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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 52,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 August 2012

How to Do Things with Fictions considers how fictional works, ranging from Chaucer to Beckett, subject readers to a series of exercises meant to fortify their mental capacities.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 54,9 Mb
• Release Date : 06 July 2012

Why does Mark's Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why are Beckett's novels so inscrutable? And why don't stage magicians even pretend to summon spirits

• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• File Size : 50,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 October 2020

A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century “Nothing ever really disappears from the internet” has become a common warning of the digital

• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• File Size : 21,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 July 2008

In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the

• Publisher : Grove Press
• File Size : 53,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 September 2019

The renowned novelist and author of This Year You Write a Novel shares a “compact but insight-rich” guide to fiction writing (Publishers Weekly). In his essential writing guide, This Year

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2014

Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions

• Publisher : Hackett Publishing
• File Size : 27,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 March 1978

Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of

• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• File Size : 27,5 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

The Flow Genome Project director and award-winning author of The Rise of Superman charts the world-changing transformation of fictional scientific concepts into real-world technologies. Original. 10,000 first printing.

• Publisher : Unbound Publishing
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 18 October 2018

At night, the trees whispered. Told ghost stories, their leaves trembling. Remembered the fallen. Joked. Dry laughter rustled the dark. What happens when a writer wants to tell a hundred

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 26,6 Mb
• Release Date : 27 July 2022

Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and peripheries, the