Book Description
This is the author's most influential work of literary theory and criticism in which she explores the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
Author : Shoshana Felman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804744492
This is the author's most influential work of literary theory and criticism in which she explores the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
Author : Leon Z. Surmelian
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
And description -- Versatility of summary -- Control of emotion and aesthetic distance -- Scene or summary -- Description -- Setting a story by scene.
Author : Lisa Spieker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476682275
What does it mean to be "mad" in contemporary American society? How do we categorize people's reactions to extreme pressures, trauma, loneliness and serious mental illness? Importantly--who gets to determine these classifications, and why? This book seeks to answer these questions through studying an increasingly popular media genre--memoirs of people with mental illnesses. Memoirs, like the ones examined in this book, often respond to stigmatizing tropes about "the mad" in popular culture and engage with concepts in mental health activism and research. This study breaks new academic ground and argues that the featured texts rethink the possibilities of community building and stigma politics. Drawing on literary analysis and sociological concepts, it understands these memoirs as complex, at times even contradictory, approaches to activism.
Author : Patrick McGrath
Publisher : Centipede Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2018-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781613471944
Large collection of stories, essays, and reviews by Gothic novelist Patrick McGrath. Illustrated.
Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... —New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act—the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle’s work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that’s vital and welcome, that doesn’t make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening fun. -The Kenyon Review Profound, unpredictable, charming, and outright funny...These informal talks have far more staying power and verve than most of their kind. Readers may come away dazzled, as well as amused... —Publishers Weekly This is a book not just for poets but for anyone interested in the human heart, the inner-life, the breath exhaling a completion of an idea that will make you feel changed in some way. This is a desert island book. —Matthew Dickman The accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature... —San Francisco Examiner Over the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures include "Poetry and the Moon," "Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World," and "Lectures I Will Never Give." Intellectually virtuosic, instructive, and experiential, Madness, Rack, and Honey resists definition, demanding instead an utter—and utterly pleasurable—immersion. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. Mary Ruefle has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.
Author : Rebecca Shannonhouse
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0375755020
Out of Her Mind, edited by Rebecca Shannonhouse, captures the best literature by and about women struggling with madness. A remarkable chronicle of gifted and unconventional women who have spun their inner turmoil into literary gold, the collection features classic short stories, breathtaking literary excerpts, key historical writings, and previously unpublished letters by Zelda Fitzgerald. Shannonhouse’s recent anthology, Under the Influence: The Literature of Addiction, is also available as a Modern Library Paperback Original.
Author : G. Mackenzie Bacon
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Reference
ISBN :
On the Writing of the Insane: With Illustrations by G. Bacon Mackenzie, first published in 1870, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781933517575
Cultural criticism meets poetry memoir--a contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.
Author : J. J. Connolly
Publisher : Prelude Books
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0715642219
Hiding out in the Carribean until the heat dies down from his last job, X is thinking it’s time to ditch the resort life and calls up his old friend Morty to plot his return to London. But he’s hardly stepped off the plane when his associates, Sonny King and Roy ‘Twitchy’ Burns, get on the wrong side of a feuding Venezuelan drug cartel on the hunt for a sensitive package. Suddenly he’s thrown into a stand-off between rival mobs and with so many players in the game it’s tough going making out who wants to cut him a deal and who’s trying to kill him. Darkly comic, fast-paced and full of twists Viva la Madness is packed with sex, scams, drugs and enough dirty money to fill a few offshore bank accounts.
Author : Therí Alyce Pickens
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1478005505
In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due craft new worlds that reimagine the intersection of Blackness and madness. These creative writer-theorists formulate new parameters for thinking through Blackness and madness. Pickens considers Butler's Fledgling as an archive of Black madness that demonstrates how race and ability shape subjectivity while constructing the building blocks for antiracist and anti-ableist futures. She examines how Hopkinson's Midnight Robber theorizes mad Blackness and how Due's African Immortals series contests dominant definitions of the human. The theorizations of race and disability that emerge from these works, Pickens demonstrates, challenge the paradigms of subjectivity that white supremacy and ableism enforce, thereby pointing to the potential for new forms of radical politics.