Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature – serie
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On Histories & Stories - Selected Essays (Cobee)
Selected Essays
Av AS Byatt
Häftad, 2002
544 kr
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In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing and remembering, gifted novelist and critic Byatt sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time.
Consciousness and the Novel
Connected Essays
Av David Lodge
Häftad, 2004
363 kr
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Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David …
Wellsprings
Inbunden, 2008
185 kr
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When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa—Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual—answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. In “Four …
Confessions of a Young Novelist
Av Umberto Eco
Inbunden, 2011
481 kr
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Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these “confessions,” the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction.He begins by …
Breaking of Style
Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
Häftad, 1995
376 kr
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"Lucid and elegant...a tour de force."—A. O. Scott, NationThree lectures on the fraught process of poetic development from a titan of contemporary criticism. Style is the material body of lyric poetry. To cast off an earlier style is to commit an act of violence against the creative self. Why do …
