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"In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. Then he took on his colleagues. His goal: to make creative nonfiction an accepted academic discipline, one as vital as poetry, drama, and fiction. In this book Gutkind tells the true story of how creative nonfiction became a leading genre for both readers and writers. Creative nonfiction -- true stories enriched by relevant...
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John Gardner's essential collection encompassing the fundamentals of fiction writing. In this posthumously published collection of his essays and reviews, acclaimed novelist John Gardner discusses the craft of fiction writing, taking to task some of his best-known contemporaries in the process. Gardner criticizes some for writing disingenuous fiction, and commends others who produce literature that acts as a life-affirming force. He offers insights...
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"This critical edition of the epic 1968 Malian novel explores its enduring literary power and the plagiarism scandal that devastated its author, the first African winner of France's prestigious Renaudot Prize. An engrossing, tragic tale spanning the thirteenth to the twentieth century, Bound to Violence recounts the fate of the imaginary empire of Nakem and the dynasty of the Saïfs who reign there as devious masters. While the novel was initially...
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A comprehensive study of the work of Lewis Edwards (1809-87), Wales's foremost scholar of the nineteenth century, and one who raised the standard of Nonconformist Wales erudition. A Calvinistic Methodist in his upbringing and through conviction, he was a pious man belonging to his era.
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Les plantes bougent, se déplacent, se transforment, même si leurs mouvements sont souvent imperceptibles à l'oeil humain. Alors, comment faire pour mieux les voir, les percevoir et les sentir ? Les concepts issus des sciences botaniques – phototropisme, géotropisme, hydrotropisme, chimiotropisme – ne permettent pas de décrire leur poéticité ou leur capacité à « faire monde » en nouant des relations avec d'autres organismes vivants et...
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Los apuntes de Canetti podrían leerse de diversas maneras. Una de ellas, la que guía este libro, es una lectura que sigue las letras del alfabeto y establece un diálogo directo con los temas esenciales de su escritura.
En palabras de Canetti, "La resistencia contra el tiempo necesita sus frases cortantes, de lo contrario permanece obtusa y desvalida. Es difícil guardar para sí las frases que uno mismo ha encontrado y son cortantes. Sin embargo,...
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Get the Summary of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton...
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CARTA A ORESTES reúne cinco obras de lákovos Kambanelis. Carta a Orestes, La cena, El camino pasa por dentro, Stella con guantes rojos y El epicedio constituyen una selección que ofrece buena parte de las preocupaciones estéticas del patriarca del teatro griego contemporáneo.
En estas obras se trasluce la tragedia en los personajes femeninos enfrentados a la imposibilidad del amor, al enorme trecho que vislumbran al frente para conquistar espacios...
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Una estética neobarroca sobre Judas es un análisis sobre el conocido cuento borgeano Tres versiones de Judas, a través de un planteo que aborda el modo de funcionamiento de las operaciones neobarrocas y los efectos de sentido que se producen en el libre recorrido de los múltiples yoes que aparecen frente al lector.
Este recurso abre un canal a discursos entramados y habilita el ingreso de diferentes voces que propician un diálogo donde se encuentran...
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A partir de una consigna médica del siglo XIX - "La salud es el silencio de los órganos"-, Andrea Kottow entrelaza las lecturas que la han conmovido y estimulado en los últimos años, con una escritura que posee altos grados de intuición, placer y libertad. El resultado es este conjunto de cinco ensayos, sobre la enfermedad, el secreto, el deseo, el psicoanálisis y el duelo, en un libro que deja la impresión de que la autora recurre a una forma...
12) Lire des scénarios: Pour une approche interdisciplinaire et renouvelée des pratiques scénaristiques
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Au cours des dernières décennies, la création narrative a connu un essor significatif dans les médias tels le cinéma, la télévision, le web et les jeux vidéo. Dans ce contexte, l'intérêt pour les pratiques scénaristiques s'est étendu tant dans le monde professionnel que dans les milieux de formation et de recherche.
Ce livre met en lumière des perspectives interdisciplinaires et des enjeux intermédiaux liés à la lecture de scénarios....
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This is a fascinating portrait of Miami's Cuban population, the most successful group of immigrants to settle in the United States since the Jews of the nineteenth century.
David Rieff has provided an engrossing look at a group exiled from its homeland, showing how America has affected these immigrants, and what it means to become an American in the late twentieth century.
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La Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg fonctionna, dans les années 1920, comme un véritable laboratoire de recherche sur les formes de transmission des images depuis l'Antiquité. Si Aby Warburg (1866-1929), son fondateur, en est la figure centrale, cette bibliothèque pionnière fut imaginée comme une entreprise collective et aurait été impensable sans l'apport d'autres personnalités comme Fritz Saxl ou Gertrud Bing, dont l'importance...
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Originally selected by Faulkner scholars Blotner and Litz for their series on the author, this pathbreaking monograph contains a comprehensive and provocative discussion of Faulkner's historical vision. Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield), and on a wide-ranging body of scholarship on the historical novel (including discussions of Scott, Thackeray, and Conrad), Rollyson...
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David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Narrative Covenant and We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University and the general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.
Comic in tone and serious in intent, this book gives a vivid portrait of academic life in the nineties. With campus populations and critical perspectives changing rapidly, academic debate needs...
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Get the Summary of Michelle Braun's High-Octane Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: American adults fear Alzheimer¹s more than any other disease (including cancer), and because many people do not realize there is no genetic cause for 99 percent of Alzheimer¹s cases, they do not take the necessary steps to change lifestyle factors shown to significantly protect against the disease....
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À l'ère du numérique, le courrier se fait de plus en plus rare, mais le texte épistolaire séduit encore. Que peut un livre empruntant la forme d'une lettre, exploitant des correspondances originales ou interpellant ouvertement la lectrice, le lecteur ? En quoi le geste d'écrire des lettres peut-il convenir aux écrivaines et aux intellectuelles en France aujourd'hui ? Que signifie de destiner à autrui chaque mot qu'elles tracent ? À qui s'adressent-elles...
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Asentir o desestabilizar reúne por primera vez los trabajos de crítica literaria y opinión que Chirbes escribió para publicaciones como Ozono, Saida, Reseña o La Calle entre 1975 y 1980. Una recopilación que recoge desde reseñas y artículos hasta entrevistas a grandes personalidades de la literatura española que el joven Chirbes realizó antes de debutar como novelista y que restituyen, en su conjunto, una imagen precisa y a contracorriente...
20) Indiana Winter
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A sensitive writer's imaginative essay-stories about spiritual boundaries and values in the state of Indiana and everywhere.
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