Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera's place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed the Franco-Czech author as a maker of "period pieces" that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view, revealing a previously unexplored dimension of Kundera's fiction. Building on theorist Ren Girard's notion of "triangular desire," he shows that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive-and bitterly funny-understanding of human attraction.
Most works of fiction (and most movies, too) depict passionate feelings as deeply authentic and spontaneous. Kundera's novels and short stories overturn this romantic dogma. A pounding heart and sweaty palms could mean that we have found "the One" at last-or they could attest to the influence of a model whose desires we are unconsciously borrowing: our amorous predilections may owe less to personal taste or physical chemistry than they do to imitative desire.
At once a comprehensive survey of Kundera's novels and a witty introduction to Girard's mimetic theory, The Book of Imitation and Desire challenges our assumptions about human motive and renews our understanding of a major contemporary author.
Автор: Sastri Название: James Merrill ISBN: 1138992755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138992757 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
James Merrill: Knowing Innocence reevaluates the achievement of this important poet by showing how he takes up an old paradigm - innocence - and reinvents it in response to new historical, scientific, and cultural developments including the bomb, contemporary cosmology, and the question of agency. The book covers Merrill's full career, emphasizing the late poetry, on which there remains little commentary. Illuminating both Merrill's relation to a tradition of literary innocence from Milton to Blake and Wordsworth to Emerson and Stevens, and his relevance to contemporary cultural debates, the rubric of knowing innocence helps us to understand his achievement. Merrill undertakes a career-long effort to know innocence, and develops a thematic and stylistic attitude that is both innocent and knowing, combining attitudes of wonder and hope with reflexive wit, intellectual breadth, and an unflinching gaze at mortality. He ultimately imagines innocence as creative agency, a capacity for imagination, invention, and ethical responsibility. The book demonstrates how, addressing questions of sexual identity, childhood and memory; atomic science, the big bang, and black holes; environmental degradation; AIDS; and the notion of the death of history - while honoring poetry's essential qualities of freedom and play - his poems perform cultural work crucial to his time and ours.
Автор: Michael A. Sheyahshe Название: Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study ISBN: 1476667993 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476667997 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Takes an in-depth look at the world of comic books through the eyes of a Native American reader and offers frank commentary on the medium`s cultural representation of the Native American people. It addresses a range of portrayals, examining how and why Native Americans have been consistently marginalized and misrepresented in comics.
Автор: Hingley Ronald Название: Chekhov: A Biographical and Critical Study ISBN: 0367725835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367725839 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 112290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book, first published in 1950, is a balanced examination of Chekhov`s life and work, a critical analysis of his stories and plays set against the background of his life the Russia of the day. Using Chekhov`s works, biographical details, and his letters, this book is a comprehensive critical study of the writer and the man.
Автор: Greene Robert W. Название: Six French Poets of Our Time: A Critical and Historical Study ISBN: 0691641870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691641874 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 83550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: During the last sixty to seventy years avant-garde poetry in France has evolved in two directions: one toward poetry conceived as a means to an end, the other toward poetry as an end in itself. Focusing on Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Rene Char, Andre du Bouchet, Jacques Dupin, and Marcelin Pleynet as the modern French poets who most faithfully r
Автор: Robert J. Andreach Название: The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy: A Critical Study ISBN: 0786470976 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786470976 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 60990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by American, British, and European playwrights. This analyses recent American works by Caucasian, African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American men and women.
Автор: Joe Sanders Название: Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder: A Critical Study of the Writings ISBN: 1476671516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476671512 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 40650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Since they began appearing in the 1970s, Michael Bishop`s science fiction and fantasy stories have been recognized for their polished prose and their depth of thought and feeling. This book is the first comprehensive study of Bishop`s literary body, examining his work in full.
Автор: King Don W. Название: Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman ISBN: 080286936X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802869364 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 30810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first comprehensive study of a gifted but largely overlooked American writer Joy Davidman (1915-1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she was also an accomplished writer in her own right -- an award winning poet and a prolific book, theater, and film reviewer during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Yet One More Spring is the first comprehensive critical study of Joy Davidman's poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Don King studies her body of work -- including both published and unpublished works -- chronologically, tracing her development as a writer and revealing Davidman's literary influence on C. S. Lewis. King also shows how Davidman's work reflects her religious and intellectual journey from secular Judaism to atheism to Communism to Christianity. Drawing as it does on a cache of previously unknown manuscripts of Davidman's work, Yet One More Spring brings to light the work of a very gifted but largely overlooked American writer.
Автор: Green-lewis, Jennifer Soltan, Margaret Название: Teaching beauty in delillo, woolf, and merrill ISBN: 0230601243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230601246 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Green-Lewis and Soltan celebrate the return of beauty as a subject in its own right to literary studies, a return all the more urgent given beauty s ability to provide not merely consolation but a sense of order and control in the context of a threatening political world.
Автор: Gwiazda Название: James Merrill and W.H. Auden ISBN: 140398431X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403984319 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Merrill`s imaginary recreation of Auden in his occult verse trilogy The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) offers a powerful statement about the dynamics of poetic influence between gay male poets.
Автор: P. Gwiazda Название: James Merrill and W.H. Auden ISBN: 1349539856 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349539857 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 60550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Merrill`s imaginary recreation of Auden in his occult verse trilogy The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) offers a powerful statement about the dynamics of poetic influence between gay male poets.
Автор: Cotter Robert Michael Название: The Great Monster Magazines: A Critical Study of the Black and White Publications of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s ISBN: 1476678987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476678986 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offers a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s to the 1970s. The book describes the rise and fall of these magazines, examining the contributions of Marvel Comics and several other well-known companies, as well as evaluating the effect of the Comics Code Authority on both present and future efforts in the field.
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