Author: Charles Reade
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 938

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Author: Michael Lynn Crews
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477313486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that "books are made out of books," but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy is well aware of literary tradition, respectful of the canon, and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors. The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University acquired McCarthy's literary archive in 2007. In Books Are Made Out of Books, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines the archive to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy himself references in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy's published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men, and McCarthy's correspondence. For each work, Crews identifies the authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy references; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy's papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy's literary influences—impossible to undertake before the opening of the archive—vastly expands our understanding of how one of America's foremost authors has engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own.

Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Author: Max John Herzberg
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Jordan Alexander Stein
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674243420
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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A literary scholar explains how eighteenth-century novels were manufactured, sold, bought, owned, collected, and read alongside Protestant religious texts. As the novel developed into a mature genre, it had to distinguish itself from these similar-looking books and become what we now call “literature.” Literary scholars have explained the rise of the Anglophone novel using a range of tools, from Ian Watt’s theories to James Watt’s inventions. Contrary to established narratives, When Novels Were Books reveals that the genre beloved of so many readers today was not born secular, national, middle-class, or female. For the first three centuries of their history, novels came into readers’ hands primarily as printed sheets ordered into a codex bound along one edge between boards or paper wrappers. Consequently, they shared some formal features of other codices, such as almanacs and Protestant religious books produced by the same printers. Novels are often mistakenly credited for developing a formal feature (“character”) that was in fact incubated in religious books. The novel did not emerge all at once: it had to differentiate itself from the goods with which it was in competition. Though it was written for sequential reading, the early novel’s main technology for dissemination was the codex, a platform designed for random access. This peculiar circumstance led to the genre’s insistence on continuous, cover-to-cover reading even as the “media platform” it used encouraged readers to dip in and out at will and read discontinuously. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this tangled history, showing how the physical format of the book shaped the stories that were fit to print.

Author: Charles Frederick Tweney
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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Author: Marilyn Green Faulkner
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453508120
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Improve your reading—Improve your life. Are you bored by best sellers you can’t remember a week later? Is your book group ready for more meaningful discussions? Have TV and movies got your brain on autopilot? Back to the Best Books explores 36 great works of literature, some that you know (Twain, Bronte) and some you might not (Undset, Cronin) that will bring you new insights about your own life. Inside you’ll find: • Jane Austen—Looking for love in all the wrong places • Betty Smith—Recession lessons from the depression • William Faulkner—Road trips and self-discovery • Anne Tyler—Putting the fun into dysfunctional • Charles Dickens—Changing the world one child at a time The perfect guide for book groups, students, and casual readers who are ready to take it up a notch! If you’re feeling the need to get your brain in gear, your relationships in order and your life on track, then it’s time to get Back to the Best Books.

Author: William H. Sherman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered it to be "enlivened by the marginal notes and comments." For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition. William H. Sherman recovers a culture that took the phrase "mark my words" quite literally. Books from the first two centuries of printing are full of marginalia and other signs of engagement and use, such as customized bindings, traces of food and drink, penmanship exercises, and doodles. These marks offer a vast archive of information about the lives of books and their place in the lives of their readers. Based on a survey of thousands of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. The chapters address the place of book-marking in schools and churches, the use of the "manicule" (the ubiquitous hand-with-pointing-finger symbol), the role played by women in information management, the extraordinary commonplace book used for nearly sixty years by Renaissance England's greatest lawyer-statesman, and the attitudes toward annotated books among collectors and librarians from the Middle Ages to the present. This wide-ranging, learned, and often surprising book will make the marks of Renaissance readers more visible and legible to scholars, collectors, and bibliophiles.

Author: William Forbes Gray
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Charles Reade
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3701

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Charles Reade's 'The Greatest Novels of Charles Reade' is a collection of some of his most celebrated works that showcase his remarkable literary talent. Known for his vivid storytelling and extensive research, Reade's novels tackle important social issues of his time such as the treatment of women, the legal system, and the inequalities of the class system. His writing style combines realism with elements of melodrama, making his works both engaging and thought-provoking. This collection provides readers with a comprehensive view of Reade's range as a novelist, highlighting his ability to create compelling characters and intricate plots that continue to resonate with readers today. Charles Reade, a 19th-century English author, was a lawyer turned writer who used his legal expertise to craft novels that shed light on the injustices and inequalities prevalent in Victorian society. He was known for his meticulous research and dedication to accuracy, often drawing from real-life events to inform his storytelling. Reade's passion for social reform is evident throughout his works, making him a significant figure in the literary landscape of his time. I highly recommend 'The Greatest Novels of Charles Reade' to readers who appreciate well-crafted narratives with social commentary. This collection offers a glimpse into the world of 19th-century England through the eyes of a talented and socially conscious writer, making it a must-read for anyone interested in Victorian literature and social history.