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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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vi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"A playful, highly visual exploration of novelistic structure and how novels are created, How to Draw a Novel is a meditation on literary craft that muses on how and why novels communicate with readers. In this witty and finely wrought collection of essays, Martín Solares opens the hood of how fiction operates, exploring the conventions of form, the novel as a house that one must build brick by brick, and the objects and characters that build out...
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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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Dans la production artistique québécoise s'établit souvent un rapport de force entre des groupes dominants et des exclus, des êtres « gâchés », qui témoigne d'une fabrique de l'exclusion foncièrement injuste et répressive. L'autrice de cet ouvrage observe cette violence dans la littérature et le cinéma par une analyse qui s'inspire non seulement de la sociologie et de l'anthropologie, mais aussi de l'histoire ou de la psychologie. Se...
4) Spoonwood
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English
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Life, love, death, and laughs in a small American town.
After almost fifteen years, Hebert has returned to this rich literary landscape for a new novel of the changing economic and social character of New England. Hebert's previous Darby book, “Live Free or Die”, recounted the ill-fated love between Freddie Elman, son of the town trash collector, and Lilith Salmon, child of Upper Darby gentility. At its conclusion, Lilith died giving birth to...
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Cet ouvrage s'intéresse aux adaptations du roman de Mary Shelley, qui est sans doute l'œuvre ayant subi le plus de transformations dans l'histoire. Cinéma, théâtre, littérature, bande dessinée, jeu vidéo, musique et art visuel ne cessent d'en proposer des versions différentes. Comment expliquer ce succès, jamais démenti ?
Sans équivalent dans la francophonie, avec ses analyses étoffées très variées qui touchent plusieurs formes génériques,...
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Between these pages, you will find critiques, observations, commentaries, and occasional flights of fancy--all inspired by the character and career of Sherlock Holmes. In total, they suggest an explanation for his fascination. He gives readers so much to think about. The more you seek, the more you find, and the more you find, the more compelled you are to seek. So read at your own peril. You have been warned. This sampling could seduce you into joining...
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Hacer de las tramas policíacas una conjetura y de sus lógicas narrativas un juego de la imaginación es la rutina que ocupa al señor Carrados y a miss Clack, los personajes centrales de este entramado de historias. Al mejor estilo de un detective con su
asistente, un anciano ciego y su enfermera enfrentan la vida como si fuera un misterio por resolver. Conversaciones de vecinos, incidentes familiares, recortes de periódicos y anécdotas inconclusas...
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Siempre a las órdenes de Felipe II, Álvaro de Bazán participó en toda la política naval del siglo XVI y es considerado uno de los marinos más ilustres de la historia de España.
Impulsor de nuevas estrategias navales y de la incorporación de la sanidad a la milicia, fue un militar extraordinario y un gran amante de las artes. Fue el primero de la historia en comandar un desembarco de infantería de marina.
En esta breve biografía se destaca...
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Jonathan Ames has drawn comparisons across the literary spectrum, from David Sedaris to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, and his books, as well as his abilities as a performer, have made him a favorite on the Late Show with David Letterman. Whether he's chasing deranged cockroaches around his apartment, kissing a beautiful actress on the set of an avant-garde film, finding himself stuck perilously on top of a fence in Memphis...
11) Tone
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Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know it when I see it."
In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that tone is relational, belonging to shared experience...
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Le poème n'était pas pour Jacques Brault une question rhétorique ou seulement esthétique : il était indissociable de la vie, saisie dans tous ses aspects, les plus humbles, les plus quotidiens, comme les plus mystérieux. Ni vers ni prose, la poésie passait outre ces limites et circulait aussi librement dans ses essais o surgissaient ses « épiphanies pourvoyeuses de petite éternité ». Dans ses derniers ouvrages Chemins perdus, chemins trouvés,...
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A comprehensive selection of his quips, aphorisms, and wit. One of the most well known personalities of his day, Oscar Wilde charmed and beguiled readers and audiences with his eloquent and biting observations, his smart quips, and the witticisms peppering his own speech and the speech of his characters. The Wisdom of Oscar Wilde collects both his best-loved quotes and longer excerpts, revealing a man wise to human nature and his times, and never...
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La pensée a joué - et joue toujours - un rle vital dans le devenir de l'espèce humaine dont l'histoire se conçoit et se crée à travers elle. C'est par elle, également, que l'humanité a su pallier des faiblesses qui la rendent vulnérable aux phénomènes naturels. On peut donc s'attendre à en voir la trace dans la façon dont diverses sociétés ont projeté leur existence et assumé leur place dans le monde. Comment la pensée structure-t-elle,...
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In an unusual view of one of the English language's greatest writers, an Arab scholar analyzes the oriental influences on Milton's work, and Milton's own influence on Arab writers and critics John Milton's great poems, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, are among the greatest pieces of writing in the English language. Like other writers of his time, Milton had only a sketchy idea of Islam and the Arab world, from travelers and linguists who had...
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The publication Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination is part of the Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English Series. The text reflects growing interest in popular literary genres not only among the readers, but mainly in literary research. This still rather under-researched area is now representing fertile grounds for various theoretical approaches. As the publication mainly declares its...
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El curso de escritura creativa que Brandon Sanderson lleva casi dos décadas impartiendo en la universidad, por primera vez en formato libro.
Curso de escritura creativa convierte en libro las clases que Brandon Sanderson lleva 16 años impartiendo anualmente en la Universidad Brigham Young, donde estudió. Él mismo dice que nunca ha dejado de darlas porque es un recurso que necesita para seguir creciendo como escritor. El curso se centra en los...
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2024
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar.
Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their
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The Smart Set Conversations
H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan
On the eve of the First World War, two iconoclastic young journalists, H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, were offered the co-editorship of The Smart Set, a New-York based magazine with literary ambitions. During their nine years as co-editors, from 1914 until 1923, Mencken and Nathan transformed The Smart Set into a must-read of the early jazz era, established themselves as...
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Pulitzer Prize—winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American poets who came to prominence in the mid-twentieth century. Wilbur's verse is esteemed for its fluency, wit, and optimism, his ingeniously rhymed translations of French drama by Molière, Racine, and Corneille remain the most often staged in the English-speaking world, his essays possess a scope and acumen equal to the era's best criticism. This biography...
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