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New York Magazine

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Release Date : 1981-04-27
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-04-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Darconville's Cat

by Alexander Theroux

Publisher : Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1981
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (15 users downloads)

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Download or read book Darconville's Cat written by Alexander Theroux and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main story is a love affair between Alaric Darconville, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, and one of his students, Isabel, but includes long sections on other topics, including a general satire of the world of American academics.

Signs of the Literary Times

by William O'Rourke

Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
ISBN 13 : 9780791416815
Total Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (681 users downloads)

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Download or read book Signs of the Literary Times written by William O'Rourke and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is O'Rourke's first volume of nonfiction since his 1972 The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left, which Garry Wills hailed as "a clinical x-ray of our society's condition." That book prompted Herbert Mitgang to name O'Rourke "one of the finest writers of his generation." Signs of the Literary Times provides new evidence for that assessment. It brings together O'Rourke's unique mixture of literary, political, and cultural criticism published periodically during the last twenty-two years. The collection ranges from autobiographical essays describing his generation's literary evolution, to articles on free speech issues, such as nude dancing and the Bush-era NEA controversies, as well as book reviews that provide a fresh and largely uncharted critical map of the period. O'Rourke is not only interested in genre bending and expansion, but in persevering during this age of academic specialization as, in his phrase, "a person of letters." In the two decades between his first work of nonfiction and this volume, O'Rourke has published three highly acclaimed novels, The Meekness of Isaac (1974), Idle Hands (1981), and Criminal Tendencies (1987). Of the last, The Virginia Quarterly Review wrote, "Of all the novelists paraded in recent years by publishers as natural successors to Graham Greene, this one comes the closest. A thoroughly entertaining literary event." Signs of the Literary Times is not so much a compendium of diverse pieces on various subjects, as it is a cogent and continuing x-ray of our society's condition.

New York Magazine

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Total Pages : 132 pages
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The Novel: An Alternative History

by Steven Moore

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-09-17
ISBN 13 : 1441133364
Total Pages : 705 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (113 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Novel: An Alternative History written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.

The Art of Excess

by Tom LeClair

Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1989
ISBN 13 : 9780252061028
Total Pages : 260 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (12 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Art of Excess written by Tom LeClair and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best Novels of the Nineties

by Linda Parent Lesher

Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2015-11-17
ISBN 13 : 1476603898
Total Pages : 489 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (66 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Best Novels of the Nineties written by Linda Parent Lesher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.

The Guestroom Novelist

by Donald Harington

Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2019-03-29
ISBN 13 : 1610756606
Total Pages : 305 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (75 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Guestroom Novelist written by Donald Harington and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Harington, best known for his fifteen novels, was also a prolific writer of essays, articles, and book reviews. The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany gathers a career-spanning and eclectic selection of nonfiction by the Arkansawyer novelist Donald Harington that reveals how a life of devastating losses and disappointments inspired what the Boston Globe called the “quirkiest, most original body of work in contemporary US letters.” This extensive collection of interviews and other works of prose—many of which are previously unpublished—offers glimpses into Harington’s life, loves, and favorite obsessions, replays his minor (and not so minor) dramas with literary critics, and reveals the complicated and sometimes contentious relationship between his work of the writers he most admired. The Guestroom Novelist, which takes its title from an essay that serves as a love letter to his fellow underappreciated writers, paints a rich portrait of the artist as a young, middle-aged, and fiercely funny old man, as well as comic, sentimentalist, philosopher, and critic, paying testimony to the writer’s magnificent ability to transform the seemingly crude stuff of our material existence into enduring art.

Adolescent Female Portraits in the American Novel 1961-1981

by Jane S. Bakerman

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-21
ISBN 13 : 1000652378
Total Pages : 274 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (65 users downloads)

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Download or read book Adolescent Female Portraits in the American Novel 1961-1981 written by Jane S. Bakerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, this title lists and annotates reference sources which will help readers select primary materials useful in studies of the literary portraits of women and their societal roles. The years 1961 to 1981 were set as boundaries for this volume because the author’s initial research revealed that a twenty-year span was a manageable unit, because the novels published between those dates yielded abundant materials for such a reference work, and because significant changes in the way portraits of adolescent females were being drawn took place during the period – for example, sex-role stereotyping became a shade less prevalent, young women’s sexuality was discussed more forthrightly, and some topics (such as single women’s pregnancies and lesbianism) were treated more overtly, sometimes less judgementally.

The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800

by Steven Moore

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-08-29
ISBN 13 : 1623565197
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (356 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).

The American Novel Now

by Patrick O'Donnell

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-01-21
ISBN 13 : 9781444317909
Total Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (79 users downloads)

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Download or read book The American Novel Now written by Patrick O'Donnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative strategies from over seventy different authors and novels. Discusses an exceptionally wide-range of authors and novels, from established figures to significant emerging writers Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Kathy Acker and many more Explores the range of themes and styles offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction since 1980, in both mainstream and experimental writings Reflects the liveliness and diversity of American fiction in the last thirty years Written in a style that makes it ideal for students and scholars, while also accessible for general readers

Contemporary Authors New Revision

by Daniel Jones

Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
Release Date : 1998-03
ISBN 13 : 9780787620073
Total Pages : 472 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (7 users downloads)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors New Revision written by Daniel Jones and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.

Contemporary Literary Criticism

by Jean C. Stine

Publisher : Contemporary Literary Criticis
Release Date : 1983
ISBN 13 : 9780810301092
Total Pages : 492 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (19 users downloads)

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Download or read book Contemporary Literary Criticism written by Jean C. Stine and published by Contemporary Literary Criticis. This book was released on 1983 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entries include critical commentary, brief biographical information, a portrait when available, a list of principal works, and may also include a further reading section.

Constructing Postmodernism

by Brian McHale

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
ISBN 13 : 1135083630
Total Pages : 349 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (58 users downloads)

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Download or read book Constructing Postmodernism written by Brian McHale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.

The Adventures of Charlie and the Incredible Truth Machine

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Publisher : Lulu.com
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ISBN 13 : 1424300797
Total Pages : 110 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (43 users downloads)

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Book by Book

by Michael Dirda

Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2007-04-01
ISBN 13 : 1429900288
Total Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (99 users downloads)

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Download or read book Book by Book written by Michael Dirda and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic's often surprising meditation on those places where life and books intersect and what might be learned from both Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure. Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how to live. Though books have always been understood as life-teachers, the exact way in which they instruct, cajole, and convince remains a subject of some mystery. Drawing on sources as diverse as Dr. Seuss and Simone Weil, P. G. Wodehouse and Isaiah Berlin, Pulitzer prize-winning critic Michael Dirda shows how the wit, wisdom, and enchantment of the written word can inform and enrich nearly every aspect of life, from education and work to love and death. Organized by significant life events and abounding with quotations from great writers and thinkers, Book by Book showcases Dirda's considerable knowledge, which he wears lightly. Favoring showing rather than telling, Dirda draws the reader deeper into the classics, as well as lesser-known works of literature, history, and philosophy, always with an eye to what is relevant to how we might better understand our lives.

Beyond Suspicion

by Marc Chénetier

Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1996-01-29
ISBN 13 : 9780812230598
Total Pages : 352 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (59 users downloads)

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Download or read book Beyond Suspicion written by Marc Chénetier and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1996-01-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covers everything from Salinger, Nabokov, Kerouac, and Burroughs to the first hints of cyberpunkishness."--American Book Review