Download or read book Essays on Fiction Dickens Melville Hawthorne and Faulkner written by Thomas E. Connolly and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays deal with the compositional and literary scope of Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne, and Faulkner. They discuss areas such as Why The Reverand Mr Dimmesdale Was Not Named George, and Christian Symbolism in Some Works of William Faulkner.
Download or read book Creating Yoknapatawpha written by Owen Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Yoknapatawpha is a study of the crucial interplay of reading and writing processes involved in constructing the textual environment of William Faulkner’s work, and the nature and significance of the world created by these many forces. Yoknapatawpha County, the author contends, is the product of these mainly mental processes of construction at all levels, and it is in the similar and even analogous situations that exist between readers and writers of and in the fiction that the dynamic of Faulkner’s work is most keenly discovered. The book discusses novels from throughout Faulkner’s career, and uses elements of Bakhtinian and reader-response theory, among others, to explore its subject, eschewing the limited focus both of strictly formal and more content-oriented approaches, and demonstrating the need for readers and writers to work together, whether harmoniously or otherwise. By examining the fictive nature of Yoknapatawpha, and the requirement for everybody to participate fully in its creation, we can establish useful bases for investigations into the ‘real world’ issues with which Faulkner is so concerned.
Download or read book The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative Perspective and Irony in Selected Chinese and American Fiction written by Ban Wang and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reconsiders irony by blending classical and contemporary critical notions. It revamps the notions of authorial perspective, plot, emotional effect and other generic features of fiction by incorporating socio-historical analysis of practice, ideology and discourse. In discussing Chinese texts, it shows how narrative structure breaks down and authoritative dogma and myth fall apart under a critical irony, shifting narrative stances and multi-voiced language.
Download or read book Selected Interdisciplinary Essays on the Representation of the Don Juan Archetype in Myth and Culture written by Andrew Ginger and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays offer an interdisciplinary approach to the figure of Don Juan, exploring the developing and different responses to him over the centuries, across the genres and media. They address the key formulation of the character in 17th-century Spain, trace his development through the opera up to and beyond Mozart, and, finally, survey his destiny in the Modern Period of literature.
Download or read book Interpreting Radical Metaphor in the Experimental Fictions of Donald Barthelme Thomas Pynchon and Kathy Acker written by Victoria De Zwaan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that the often-noted resistance to interpretation by these authors' experimental fiction has to do with the radical functioning of metaphor in their texts. After an introductory discussion about the contemporary debates about metaphor and narrative, each author's work is examined in various theoretical contexts such as cognitivist models, deconstruction, modernism and post-modernism, concentrating on a number of narrative strategies which are grouped under the term piracy. The conclusion situates the metaphoric narrative in relation to the competing literary critical paradigms of postmodernist fiction.
Download or read book Linguistic Transformations in Romantic Aesthetics from Coleridge to Emily Dickinson written by Morag Harris and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Morag Harris is firmly grounded in the domain of aesthetics. Her interests lie in the linguistic transformations that take place when the received signs of conventional poetic language metamorphose into the idiosyncratic symbols of a new poem. At the same time this transformation reflects an increment of increase in the identity of the poet, as a poet - a fusion of objective and subjective to create a third thing.
Download or read book An Introduction to Selected Afro Latino Writers written by Margaret Lindsay Morris and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief monograph discusses the works of ten writers from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Uruguay, and Ecuador. Their work is quoted extensively, in both Spanish and English. The book discusses the major themes of their work, and meditates on issues of identity--specifically, the role of Black people in Latino culture. Morris teaches at Smith College. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Reference Guide to American Literature written by Thomas Riggs and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of American writers, thinkers, and cultural figures, written by subject experts.
Download or read book A Comparative Study of Longinus and Al Jurjani written by Adnan K. Abdulla and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolidating and expanding arguments and conclusions he has made in two articles in English and a book in Arabic, Abdulla investigates the similarities in the ideas and critical criteria of two the important critics. Longinus wrote Peri Hupsous (On the Sublime) in the first or third century AD. Al-Qadi al Jurjani wrote Al-Wasata bayna al-Mutanabbi
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aspects of Post war German and Japanese Drama 1945 1970 written by Hiroko Harada and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of post-war literary developments in Germany and Japan, this study compares several representative dramas. These playwrights attempt to come to terms with military defeat, betrayal by leaders, wartime atrocities, holocaust, blindness, passivity, guilt, collective and individual responsibility.
Download or read book Dramas of the Nuclear Age a Descriptive List of English language Plays written by Charles A. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a bibliographic and descriptive record of English language plays that deal directly and significantly with the Bomb, a code term denoting all major aspects of the Nuclear Age that relate to atomic weapons - but not nuclear power. Descriptions of the plays are oriented toward their content as nuclear-age dramas. The descriptions are presented in chronological order, since the plays vary in nature and number according to the nuclear situation that existed in the real world. It includes a selective chronology of that evolving situation along with the landmarks of literature and journalism that it spawned. An index of playwrights concludes the volume.
Download or read book Comparative Readings of Poems Portraying Symbolic Images of Creative Genius written by Carlos Ceia and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cluster of comparative essays opens up new critical and cultural vistas, as much for the English-speaking reader as the Portuguese scholar. Dr. Ceia's foreword sets out with absolute clarity the objectives and scope of his study in which he will examine the way that poetic imagination is treated by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, arguably Portugal's greatest living poet, as well as by other major writers of the Western and Eastern traditions. This cluster of comparative essays opens up new critical and cultural vistas, as much for the English-speaking reader as the Portuguese scholar. The author's foreword sets out with absolute clarity the objectives and scope of his study, in which he will examine the way that poetic imagination is treated by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, arguably Portugal's greatest living poet, as well as by other major writers of the Western and Eastern traditions. In chapter one, basing himself on the theories of Freud and Jung, and taking his examples from a wide-ranging if not eclectic selection of writers (Ted Hughes, Robert Graves and Seamus Heaney among others), Dr Ceia breaks new ground in his quest to explore the ways in which his subjects h
Download or read book The Dixie Limited written by M. Thomas Inge and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flannery O'Connor once noted, "The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down." Her railroading metaphor wittily captures much of the respect and unease Faulkner's example brought the worldwide community of authors. Few other writers have exerted as profound an influence on literature as Faulkner. Prominent literary scholar M. Thomas Inge documents the scope of his influence in the twentieth century through the words of those writers themselves. This collection of essays offers a survey attempting to capture exactly what Faulkner meant to his literary peers and colleagues both in the United States and abroad. Inge has combed essays, articles, reviews, letters, and comments written by over forty novelists, poets, and playwrights about Faulkner's fiction and the power of his literary accomplishment. Many major American writers sound off here, as well as important figures from France, England, Japan, and South America. Some speak about his technical virtuosity and how this expertise has directly influenced them, and others express the difficulties of trying to escape his example. A few even criticize him for what they see as artistic failures. The variety of responses demonstrate, in any case, that Faulkner created an unavoidable power in his own time and remains a permanent force in literature.
Download or read book The Metaphysical Novel in England and America Dickens Bulwer Melville and Hawthorne written by Edwin M. Eigner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engendering Romance written by E. Miller Budick and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how four 20th-century women writers have inherited and adapted a tradition of American romance. Analyzing fiction by Faulkner and others, this work goes on to explain how women have updated the genre to include alternatives to matriarchal (as well as patriarchal) constructions.
