Literary studies: fiction Books
Maney Publishing Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories
Book SynopsisThis book explores Barthes's 'model of painting' in the context of Balzac's fictional representations of the relation between artists, their models and their works of art. Diana Knight criticises the sexual politics of prostitution and marriage in nineteenth-century France.Trade ReviewAre painting and sculpture equally liable to distort lived experience, or is sculpture capable of securing a closer approximation of material truth? This is just one of the intriguing questions suggested by Balzac and the Model of Painting. -- caa.reviews caa.reviews Carefully focused, tightly written, and well-presented, this volume of close readings of Balzac's artist stories is a solid and valuable addition to the Research Monographs in the Legenda series. -- Nineteenth-Century French Studies Nineteenth-Century French StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction From Sculpture to Paiting 1. S/Z, Sarrasine and Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu From Painting to Marriage 2. La Bourse 3. La Vendetta 4. La Maison du chat-qui-pelote From Model to Artist 5. La Rabouilleuse 6. The Joseph Bridau Cycle 7. Afterword
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Maney Publishing Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy:
Book SynopsisThis book presents a collection of twelve essays on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy. It focuses on well-known writers and their varying anxieties about autobiographical writing.Trade Review...succinct [and]clear...provides a facinating glimpse into the life histories, and the shaping of the life histories, by an eclectic group of Italians. Its chapters provide useful information on the less-known and engrossing new insights into familiar canonical figures -- Biography 32.3 (Summer 2009) Biography 32.3 (Summer 2009)Table of Contents1. Introduction General Issues and Signal Cases 2. The Public and the Private in Modern Italian Literature: The Case of Montale 3. The Battle of the Biographers: Primo Levi and 'Life—Writing' D'Annunzio and Other Fin de siècle 4. Enrico Nencioni: An Italian Victorian 5. Pescara and the Abruzzo in the Imagination of Gabriele D'Annunzio 6. British Material for the Biography of a Tuscan: Llewelyn Lloyd (1879-1949) 7. Italo Svevo: Journalism and the Life of a Writer Self-Images in Fascist Culture 8. Intellectual (Auto-)Biography in Bontempelli 9. Italian War—Correspondents and The Spanish Civil War: Propaganda and Autobiography Autobiographical Strains in Contemporary Italian Writing 10. Concessions to Autobiography in Calvino 11. Umberto Eco: Autobiography into Romance 12. The Dummy Interlocutor and Oriana Fallaci's Self-Projection in La rabbia e l'orgoglio
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Maney Publishing Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of
Book SynopsisContemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the FantasticTable of ContentsContemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic
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Maney Publishing Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles
Book SynopsisSensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and RousseauTrade ReviewThoroughly researched, clearly written, and handsomely produced, this book is a significant contribution to scholarship on French eighteenth-century literature.[...]Readers should be glad that Lewis has so adeptly read the signs and spectacles presented within these novels, that she has so carefully studied their reception, and that she has shared their own responses with us.' -- French Review French ReviewTable of ContentsSensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Machado De Assis's Philosopher or Dog?: From
Book SynopsisThis book reinforces Franco Moretti's findings, by examining whether they apply to the relationship that Machado de Assis maintained with the serial novel, as a genre and format of publication of fiction invented in Europe, and with the means of literary production available in Rio de Janeiro.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Format and Context of Reading 1. Machado de Assis's Novels in Serial and Book Form 2. Philosopher or Dog? and the Fashion Section of A Estação 3. Philosopher or Dog? and the Literary Section of A Estação Part II: Narrative Technique and the Two Versions 4. The Kaleidoscopic Narrative of Philosopher or Dog? 5. The First Version: Under the Sign of the Serial 6. From the Magazine to the Book: The Global View of the Novel 7. The Fictional Rhetoric of Philosopher or Dog? 8. Conclusion: Philosopher or Dog? The Beginning of the End of the Serial?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading Games in the Greek Novel
