Lecture


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An energetic and irreverent essay on the forgotten art of the lecture, part of Transit's new Undelivered Lectures series.




Lectures on the History of Literature


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This collection of lectures provides a comprehensive overview of the history of literature from ancient times to the present day. The lectures cover everything from the earliest known works of literature to the contemporary authors of the time. The book is engagingly written and offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the world of literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.







Literature and the Taste of Knowledge


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What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This 2005 book seeks to answer and to prolong these questions through the close examination of individual works and the exploration of a broad array of examples. Chapters on Henry James, Kafka, and the form of the villanelle are interspersed with wider-ranging inquiries into forms of irony, indirection and the uses of fiction, with examples ranging from Auden to Proust and Rilke, and from Calvino to Jean Rhys and Yeats. Literature is a form of pretence. But every pretence could tilt us into the real, and many of them do. There is no safe place for the reader: no literalist's haven where fact is always fact; and no paradise of metaphor, where our poems, plays and novels have no truck at all with the harsh and shifting world.




Lectures on the History of English Literature (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Lectures on the History of English Literature It is believed that the present volume is calculated to furnish interesting and useful information to readers generally, as well as to students in particular. It is, therefore, presented to the public with the hope that it may receive a favorable reception and a. Generous appreciation. It should have a place, especially in fami lies where there are young people. So we think. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Lectures on Modern History


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A New History of German Literature


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'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.