Author: Jan Maher
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Release Date: 2020-02-19
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The Persistence Of Memory And Other Stories

by Jan Maher, The Persistence Of Memory And Other Stories Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Persistence Of Memory And Other Stories book, A dozen stories featuring characters from four to ninety-four, each dealing in some way with how and why our memories shape our current crises. Included in the collection: in the days just after World War II, a young girl tries to remember the man being introduced to her as her father; an academic denied tenure remembers how to land on her feet; a couple on their way to divorce think about the things that once drew them together and then drove them apart; an elderly man struggles to recall where the bathroom is and why his wife has been replaced by a stranger; a newly widowed grandmother remembers the joy of finger painting and answering to no one; and the title story, in which a great-grandmother proves that you never forget how to make a bicycle go even if you may need a crash course in how to stop one.

Author: Tony Eprile
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Release Date: 2005
Book Size: 57.33 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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The Persistence Of Memory

by Tony Eprile, The Persistence Of Memory Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Persistence Of Memory book, A veteran of the secret war in Angola and Namibia, Paul Sweetbread reflects on how his life was affected by turbulence and apartheid, from his mother's removal from a Chekhov play and his education in the government's version of history to his forced appearance before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

Author: Miguel Ángel Zapata
Publisher: UNMSM
Release Date: 2006
Book Size: 42.29 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Mario Vargas Llosa And The Persistence Of Memory

by Miguel Ángel Zapata, Mario Vargas Llosa And The Persistence Of Memory Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Mario Vargas Llosa And The Persistence Of Memory book, Editado en idioma inglés, este tributo a Mario Vargas Llosa y sus obras reúne los ensayos preparados en su honor, en la Universidad de Hofstra, noviembre del 2003. También se incluye dos entrevistas y una selecta bibliografía.

Author: Stephen M. Fuller
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date: 2012-12-03
Book Size: 74.72 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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Eudora Welty And Surrealism

by Stephen M. Fuller, Eudora Welty And Surrealism Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Eudora Welty And Surrealism book, Eudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a frequent traveler to New York City where the surrealists exhibited and a keen reader of magazines and newspapers that disseminated their work, absorbed and unconsciously appropriated surrealism's perspective in her writing. In fact, Welty's first solo exhibition of her photographs in 1936 took place next door to New York's premier venue for surrealist art. In a series of readings that collectively examine A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other Stories, Delta Wedding, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories, the book reveals how surrealism profoundly shaped Welty's striking figurative literature. Yet the influence of the surrealist movement extends beyond questions of style. The study's interpretations also foreground how her writing refracted surrealism as a historical phenomena. Scattered throughout her stories are allusions to personalities allied with the movement in the United States, including figures such as Salvador Dal', Elsa Schiaparelli, Caresse Crosby, Wallace Simpson, Cecil Beaton, Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Henri Ford. Individuals such as these and others whom surrealism seduced often lead unorthodox and controversial lives that made them natural targets for moral opprobrium. Eschewing such parochialism, Welty borrowed the idiom of surrealism to develop modernized depictions of the South, a literary strategy that revealed not only cultural farsightedness but great artistic daring.

Author: Steven Deutsch
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Release Date: 2020-06-11
Book Size: 35.44 MB
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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The Persistence Of Memory

by Steven Deutsch, The Persistence Of Memory Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Persistence Of Memory book, In The Persistence of Memory, Steven Deutsch recalls his childhood in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a neighborhood on the skids. His poems feature his colorful Jewish family, particularly his older brother Barry, "thirteen and the source of all knowledge," and neighborhood characters like LeRoy and his gang, "so loose-limbed you imagined them melting in the August heat." In powerful poems that take place in the Viet Nam era, Deutsch describes the limbo and guilt of those who go to war and those who don't, the drug-hazed late '60s culture, and portraits of the shell-shocked veterans who come home. Later, Deutsch speaks of cancer and of a last visit before his brother's death, "our patter . . . so to script, we manage not to mention the hospice team, the feeding tube, and morphine drip." Like Ted Kooser, Deutsch uses the everyday of people and events to offer up our universal humanity. You will love his stories. Sarah Russell, author of I lost summer somewhere and Today and Other Seasons Steve Deutsch 's poems will haunt you. Each poem blends nostalgia with the present. The comic words of Great Uncle have you laughing as do Max, Stony, Aunt Sarah, and others in his memorable cast. Through his poems, we travel from Brooklyn to Vietnam and to college towns. Amazingly, the poet never leaves us there but guides us from memory and humor to the present. We see and feel him, "finding my way home in the dark." His precise memories lead to moments where he and the reader yearn to understand that which is not always understandable. Mary Shay McGuire, author of Always the Blue Tide Turning In his second collection, Steve Deutsch offers poems that grab you by the throat but hold you tenderly. A 13-year-old violinist plays his dead twin's cello in the cold after the funeral. The memory of JFK's funeral motorcade is forever bound to a schoolmate's suicide attempt and how "not one of us / ran to help him." And a man in yoga class imagines his long-dead father gleefully teaching the loud, grimacing "lion's breath" to kindergartners and Walmart shoppers. These elegiac, sometimes jubilant, often drolly humorous poems confront us with time's cruelty on certain friendships⸺"even the continents / are drifting apart-/ are becoming strangers." But they also buoy us with the hope, taking us "running wild-hearted /through the first green." Steve Deutsch is a nimble poet and a story-teller with heart. Mary Rohrer-Dann, author of Taking the Long Way Home

Author: Gareth Cornwell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date: 2010-04-13
Book Size: 12.48 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Columbia Guide To South African Literature In English Since 1945

by Gareth Cornwell, The Columbia Guide To South African Literature In English Since 1945 Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Columbia Guide To South African Literature In English Since 1945 book, From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.

