Zigzagging Down A Wild Trail

Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375760617

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Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Bobbie Ann Mason Pdf

In this remarkable book, the author of Shiloh and Other Stories, In Country, and other award-winning books gives us powerful new stories that capture the restless energy of life in contemporary America. The characters here are travelers and seekers, feeling their way toward, or away from the defining moments of their lives. They roam out into the world to England, Alaska, Texas, Saudi Arabia, or ricochet back home to Kentucky, ceaselessly searching, exploring, testing for limits. I felt strange, says Chrissy in With Jazz, as though all my life I had been zigzagging down a wild trail to this particular place. In Charger, a teenage boy races along the interstate, seeking the father who abandoned him years before. In Rolling into Atlanta, a young woman searches for the kind of authenticity she remembers from her rural childhood. In Proper Gypsies, Nancy deals with the shock of being robbed in London. In The Funeral Side, Sandra comes home to try to fulfill her responsibilities to her family, but yearns to escape again to Alaska and the northern lights that haunt her. Writing in the spare, precise, beautifully nuanced language for which she is famous, Bobbie Ann Mason expands her art here in dramatic and illuminating fashion. These fascinating stories bring to life surprising individuals whose journeys shine a bright light on life as it is lived by many Americans today. Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is a beautiful book by one of America's finest writers, a book full of drama, humor, and startling insights into the timeless longings of the human heart.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:49015002942739

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Short Story Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208390

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Short Story Theories by Anonim Pdf

Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story. The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical and practical perspectives on the form. Centering as it does on specific authors and on the wider implications of short story poetics, this collection presents a new series of essays that both reinterpret canonical writers of the genre and advance new critical insights on the most recent trends and contemporary authors. Theorizations about genre reflect on different aspects of the short story from a multiplicity of perspectives and take the form of historical and aesthetic considerations, gender-centered accounts, and examinations that attend to reader-response theory, cognitive patterns, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, postcolonial studies, postmodern techniques, and contemporary uses of minimalist forms. Looking ahead, this collection traces the evolution of the short story from Chaucer through the Romantic writings of Poe to the postmodern developments and into the twenty-first century. This volume will prove of interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of the short story and of literature in general. In addition, the readability and analytical transparence of these essays make them accessible to a more general readership interested in fiction.

Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813175492

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Patchwork by Bobbie Ann Mason Pdf

Bobbie Ann Mason burst onto the American literary scene during a renaissance of short fiction that Raymond Carver called a "literary phenomenon." Anne Tyler hailed Mason as "a full-fledged master of the short story." Mason's work, charged with a spirit of exploration, garnered both popular and critical acclaim. This reader collects outstanding examples of Mason's award-winning work from throughout her writing career and provides a unique look at the development of one of the country's finest writers. Patchwork contains short stories first published in the New Yorker and other leading periodicals; chapters from Mason's acclaimed novels, including In Country, An Atomic Romance, and The Girl in the Blue Beret; and riveting excerpts from Mason's eclectic nonfiction. Some examples of Mason's recent explorations in flash fiction appear here in print for the first time. Mason's writing glows with a nuanced understanding of the struggles and pathos of American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. George Saunders writes in his introduction, "Bobbie Ann Mason is a strange and beautiful writer.... Her stories exist to gently touch on, and praise, even mourn, what it feels like to be alive in this moment." Patchwork conveys Mason's extraordinary talent and range as a writer.

Author : Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788491345633

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Ex-Centric Souths by Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis Pdf

“Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries” adds a voice in ongoing attempts to chart new routes and to decenter the South in many ways in the hope of exploring Southern identity and multiple Souths. The articles collected in this volume bring to the forefront the translocal and transnational connections and relationships between the South and the circum-Caribbean region; they address the changing nature of Southernness, and especially its sense of place, and finally they investigate the potential of various texts to narrate and revisit regional concerns. Some contributions hold up to view topics ignored and marginalized, while other decontextualize themes and issues central to Southern studies by telling alternative histories.

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438127439

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Companion to Literature by Abby H. P. Werlock Pdf

Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."

Author : Constante González Groba
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788491341482

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Unsteadily marching on by Constante González Groba Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : 1567922953

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Bibliotopia, Or, Mr. Gilbar's Book of Books & Catch-all of Literary Facts & Curiosities by Anonim Pdf

What is the origin of the word "book"? What is the oldest working library still in existence? What is an "enchiridion"? An "amphigory"? A "duodecimo"? Which two Nobel laureates refused the prize in literature? How many trees must sacrifice their lives to produce a thousand copies of a 96-page volume of verse? These are some of the questions posed (and answered) in this fascinating farrago of literary trivia, a treasure trove of obscure and irresistible facts, definitions, lists, and quotations that touch on every aspect of books, including their authors, publishers, printers, collectors, critics, readers, and enemies. Under headings that explore the entire history of bibliomania from "The Invention of Paper" to "Some Horror Writers' Offcial Websites," the entries in Bibliotopia provide the insatiably curious reader a delightfully desultory literary education, the kind one might pick up at a cocktail party on Parnassus.

Author : David Rife
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0810859076

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Jazz Fiction by David Rife Pdf

Broad in scope, meticulously researched, and including titles that have long been inaccessible, this resource is an overview of the history of the genre from its beginning to the present."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2146 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Bio-bibliography
ISBN : 9781438140643

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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

Presents articles on feminist literature, including significant authors, themes and history.

Author : M. Thomas Inge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616643

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by M. Thomas Inge Pdf

Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.

Author : Paul D. Staudohar
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dogs
ISBN : 9781556526671

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The Best Dog Stories by Paul D. Staudohar Pdf

Gathers short stories by such authors as Booth Tarkington, Arthur Miller, Rudyard Kipling, Ivan Turgenev, and Jack London.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410355911

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A Study Guide for Bobbie Ann Mason's "Private Lies" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Bobbie Ann Mason's "Private Lies," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812978872

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The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason Pdf

Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he uncovers the truth about those who helped him escape in 1944. At twenty-three, Marshall Stone was a confident, cocksure U.S. flyboy stationed in England, with several bombing raids in a B-17 under his belt. But when enemy fighters forced his plane to crash-land in a Belgian field during a mission to Germany, Marshall had to rely solely on the kindness of ordinary Belgian and French citizens to help him hide from and evade the Nazis. Decades later, restless and at the end of his career as an airline pilot, Marshall returns to the crash site and finds himself drawn back in time, unable to stop thinking about the people who risked their lives to save Allied pilots like him. Most of all, he is obsessed by the girl in the blue beret, a courageous young woman who protected and guided him in occupied Paris. Framed in spellbinding, luminous prose, Marshall’s search for her gradually unfolds, becoming a voyage of discovery that reveals truths about himself and the people he knew during the war. Deeply beautiful and impossible to put down, The Girl in the Blue Beret is an unforgettable story—intimate, affecting, exquisite—of memories, second chances, and one intrepid girl who risked it all for a stranger.

Author : T. Hawkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137011411

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Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror by T. Hawkins Pdf

Argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, American history, and American national purpose. To prove such a contention, the book blends literary, rhetorical, and cultural methods of analysis.