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive and innovative study of Greek modernist prose fiction and the first of its kind to appear in English, covering the formative years between 1930 and 1975 and featuring key Greek authors such as Yannis Skarimbas, Stratis Tsirkas and Nikos Kachtitsi.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Beyond Textual Aesthetics: Modalities of Play in Fiction 2. No Importance in Being Earnest? Playfulness and Greek Modernism in the 1930s 3. Intertextuality as Reading Performance: Playful Citation in Yannis Skarimbas's Mariambas 4. The Archaeologies of Reading: From Drosinis's Classical Canon to Pentzikis's Intertextual Games 5. Games and Symbolic Order in Aris Alexandrou's the Mission Box 6. Replaying the Text in Stratis Tsirkas's Drifting Cities 7. The Heart of Lightness: Trivial Colonialism in Nikos Kachtitsis's the Balcony
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Truth of Realism: A Reassessment of the
Book SynopsisThis book is about the power of narrative realism as a critique of the ideology of inwardness in the German-speaking world. It answers the question: What kind of truth about reality does German literary realism enable us to see, and what kind of transformation does that vision require and effect?Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Realism, the Narrative Self, and the Legacy of German Idealism 2. Representing the Real: Gottfried Keller's Der grüne Heinrich 3. Refusing the Real: Wilhelm Raabe's Der Hungerpastor 4. German Realism after 1870: Literature, Philosophy, and Human Selfhood 5. Wilhelm Raabe, Pfisters Mühle the Reality of Inwardness 6. Wilhelm Raabe, Die Akten des Vogelsangs the End of Inwardness 7. Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest Realism, Empathy, and Identity 8. Theodor Fontane, Irrungen, Wirrungen Realism and Transfiguration 9. The Limited Whole: The Realism of History in Der Stechlin and Vor dem Sturm 10. Conclusion
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Alan Spence's Its Colours They are Fine and Way
Book SynopsisAlan Spence''s series of linked short stories, Its Colours They Are Fine, is a classic of modern Glasgow fiction, vividly evoking the city and its inhabitants. His second novel, Way To Go, is an at turns darkly humourous and deeply poignant novel about the ultimate questions of life and death. John Burns'' SCOTNOTE study guide examines the social and philosophical backgrounds of Spence''s work, exploring the ties between the surface events and the deeper currents beneath. These notes are suitable for senior school pupils and students at all levels.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Eric Linklater's Private Angelo and the Dark of
Book SynopsisEric Linklater (1899 - 1974) was one of the most prolific authors of his generation. Although his books were highly popular in the 1930s and 1940s, he began to fall out of fashion in the post-war world. However the quality of his work remains, and today his craft and narrative gifts are once again being appreciated. Christopher Nicol''s Scotnote examines two of Linklater''s novels, Private Angelo and The Dark of Summer. Both novels are set during World War II, and Linklater''s unflinching portrayal of the folly and cruelty of war is warmed by his compassionate understanding of the emotions and motivations of ordinary human beings swept up in the chaos of conflict. The first, Private Angelo, was written in 1944 and 1945, in the heat of the final years of the war and its immediate, and hopeful, aftermath. The second, The Dark of Summer, came more than ten years later, as that original optimism had faded and the Cold War began to grip. The social, cultural and political backgrounds of each novel are discussed and contrasted. This guide is suitable for senior school pupils and students at all levels.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies John Galt’s Annals of the Parish and The Provost:
Book SynopsisThe SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education. The individual authors are not only experts on a particular writer or text but also experienced in teaching in schools or colleges.John Galt (17791839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord Byron. His writings are full of acute observation, penetrating psychological insight, rich Scots language and great good humour. This SCOTNOTE examines two key novels by Galt, which chronicle the changes in Scottish society in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Dedalus Ltd My Fairy-Tale Life
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Five Leaves Publications London Fictions
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Maney Publishing Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics
Book SynopsisThis book explores the rich treasury of Sholem Aleichem translations, focusing primarily on the European context. It suggests that the many-faceted issue of translating Sholem Aleichem can be considered from the different perspectives of history, politics, and art.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Found in Translation: Sholem Aleichem and the Myth of the Ideal Yiddish Reader 2. Sholem Aleichem as a Self-Translator 3. Sholem Aleichem and the Polish-Jewish Literary Audience 4. Soviet Sholem Aleichem 5. Du host zikh a denkmol af eybik geshtelf: The Sovietization and Heroization of Sholem Aleichem in the 1939 Jubilee Poems 6. A Writer for All Seasons: Translating Sholem Aleichem into Soviet Ideological Idiom 7. Four English Pots and the Evolving Translatability of Sholem Aleichem 8. On (Un)translatability: Sholem Aleichem’s Ayznban-geshikhtes (Railroad Stories) in German Translation 9. Laughing Matters: Irony and Translation in 'Der gliklekhster in Kodne' 10. Lost in Marienbad: On the Literary Use of the Linguistic Openness of Yiddish 11. Sholem Aleichem in Estonian: Creating a Tradition 12. Speaking Tevye der milkhiker in Translation: Performance, Humour, and World Literature
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Maney Publishing Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first full-length study of W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. It examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Post-Postwar Literature 1. Traces of Trauma 2. The Terrors of Ice and Darkness: The Case of the Ice-Man 3. Narbenubersat': An Excess of Traces in the Dog King 4. Displacement, Dysfunction, and Erasure in the Emigrants 5. Blind Spots: Austerlitz 6. Conclusion
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Maney Publishing Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture:
Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between literary fiction and sacred scripture in contemporary works of fiction and thought. It presents positions that vary from a latent engagement with the divine to a very explicit upholding of a sense of dichotomy between literary text and sacred scripture.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Body, Text, Excess 2. Withdrawn Divine I: The Blank Book in Tahar Ben Jelloun's L'Enfant de sable and Amin Maalouf's Le Périple de Baldassare 3. Withdrawn Divine II: Vanishing Bodies and Empty Space in Georges Perec's La Disparition and Assia Djebar's La Disparition de la langue française 4. Divine Senses of Place: Mecca versus Madina 5. Conclusion
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Maney Publishing Sebald's Bachelors: Queer Resistance and the
Book SynopsisThis study shows that the potential for subversion personified by the German writer W. G. Sebald's solitary males is essential for understanding his work, while also demonstrating the contribution that Sebald made to the German tradition of queer writing.Trade Review"...one of the most important books on Sebald to date." -- Vertigo VertigoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Naegeli's Bones 1. W. G. Sebald's Lehrjahre: Bourgeois Sexuality and its Discontents 2. Bachelors in Feather Boas: Masculinity Gone Astray 3. The Ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah: Queer Orientalism and Colonialism 4. Eros in Venice: The Strange Case of Dr S. and Dr K. 5. Conclusion
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Haus Publishing Goethe
Book SynopsisJohann Wolfgang von Goethe is recognised as a giant of world literature; an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a student, he composed pastoral plays in the style of the waning Rococo. With Gotz von Berlichingen, a drama conceived in the spirit of Shakespeare, he joined the avant-garde Sturm und Drang authors. His epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther elicited fervent responses among those who rejected the traditions of the Enlightenment, and in his tragedy Faust, which evolved over a 60-year period, he created a prototype of the Romantic hero. Furthermore, based on his studies in literary theory, he developed a concept of 'world literature' that he hoped would foster communication among writers of different nations.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Rethinking George MacDonald: Contexts and
Book SynopsisGeorge MacDonald (1824 - 1905) is the acknowledged forefather of later fantasy writers such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien: however, his place in his own time is seldom examined. This omission does MacDonald a grave disservice. By ignoring a fundamental aspect of what made MacDonald the man he was, the critical habit of viewing MacDonald''s work only in terms of his followers reinforces the long-entrenched assessment that it has a limited value - one only for religious enthusiasts and fantasy lovers. The essays in this anthology seek to correct that omission, by looking directly at MacDonald the Victorian - at his place in the Victorian literary scene, at his engagement with the works of his literary contemporaries and at his interest in the social, political, and theological movements of his age. The resulting portrait reveals a MacDonald who deserves a more prominent place in the rich literary history of the nineteenth century than he has hitherto been given.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J. M. Barrie