Author: Philip Leonard
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date: 2013-02-14
Book Size: 26.23 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Literature After Globalization

by Philip Leonard, Literature After Globalization Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Literature After Globalization book, Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 Literature after Globalization offers a detailed study of recent literary and theoretical responses to technology, globalization, and national identity. Focusing on texts of the the 1990s and 2000s, particularly novels and other writing by Mark Danielewski, Hari Kunzru, Indra Sinha, and Neal Stephenson, it charts a departure from narratives of globalization which declare the collapse of national cultures, and it considers how national sovereignty has been reinvented and reasserted in the face of technology's transnational effects. Drawing upon recent theoretical responses to technology and culture (including work by Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, N. Katherine Hayles, Paul Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national globalism.

Author: Vivian Sobchack
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2014-02-04
Book Size: 42.61 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
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The Persistence Of History

by Vivian Sobchack, The Persistence Of History Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Persistence Of History book, The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's JFK and Spielberg's Schindler's List, the volume questions the appropriate forms of media for making the incoherence and fragmentation of contemporary history intelligible.

Author: Victoria Aarons
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date: 2015-01-05
Book Size: 49.40 MB
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The New Diaspora

by Victoria Aarons, The New Diaspora Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The New Diaspora book, The Edward Lewis Wallant Award was founded by the family of Dr. Irving and Fran Waltman in 1963 and is supported by the University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. It is given annually to an American writer, preferably early in his or her career, whose fiction is considered significant for American Jews. In The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction, editors Victoria Aarons, Avinoam J. Patt, and Mark Shechner, who have all served as judges for the award, present vital, original, and wide-ranging fiction by writers whose work has been considered or selected for the award. The resulting collection highlights the exemplary place of the Wallant Award in Jewish literature. With a mix of stories and novel chapters, The New Diaspora reprints selections of short fiction from such well-known writers as Rebecca Goldstein, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dara Horn, Julie Orringer, and Nicole Krauss. The first half of the anthology presents pieces by winners of the Wallant award, focusing on the best work of recent winners. The New Diaspora’s second half reflects the evolving landscape of American Jewish fiction over the last fifty years, as many authors working in America are not American by birth, and their fiction has become more experimental in nature. Pieces in this section represent authors with roots all over the world—including Russia (Maxim Shrayer, Nadia Kalman, and Lara Vapnyar), Latvia (David Bezmozgis), South Africa (Tony Eprile), Canada (Robert Majzels), and Israel (Avner Mandelman, who now lives in Canada). This collection offers an expanded canon of Jewish writing in North America and foregrounds a vision of its variety, its uniqueness, its cosmopolitanism, and its evolving perspectives on Jewish life. It celebrates the continuing vitality and fresh visions of contemporary Jewish writing, even as it highlights its debt to history and embrace of collective memory. Readers of contemporary American fiction and Jewish cultural history will find The New Diaspora enlightening and deeply engaging.

Author: David Jackson Montgomery
Publisher:
Release Date: 1995
Book Size: 80.89 MB
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Pages : 480
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Ivan Bunin And The Persistence Of Memory

by David Jackson Montgomery, Ivan Bunin And The Persistence Of Memory Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Ivan Bunin And The Persistence Of Memory book,

Author: Ian Clark
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release Date: 2013-07-22
Book Size: 56.79 MB
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The Aboriginal Story Of Burke And Wills

by Ian Clark, The Aboriginal Story Of Burke And Wills Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Aboriginal Story Of Burke And Wills book, The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to which this affected the outcome of the expedition. The book offers a reinterpretation of the literature surrounding Burke and Wills, using official correspondence, expedition journals and diaries, visual art, and archaeological and linguistic research – and then complements this with references to Aboriginal oral histories and social memory. It highlights the interaction of expedition members with Aboriginal people and their subsequent contribution to Aboriginal studies. The book also considers contemporary and multi-disciplinary critiques that the expedition members were, on the whole, deficient in bush craft, especially in light of the expedition’s failure to use Aboriginal guides in any systematic way. Generously illustrated with historical photographs and line drawings, The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is an important resource for Indigenous people, Burke and Wills history enthusiasts and the wider community. This book is the outcome of an Australian Research Council project.

Author: Karen Janowsky
Publisher: Mill City Press, Incorporated
Release Date: 2019-02-22
Book Size: 41.64 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Persistence Of Memory D J Vu

by Karen Janowsky, The Persistence Of Memory D J Vu Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Persistence Of Memory D J Vu book, When superheroes fall in love, anything can happen. Daniel Hecht doesn't belong in this century. Catapulted into the present from 1943, he's out of place and out of touch. Still, he was the American war hero called "Lionheart" and his heroism has followed him into the modern world. He now leads an underground group of superpowered misfits, but the misfit he keeps turning to is Nina Asher. Nina has a vast knowledge of history, yet no idea who she is or where she's from. She has become the target of dangerous creatures that have appeared all over the world. As she and Daniel work to decipher an ancient, cryptic myth, they experience flashbacks to things that never could have happened. They are falling in love, but there's something they're sure they need to remember, and it's keeping them apart. The key to saving the world may begin with the act of remembering.