The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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German Baroque Literature

German Baroque Literature PDF Author: Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of German Literature
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Category : Baroque literature
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Before Novels

Before Novels PDF Author: J. Paul Hunter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393308617
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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"By taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary terms--ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, 'wonder' narratives--Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia

Mercks Wienn

Mercks Wienn PDF Author: Abraham a Sancta Clara
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Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Defoe & Spiritual Autobiography

Defoe & Spiritual Autobiography PDF Author: George A. Starr
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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The Description for this book, Defoe and Spiritual Autobiography, will be forthcoming.

Ariadne's Thread

Ariadne's Thread PDF Author: J. Hillis Miller
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063097
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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"What line should the critic follow in explicating, unfolding, or unknotting . . . passages? How should the critic thread her or his way into the labyrinthine problems of narrative form?--from chapter I In this brilliant and engaging book, one of America's leading literary critics explores the intricacies of narrative theory. Using the image of Ariadne's thread, which was given to Theseus to carry into the labyrinth so that he could find his way out, J. Hillis Miller traces out the "line" so often associated with narrative and writing in general. In the process he illuminates the nature of literature as well as the nature of narrative. Considering a wide range of texts from Western literature over the last two centuries--in particular Meredith's The Egoist, Goethe's Elective Affinities, and Borges's "Death and the Compass"--Miller explores the way rhetorical devices and figurative language interrupt, break into, delay, and expand storytelling. He also illustrates these rhetorical disruptions of narrative logic in his own work. In its four chapters--about the role of line, character, interpersonal relationships, and figurative language in narrative--Miller's study encounters in its own language the problems it discusses, as concepts and words are scrutinized for their diverse meanings and resonances. Demonstrating that every narrative, including this one about the nature of narrative, has divergent lines and multiple motives and uses, Ariadne's Thread tells its story and enacts its subject at the same time.

The True Story of the Novel

The True Story of the Novel PDF Author: Margaret Anne Doody
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813524535
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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"An erudite, intelligent and imaginative work of literary scholarship. With vivacity, grace, and wit, Doody traces the history (of the novel) from the ancient novels of Apuleium and Heliodorus through the Renaissance fictions of Boccaccio, Cervantes, and Rabelais to the 'official' birth of the novel in 18th-century England".--BOSTON GLOBE. 39 illustrations.

Factual Fictions

Factual Fictions PDF Author: Lennard J. Davis
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216103
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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"Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h

The Power of Dante

The Power of Dante PDF Author: Charles Hall Grandgent
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Category : Poets, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Literacy in Early Modern Europe

Literacy in Early Modern Europe PDF Author: R.A. Houston
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317879260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples for all over the continent; and concentrates on the experience of ordinary men and women, rather than just privileged and exceptional elites.