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them together and then drove them apart; an elderly man struggles to recall where the bathroom is and why his wife has been replaced by a stranger; a newly widowed grandmother remembers the joy of finger painting and answering to no one; and the title story, in which a great-grandmother proves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: 18.24 MB Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 297 View: 1908
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.
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: 31.81 MB Book Format: PDF, Mobi Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 267 View: 4572
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: Gareth Cornwell Publisher: Columbia University Press Release Date: 2010-04-13 Book Size: 30.20 MB Book Format: PDF, Mobi Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 288 View: 5327
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.
by Terri Windling, The Year S Best Fantasy And Horror Seventh Annual Collection Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Year S Best Fantasy And Horror Seventh Annual Collection book, Collection of fantasy and horror short stories.
Author: Philip Leonard Publisher: A&C Black Release Date: 2013-02-14 Book Size: 14.97 MB Book Format: PDF Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 208 View: 5530
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.