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Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page
Author: Stephane Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1564788423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Coover and the Generosity of the Page is an unconventional study of Robert Coover's work from his early masterpiece The Origin of the Brunists (1966) to the recent Noir (2010). Written in the second person, it offers a self-reflexive investigation into the ways in which Coover's stories often challenge the reader to resist the conventions of sense-making and even literary criticism. By portraying characters lost in surroundings they often fail to grasp, Coover's work playfully enacts a "(melo)drama of cognition" that mirrors the reader's own desire to interpret and make sense of texts in unequivocal ways. This tendency in Coover's writing is indicative of a larger refusal of the ready-made, of the once-and-for-all or the authoritative, celebrating instead, in its generosity, the widening of possibilities—thus inevitably forcing the reader-critic to acknowledge the arbitrariness and artificiality of her responses.
Brief Encounters
Author: Emily Coleman
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English
Author: Erin Fallon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1135976295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biography, a review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume begins with a detailed introduction to the short story genre and concludes with an annotated bibliography of major works on short story theory.
Encyclopedia of the American Short Story
Author: Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Published: 2015-04-22
Total Pages: 3225
ISBN-13: 1438140754
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two-volume set that presents an introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the present.
International Postmodernism
Author: Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9789027234452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.
Brief Encounters with the Enemy
Author: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0812993586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An unnamed American city feeling the effects of a war waged far away and suffering from bad weather is the backdrop for this startling work of fiction. The protagonists are aimless young men going from one blue collar job to the next, or in a few cases, aspiring to middle management. Their everyday struggles--with women, with the morning commute, with a series of cruel bosses--are somehow transformed into storytelling that is both universally resonant and wonderfully uncanny. That is the unsettling, funny, and ultimately heartfelt originality of Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's short fiction, to be at home in a world not quite our own but with many, many lessons to offer us"--
Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists
Author: Tim Woods
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-02-21
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1134709919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taking in novelists from all over the globe, from the beginning of the century to the present day, this is the most comprehensive survey of the leading lights of twentieth century fiction. Superb breadth of coverage and over 800 entries by an international team of contributors ensures that this fascinating and wide-ranging work of reference will be invaluable to anyone with an interest in modern fiction. Authors included range from Joseph Conrad to Albert Camus and Franz Kafka to Chinua Achebe. Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists gives a superb insight into the richness and diversity of the twentieth century novel.
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The Imaginary: Word and Image
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 900429872X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The imaginary as a critical concept originated in the twentieth century and has been theorized in diverse ways. It can be understood as a register of thought; the way we interpret the world; the universe of images, signs, texts, and objects of thought. In this volume, it is explored as it manifests itself in encounters between the verbal and the visual. A number of the essays brought together here explore the transposition of the imaginary in illustrations of texts and verbal renditions of images, as well as in comic books based on paintings or on verbal narratives. Others analyze ways in which books deal with film or television and investigate the imaginary in digital media. Special attention is paid to the imaginary of places and the relationship of the imaginary with memory. Written in English and French, these contributions by European and American scholars demonstrate the various concerns and approaches characteristic of contemporary scholarship in word and image studies.
