into the mind of one of the most exciting artists of our time. Knausgaard includes a long essay on Hitler and Mein Kampf, particularly relevant (if not prescient) in our current global climate of ascending dictatorships.

A Time for Everything

Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780981987354

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A Time for Everything by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

A spellbinding pursuit of divine mysteries from the celebrated author of My Struggle “The writing glows with an intense awareness of the here and now, and loving observations of landscapes and objects . . . an extraordinary novel, and completely original.” —The Independent In the sixteenth century, Antinous Bellori, a boy of eleven, is lost in a dark forest and stumbles upon two glowing beings—one carrying a spear, the other a flaming torch. This event is decisive in Bellori’s life, and he thereafter devotes himself to the pursuit and study of angels, the intermediaries of the divine. Stretching from the Garden of Eden to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines key allegorical encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot’s shame in Sodom; Noah’s isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the seventeenth century. Alighting upon these dramatic scenes—from the Bible and beyond--Knausgaard’s imagination takes flight. The result is a dazzling display of storytelling at its majestic, spellbinding best. Incorporating and challenging tradition, legend, and the Apocrypha, these penetrating glimpses hazard chilling questions: can the nature of the divine undergo change, and can the immortal perish?

Signatures of Struggle

Oded Nir
Signatures of Struggle Book PDF

Author : Oded Nir
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438472454

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Signatures of Struggle by Oded Nir Pdf

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations. Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir moves beyond the dominant interpretive horizon of Israeli literary criticism: the relation of literature to national ideology. Rather than reproducing the usual narrative in which fiction resists the nation’s goals, Nir demonstrates how, in each historical moment, literary engagement with national ideology is a means to think through social tensions or contradictions internal to Israeli society—to solve in imagination problems that threaten the social order. Focusing on moments of transformation, Nir argues that the 1950s crisis of realism was the result of the failure, rather than the success, of the collective transformative project of the haluzim, the settler vanguard of Zionism. In the 1980s, the postmodern turn expressed a crisis of social imagination, whose origin was the incorporation of Palestinians into the Israeli economy after the 1967 war. Finally, he shows that the ways in which history is imaginatively reworked in contemporary Israeli fiction can only be understood through the context of 1950s and 1980s literature. Authors analyzed include Yigal Mossinsohn, Nathan Shaham, Hanoch Bartov, Yehudit Hendel, Orly Castel-Bloom, Yehudit Katzir, David Grossman, Yehoshua Kenaz, and Batya Gur. Oded Nir is Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.

The Struggle for Understanding

Victoria Nesfield,Philip Smith
The Struggle for Understanding Book PDF

Author : Victoria Nesfield,Philip Smith
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438475479

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The Struggle for Understanding by Victoria Nesfield,Philip Smith Pdf

An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected him to ghettoization, imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and a death march. It is remarkable not only that Wiesel survived and found a way to write about his experiences, but that he did so with elegance and profundity. His novels grapple with questions of tradition, memory, trauma, madness, atrocity, and faith. The Struggle for Understanding examines Wiesel’s literary, religious, and cultural roots and the indelible impact of the Holocaust on his storytelling. Grouped in sections on Hasidic origins, the role of the Other, theology and tradition, and later works, the chapters cover the entire span of Wiesel’s career. Books analyzed include the novels Dawn, The Forgotten, The Gates of the Forest, The Town Beyond the Wall, The Testament, The Time of the Uprooted, The Sonderberg Case, and Hostage, as well as his memoir, Night. What emerges is a portrait of Wiesel’s work in its full literary richness. Victoria Nesfield is Research Coordinator in the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York, in the United Kingdom. Philip Smith is Professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design Hong Kong.

Beatles

Lars Saabye Christensen
Beatles Book PDF

Author : Lars Saabye Christensen
Publisher : Arcadia Books
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908129550

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Beatles by Lars Saabye Christensen Pdf

'"Beatles" is the story of Kim Karlsen and his three buddies, Gunnar, Ola and Seb - and, yes, they occasionally like to think of themselves as the Fab Four. They were born in 1951, and the story starts with the first wave of Beatlemania in Norway, in the spring of 1965. Each chapter tales a different Beatles song (or, near the end, post-Beatles solo songs) as its title and theme - all the way through the winter of 1972. There's drinking (lots of it), football, some love-fumblings (Kim has two girlfriends that he has to semi-juggle) and the sort of minor adventures that are part of growing up. "Beatles" is a well-written account of a generation, and of growing up in a specific time. It feels very real' - "The Complete Review".

The End

Karl Ove Knausgaard
The End Book PDF

Author : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448190805

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The End by Karl Ove Knausgaard Pdf

From the international phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, the extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian). * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now * In this final novel in the My Struggle cycle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project. The End reflects on the fallout from the earlier books, with Knausgaard facing the pressures of literary acclaim and its often shattering repercussions. It is at once a meditation on writing and its relationship with reality, and an account of a writer's relationship with himself - from his ambitions to his doubts and frailties. 'Epic... It creates a world that absorbs you utterly' Sunday Times 'Compulsively addictive' Daily Telegraph 'My Struggle has strong claim to be the great literary event of the twenty-first century' Guardian 'A mesmerising, thought-provoking and genuinely important work of art' Spectator

Article 5

Kristen Simmons
Article 5 Book PDF

Author : Kristen Simmons
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429987738

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Article 5 by Kristen Simmons Pdf

New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes. There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back. Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren't always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it's hard for her to forget that people weren't always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It's hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different. Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how to get the things she needs, like food stamps and hand-me-down clothes, and how to pass the random home inspections by the military. Her life is as close to peaceful as circumstances allow. That is, until her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5 of the Moral Statutes. And one of the arresting officers is none other than Chase Jennings...the only boy Ember has ever loved. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Human Struggle

Mona Siddiqui
Human Struggle Book PDF

Author : Mona Siddiqui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108635424

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Human Struggle by Mona Siddiqui Pdf

The first comparative work to explore how humankind seek out the meaning of life amid suffering and struggle.