Lecture

Lecture PDF Author: Mary Cappello
Publisher: Undelivered Lectures
ISBN: 9781945492426
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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

Lecture

Lecture PDF Author: Mary Cappello
Publisher: Undelivered Lectures
ISBN: 9781945492426
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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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 Literature

Lectures on Literature PDF Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780156027762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Literature and the Taste of Knowledge

Literature and the Taste of Knowledge PDF Author: Michael Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139446129
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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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.

Nobel Lectures

Nobel Lectures PDF Author:
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595584099
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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This is a collection in which meditations on imagination and the process of writing mingle with keen discussions of global affairs, geography and colonialism, cultural change, and the deeply lasting influences of the past.

Lectures on Literature

Lectures on Literature PDF Author: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156495899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Reading versions of important lectures given in the 1950s demonstrate Nabokov's critical talents and reveal his judgments on the works and achievement of Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, and Stevenson

On Rereading

On Rereading PDF Author: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674267478
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.

Lectures on Dostoevsky

Lectures on Dostoevsky PDF Author: Joseph Frank
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691178968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Poor Folk -- The Double -- The House of the Dead -- Notes from Underground -- Crime and Punishment -- The Idiot -- The Brothers Karamazov -- Appendix I: Selected Film Adaptations of Dostoevsky's Novels -- Appendix II: "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" by David Foster Wallace.

Nabokov at Cornell

Nabokov at Cornell PDF Author: Gavriel Shapiro
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801439094
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Think, Write, Speak

Think, Write, Speak PDF Author: Vladimir Nabokov Literary Trust
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101873701
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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A rich compilation of the previously uncollected Russian and English prose and interviews of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers, edited by Nabokov experts Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy. “I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child": so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected prose, Strong Opinions. Think, Write, Speak follows up where that volume left off, with a rich compilation of his uncollected prose and interviews, from a 1921 essay about Cambridge to two final interviews in 1977. The chronological order allows us to watch the Cambridge student and the fledgling Berlin reviewer and poet turn into the acclaimed Paris émigré novelist whose stature brought him to teach in America, where his international success exploded with Lolita and propelled him back to Europe. Whether his subject is Proust or Pushkin, the sport of boxing or the privileges of democracy, Nabokov’s supreme individuality, his keen wit, and his alertness to the details of life illuminate the page.

Lectures on the History of Literature

Lectures on the History of Literature PDF Author: Friedrich von Schlegel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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