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Holodeck in the Garden
Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction
Av Peter Freese, Charles B Harris
Häftad, 2004
244 kr
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Collecting twenty essays written by distinguished scholars from the United States and Germany, "The Holodeck in the Garden" offers an informative tour of the complex interrelations between science, technology, and contemporary American literature.Contributors include Michael Berube writing on …
Knight's Move
Häftad, 2005
204 kr
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First published in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky, no doubt the most original literary critic and theoretician of the twentieth century, wrote for the newspaper The Life of Art between 1919 and 1921. With his usual epigrammatic, …
Approaching Disappearance
Häftad, 2013
404 kr
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Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary work. His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes, such as solitude, …
Utterly Other Discourse
The Texts of Christine Brooke-Rose
Av Ellen G Friedman, Richard Martin m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
339 kr
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The British novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose (born 1923) is increasingly being regarded as one of the most significant writers of the contemporary period. In her dozen novels she has explored themes as diverse as biligualism (as a metaphor for alienation) and the influence of computer …
Counterfeiters
An Historical Comedy
Av Hugh Kenner
Häftad, 2005
168 kr
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Originally published: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.
I Am Otherwise
The Romance Between Poetry and Theory After the Death of the Subject
Häftad, 2007
383 kr
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I Am Otherwise: The Romance between Poetry and Theory after the Death of the Subject examines the contemporary poet's relationship with language in the age of theory. As the book works through close readings and interpretations of Adrienne Rich and Harold Bloom, John Ashbery and Paul de Man, Jorie …
Walk
Notes on a Romantic Image
Av Jeffrey C Robinson Professor
Häftad, 2006
231 kr
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"The Walk," a meditation on walking and on the literature of walking, ruminates on this pervasive, even commonplace, modern image. It is not so much an argument as a journey along the path of literature, noting the occasions and settings, the pleasures and possibilities of different types of …
Mind of the Novel
Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable
Häftad, 2006
332 kr
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From Moby-Dick to The Unnamable, from A Tale of a Tub to The Book of Questions, Bruce Kawin explores the nature of self-conscious fiction and compares its structure to that of human consciousness. Focusing on texts that confront their own limits by trying to name the unnamable, the ineffable self, …
Rayner Heppenstall
A Critical Study
Av G J Buckell, Gareth Buckell
Häftad, 2007
330 kr
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This book examines the first five novels of Rayner Heppenstall (1911-1981). During his lifetime, many critics cited Heppenstall as the founder of the nouveau roman, believing his debut novel, The Blaze of Noon (1939), anticipated the post-war innovations of French writers such as Alain …
Literature and Cinematography
Av Viktor Borisovich Shklovskii
Häftad, 2008
185 kr
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In this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what art is, by implication he also quietly lays to waste the theories and people who view art as a means of representing "the …
Paradox of Freedom
A Study of Nicholas Mosley's Intellectual Development in His Novels and Other Writings
Häftad, 2007
332 kr
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As the first book-length study of Nicholas Mosley, "The Paradox of Freedom" combines a discussion of the author's incredible biography with an investigation of his writing, nearly all of which is published by Dalkey Archive Press.The son of Oswald Mosley (the leader of Britain's fascistic …
Phantasms of Matter
In Gogol (and Gombrowicz)
Av Michal Oklot
Häftad, 2009
383 kr
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An investigation into the problem of writing about matter in Nikolai Gogol's work and, indirectly, into the entire Neoplatonic tradition in Russian literature, this book is not intended to be an exhaustive historical survey of the concept of matter, but rather an effort to enumerate the images of …
Fiction Now
The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Av Warren Motte
Häftad, 2008
339 kr
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Fiction Now reports on the current states of the novel in France, taking a series of soundings within the compass of innovative French writing since 2001. Chapters focus closely upon Jean Echenoz, Marie Redonnet, Christian Gailly, Lydie Salvayre, G?rard Gavarry, H?l?ne Lenoir, Patrick Lapeyre, and …
Life Itself
Louis Paul Boon as Innovator of the Novel
Häftad, 2008
339 kr
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Life Itself is the first book-length study in English of the great Flemish writer Louis Paul Boon. A.M.A. van den Oever begins by questioning the paradox between Boon's international reputation as a significant innovator of the novel, and the peculiarly reductive biographical interpretations …
Intersections
Essays on Richard Powers
Av Stephen J Burn, Peter Dempsey
Häftad, 2008
339 kr
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Since his first novel was published in 1985, Richard Powers has assembled a body of work whose intellectual breadth and imaginative energy bears comparison with that of any writer working today. Intersections: Essays on Richard Powers pays tribute to that achievement by collecting seventeen …
Nicholas Mosley's Life and Art
A Biography in Six Interviews
Häftad, 2009
272 kr
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Nicholas Mosley is a writer for whom fiction is a way both to convey and confront the paradoxes and dilemmas of life.
Birth of Death and Other Comedies
The Novels of Russell H. Greenan
Av Tom Whalen
Häftad, 2011
275 kr
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Russell H. Greenan's "It Happened in Boston?" is one of the most radical narratives to appear in the late 1960s ("this is a book that encompasses everything" as David L. Ulin noted in "Bookforum"). Yet due in large part to the difficulty of classifying Greenan's fiction, many readers are unaware of …
Balthus
A Biography
Häftad, 2014
266 kr
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This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time: the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola, whose brilliant, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art.Balthus’s …
