Book Description
Early fiction of one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany, a man often called the German James Joyce due to the linguistic inventiveness of his fiction.
Author : Arno Schmidt
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564780904
Early fiction of one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany, a man often called the German James Joyce due to the linguistic inventiveness of his fiction.
Author : Lesley D. Clement
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317599497
This volume visits death in children’s literature from around the world, making a substantial contribution to the dialogue between the expanding fields of Childhood Studies, Children’s Literature, and Death Studies. Considering both textual and pictorial representations of death, contributors focus on the topic of death in children’s literature as a physical reality, a philosophical concept, a psychologically challenging adjustment, and/or a social construct. Essays covering literature from the US, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, India, and Iran display a diverse range of theoretical and cultural perspectives. Carefully organized sections interrogate how classic texts have been adapted for the twenty-first century, how death has been politicized, ritualized, or metaphorized, and visual strategies for representing death, and how death has been represented within the context of play. Asking how different cultures present the concept of death to children, this volume is the first to bring together a global range of perspective on death in children’s literature and will be a valuable contribution to an array of disciplines.
Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351872958
This study traces the links between William Blake's ideas and radical Christian cultures in late eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a significant number of historical sources, Robert W. Rix examines how Blake and his contemporaries re-appropriated the sources they read within new cultural and political frameworks. By unravelling their strategies, the book opens up a new perspective on what has often been seen as Blake's individual and idiosyncratic ideas. We are also presented with the first comprehensive study of Blake's reception of Swedenborgianism. At the time Blake took an interest in Emanuel Swedenborg, the mystical and spiritual writings of the theosophist had become a platform for radical and revolutionary politics, as well as numerous heterodox practices, among his followers in England. Rix focuses on Swedenborgianism as a concrete and identifiable sub-culture from which a number of essential themes in Blake's works are reassessed. This book will appeal not only to Blake scholars, but to anyone studying the radical and sub- culture, religious, intellectual and cultural history of this period.
Author : Martin Israel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1998-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0264674359
This book explores doubt - what is its meaning?; what does it bring?; and why does personal experience often run counter to the teachings of the Church about hope?
Author : The late A. D. Nuttall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1998-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191518573
The Trinity of orthodox Christianity is harmonious. The Trinity for Blake is, conspicuously, not a happy family: the Father and the Son do not get on. It might be thought that so cumbersome a notion is inconceivable before the rise of Romanticism but the Ophite Gnostics of the second century AD appear to have thought that God the Father was a jealous tyrant because he forbade Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and that the serpent, who led the way to the Tree of Knowledge, was really Christ. This book explores the possibility of an underground 'perennial heresy', linking the Ophites to Blake. The 'alternative Trinity' is intermittently visible in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and even in Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake's notorious detection of a pro-Satan anti-poem, latent in this 'theologically patriarchal' epic is less capricious, better grounded historically and philosophically, than is commonly realised.
Author : Camilo José Cela
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564783592
This book reflects the crude reality of rural Spain in Franco's time. It is full of human power and rich in social insight. Cela writes with great detail, but still maintains simplicity.
Author : Piotr Szewc
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564782052
A day in the life of a small Polish-Jewish town shortly before World War II.
Author : Aurelie Sheehan
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564782625
Fifteen stories on women. In The Dove, a wealthy widow pressured by her family to marry a rich man spends life fixated on an affair she had a week before her wedding, in Look at the Moon, a woman reflects: "I've had my heart broken a few times. I've been in love with the most garlicky individuals. I fact, I have a fascination with the mediocre."
Author : Ron Loewinsohn
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564782823
Organized around the idea that "you can't know what a magnetic field is like unless you're inside of it, " Ron Loewinsohn's first novel opens from the disturbing perspective of a burglar in the midst of a robbery and travels through the thoughts and experiences (both real and imaginary) of a group of characters whose lives are connected both coincidentally and intimately. All of the characters have a common desire to imagine and invent rather horrifying stories about the lives of people around them. As the novel develops, certain phrasings and images recur improbably, drawing the reader into a subtle linguistic game that calls into question the nature of authorship, the ways we inhabit and invade each other's lives, and the shape of fiction itself.
Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564782236
As he's chauffeured about in his official limousine, aging City commissioner of Streets Bobbo Druff comes to a frightening realization: he's lost force, the world has started to condescend to him. His once fear-inspiring figure has become everyone's "little old lady." In retaliation, Druff constructs a paranoid plot, his "MacGuffin" within which)he believes) everyone is out to get him. with unabashed enthusiasm Druff starts an illicit affair (in order to incriminate himself), instigates fights with his employees, invents lies for his family- in short, everythingything in his power to create a world in which he is placed safely and firmly at the scandalous center.