Book SynopsisJ. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) is today known almost exclusively for one work: Peter Pan. Yet he was the most successful British playwright of the early twentieth century, and his novels were once thought equal to those of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. Although in recent years there has been a revival of interest in Barrie''s writing, many critics still fail to include him in surveys of fin de siecle literature or drama. Perhaps Barrie''s remarkable variety of output has prevented him from being taken to the centre of critical discussions in any one area of literary criticism or history. Is Barrie predominantly a novelist or a playwright? Is he Victorian, Decadent, Edwardian or Modernist? Gateway to the Modern is the very first collection of essays on Barrie which attempts to do justice to the extraordinary range of his literary achievement. What emerges is a significant writer, fully immersed in the literary and intellectual culture of his day.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Space of Fiction: Voices from Scotland in a
Book SynopsisContemporary Scottish fiction is vigorous, vivid and diverse, eschewing the straitjackets of genre and resisting categorisation as either ''mainstream'' or ''literary''. Meanwhile, Scotland itself refuses to conform to external notions of what it is, and what it can become. The literature of this post-devolution nation comes in a multitude of voices. The Space of Fiction examines how Scottish writers have responded to, and been affected by, the nation''s ongoing political discourse. Examining in detail the works of Des Dillon, Anne Donovan, Michel Faber, Laura Hird, Alison Miller, Ewan Morrison, James Robertson, Suhayl Saadi, Zoe Strachan and their contemporaries, The Space of Fiction traces their multifarious approaches to a post-national, cosmopolitan, multicultural and even globalised Scotland, and explores their notions of space, of place, and of the impact of fiction on the nature of identity.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and
Book SynopsisThe European age of empires launched a process of capitalist globalisation that continues to the present day. It is also inextricably linked with the spread of revolutionary discourses in terms of race, nation, class, and gender: the quest for emancipation, democracy, political independence, and economic equality. R. B. Cunninghame Graham (18521936), in both his life and his oeuvre, most effectively represents the complex interaction between imperial and revolutionary discourses in this dramatic period. Throughout his life he was an outspoken critic of injustice and inequality, and his appreciation of the demands and customs of diverse territories and contrasting cultures were hallmarks of his life, his political ideas, and his writing. This collection explores the expression of these ideas in the works of Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish writers in the century between 1850 and 1950.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The International Companion to John Galt
Book SynopsisJohn Galt (17791839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and afriend and biographer of Lord Byron. Although a prolific writer, and much admired inhis own lifetime, Galt has never achieved comparable levels of literary fame, and hisworks poised between Enlightenment and Romanticism are now often overlooked.Yet his reputation has been slowly growing, and he has attracted critical interest as botha political novelist and a chronicler of Scottish life. This INTERNATIONALCOMPANION builds on a steady stream of recent scholarship, and examines Galt'swritings in the social, economic, and religious contexts of their time.
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Fentum Press Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet
Book SynopsisSanditon is Jane Austen’s last novel, unfinished when she died in 1817. A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wrote as a teenager and in private throughout her life. In her ground-breaking essay, Todd contextualizes Austen’s life and work, Sanditon’s connection with Northanger Abbey (1819) and Emma (1816), Jane Austen’s insecurity of income and home, and the Austen family’s financial speculations. She examines the work’s discussion of the moral and social problems of capitalism, entrepreneurship, and growing tourism, and their effect on traditional values and rural communities. Todd explains the early nineteenth-century culture of self: the exploitation of hypochondria, health fads, seaside resorts, and miracle cures. Arguing that Sanditon is an innovative, ebullient study of human beings ’ vagaries (rather than using common sense, Sanditon’s characters follow intuition and bodily signs), she shows Austen’s themes to be akin to contemporary concerns about self-obsession and the culture of narcissism, as well as a comic study of the gap between how we think of ourselves and how we appear and sound to others.
