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Book Early Maryland Poetry  the Works of Ebenezer Cook  Gent   Laureate of Maryland

Download or read book Early Maryland Poetry the Works of Ebenezer Cook Gent Laureate of Maryland written by Bernard C. Steiner and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Maryland Poetry

Download or read book Early Maryland Poetry written by Bernard Christian Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Maryland Poetry

Download or read book Early Maryland Poetry written by Bernard Christian Steiner and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History and the Contemporary Novel

Download or read book History and the Contemporary Novel written by David Cowart and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowart presents a study of international historical fiction since World War II, with reflections on the affinities between historical and fictional narrative, analysis of the basic modes of historical fiction, and readings of a number of historical novels, including John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian, Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa’s The Leopard, D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel, William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, and Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. He proposes recognizing four modes of the historical novel: the past as a "distant mirror" of the present, fictions whose authors seek to pinpoint the precise historical moment when the modern age or some prominent feature of it came into existence, fictions whose authors aspire purely or largely to historical verisimilitude, and fictions whose authors reverse history to contemplate utopia and dystopia in the future. Thus, historical fiction can be organized under the rubrics: The Distant Mirror; The Turning Point; The Way It Was; and The Way It Will Be. This fourfold schema and his focus on postwar novels set Cowart’s work apart from previous studies, which have not devoted adequate space to the contemporary historical novel. Cowart argues that postwar historical fiction merits more extensive treatment because it is the product of an age unique in the annals of history—an age in which history itself may end.

Book The Mind and Spirit of Early America

Download or read book The Mind and Spirit of Early America written by Richard Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book MLN

Download or read book MLN written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.

Book The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry

Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry written by Burt Kimmelman and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 2008 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to American poets, poetry and literary movements from colonial times to the 21st century.

Book Modern Language Notes

Download or read book Modern Language Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Center for Research Libraries Catalogue  Monographs

Download or read book The Center for Research Libraries Catalogue Monographs written by Center for Research Libraries (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Louisiana Studies

Download or read book Louisiana Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sot Weed Factor

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  • Author : John Barth
  • Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Release : 2016-01-12
  • ISBN : 1628972009
  • Pages : 737 pages

Download or read book The Sot Weed Factor written by John Barth and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the 18th-century picaresque novel-think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy -is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late 17th century and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, dutiful son and determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco (or "sot weed") plantation. He is also eventually given to believe that he has been commissioned by the third Lord Baltimore to write an epic poem, The Marylandiad. But things are not always what they seem. Actually, things are almost never what they seem. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many perils. Pirates, Indians, shrewd prostitutes, armed insurrectionists - Cooke endures them all, plus assaults on his virginity from both women and men. Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale -revealed to us in the "secret" journals of Capt. John Smith - that anyone has ever dared to tell." —Time Magazine

Book Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form

Download or read book Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form written by Frank Northen Magill and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1952 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives synopses of novels, plays, epics, essays, philosophical works, and poetry, along with principle characters and date of first publication or presentation.

Book Critical Essays on John Barth

Download or read book Critical Essays on John Barth written by Joseph J. Waldmeir and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books in Print

Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 2062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature

Download or read book Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books In Print 2004 2005

Download or read book Books In Print 2004 2005 written by Ed Bowker Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2004 with total page 3274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publishers  Trade List Annual

Download or read book The Publishers Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: