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Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens socioculturally through their use of language....
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Studying short stories can seem a Herculean task especially when one does t for the first time. However, this need not be the case. This book examines the FIRST FIVE stories in A SILENT SONG AND OTHER STORIES ED. BY GODWIN SIUNDU by outlining the most crucial aspects of the short story - SETTING, CONFLICT, THEME and STYLE so that the reader examines them one by one. This makes the study of the short story both exciting and easy. Also, the book (and...
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205 Thoughts from the Heart of a Man, is a collection of poetry for encouragement and guidance from a Man’s prospective. The content of this book is from the brokenness of a man who has accepted his mistakes and successes. In our quest for peace, a person wants to be sure that there is hope. Suffering will come to us all but we must endure, until the end. Since I'm open about loving me for who I am and not for what I'm worth then I have succeeded...
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The world is full of copies. This proliferation includes not just the copying that occurs online and the replication enabled by globalization but the works of avant-garde writers challenging cultural and political authority. In Make It the Same, Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contemporary literature.
Make It the Same explores how poetry-an...
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A history of the idea of "relevance" since the nineteenth century in art, criticism, philosophy, logic, and social thought.
Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkin's sweeping meditation on a key shift in consciousness: the arrival of relevance as the means to grasp how something that was once disregarded, unvalued, or lost to us becomes interesting and important. When so much makes claims to our attention every day, how...
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Michela Vandemere Whimple is a woman whose mother insisted she be perfect in whatever undertaken she took on. When her newborn child, Wendy, is born with some deformity, she gives her up. A loving relative takes Wendy in and soon discovers she is no ordinary child. Growing up she starts to manifest a unique healing power with animals. When the Pullo brothers move in the neighborhood, they are in direct conflict with Wendy's love of nature and her...
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Following the first book on John Steinbeck's The Pearl which examined the PLOT of the novella and the CHARACTERS, this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novella to have a comprehensive view of what the novella is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of john Steinbeck in general or of this novel in particular, to answer any...
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The study of the modern African novel has been quite a challenge both at the high school and at the university level. This is especially so for novels that address traditional tenets of the African society. These novels, however, form a good corpus as a basis for comparative literature, especially looking at the African novel as compared to its European or the American counterpart. Still, the odinary critic is used to earlier African writers including...
69) El Príncipe
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Las personas que intentan obtener el beneplácito de algún soberano, a menudo le ofrecen algo de gran importancia para ellos mismos, o algo que saben es de su particular agrado. Es por esto que los gobernantes siempre están recibiendo caballos, armas, brocados de oro, joyas y todo tipo de ropas elegantes que los donatarios consideran apropiados. Con la esperanza de traer ante vuestra Majestad una muestra de mi lealtad, me doy cuenta de que no hay...
70) Old Money
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Three young boys obtain jobs working for an old farmer in Eastern Kansas. Their first assignment together is to haul a trailer full of cattle across an old, worn out bridge. They tag each other with the nicknames of Runt, Mule and Kid. Those nicknames become their identities forever.
Soon, they band together to take on the town bully. A rivalry develops that lasts for years. Their childhood experiences bond them together. They become closer than...
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El texto de "La Receta" de Francisco Campos Coello busca constituirse como una clara referencia del texto moderno ecuatoriano, despliega un complejo entramado de relaciones tanto evidentes como subrepticias con otras textualidades. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo general el análisis, desde las relaciones transtextuales, de este primer relato de ciencia ficción en Ecuador partiendo de evidenciar sus influencias. Como metodología toma las...
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Poetry is that moment of truth. A couple of words that characteristically challenges what you once felt about yesterday. An ambitiously well versed amount of sentences that puts life in a unique yet particular perspective. Sometimes a poetic moment ropes you in the beginning. Other times poetry tends to cleanse you of what no longer fundamentally matters & opens up the infinite possibility of what does. Poetry is like that first breath of air a baby...
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This book teaches readers, especially students of drama in high school and colleges, how to respond to questions. This is because, often, students do not fail because they do not know; poor performance results from inability to interpret questions appropriately and therefore, poor response to them. This book approaches this problem in a number of ways. First, it teaches the reader how to interpret question words, giving enough questions to show how...
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This book should be read as a sequel to book 1 in the series. While book 1 examines the plot and the characters, this second book follows with themes and elements of style in Adipo Sidang's play, Parliament of Owls. The book not only discusses the themes of the play but also ensures that the reader understabds what a theme is. This should allow the reader to transfer this knowledge to other books and genres of literature. The book also discusses the...
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Roland Greene is the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University and the founder and director of Arcade, a digital salon for literary studies and the humanities. He is the editor in chief of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Stephen Cushman is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the general editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics....
78) Universo arreolino: la hermeneútica de la autoficción: A 100 años del natalicio de Juan José Arreola
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Esta complicación de ensayos es el trabajo de muchos años de análisis literario y lectura comparada del autor, en torno a la obra de Juan José Arreola, una de las voces más representativas de la narrativa mexicana. Filosofía y literatura estrechan lazos en este volumen para re-crear desde la palabra erudita las redes que la ficción y la autoficción tejen en cada uno de los textos de Juan José Arreola ¿Es el relato la mejor autoficción?...
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The story of the "American Mediterranean," both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s.
The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, called it America's Mediterranean. Almost a century later, Southern California was hailed as "Our Mediterranean, Our Italy!" Although "American Mediterranean"...
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Following the first book on Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World which examined the PLOT of the novel and the CHARACTERS this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novel to have a comprehensive view of what the novel is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of Kazuo Ishiguro in general or of this novel in particular,...
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