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Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against late-modernist ones (in film) as well as a variety of postmodern experiments (from SF to The Wire, from “Eurotrash” in opera to Altman and East German literature): all of which attempt, in their different...
| Автор | Fredric Jameson |
A leading German scholar reveals the secret history of Nabokov's infamous novel. Does it ring a bell? The first-person narrator, a cultivated man of middle age, looks back on the story of an amour fou. It all starts when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a pre-teen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heedless of her age, he becomes intimate with her. In the end she dies, and the narrator marked by her forever...
| Автор | Michael Maar |
"Nearly two decades after the death of Kurt Cobain, a friend and fellow musician not only continues to mourn his suicide, but also rages against the culture that he holds responsible. These 52 'letters' . . . combine the subject matter of the Byrds' 'So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star' with the fury of Allen Ginsberg's Howl . . . A catharsis for the writer and perhaps for the reader as well."–Kirkus Reviews"A touching and enlightening collection of prose...
| Автор | Eric Erlandson |
Treinta decasilabos descalzos, de Víctor Roura. Una relación muerta no puede ser revivida ni con palabras de aliento, a menos que ambos amantes quieran proseguir indiferentes con el simulacro.
| Автор | [Víctor Roura |
LGBTQ Christians read, love, scrutinize, become absorbed with, and find deep spiritual meaning in the Bible. As these testimonies show, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer Christians are inaugurating a fresh, exciting, new era in biblical interpretation. It is they whose rare insights into particular Bible stories and characters, told with poignancy and clarity, reveal a gay-friendly Bible and a gay-friendly God who cherishes and needs them just as they are. It is they who are...
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Orange County, California, brings to mind the endless summer of sand and surf, McMansion housing tracts, a conservative stronghold, and tony shopping centers. It's a place where pilates classes are run like boot camps, real estate values are discussed at your weekly colonic, and ice cream parlors on Main Street, USA, exist side-by-side with pho shops and taquerias. Orange County Noir pulls back the veil to reveal what lurks behind the curtain.Features brand-new stories by: Susan Straight,...
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The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler’s work based on reconstructing both the context in which it was written and the social world or totality it projects....
| Автор | Fredric Jameson |
A vital analysis of world literature through history. What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic to the contemporary fiction of Roberto Bolaño and Amitav Ghosh. Moving across literary ecologies of varying sizes, from small societies to the...
| Автор | Alexander Beecroft |
“[In Istanbul Noir] you get blown along the shore of the Bosporus in the wealthy enclave of Bebek (Feryal Tilmac’s “Hitching in the Lodos”), hustled through the shadowy past in the bustling Aksaray (Mustafa Ziyalan’s “Black Palace”), have your mind read in the “haven for lowlifes” that is Siskinbakkal (Algan Sezginturedi’s “Around Here, Somewhere”) and thrown behind bars in...
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Wie ein Zauber ist es da alle Jahre wieder und schon steht das Weihnachtsfest vor der Tür. Besonders in dieser dunklen Jahreszeit möchte ich Sie einladen: in eine andere Welt einzutauchen, die Sie zwar kennen, aber neu erleben können. Lassen Sie sich verzaubern und reisen Sie mit mir in die Welt meiner Gedanken und Träume in die Welt der Weihnachtszeit.
| Автор | Jürgen Heider |
Nina faltet bei ihrem todlangweiligen Lagerjob routiniert alte Pappkartons. Gäbe es nicht Lucas mit den perfekten Bauchmuskeln und den hellblonden Haaren, hätte sie längst gekündigt. Ihr Kollege Eddie holt sie ganz gut mit seinen lustigen Fragen aus ihren Träumereien. Aber als eines Nachmittags der Strom ausfällt, fallen alle Hemmungen. In der Dunkelheit des Lagers ist alles möglich…-
| Автор | Alexandra Södergran |
A dazzling account of the development of American cultural hegemony from one of the world's leading literary theorists. Franco Moretti, acclaimed author of Graphs, Maps, Trees and Distant Reading, distils a lifetime of teaching and research to present `the university, in the form of an essay'. Ranging from poetry and the novel to theatre and the visual arts, Far Country juxtaposes canonical figures in American art and letters with European counterparts-Whitman and Baudelaire,...
| Автор | Franco Moretti |
“Drifter” by Emily Mandel was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, edited by Otto Penzler and Lisa ScottolineOriginal stories by: Peter James, Emily St. John Mandel, Barbara Baraldi, Mike Hodges, Mary Hoffman, Maria Tronca, Matteo Righetto, Tony Cartano, Francesco Ferracin, Isabella Santacroce, Michelle Lovric, Francesca Mazzucato, Maxim Jakubowski, and Michael Gregorio."Forget the magnificence of Venice's art, architecture, and music, and...
