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Author |
: Eliot Parker |
Publisher |
: Morgan James Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 2020-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781642797145 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1642797146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Snapshots by : Eliot Parker
Each story within Snapshots places the characters in situations where their past behaviors will be changed in a moment that is like a snapshot picture: freezing in time who they are in a moment but facing new challenges that will alter that snapshot and create a new reality. Eudora Welty’s quote “A good snapshot keeps a moment from going away” is a theme that permeates all of the stories in Eliot Parker’s collection of short stories, Snapshots. These stories are set in West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky. In the plots of the stories, the makeup of the characters is more interesting and important than the circumstances that the characters find themselves trying to manage. Each protagonist finds themselves in a complicated set of personal and professional relationships. By their nature, relationships are complicated. The protagonists in these stories are shaped by their backgrounds, life experiences, and expectations of other people. Conflicts arise for these protagonists when decisions and choices made by others alter the expectations and circumstances expected by the protagonists. In each of these stories, the lives, values, and beliefs held by the characters are deconstructed and each of them face a new reality brought on by an experience or situation that forces them to reexamine who they are and who they need to become. Each of these characters occupy a variety of professional spaces: cops, a rich, successful couple, convicted criminals, and others grieving the loss of a loved one and grieving the absence of love.
Author |
: Molly Thomasy Blasing |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2021-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501753701 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501753703 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Snapshots of the Soul by : Molly Thomasy Blasing
Snapshots of the Soul considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. Drawing on theories of the lyric and the elegy, the social history of technology, and little-known archival materials, Molly Thomasy Blasing offers close readings of poems by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Joseph Brodsky, and Bella Akhmadulina, as well as by the late and post-Soviet poets Andrei Sen-Sen'kov, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and Kirill Medvedev, to understand their fascination with the visual language, representational power, and metaphorical possibilities offered by the camera and the photographic image. Within the context of long-standing anxieties about the threat that visual media pose to literary culture, Blasing finds that these poets were attracted to the affinities and tensions that exist between the lyric or elegy and the snapshot. Snapshots of the Soul reveals that at the core of each poet's approach to "writing the photograph" is the urge to demonstrate the superior ability of poetic language to capture and convey human experience. Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Author |
: Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher |
: David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1567921728 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781567921724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Snapshots by : Joyce Carol Oates
A collection of seventeen stories written by some of the century's best women writers deals with "a single, central, and vital theme, the relationship of mothers to daughters and daughters to mothers."--Front jacket.
Author |
: Michael Frayn |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2009-01-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780571249206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0571249205 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spies by : Michael Frayn
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect that all is not what it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for. 'Bernard Shaw couldn't do it, Henry James couldn't do it, but the ingenious English author Michael Frayn does do it: write novels and plays with equal success ... Frayn's novel excels.' John updike, New Yorker 'A beautifully accomplished, richly nostalgic novel about supposed second-world-war espionage seen through the eyes of a young boy.' Sunday Times 'Deeply satisfying . . . Frayn has written nothing better.' Independent
Author |
: Shachar Pinsker |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 666 |
Release |
: 2010-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804777247 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804777241 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Literary Passports by : Shachar Pinsker
Literary Passports is the first book to explore modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. It not only serves as an introduction to this important body of literature, but also acts as a major revisionist statement, freeing this literature from a Zionist-nationalist narrative and viewing it through the wider lens of new comparative studies in modernism. The book's central claim is that modernist Hebrew prose-fiction, as it emerged from 1900 to 1930, was shaped by the highly charged encounter of traditionally educated Jews with the revolution of European literature and culture known as modernism. The book deals with modernist Hebrew fiction as an urban phenomenon, explores the ways in which the genre dealt with issues of sexuality and gender, and examines its depictions of the complex relations between tradition, modernity, and religion.
Author |
: David Carpenter |
Publisher |
: Coteau Books |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2013-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781550505375 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1550505378 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Literary History of Saskatchewan by : David Carpenter
Saskatchewan’s literary history is both colourful and complex. It is also mature enough to deserve a critical investigation of its roots and origins, its salient features and its prominent players. This collection of scholarly essays, conceptualized and compiled by well-known Saskatchewan novelist, essayist and scholar David Carpenter, examines the Saskatchewan literary scene, from its early Aboriginal storytellers on through to the decades to the burgeoning 1970s. The dozen essays, preceded by a David Carpenter introduction, include such topics as “Our New Storytellers: Cree Literature in Saskatchewan”; “The Literary Construction of Saskatchewan before 1905: Narratives of Trade, Rebellion and Settlement” and “The New Generation: The Seventies Remembered.” Also included are special topics, among them – “Playwriting in Saskatchewan”; “Feral Muse, Angelic Muse – The Poetry of Anne Szumigalski”, and tribute pieces to John V. Hicks, R.D. Symons, Terrence Heath and Alex Karras. Contributing scholars include the likes of: Kristina Fagan, Jenny Kerber, Susan Gingell, Ken Mitchell and Martin Winquist.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 1918 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112033804177 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brentano's Book Chat by :
Author |
: Bethany Hicok |
Publisher |
: Lever Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2020-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781643150116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1643150111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive by : Bethany Hicok
In a life full of chaos and travel, Elizabeth Bishop managed to preserve and even partially catalog, a large collection—more than 3,500 pages of drafts of poems and prose, notebooks, memorabilia, artwork, hundreds of letters to major poets and writers, and thousands of books—now housed at Vassar College. Informed by archival theory and practice, as well as a deep appreciation of Bishop’s poetics, the collection charts new territory for teaching and reading American poetry at the intersection of the institutional archive, literary study, the liberal arts college, and the digital humanities. The fifteen essays in this collection use this archive as a subject, and, for the first time, argue for the critical importance of working with and describing original documents in order to understand the relationship between this most archival of poets and her own archive. This collection features a unique set of interdisciplinary scholars, archivists, translators, and poets, who approach the archive collaboratively and from multiple perspectives. The contributions explore remarkable new acquisitions, such as Bishop’s letters to her psychoanalyst, one of the most detailed psychosexual memoirs of any twentieth century poet and the exuberant correspondence with her final partner, Alice Methfessel, an important series of queer love letters of the 20th century. Lever Press’s digital environment allows the contributors to present some of the visual experience of the archive, such as Bishop’s extraordinary “multi-medial” and “multimodal” notebooks, in order to reveal aspects of the poet’s complex composition process.
Author |
: Kevan Manwaring |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031550911 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031550919 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing Ecofiction by : Kevan Manwaring
Author |
: Gore Vidal |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2009-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105124110508 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare by : Gore Vidal
In this stunning visual memoir, America's most provocative man of letters focuses his wicked wit and storytelling abilities on an amazing collection of personal photographs, letters, manuscript pages and other glimpses of a most public, entirely private life.