Mastering practical criticism, Miller, Lindy

Автор: Strecher Matthew Carl
Название: The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 0816691983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816691982
Издательство: Wiley
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In an "other world" composed of language--it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest--a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts--people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking machines that traverse the dark psychic underworld of this writer's extraordinary fiction.

Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Murakami's wildly imaginative work in many ways remains a mystery, its worlds within worlds uncharted territory. Finally in this book readers will find a map to the strange realm that grounds virtually every aspect of Murakami's writing. A journey through the enigmatic and baffling innermost mind, a metaphysical dimension where Murakami's most bizarre scenes and characters lurk, The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami exposes the psychological and mythological underpinnings of this other world. Matthew Carl Strecher shows how these considerations color Murakami's depictions of the individual and collective soul, which constantly shift between the tangible and intangible but in this literary landscape are undeniably real.

Through these otherworldly depths The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami also charts the writer's vivid "inner world," whether unconscious or underworld (what some Japanese critics call achiragawa, or "over there"), and its connectivity to language. Strecher covers all of Murakami's work--including his efforts as a literary journalist--and concludes with the first full-length close reading of the writer's newest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

Автор: Lewis
Название: An Experiment in Criticism
ISBN: 1107604729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107604728
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Amid the complex welter of current critical theories, C. S. Lewis`s wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.

Автор: Len Gutkin
Название: Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present
ISBN: 0813943906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813943909
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Proust's Recherche, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. Establishing this character as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, aristocratic pretension, theatricality, and extravagance, Len Gutkin traces Victorian aesthetic precendents in the work of the modernist avant-garde, the noir novel, Beatnik experimentalism, and the postmodern thriller. As defined in the period between the fin de siècle and modernism, dandyism was inextricable from representations of queerness. But, rinsed of its suspect associations with the effeminate, dandyism would exert influence over such macho authors such as Hemingway and Chandler, who harnessed its decadent energy. Dandyism, Gutkin argues, is a species of gendered charisma. The performative masquerade of Wilde's decadent dandy is an ancestor to both the gender performance at work in American cowboy lore and the precious self-presentation of twenty-first-century hipsters. We cannot understand modernism and postmodernism's negotiation of gender, aesthetic abstraction, or the culture of celebrity without the dandy. Analyzing the characteristic focus on costume, consumption, and the well-turned phrase in readings of figures ranging from Wyndham Lewis, Djuna Barnes, and William Burroughs to Patricia Highsmith, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ben Lerner, Dandyism reveals the Victorian dandy's legacy across the twentieth century, providing a revisionist history of the relationship between Victorian aesthetics and twentieth-century literature.

Автор: Simon de Bourcier
Название: Pynchon and Relativity: Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon`s Later Novels
ISBN: 1472528301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472528308
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Is time an illusion? Do past, present, and future co-exist in a timeless whole, or are our experiences of change and duration the reality of time? Thomas Pynchon's writing has always been interested in the interplay of these two ways of thinking about time, but his recent fiction has also taken on the task of imaginatively responding to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which in the early years of the twentieth century renewed this ancient debate. In this book, Simon de Bourcier looks in detail at Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, which is set during the period in which Einstein published his world-changing theory, and 1997's Mason & Dixon, set in the eighteenth century when Isaac Newton's picture of a world governed by absolute space and time was unchallenged. By comparing these two novels, Pynchon and Relativity shows that Pynchon's tales of loss, haunting, and time travel are informed by a sophisticated awareness of the philosophical implications of Relativity. The book goes on to examine the consequences of this for our reading of Pynchon's other work.

Автор: Morris Jeremy
Название: Mastering Chaos
ISBN: 3039105469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783039105465
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: This is the first book devoted to the writings of Evgeny Popov (born 1946), a major and controversial figure in the late Soviet and post-Soviet literary landscape. The author uses a wide range of primary and secondary sources, many of them in Russian, alongside detailed analysis of the novels and stories themselves.

Название: Practical Criticism
ISBN: 0333632257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333632253
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Practical criticism underlies everything students of English literature do. This book is a practical, step-by-step guide which shows the student how to gain a sense of what a poem or passage of prose or drama is about, how to analyse it and how to build a successful essay.

Автор: Foerster Maxime
Название: The Politics of Love: Queer Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
ISBN: 1512601705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781512601701
Издательство: Turpin
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Описание: Convincingly shows how heterosexual couples as depicted in nineteenth-century French literature challenged traditional norms of both gender and sexuality

Автор: Cristopher Hollingsworth
Название: Alice beyond Wonderland: Essays for the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 1609385136 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609385132
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Explores the ubiquitous power of Lewis Carroll`s imagined world. Including work by some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the field of Lewis Carroll studies, Alice beyond Wonderland considers the literary, imaginative, and cultural influences of Carroll`s 19th-century story on the high-tech, postindustrial cultural space of the twenty-first century.

Автор: Ngugi Mukoma Wa
Название: The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
ISBN: 047205368X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472053681
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Situates South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental and diaspora African writers of international renown.

Автор: Monteith
Название: The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
ISBN: 1107610850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107610859
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. Featuring newly commissioned essays from leading scholars, the text highlights patterns and connections amongst Southern writers across generations, making it a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies and the history of storytelling in America.

Автор: Watson Bain
Название: A Poetry Book for Boys and Girls
ISBN: 1107440629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107440623
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: First published in 1933 in three sections, as the second edition of a 1927 original, this book was created to provide children from seven to eleven years of age with an introduction to a broad range of poetry. At the time of publication, the selection was notable for containing a high proportion of works by contemporary writers, together with numerous old favourites.

Автор: K Nayar Pramod
Название: Transnational in English Literature
ISBN: 0415840023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415840026
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Transnational English Literature examines English literary history through its transnational engagements and argues that every period of English Literature can be characterised through its global relations. English identity and nationhood is therefore defined through its negotiation with other regions and cultures.