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From the outset, the social space of the essay is involved with the text' s readers to the degree that conversation is implied – more or less intimate, even argumentative. The essay will often have originated in conversation, or the conversations of groups gathered around an event. Its long form may both contain and measure the extended time of face-to-face conversation or imply that extent; in this it will differ from...
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There's good news for everyone who loves Bernard Shaw: because his works are going out of copyright, we can expect to see many more productions of his wonderful plays - and to be surprised again by his insight, humor, and relevance.Pygmalion (more familiar in its musical form - My Fair Lady) is probably his most popular play - and his most surprising one.In Pygmalion's Wordplay, I argue that long before the postmodernists came along, Shaw intuited...
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An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction.
The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the "tyranny" of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of plot-driven Victorian novels, plot kept its hold on them through the influence of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of Nella Larsen,...
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Emilio Uranga y Ramón López Velarde fueron los principales testigos de una dramática historia; la de una "patria suave" y su amada imposible, "ojerosa y pintada": la Revolución.
Difícilmente encontraremos una lectura de López Velarde tan sostenida y con tantas capas como la de Emilio Uranga, filósofo y periodista. Las obras de uno y otro forman uno de los dísticos más agudos y más singulares de nuestra cultura. A ambos les interesó "todo...
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Quién no ha temido perder la memoria o la cordura, quién no ha puesto en duda su lugar en este mundo, quién no ha llegado a creer que su destino se encuentra en un sitio muy lejano al que nunca habrá de llegar, quién no se ha enfrentado a los estragos del paso del tiempo sobre los cuerpos?
Los personajes que habitan estas historias encarnan las mismas interrogantes y una circunstancia que los hace particulares: un hombre que escucha hablar a...
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"Neville's observations on inner and outer worlds deserve a large readership." -Studies in Short Fiction
"Blending fictional and reportorial technique, Ms. Neville unwinds a tapestry of the Indiana seasons . . . in scene after remarkable scene she succeeds in disturbing and undermining one's calm. . . . moving . . . " -Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
" . . . shrewedly perceptive studies of the poetics of place . . . Neville pierces...
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Con su estilo característico, sencillo y terso, Silvia Molina busca en esta novela a otro personaje definitivo en su biografía, uno que late en sus recuerdos de niñez y juventud. Ya ha reconstruido la ausencia de un padre inusitado al que no conoció (Imagen de Héctor), el campechano Héctor Pérez Martínez, intelectual y político que tuvo una vida corta pero fecunda para el país y para un sinnúmero de refugiados españoles que encontraron...
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Untying Things Together helps to clarify the stakes of the last fifty years of literary and cultural theory by proposing the idea of a sexuality of theory.
In 1905, Freud published his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the book that established the core psychoanalytic thesis that sexuality is central to formations of the unconscious. With this book, Eric L. Santner inverts Freud's title to take up the sexuality of theory-or, more exactly,...
9) Grashalme
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mehrbuch-Weltliteratur! eBooks, die nie in Vergessenheit geraten sollten.
Die Sammlung der meist in freien Versen verfassten Gedichte schlägt einen kraftvoll-optimistischen, hymnischen Grundton an und entwirft als ausdrücklich amerikanisches Opus emanzipiert von Europa selbstbewusst das Lebensgefühl der Neuen Welt.
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Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion...
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El texto ofrece un análisis particularmente original y detallado de la dinámica tanto urbana como rural de las redes del narcotráfico. Las grandes mutaciones están claramente resaltadas: de la marihuana a la cocaína, de la importación de la materia prima proveniente de Perú y Bolivia al control de la producción nacional, de los laboratorios a la organización de circuitos de exportación, del manejo de los mercados exteriores, el mercado norteamericano...
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The chapters in the book were meticulously chosen by the author. These are national occurrences combined with personal experiences. I had the impression that all adults at some point in their lives have witnessed something whether good or bad but decided not to intervene. Many of the readers probably have witnessed an unqualified person at work knowing the right things to say and were promoted far beyond their competency. You ask yourself if anyone...
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Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was "at once honored and mystified." But to Perloff's surprise and her readers' delight, the resulting assembly not only presents an accessible and provocative introduction to Perloff's critical thought, but also highlights the wide range of her interests, and the energetic...
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The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of Lizzie and Laura, who are tempted by the fruit sold by the goblin merchants. In this fully illustrated and beautiful volume, illustrator Georgie McAusland brings the words and story to life.
Breathing new life into the Victorian tradition of illustrated poems, this book reads like a picture story book. The stunning illustrations illuminate and drive the narrative forward...
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Jane Austen's readers continue to find delight in the justness of her moral and psychological discriminations. But for most readers, her values have been a phenomenon more felt than fully apprehended. In this book, Stuart M. Tave identifies and explains a number of the central concepts across Austen's novels-examining how words like "odd," "exertion," and, of course, "sensibility," hold the key to understanding the Regency author's language of moral...
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Inspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.
When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with groundbreaking literary feats-including Michel de Montaigne and John Milton-conceived of their writing in surprisingly modest and domestic terms. In contrast to the monumental...
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Im Jahr 1924 wurde Johannes Mario Simmel in Wien geboren. 1949, als Dolmetscher der amerikanischen Besatzungssoldaten, veröffentlichte er den ersten Roman, 1999, als Beherrscher der Bestsellerlisten, den letzten. Sein Gesamtwerk gilt als engagiertes Spiegelbild eines halben Jahrhunderts. Markus Giesinger, Germanist und Historiker, würdigt mit Gedankenporträts aus Simmels Romanen das Schaffen des von Millionen Geliebten und von der Kritik oft Unterschätzten....
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Durante la fase final de la Guerra de los Cien Años, que enfrentó a los reinos de Francia e Inglaterra entre los años 1337 y 1453, probablemente no exista ningún personaje sobre el que estemos mejor y más documentados que sobre Juana de Arco. Esta breve biografía está compuesta casi en su totalidad por testimonios de la época. Permite precisar los marcos personales, políticos, militares, jurídicos, religiosos y literarios en los que se sitúa...
19) Entre "sueños"
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Las palabras no siempre se escuchan o se leen. A veces solo existen en prosa y entre líneas. Indudablemente las mías, mis palabras, se sienten. Date la oportunidad de sentir mis palabras, de recordar lo olvidado y de escuchar el silencio en cada página. Desde el amor al arrepentimiento, al olvido y la admiración. Ya que no hay nada más enloquecido que el cerebro de un enamorado, un hijo, un trabajador y un ser humano.
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The Mystery To This Book
...is to make you smile, laugh, or just shake your head.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversations?'
And then the murders began.
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, By Lewis...
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