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CB Editions Blush
Book SynopsisIn text and colour photographs, Blush investigates the history of blushing in society and literature from the late 18th century to the present.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Richardson and the Philosophes
Book SynopsisThis book inquires why the philosophes converge on Samuel Richardson and with what results. It focuses on the two-way or 'cross-Channel' flow in texts and ideas that continued between Britain and France throughout the long eighteenth century.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Richardson's 'Religious' Novels 2. Voltaire: Nanine and Paméla 3. Voltaire: L'Ingénu and Lettres d'Amabed 4. Rousseau: Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse 5. Diderot: Éloge de Richardson and La Religieuse 6. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unamuno's Theory of the Novel
Book SynopsisThis book explains Miguel de Unamuno's cultivation of the novel genre from the point of view of the ideas he brought to bear on his practice. It shows that behind Unamuno's fictional experiments there lies a coherent and quasi-philosophical concept of the novelesque genre, indeed of writing itself.Table of ContentsIntroduction Unamuno's Ideas on the Novel 1. Physical and Mental Worlds 2. The Author 3. The Word 4. The Reader 5. The Person 6. The Double 7. Philosophical Investigations 8. Conclusion: A Theory of the Novel?
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Uniformbooks Reading (Story of) O
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Enitharmon Press Edward Upward: Art and Life
Book SynopsisThe novelist and short story writer Edward Upward (1903-2009) is famous for being the unknown member of the W. H. Auden circle, though was revered by his peers -- Auden, Day Lewis, Isherwood and Spender -- for his intellect, high literary gifts and unswerving political commitment. His lifelong friendship with Christopher Isherwood was forged at school and university, with each regarding the other as the first reader of his work. At Cambridge they invented the bizarre village of Mortmere, which with its combination of reality and fantasy had an important role in shaping the dominant British literary culture of the 1930s. Upward, immortalised as 'Allen Chalmers' in Isherwood's Lions and Shadows, was an early influence on W. H. Auden and author of the influential political novel Journey to the Border, published in 1938 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. But his writing career faltered while he was devout member of the Communist Party. After leaving the party in 1948 he again wrote novels and short stories until shortly before his death at the age of 105. In this illuminating, meticulously researched biography Peter Stansky tells the fascinating story of Upward's conflict between art and life. At the same time he colourfully provides significant insight into English society during the twentieth century and explores the special nature of English radicalism.Trade Review'[Upward's] unique blending of the past, in art as well as in politics, still has lessons for the future.' - Frank Kermode; 'As a painter of hallucinatory dreamscapes - a kind of prose Magritte - Upward at his finest still has no peer.' - Independent
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University College Dublin Press James Joyce Remembered Edition 2022
Book SynopsisIn 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's back garden. With this re-issue of Curran's book, another group of University College Dubliners takes a new look at his work, delving into the Curran-Laird collection at the James Joyce Library. Side by side with Joyce, Curran, arts critic, and Helen Laird Curran, his activist partner, come into clearer view; writer-critic adventurers Padraic and Mary Maguire Colum return again; savant Paul Leon, in Paris, takes his place too. The literary, cultural, and political context widens: the Irish wars, erupting again in 1922 as Ulysses begins circulating; the Paris-Dublin rescue operation of this group's papers at Joyce's death, suspended - and accomplished - in this time of violence. The 2022 collective edition offers an uncommon picture of this inventive and committed cohort, their work, and their worlds. With essays by Hugh Campbell, Diarmaid Ferriter, Anne Fogarty, Margaret Kelleher and Helen Solterer. The UCD Curran-Laird collection presented by Eugene Roche and Evelyn Flanagan. This is a full colour, highly illustrated book with special edition design features throughout.Trade Review'His defiance of a media ban by the then invading Russians earned the attentions of a famous general, who considered shooting him but instead became a close friend.' - Terence Killeen, The Irish Times, June 2022.; 'The collaborative book reveals some new details of their lives in Dublin at a crucial time in Ireland’s fight for independence from Great Britain, and the Civil War that erupted in the year Joyce published Ulysses.' - Duke University, June 2022.; 'Curran’s book is not only an empathetic & nuanced account of Joyce but also, in effect, of a whole galaxy of UCD graduates who contributed to the Irish Revival & to the formation of the state' - UCD Today, Spring/Summer 2022.;
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Sandstone Press Ltd Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and
