Download or read book The Rhetoric of Pessimism and Strategies of Containment in the Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant written by David Bryant and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study proposes an overall interpretation based on an analysis of three constants. First, Maupassant accepts that man lives in an objective, contingent world in which he has no purpose, and elevates the notion of chance into an explanation of the human condition. Secondly, this awareness explains the adoption of a view of the world as farce. Thirdly, in order to shape and mitigate the consequences of these positions, Maupassant elaborates a rhetoric of pessimism and strategies of containment. The book argues that this triple approach enables Maupassant to rise above the evidence of his experience and gives the reader access to a work that otherwise might appear inconsequential and disparate. Maupassant's three hundred and six short stories represent a unified series of variations on three constants and offer a coherent, structured response to a personal dilemma that nevertheless has wider application.
Download or read book Guy de Maupassant s Selected Works Norton Critical Editions written by Guy de Maupassant and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norton Critical Edition includes:- Thirty of Maupassant's best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith.- An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge.- Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant's writing, including politics, war, love,despair, and the supernatural.- Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant's time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, MaryDonaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk.- A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
Download or read book Guy de Maupassant s Selected Works First International Student Edition Norton Critical Editions written by Guy de Maupassant and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Smith successfully captures Maupassant’s depiction of nineteenth-century French culture using terminology that allows these wonderful texts to reach a fresh generation of readers. A solid translation of some wonderful short stories.” —Library Journal The Norton Critical Edition includes: - Thirty of Maupassant’s best short stories centering on war, the supernatural, and French life, translated by Sandra Smith. - An introduction and explanatory footnotes by Robert Lethbridge. - Essays, letters, and newspaper articles on the subjects that influenced Maupassant’s writing, including politics, war, love, despair, and the supernatural. - Sixteen critical assessments from Maupassant’s time to our own, including those by Joseph Conrad, David Coward, Mary Donaldson-Evans, Rachel Killick, Roger L. Williams, Ruth A. Hottell, and Katherine C. Kurk. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
Download or read book To the Sun written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1881, having established himself as a writer of great pedigree and potential and at the beginning of a ten-year period that would see him become one of the most popular authors of his age, Maupassant embarked on a dangerous journey to the troubled colony of Algeria, believed to be on the verge of an Arab insurrection. In To the Sun Maupassant describes a land and populace vanquished by the twin powers of the sun and French colonialism, he bows down before the former, finding a personal absolution in the light, heat and space of the desert. But he stands up to the latter, pointing out the faults and absurdities of French colonialism, all the while demonstrating his brilliance as a political reporter who came to understand Algeria and its problems in such a short space of time. This is the first complete English translation of Maupassant's travel book Au soleil (1884), including the three Fragments 'At the Spas'; 'In Brittany'; and 'Le Creusot', as well as full critical apparatus.
Download or read book The Foreign Soul the Angelus written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Foreign Soul we are in classic Maupassant territory. Robert Mariolle, a wealthy Parisian bachelor, has just arrived in the fashionable spa town of Aix-les-Bains determined to enjoy himself at the casino in the company of high society, attempting to get over his break up with mistress, Henriette Lambel. The Angelus was intended to be Maupassant's great masterpiece, an ambitious inverted allegory of Christianity into which the author would pour his growing pessimism and despair. Set during the Franco-Prussian War, as were some of Maupassant's finest short stories, The Angelus finds the pregnant Countess de Bremontal alone in her chateau as Prussian troops move into the neighbourhood. Here are the first English translations of Maupassant's two unfinished novels, The Foreign Soul [L'Ame etrangere] and The Angelus [L'Angelus], together with full critical apparatus, including secondary sources outlining Maupassant's future plot ideas and an essay on The Foreign Soul by Paul Bourget.
Download or read book Reference Guide to Short Fiction written by Thomas Riggs and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference Guide to Short Fiction provides study and commentary on the most instrumental writers of short fiction through the 20th century. International in scope, this single scholarly volume includes 779 entries on 377 authors and 402 short stories.
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Download or read book The Art of Rupture written by Charles J. Stivale and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on the psychological forces at play in Guy de Maupassant's writing
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Download or read book Comparative Criticism Volume 20 Philosophical Dialogues written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland.
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