Selected Prose

Selected Prose PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472031399
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time

Selected Prose

Selected Prose PDF Author: John Ashbery
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472031399
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Fifty years of writing on literature, film, and art by one of the most influential poets and critics of our time

Konundrum

Konundrum PDF Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 0914671529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka's entire opus of short prose--including works published in the author's brief lifetime, posthumously published stories, journals, and letters--for narratives that sound the imaginative depths of the great German-Jewish scribe from Prague. It is the first volume in English to consider his deeply strange, resonantly humane letters and journal entries alongside his classic short fiction and lyrical vignettes "Transformed" is a vivid retranslation of one of Kafka's signature stories, "Die Verwandlung," commonly rendered in English as "The Metamorphosis." Composed of short, black comic parables, fables, fairy tales, and reflections, Konundrums also includes classic stories like "In the Penal Colony," Kafka's prescient foreshadowing of the nightmare of the Twentieth Century, refreshing the writer's mythic storytelling powers for a new generation of readers. Contents: • Words are Miserable Miners of Meaning • Letter to Ernst Rowohlt • Reflections • Concerning Parables • Children on the Country Road • The Spinning Top • The Street-Side Window • At Night • Unhappiness • Clothes Make the Man • On the Inability to Write • From Somewhere in the Middle • I Can Also Laugh • The Need to Be Alone • So I Sat at My Stately Desk • A Writer's Quandary • Give it Up! • Eleven Sons • Paris Outing • The Bridge • The Trees • The Truth About Sancho Pansa • The Silence of the Sirens • Prometheus • Poseidon • The Municipal Coat of Arms • A Message from the Emperor • The Next Village Over • First Sorrow • The Hunger Artist • Josephine, Our Meistersinger, or the Music of Mice • Investigations of a Dog • A Report to an Academy • A Hybrid • Transformed • In the Penal Colony • From The Burrow • Selected Aphorisms • Selected Last Conversation Shreds • In the Caves of the Unconscious: K is for Kafka (An Afterword) • The Back of Words (A Post Script)

Selected Prose, 1909-1965

Selected Prose, 1909-1965 PDF Author: Ezra Pound
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205740
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Essays by the distinguished poet illuminate his philosophical beliefs as well as the principal themes found in the Cantos.

A Selected Prose

A Selected Prose PDF Author: Robert Duncan
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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A Selected Prose represents the most wide-ranging collection to date of Robert Duncan's essays and talks and is a companion volume to the Selected Poems (1993).

My Half Century

My Half Century PDF Author: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810114852
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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"Anna Akhmatova is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, a member of the quartet that included Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva. This is the first paperback collection of her prose available in English." "The subjects of her memoirs are extraordinary: she describes Modigliani as she knew him in Paris, Blok near the end of his days, and Mandelstam as a close friend. The autobiographical prose section reveals the elusive poet's personality more clearly than any biography could, including her thoughts about how difficult it was to be a poet at a time when women writers were rarely taken seriously." --Book Jacket.

Selected Prose Works

Selected Prose Works PDF Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers

Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers PDF Author: George Oppen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520941069
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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This is the first comprehensive critical edition of the unpublished writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984). Editor Stephen Cope has made a judicious selection of Oppen's extant writings outside of poetry, including the essay "The Mind's Own Place" as well as "Twenty-Six Fragments," which were found on the wall of Oppen's study after his death. Most notable are Oppen's "Daybooks," composed in the decade following his return to poetry in 1958. Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers is an inspiring portrait of this essential writer and a testament to the creative process itself.

Selected Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry and Prose PDF Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811208239
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.

Selected Prose Works

Selected Prose Works PDF Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 495

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Paper Trail

Paper Trail PDF Author: Richard Howard
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429931647
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American poets like Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore to French artists such as Rodin and Michel Delacroix. Also included are considerations of modern sculpture and of the photography of the human body. Howard's intense familiarity with modern poetry is seen to excellent effect in essays on the "poetry of forgetting," on the causes and effects of experimental poetry, and on the first books of poets whose work he helped introduce--among them, J. D. McClatchy, Frank Bidart, and Cynthia MacDonald. Of course, Howard brings to his consideration of French literature a rare wisdom drawn from his celebrated work as a translator of Stendhal and Gide, Barthes and Cocteau, Yourcenar and Gracq. Hilton Kramer once wrote that Richard Howard "performs the essential critical service. He shows us the extent of the terrain. He points out its essential features. And he gives us a very vivid sense of its ethos as well as of its esthetics." Howard, now in his seventy-fifth year, continues his adroit, inventive commentary, which enriches us all.