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A new perspective on Proust, Joyce, Kafka and others from a master of literary theory Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity. The Modernist Papers is a tour de force of analysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist...
| Автор | Fredric Jameson |
Die weltbekannte Geschichte eines Experiments, das aus dem Ruder läuft und Tod und Schaden anrichtet: Der junge Schweizer Viktor Frankenstein erschafft an der Universität Ingolstadt einen künstlichen Menschen. Als dieser jedoch viel hässlicher und furchteinflößender ist, als gedacht, flieht Viktor vor ihm und das Wesen entkommt. Doch es dauert nicht lange, bis der erste Todesfall in seiner Familie eintritt, und er bleibt nicht der letzte…-
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
When Carol Berkley takes over the company business, she faces a great dilemma: To prove herself and do what is best for the business or listen to her heart.
| Автор | Grace Livingston Hill |
24 Jahre nachdem der Erzähler als 12-Jähriger seine geliebte Heimat Island in Richtung Kopenhagen verlassen musste, bekommt er die Chance, im Sommer 1894 dieses von ihm so heiß geliebte Land und seine Menschen wiederzutreffen. Auf dem Rücken eines Pferdes durchstreift er die Insel im Atlantik mit all ihren Schönheiten und Herausforderungen.-
| Автор | Jón Svensson |
Wenn der Lehrer heiß ist…Der Sex mit Michael ist für die attraktive Jung-Schauspielerin Celine atemberaubend und immer wieder überraschend. Trotzdem fühlt sie sich zu ihrem deutlich älteren Schauspiellehrer Ulrik hingezogen. Keinen Mann will sie so sehr wie ihn. Als Celine das Casting für einen Job gewinnt, feiert sie dies mit Ulrik – heiß und hemmungslos!-
| Автор | Camille Bech |
On the problems of translation in literary study. Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution. In the place of “World Literature”—a dominant...
| Автор | Emily Apter |
Brand-new stories by: Desmond Barry, Ken Bruen, Stewart Home, Barry Adamson, Michael Ward, Sylvie Simmons, Daniel Bennett, Cathi Unsworth, Max Décharné, Martyn Waites, Joolz Denby, John Williams, Jerry Sykes, Mark Pilkington, Joe McNally, Patrick McCabe, and Ken Hollings.Cathi Unsworth moved to Ladbroke Grove in 1987 and has stayed there ever since. She began a career in rock writing with Sounds and Melody Maker, before co-editing the arts journal Purr and then Bizarre...
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A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first time Legend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, anecdote, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple forms” as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world and thus as a basic structuring principle of literary narrative. Long recognized as a classic of genre theory, Simple Forms, first published in 1929, has been called a significant precursor to structuralist and...
| Автор | André Jolles |
"Despite Pittsburgh being labeled the country's most livable city, the fictional citizens populating the 14 high quality stories in Akashic's noir anthology centered on the Steel City have the same dreams, frustrations, passions, and vices as anyone else."–Publishers Weekly"Pittsburgh hasn't inspired many crime novelists to use its haunts for settings in the way that Boston, Baltimore, Seattle and even Cleveland have. Now that's changed with the publication of Pittsburgh...
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Als ein ehemaliger Mitschüler Conny Bligh, den Anwalt der Geister, um seine Hilfe bittet, ist dieser davon zunächst alles andere als angetan. Doch das ändert sich, als er und Allison Harrowmore auf Hidden Manor, der Burg ohne Vergangenheit, eintreffen. Oder hat das alte Gemäuer doch eine Geschichte? Bald drängt die Zeit, denn ein großer Maskenball steht unmittelbar bevor. Und jeder einzelne Gast läuft Gefahr, in dieser Nacht seine Seele zu verlieren …
| Автор | Miriam Rademacher |
Marilla Reed grew up in wealth, having everything she wanted. After her life turned upside-down, and she lost everything, Marilla lost all hope of finding happiness in life. Just when she thought she hit rock bottom, true love happened!
| Автор | Grace Livingston Hill |