EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape

Download or read book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape written by Michel Butor and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rambling novel of dreams and reflection inspired by a library in a German castle full of books and maps. The narrator is a young Frenchman who works for the owner. The author is a leading practitioner of the French nouveau roman. He wrote Mobile.

Book How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes

Download or read book How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes written by Will Cuppy and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2018 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hermes and Aphrodite Encounters

Download or read book Hermes and Aphrodite Encounters written by Metka Zupančič and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Alchemist in Literature

Download or read book The Alchemist in Literature written by Theodore Ziolkowski and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the figure of the alchemist in Western literature from its first appearance in Dante down to the present. From the beginning alchemy has had two aspects: exoteric or operative (the transmutation of baser metals into gold) and esoteric or speculative (the spiritual transformation of the alchemist himself). As scholarly interest in alchemy intensified, writers were attracted to the figure of the alchemist and his quest for power. The figure of the alchemist in literature provides a seismograph for major shifts in intellectual and cultural history.

Book Monkey Portraits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jill Greenberg
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2007-10-12
  • ISBN : 9780316005128
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Monkey Portraits written by Jill Greenberg and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jill Greenberg offers a fascinating, funny, and all-too-human collection of celebrity monkey and ape portraits. Each of these 76 amazing anthropomorphic photographs will remind readers of someone they know. Little, Brown and Company

Book The Reception of James Joyce in Europe

Download or read book The Reception of James Joyce in Europe written by Geert Lernout and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major scholarly collection of international research on the reception of James Joyce in Europe

Book First Pages

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giancarlo Maiorino
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010-11
  • ISBN : 0271048190
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book First Pages written by Giancarlo Maiorino and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &“Titology,&” a term first coined in 1977 by literary critic Harry Levin, is the field of literary studies that focuses on the significance of a title in establishing the thematic developments of the pages that follow. While the term has been used in the literary community for thirty years, this book presents for the first time a thoroughly developed theoretical discussion on the significance of the title as a foundation for scholarly criticism. Though Maiorino acknowledges that many titles are superficial and &“indexical,&” there exists a separate and more complex class of titles that do much more than simply decorate a book&’s spine. To prove this argument, Maiorino analyzes a wide range of examples from the modern era through high modernism to postmodernism, with writings spanning the globe from Spain and France to Germany and America. By examining works such as Essais, The Waste Land, Ulysses, and Don Quixote, First Pages proves the power of the title to connect the reader to the thematic, cultural, and literary context of the writing as a whole. Much like a fa&çade to a building, the title page serves as the frontispiece of literature, a sign that offers perspective and demands interpretation.

Book Vain Art of the Fugue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dumitru Țepeneag
  • Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781564784216
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Vain Art of the Fugue written by Dumitru Țepeneag and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The reader discovers new satisfactions with such a book. Far from the insipid savors generated by a passive fascination, the text stirs up the joys of an endless activity." Le Monde

Book Satirizing Modernism

Download or read book Satirizing Modernism written by Emmett Stinson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels-such as Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, William Gaddis's The Recognitions, and Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things-were under-recognized and received poor reviews at the time of publication, but have increasingly been acknowledged as both groundbreaking and deeply influential. Satirizing Modernism analyzes these novels in order to present an alternative account of literary modernism, which should be viewed neither as a radical break with the past nor an outmoded set of aesthetics overtaken by a later postmodernism. In self-reflexively critiquing their own aesthetics, these works express an unconventional modernism that both revises literary history and continues to be felt today.

Book France since 1870

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Sowerwine
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-01-25
  • ISBN : 1350307254
  • Pages : 771 pages

Download or read book France since 1870 written by Charles Sowerwine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text surveys the cultural, social and political history of France from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune through to Emmanuel Macron's presidency. Incorporating the newest interpretations of past events, Sowerwine seamlessly integrates culture, gender, and race into political and social history. This edition features extended coverage of the 2007-8 financial crisis, the rise of the political and cultural far right and the issues of colonialism and its contemporary repercussions. This is an essential resource for undergraduate and taught postgraduate students of history, French studies or European studies taking courses on modern French history or European history. This text will also appeal to scholars and readers with an interest in modern French history. 'Richly informative and lucidly presented, Sowerwine's France since 1870 offers essential reading for students and researchers. Particularly powerful is the new final chapter, which draws on historical expertise to explore and explain the literary and political malaise of contemporary France.' – Jessica Wardhaugh, University of Warwick, UK. 'This third edition is unparalleled in its reach and excellence as a history of modern France from 1870 to the present. Sowerwine seamlessly integrates culture, gender, and race into political and social history. His incorporation of the newest interpretations of past events as well as the historical perspective he lends to current events such as terror attacks, new laws regarding labor and marriage, modern globalization, neo-liberalism-as well as to France's darkening mood--make this highly readable book a true masterpiece.' – Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California, USA. 'Her recent social and economic challenges have cast deep shadows into the story of modern France that Charles Sowerwine tells so clearly. Those dark questions about culture, politics and society have their full place in this This scholarly but accessible reassessment of French history since 1870. This edition raises new questions about France's story, directly and compellingly, and remains the key text for readers who are curious about modern France.' – Julian Wright, Northumbria University, UK. 'Following on the fine precedent set by earlier editions, this masterful survey offers students and the public alike a readable and illuminating account of the tortuous and ever intriguing path of French history since 1870.' – George Sheridan, University of Oregon, USA.

Book Children of Darkness and Light

Download or read book Children of Darkness and Light written by Nicholas Mosley and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist investigates the appearance of the Virgin Mary to a group of children in England. The site is near a nuclear power station which had an accident. He remembers children having a similar vision during a nuclear accident in Yugoslavia. Is there a connection?

Book The Presentable Art of Reading Absence

Download or read book The Presentable Art of Reading Absence written by Jay Wright and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presentable Art of Reading Absence takes as impulse the act of meditation, in which the energetic relationship between a meditative body and its universe is not only the envisioning of absence by presence but also vision itself: "Here begins the revelation of a kiosk." With occult emotionality and analytic brilliance, Jay Wright has written the user's guide to evanescence: "I have become attuned / to the disappearance of all things / and of my self . . ."

Book A Dictionary of the Avant Gardes

Download or read book A Dictionary of the Avant Gardes written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes recognizes that change is a driving force in all the arts. It covers major trends in music, dance, theater, film, visual art, sculpture, and performance art--as well as architecture, science, and culture.

Book Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater written by Fran Mason and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-21 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and the variety of forms that have been produced. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century operates.

Book The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Download or read book The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater written by Fran Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and theater and the variety of forms that have been produced. It contains a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual writers, important aesthetic practices, significant texts, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries operates." --Book Jacket.

Book Complete Fiction of W M  Spackman

Download or read book Complete Fiction of W M Spackman written by William Mode Spackman and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An omnibus collection of novels and short stories by a late writer (1905-1990) whose witty tales of adultery found few publishers in their day. Typical is the novel, An Armful of Warm Girl, written in the 1950s and dealing with the many affairs of an upper-class roue. No publisher would accept the manuscript which took nearly 20 years to sell.