Book SynopsisJane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, and both were influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy’s brother, William Wordsworth, and his friends. Jane and Dorothy compares their upbringing and education, home lives and loves and, above all, their emotional and creative worlds. Original insights include a new discovery of serious depression suffered by Dorothy Wordsworth, a new and crucial discovery about Dorothy and William’s relationship, and a critical look at the myths surrounding the man who stole Jane’s heart. This is the first time these two lives have been examined together. Trade Review‘'An unusual but interesting account.'’ -- John Van der Kiste, The Bookbag‘'Veevers’s writing flows effortlessly and sustains interest by moving back and forth between the two women. Most commendable is the way she depicts the insecure and sometimes demeaning reality of their lives—leaving readers to question what more these individuals might have produced in a society less weighted against them.'’ * Publishers Weekly *‘'a fresh and richly credible Jane and Dorothy whose complicated characters and situations run parallel yet never meet.'’ * Sensibilities Journal, Jane Austen Society of Australia *
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Greenwich Exchange Ltd Lydia Davis: A Study
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Luath Press Ltd Mrs Jekyll and Cousin Hyde: The True Story Behind
Book SynopsisThe hidden controversy and heartbreak behind Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is revealed in this fascinating work of literary detection. What was the real reason Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated his dark masterpiece to his cousin Katharine de Mattos? Why was Katharine’s own tale of duality published under a pseudonym? When Fanny Stevenson ‘stole’ another story idea from Katharine, why did RLS explode with Hydelike rage at the cousin for whom he had once been ‘the one that loves you – Jekyll, and not Hyde’? Featuring the full text of Katharine’s tale of duality, Fanny’s stolen story and another tale revealing Katharine’s grief at losing her cousin’s love forever, Mrs Jekyll & Cousin Hyde sheds new light on one of the greatest Victorian authors.Trade Review.
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Luath Press Ltd Barnhill: A Novel
Book SynopsisGeorge Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven by a passionate desire to undermine the enemies of democracy and make plain the dangers of dictatorship, surveillance, doublethink and censorship.Typing away in his damp bedroom overlooking the garden he curated and the sea beyond, he invented Big Brother, Thought Police, Newspeak and Room 101 – and created a masterpiece.Barnhill tells the dramatic story of this crucial period of Orwell’s life. Deeply researched, it reveals the private man behind the celebrated public figure – his turbulent love life, his devotion to his baby son and his declining health as he struggled to deliver his dystopian warning to the world.Trade ReviewThrough a literary lens, Bissell does for Orwell what Johnny Depp did for J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland. He brings the man most vibrantly alive. Alastair McIntoshBissell fills out and explores more deeply Orwell’s character and his relationships with those around him. It’s a very believable portrayal, digging beneath the surface of a man who could be awkward, opinionated and intransigent in an attempt to see what made him tick. The Herald on Sunday... a truly excellent and compelling novel, one which provides a perceptive insight into the wretchedness experienced by Orwell as he attempted to finish 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' before his life expired. The author has succeeded in transcending the aura surrounding both Barnhill and Orwell himself, in a book that wholly subsumes the reader in those last years of literary and moral anguish… Possibly the best book you'll read this year. The Ileach
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Galileo Publishers The 100 Best Novels in Translation
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Banipal Books Banipal 70 - Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem
Book SynopsisBanipal 70 – Mahmoud Shukair, Writing Jerusalem is a rich issue of diverse authors and literary news to inspire and enthuse you in this continuing time of Covid-19.The main feature on Palestinian author Mahmoud Shukair is a gift to the great Jerusalemite on his 80th birthday – which took place in March this year – with articles, short stories, reviews of his two collections in English translation, and his trilogy of novels of Jerusalem family life.Two recent Arabic novels are reviewed and excerpted: At Rest in the Cherry Orchard by Iraqi author Azher Jirjees, and No One Prayed over Their Graves by Syrian author Khaled Khalifa. Also included, a memorable short story “A Bicycle Brings an Old Comrade” by Egyptian author Hassan Abdel Mawgoud.Lebanese author Alawiya Sobh talks to Katia al-Tawil about her latest novel To Love Life, with three chapters excerpted.Guest writer is Gibraltarian poet and translator Trino Cruz, working in both Spanish and English, with selected poems from The Fertile Shore.Plus an interview with the editors of the Maktoob project, which translates and publishes Arabic literature in Hebrew.
