Author: Elizabeth Smart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals
Author: Elizabeth Smart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals
Author: Elizabeth Smart
Publisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9780008155742
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 1978, and widely considered to be the sequel to her masterpiece 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept', this remarkable book further established Smart's reputation as a brave and inspirational writer. A still beautiful woman, 31 years old with four children by a faithless lover, cannot break the habit of expectation. She must learn to submit to the cold, bare, unglamorous tenets of reality - the untenable position of love. She must learn to deflect Grand Passion into an acceptance of the rogues and rascals with their radiant faces, who buy her a bitter with borrowed cash. Out of a passionate youth, through pain and harsh revelation, she has attained a maturity - a certain knowledge that the cost of rapture is high and that there is no looking back. Hers is a voice that distils a woman's determination for survival - a voice that rises up from everyday life, from the bus queue, the Underground, the pub - and in Elizabeth Smart's hand is wrought into something magnificent.
Publisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9780008155742
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 1978, and widely considered to be the sequel to her masterpiece 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept', this remarkable book further established Smart's reputation as a brave and inspirational writer. A still beautiful woman, 31 years old with four children by a faithless lover, cannot break the habit of expectation. She must learn to submit to the cold, bare, unglamorous tenets of reality - the untenable position of love. She must learn to deflect Grand Passion into an acceptance of the rogues and rascals with their radiant faces, who buy her a bitter with borrowed cash. Out of a passionate youth, through pain and harsh revelation, she has attained a maturity - a certain knowledge that the cost of rapture is high and that there is no looking back. Hers is a voice that distils a woman's determination for survival - a voice that rises up from everyday life, from the bus queue, the Underground, the pub - and in Elizabeth Smart's hand is wrought into something magnificent.
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Author: Elizabeth Smart
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
First work originally published: London: Editions Poetry, 1945. 2nd work originally published: London: Cape, 1978.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
First work originally published: London: Editions Poetry, 1945. 2nd work originally published: London: Cape, 1978.
The Arms of the Infinite
Author: Christopher Barker
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554583071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker’s parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their first fateful meeting and subsequent elopement, Barker candidly reveals their obsessive, passionate, and volatile love affair. He writes evocatively of his unconventional upbringing with his siblings in a shack in Ireland and, later, a rambling, falling-down house in Essex. Interesting and charismatic figures from the literary and art worlds are regular visitors, and the book is full of fascinating cameos and anecdotes. North American rights only.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554583071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker’s parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their first fateful meeting and subsequent elopement, Barker candidly reveals their obsessive, passionate, and volatile love affair. He writes evocatively of his unconventional upbringing with his siblings in a shack in Ireland and, later, a rambling, falling-down house in Essex. Interesting and charismatic figures from the literary and art worlds are regular visitors, and the book is full of fascinating cameos and anecdotes. North American rights only.
Literature, theology and feminism
Author: Heather Walton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526130769
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book offers an authoritative overview of the broad and complex terrain of feminist theorising concerning the relationship between literature and theology as it has developed over the past several decades. It provides the first comprehensive evaluation of the significance of women's literature in the development of feminist theology and offers a critique of the variety of reading practices currently employed by religious feminists. As well as illuminating current reading strategies the work argues that it is now appropriate for feminists to develop new ways of reading the divine in women’s writing. Drawing upon the pioneering work of Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray the work sets out a new framework for feminist religious reading that is both creative and challenging and which will be of interest both to scholars and students in this area. Through its artful and compelling feminist reconsiderations, the book makes a refreshing and significant contribution to the general field known as literature and theology.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526130769
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book offers an authoritative overview of the broad and complex terrain of feminist theorising concerning the relationship between literature and theology as it has developed over the past several decades. It provides the first comprehensive evaluation of the significance of women's literature in the development of feminist theology and offers a critique of the variety of reading practices currently employed by religious feminists. As well as illuminating current reading strategies the work argues that it is now appropriate for feminists to develop new ways of reading the divine in women’s writing. Drawing upon the pioneering work of Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray the work sets out a new framework for feminist religious reading that is both creative and challenging and which will be of interest both to scholars and students in this area. Through its artful and compelling feminist reconsiderations, the book makes a refreshing and significant contribution to the general field known as literature and theology.
Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
His Natural Life
Author: Marcus Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Penal colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Women in the House of Fiction
Author: Lorna Sage
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349222259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The novel was once upon a time the genre women felt at home in. This wide- ranging and detailed study of contemporary novelists explores the forms of nostalgia (shared by many feminist critics) for a 'woman's novel'; and the subtle or savage strategies which have turned the house of fiction upside down. The result is a critique of the nature of narrative now; and a celebration of the energies that are undoing our definitions of women's work.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349222259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The novel was once upon a time the genre women felt at home in. This wide- ranging and detailed study of contemporary novelists explores the forms of nostalgia (shared by many feminist critics) for a 'woman's novel'; and the subtle or savage strategies which have turned the house of fiction upside down. The result is a critique of the nature of narrative now; and a celebration of the energies that are undoing our definitions of women's work.
O Caledonia
Author: Elspeth Barker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668004615
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Originally published in Great Britain in 1991 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd."--Title page verso.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668004615
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Originally published in Great Britain in 1991 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd."--Title page verso.
The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
Author: Susan Bell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393075397
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Bell's prose is elegant and wonderfully readable in this artful guide."—Publishers Weekly The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood—or simply overlooked—art of editing. The book brims with examples, quotes, and case studies, including an illuminating discussion of Max Perkins's editorial collaboration with F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Great Gatsby. Susan Bell, a veteran book editor, also offers strategic tips and exercises for self-editing and a series of remarkable interviews, taking us into the studios of successful authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Ann Patchett to learn from their various approaches to revision. Much more than a manual, The Artful Edit inspires readers to think about both the discipline and the creativity of editing and how it can enhance their work. In the computer age of lightning-quick composition, this book reminds readers that editing is not simply a spell-check. A vigorous investigation into the history and meaning of the edit, this book, like The Elements of Style, is a must-have companion for every writer.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393075397
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Bell's prose is elegant and wonderfully readable in this artful guide."—Publishers Weekly The Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood—or simply overlooked—art of editing. The book brims with examples, quotes, and case studies, including an illuminating discussion of Max Perkins's editorial collaboration with F. Scott Fitzgerald on The Great Gatsby. Susan Bell, a veteran book editor, also offers strategic tips and exercises for self-editing and a series of remarkable interviews, taking us into the studios of successful authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Ann Patchett to learn from their various approaches to revision. Much more than a manual, The Artful Edit inspires readers to think about both the discipline and the creativity of editing and how it can enhance their work. In the computer age of lightning-quick composition, this book reminds readers that editing is not simply a spell-check. A vigorous investigation into the history and meaning of the edit, this book, like The Elements of Style, is a must-have companion for every writer.