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For the past twelve years, out of a tiny but well-lit corner of the McSweeney’s offices in San Francisco, The Believer has published essays and interviews that are great for all seasons. But this collection is not interested in 75 percent of those seasons. Included in this eminently beach-tote-able digital edition are interviews, essays, poetry, and reviews that cover all the staples of summer—beach houses, amusement parks, surfing, road trips, honeymoons, failed Gen X sodas,...
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In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. They are all storytellers, wrestling with a fascinating gray area where memory intersects with history and where the necessities of narrative collide with mundane facts. and whether the record emerges from archival sources or from personal memory, these writers show how to make the leap to telling a good story—while also telling us...
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From 21A, the one-man show that launched a career and a whole new perspective on riding the bus, to a sneak peek at the new Minnesota Public Radio–sponsored Gulliver Unraveled, On Stage with Kevin Kling gives readers a behind-the-curtain view of one of Minnesota's most popular storytellers.<br /><br />This collectible volume contains the full text of three of Kevin Kling's stage pieces—21A, Ice Fishing, and Scarecrow on Fire—as well as excerpts...
| Автор | Kevin Kling |
This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the nation that celebrate, record, and explore Native American women's roles in community. The result is a rich tapestry that contains work by established writers along with emerging and first-time authors. Contributors include Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Diane Glancy, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Allison...
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Erotische Kurzgeschichten die lustvoll darstellen wie es zu zweit oder auch in Gruppen zugehen kann. Auf ungefähr 20 Seiten werden erotische Träume ausgelebt und dem Leser oder der Leserin detailgetreu geschildert. Der Titel des Buches ist hier Programm.
| Автор | Annett Lesall |
Appeals to both specialists and general interest readers Includes essays on texts and authors commonly taught in university literature courses Essays on early film will be of interest to scholars and students of cinema Tynianov's cultural theory is widely applicable and will be of interest to scholars and students of literature, arts, culture and media The introductory essay offers thorough and insightful historical context for Tynianov’s work and for the cultural history of the USSR in...
| Автор | Yuri Tynianov |
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is one of Vladimir Nabokov’s most autobiographical novels and it has often been observed that Sebastian’s passionate affair with the femme fatale Nina Rechnoy is a dramatized extension of Nabokov’s infatuation with Irina Guadanini. In this book it is shown that the novel also conceals another, secluded, love affair Sebastian had with a man, which reflects the main episode in the life of Nabokov’s brother Sergey. By pursuing many biographical and literary...
| Автор | Gerard de Vries |
Mit seinem Schauerroman «Die Elixiere des Teufels» steht E. T. A. Hoffmann ganz in der Tradition der Schwarzen Romantik: Der Kapuzinermönch Medardus beschreibt in seiner Lebensbeichte, wie undurchsichtige Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen, unheimliche Wiederbegegnungen, Doppelgänger, Wahn und Mord sein Leben langsam aus den Fugen geraten ließen.
| Автор | E. T. A. Hoffmann |
Heinrich Mann verfasste sein Werk «Die Göttinnen oder Die drei Romane der Herzogin von Assy» in den Jahren 1900 bis 1902. Es besteht aus den drei Einzelromanen «Diana», «Minerva» und «Venus», jeweils benannt nach den römischen weiblichen Gottheiten. Die Handlung ist weitestgehend in Italien angesiedelt und spielt hauptsächlich in den großen Städten Rom, Venedig und Neapel, beziehungsweise deren Umgebung.
| Автор | Heinrich Mann |
This collective volume aims to highlight the philosophical and literary idea of apocalypse within key examples in the Slavic world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Russian realism to avant-garde painting, from the classic fiction of the nineteenth century to twentieth-century philosophy, not omitting theatre, cinema or music, the concepts of “end of history” and “end of present time” are specifically examined as conditions for a redemptive image of the world. To understand...
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A handy and concise introduction to a complex novel of Russian literature.Provides an authoritative account of Bulgakov’s life and his struggle to survive during the Terror.The author has been following Bulgakov studies since the novel first appeared in the 1970s, and offers a review of all the major critical debates about the text.Offers close analysis of stylistic features of the novel, for readers of Russian and English alike.Provides a helpful comparison of available English translations.An...
| Автор | J.A.E. Curtis |
Using Vladimir Nabokov as its “case study,” this volume approaches translation as a crucial avenue into literary history and theory, philosophy and interpretation. The book attempts to bring together issues in translation and the shift in Nabokov studies from its earlier emphasis on the “metaliterary” to the more recent “metaphysical” approach. Addressing specific texts (both literary and cinematic), the book investigates Nabokov’s deeply ambivalent relationship to translation as a hermeneutic...
| Автор | Julia Trubikhina |
Drawing on the prose, poetry, and criticism of a broad range of Russian writers and critics, including Pushkin, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bakhtin, Gorky, Nabokov, and Solzhenitsyn, Close Encounters: Essays on Russian Literature explores themes of chance and fate, freedom and responsibility, beauty and disfiguration, and loss and separation, as well as concepts of criticism and the moral purpose of art. Through close textual analysis, the author offers a view of the unity of form...
| Автор | Robert Louis Jackson |
Julián, eminencia mundial en neurología, descubrió cómo acceder al «archivo» del cerebro humano y así copiar, borrar, trasladar y manipular conocimientos y recuerdos de una persona a otra.Tras su muerte hereda sobre su sobrino Sebastián, quién comprende que este descubrimiento lo convierte en una especie de Dios, que puede cambiar su vida y el mundo.
| Автор | Héctor Rial |
Mit Millionen online publizierter Texte stellt die Fanfiction ein oft unterschätztes literarisches Massenphänomen unserer Zeit dar; zu einer Expedition in diese bunte Parallelwelt, in der nicht nur Harry Potter & Co., sondern auch Homer und Shakespeare, Goethe und Tolstoj, ja selbst die Bibel spielerisch fort- und umgeschrieben werden, lädt dieser neue Dialoge-Band ein.
| Автор | Martina Stemberger |
During the 1800s in America, the rise of industrialization reduced the cost of goods allowing people to have more possessions than ever before. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions created vanity. Instead, they valued the individual’s relationship with divinity. One of the movement’s most famous members, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote prolifically about his beliefs and experiences. A representative selection of his writings is presented here in this volume of...
| Автор | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians in kind. Ongoing Brazil-France interactions have resulted in some of the richest cultural exchanges between Europe and Latin America.In Cultural Exchanges between Brazil and France, leading...
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George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley Peter Dunne, Hamlin Garland all received letters from the Hoosier humorist. Ade’s keen observation, compact and straightforward style, and understated humor mark his correspondence, as well as his immensely popular newspaper columns, books, and...
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