Author: Hjalmar Soderberg
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307483908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood. Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. "Imagine the classic nineteenth-century drama featuring a tyrannical older man, his hapless daughter or young wife, and her caddish suitor, as in Balzac's Eugénie Grandet and Henry James's Washington Square, this time conjured up by a sensibility akin to Strindberg's and Ingmar Bergman's—and you begin to have an idea of the force and candor of this searing masterwork of Nothern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers." —Susan Sontag
Doctor Glas
Author: Hjalmar Soderberg
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307483908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood. Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. "Imagine the classic nineteenth-century drama featuring a tyrannical older man, his hapless daughter or young wife, and her caddish suitor, as in Balzac's Eugénie Grandet and Henry James's Washington Square, this time conjured up by a sensibility akin to Strindberg's and Ingmar Bergman's—and you begin to have an idea of the force and candor of this searing masterwork of Nothern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers." —Susan Sontag
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307483908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood. Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. "Imagine the classic nineteenth-century drama featuring a tyrannical older man, his hapless daughter or young wife, and her caddish suitor, as in Balzac's Eugénie Grandet and Henry James's Washington Square, this time conjured up by a sensibility akin to Strindberg's and Ingmar Bergman's—and you begin to have an idea of the force and candor of this searing masterwork of Nothern European literature. The retrieval of Doctor Glas in English is a bracing gift to hungry readers." —Susan Sontag
Glas
Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: Bison Books
ISBN: 0803265816
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available for the first English translation of his most important work to date, Glas. Its appearance will assist Derrida's readers pro and con in coming to terms with a complex and controversial book. Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading and its consequent notions of theme, author, narrative, and discursive demonstration; and ingeniously disrupts the positions of reader and writer in the text. Glas is extraordinary in many ways, most obviously in its typography. Arranged in two columns, with inserted sections within these, the book simultaneously discusses Hegel’s philosophy and Jean Genet’s fiction, and shows how two such seemingly distinct kinds of criticism can reflect and influence one another. The customary segregation of philosophy, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, and poetics is systematically subverted. In design and content, the books calls into question “types” of literature (history, philosophy, literary criticism), the ownership of ideas and styles, the glorification of literary heroes, and the limits of literary representation.
Publisher: Bison Books
ISBN: 0803265816
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available for the first English translation of his most important work to date, Glas. Its appearance will assist Derrida's readers pro and con in coming to terms with a complex and controversial book. Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading and its consequent notions of theme, author, narrative, and discursive demonstration; and ingeniously disrupts the positions of reader and writer in the text. Glas is extraordinary in many ways, most obviously in its typography. Arranged in two columns, with inserted sections within these, the book simultaneously discusses Hegel’s philosophy and Jean Genet’s fiction, and shows how two such seemingly distinct kinds of criticism can reflect and influence one another. The customary segregation of philosophy, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, and poetics is systematically subverted. In design and content, the books calls into question “types” of literature (history, philosophy, literary criticism), the ownership of ideas and styles, the glorification of literary heroes, and the limits of literary representation.
Glass
Author: Edward Dillon
Publisher:
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Category : Glass
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : Glass
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...
Author: John Walker
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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A New Pocket-dictionary of the English and Dansk Languages
Author: Karl Tauchnitz
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Local Etymology
Author: Richard Stephen Charnock
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Translation and notes
Author: Standish Hayes O'Grady
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A collection of hagiology, legend, Ossianic lore, and fiction.
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A collection of hagiology, legend, Ossianic lore, and fiction.
A New and Improved Standard French and English and English and French Dictionary ...
Author: Alexander G. Collot
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Languages : en
Pages : 1334
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Languages : en
Pages : 1334
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Place-names of Scotland
Author: James Brown Johnston
Publisher:
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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Fians
Author: John Gregorson Campbell
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Category : Ballads, Scottish Gaelic
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Publisher:
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Category : Ballads, Scottish Gaelic
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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