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BenBella Books NeuroScience Fiction: How Neuroscience Is
Book SynopsisWhat if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi scenarios into reality, and causing us to revisit some of the philosophical questions we have been asking ourselves for centuries. Science fiction often takes its inspiration from the latest science . . . and our oldest questions. After all, the two are inextricably linked. At a time when advances in artificial intelligence are genuinely leading us closer to a computer that thinks like a human, we can't help but wonder: What makes a person a person? Countless writers and filmmakers have created futuristic scenarios to explore this issue and others like it. But these scenarios may not be so futuristic after all. In the movie Inception, a group of conspirators implants false memories; in Until the End of the World, a mad scientist is able to read dreams; in 2001: A Space Odyssey, a supercomputer feels and thinks like a person. And in recent years, the achievements described in leading scientific journals have included some that might sound familiar: implanting memories using optogenetics, reading the mind during sleep thanks to advanced decoding algorithms, and creating a computer that uses deep neural networks to surpass the abilities of human thought. In NeuroScience Fiction, neuroscientist and author Rodrigo Quiroga reveals the futuristic present we are living in, showing how the far-out premises of 10 seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by discoveries happening right now, on the cutting edge of neuroscience. He also explores the thorny philosophical problems raised as a result, diving into Minority Report and free will, The Matrix and the illusion of reality, Blade Runner and android emotion, and more. A heady mix of science fiction, neuroscience, and philosophy, NeuroScience Fiction takes us from Vanilla Sky to neural research labs, and from Planet of the Apes to what makes us human. This is a book you'll be thinking about long after the last page—and once you've read it, you'll never watch a sci-fi blockbuster the same way again.Trade Review"If you like science fiction, this book is for you, but if you like science and fiction, then this is certainly your book. Intelligent and well informed." —Antonio Damasio, director of the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, and author of Descartes' Error and The Strange Order of Things. "Rodrigo Quian Quiroga has written a thorough, provocative answer to the deep philosophical question of what makes us human. His truly remarkable book blends art, science, and philosophy as seen through the highly original lens of brain research and movies." —Gustavo Deco, ICREA professor, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Theoretical and Computational Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona "Renowned cognitive neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga invites us on an exhilarating journey, in which the motley trio of neuroscience, philosophy, and Hollywood together seek after the recipe of the mind. Quian Quiroga, who himself discovered what is sure to be an essential ingredient, the concept cells, shows us how frighteningly close we are getting and how huge the stakes are." —Doris Y. Tsao, neuroscientist and professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology "This book is a fascinating journey across some of the most influential science-fiction movies that deal with the deepest questions in neuroscience and philosophy of mind." —Jose M. Carmena, professor of electrical engineering and neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley "NeuroScience Fiction will be a treat for sci-fi movie fans and anyone who has wondered just how close we are to the horizon technologies—which is often much closer than we realize." —James H. Fallon, professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, and bestselling author of The Psychopath InsideTable of ContentsContents Introduction1 2001: A Space Odyssey: Machine Intelligence2 Blade Runner: Can Androids Feel?3 Planet of the Apes: Animal Consciousness4 The Matrix: The Illusion of Reality5 Until the End of the World: Reading the Mind6 Minority Report: Free Will7 RoboCop: Cyborgs and Identity8 Inception: Dream Construction9 Total Recall: Memory Manipulation and Implantation10 Open Your Eyes (Vanilla Sky): ImmortalityEpilogue: The Dawn of a New PhilosophyNotesAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIndex
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De Gruyter Zyklisch-serielle Narration: Erzähltes Erzählen
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