Download or read book Tlooth written by Harry Mathews and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a doctor who, in removing a bone spur from our narrator, manages to amputate a ring and index finger, a significant surgical error considering that the narrator is, or was, a violinist. When Dr. Roak is released from prison, our narrator escapes in order to begin the pursuit, and thus begins a digressive journey from Afghanistan to Venice, then on to India and Morocco and France. All of this takes place amid Mathews's fictional concern and play with games, puzzles, arcana, and stories within stories.
Download or read book How to Do Things with Forms written by Chris Andrews and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Literature) is a literary think tank that brings together writers and mathematicians. Since 1960, its worldwide influence has refreshed ways of making and thinking about literature. How to Do Things with Forms assesses the work of the group, explores where it came from, and envisages its future. Redefining the Oulipo’s key concept of the constraint in a clear and rigorous way, Chris Andrews weighs the roles of craft and imitation in the group’s practice. He highlights the importance of translation for the Oulipo’s writers, explaining how their new forms convey meanings and how these famously playful authors are also moved by serious concerns. Offering fresh interpretations of emblematic Oulipian works such as Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual, Andrews also examines lesser-known texts by Jacques Roubaud, Anne F. Garréta, and Michelle Grangaud. How to Do Things with Forms addresses questions of interest to anyone involved in the making of literature, illuminating how writers decide when to stop revising, the risks and benefits of a project mentality in creative writing, and ways of holding a reader’s interest for as long as possible.
Download or read book Cigarettes written by Harry Mathews and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud. Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world, horse racing, and sexual intrigues. Or, as one critic did, compare it to a Jane Austen creation, or to an Aldous Huxley novel—and be right and wrong on both counts. What one can emphatically say is that Cigarettes is a brilliant display of Harry Mathews's ingenuity and deadly playfulness.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets written by Terence Diggory and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of poets associated with the New York Schools of the early twentieth century.
Download or read book Whirligig written by Mac Wellman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Solitary Twin written by Harry Mathews and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Mathews’s last novel is one of his most accessible—and perhaps one of his best Harry Mathews's brilliant final work, The Solitary Twin, is an engaging mystery that simultaneously considers the art of storytelling. When identical twins arrive at an unnamed fishing port, they become the focus of the residents' attention and gossip. The stories they tell about the young men uncover a dizzying web of connections, revealing passion, sex, and murder. Fates are surprisingly intertwined, and the result is a moving, often hilarious, novel that questions our assumptions about life and literature.
Download or read book The Case of the Persevering Maltese written by Harry Mathews and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A companion to The Human Country: New and Collected Stories, this volume contains all of Harry Mathews's nonfiction. These astonishing essays cover a wide range of literary topics, including discussion of complex musical forms and Oulipian techniques, to insightful commentaries on the works of Lewis Carroll, Raymond Roussel, Italo Calvino, Joseph McElroy, and Georges Perec. Throughout the collection Mathews examines the relationship between form and literature in a lucid, intimate voice, arguing with intelligence, grace, and humor for the importance of artifice."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Christine Nasso and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultural Theory after 9 11 written by Robert Doran and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of material seeks to interpret the events of September 11, 2001 from the perspective of cultural theory — that is, from the perspective of anthropological and social forces that motivate human beings and give meaning to their thoughts, actions, and feelings. Though contributors to this volume work within various disciplines, their approach is necessarily holistic—because of the very nature of the event, which resonates on many levels and in diverse spheres of human activity. Clearly the perception of who one’s enemy is has a cultural and psychological impact that goes far beyond the superficial media representations consumed on a daily basis; the very curriculum of American universities has been altered as a result of the 9/11 attacks, and this will have profound and far-reaching effects.
Download or read book The Art of Fiction written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.
Download or read book The Old Fictions and the New written by Richard Kostelanetz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Conversions written by Harry Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism written by Brian McHale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism - people and places from Andy Warhol, Jefferson Airplane and magical realism, to Jean-François Lyotard, Laurie Anderson and cyberpunk - this book creates a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon that continues to exert an influence over our present 'post-postmodern' situation. Comprehensive and accessible, this Introduction is indispensable for scholars, students, and general readers interested in late twentieth-century culture.
Download or read book Trace written by James Boyer May and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And in Conclusion I Would Also Like to Mention Hydrogen written by W. C. Bamberger and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new collection of Bamberger's literary essays focuses on the process of trying to understand difficult new works and concepts, and of coming to grips with something new, mysterious, or simply "the other."
Download or read book Harry Mathews written by Warren Leamon and published by New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although his published work covers more than three decades, Harry Mathews until recently was known only among a relatively small coterie of readers. The author of four novels, several collections of poetry, and a number of short stories, Mathews has made a significant contribution to contemporary literature. His work has been compared with such better-known European writers as Italo Calvino, Raymond Queneau, Raymond Firbank, and Georges Perec. Mathews's novels are distinguished by a sense of playfulness that embraces both his language and his narrative structures. His fiction is filled with puns, puzzles, word games, foreign languages, and literary parodies. His stories and plots are resonant but ambiguous, often operating on several levels at once. Mathews himself has said that he does not wish to mirror external reality; rather he seeks to provide the means by which the reader performs the act of creation. As Warren Leamon characterizes it, Mathews's fiction "though erudite, is very entertaining - fast paced, witty, humorous - and deserves a much wider audience". This book is the first full scale critical study of this American writer. Warren Leamon places Harry Mathews firmly within the context of the various currents in contemporary American and European fiction. He traces the significant links between Mathews's work and a number of important modernists - Joyce, Eliot, Firbank, and Graves among them. Leamon's work provides an important introduction and critical assessment of a heretofore neglected writer, as well as providing readers already familiar with Mathews with useful, detailed information and perceptive analysis of individual works.
Download or read book Bomb written by Betsy Sussler and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
