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French literature --- French literature --- French press --- Selected articles --- Famous authors --- 19th-20th century. --- Littérature française --- Littérature française --- 19e siècle --- 20e siècle
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This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.
American fiction. --- American literature --- american literature. --- austria. --- canon. --- classic fiction. --- classics. --- comedy. --- evil. --- famous authors. --- fear. --- fiction. --- good. --- historical fiction. --- human nature. --- humanity. --- humor. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- magic. --- mercy. --- morality. --- novella. --- paranormal. --- religion. --- religious fanaticism. --- righteousness. --- samuel clemens. --- satan. --- satans nephew. --- satire. --- simple people. --- sin. --- social commentary. --- spirituality. --- supernatural powers. --- supernatural. --- temptation. --- village. --- western canon. --- witch trials.
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The University of California Press is delighted to announce the new publication of this three-act play by one of America's most important and well-loved writers. A highly entertaining comedy that has never appeared in print or on stage, Is He Dead? is finally available to the wide audience Mark Twain wished it to reach. Written in 1898 in Vienna as Twain emerged from one of the deepest depressions of his life, the play shows its author's superb gift for humor operating at its most energetic. The text of Is He Dead?, based on the manuscript in the Mark Twain Papers, appears here together with an illuminating essay by renowned Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin and with Barry Moser's original woodcut illustrations in a volume that will surely become a treasured addition to the Mark Twain legacy. Richly intermingling elements of burlesque, farce, and social satire with a wry look at the world market in art, Is He Dead? centers on a group of poor artists in Barbizon, France, who stage the death of a friend to drive up the price of his paintings. In order to make this scheme succeed, the artists hatch some hilarious plots involving cross-dressing, a full-scale fake funeral, lovers' deceptions, and much more. Mark Twain was fascinated by the theater and made many attempts at playwriting, but this play is certainly his best. Is He Dead? may have been too "out there" for the Victorian 1890's, but today's readers will thoroughly enjoy Mark Twain's well-crafted dialogue, intriguing cast of characters, and above all, his characteristic ebullience and humor. In Shelley Fisher Fishkin's estimation, it is "a champagne cocktail of a play--not too dry, not too sweet, with just the right amount of bubbles and buzz."
Artists --- Death --- Barbizon (France) --- america. --- american drama. --- american literature. --- american theater. --- art and literature. --- burlesque. --- comedy theater. --- comedy. --- deception. --- famous authors. --- farce. --- harebrained schemes. --- humor. --- humorists. --- illustrated. --- literary criticism. --- literary icons. --- live entertainment. --- manuscript. --- men and women. --- modern audiences. --- performing arts. --- playwrights. --- social commentary. --- social satire. --- stage play. --- theatrical productions. --- twain scholars. --- world market.
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Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on many levels, has a long history, and is highly unpredictable in its manifestations. With an international focus and a comparative scope that explores the afterlives also of other artists, this volume shows the diverse modes of commemorative practices involving Shakespeare. Delving into these “cultures of commemoration,” it presents keen insights into the dynamics of authorship, literary fame, and afterlives in its broader socio-historical contexts.
Memory in literature. --- Recollection (Psychology) in literature. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- anthology. --- artist life. --- artists. --- author. --- authorship. --- collection of essays. --- commemoration. --- comparative scope. --- controversy. --- famous authors. --- famous playwrights. --- fine arts. --- globe theater. --- historical reference. --- middle ages. --- performing arts. --- plays. --- shakespeare. --- sociohistorical context. --- the bard. --- world history.
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Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these five words changed over the course of the sixteenth century and what their changes indicate about broader forces in science, politics, and other disciplines. Greene discusses a broad swath of Renaissance and transatlantic literature-including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Camões, and Milton-in terms of the development of these words rather than works, careers, or histories. He creates a method for describing and understanding the semantic changes that occur, extending his argument to other words that operate in the same manner. Aiming to shift the conversation around Renaissance literature from current approaches to riskier enterprises, Greene also challenges semantic-historicist scholars, proposing a method that takes advantage of digital resources like full-text databases but still depends on the interpreter to fashion ideas out of ordinary language. Five Words is an innovative and accessible book that points the field of literary studies in an exciting new direction.
Semantics, Comparative --- Comparative literature. --- History. --- shakespeare, critical, critics, critique, academic, scholarly, college, university, cervantes, famous authors, classics, literature, literary canon, british, england, europe, european, research, language, invention, blood, resistance, world, semantics, 16th century, 1500s, science, politics, interdisciplinary, analysis, renaissance, transatlantic, camoes, milton, digital, database, comparative.
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"Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s."--New York Times.
Adventure stories, English. --- 19th century. --- british authors. --- british literature. --- classics. --- conrad scholars. --- contemporary critics. --- critical biography. --- cultural studies. --- english literature. --- european. --- famous authors. --- heart of darkness. --- history of literature. --- joseph conrad. --- literary analysis. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- literary development. --- literary studies. --- major themes. --- nonfiction account. --- nonfiction. --- novelist. --- reference. --- romanticism. --- social ethics. --- symbolism.
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Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, a denizen of slum taverns, unashamedly bisexual, insistently nocturnal in his artistic affairs, and secretive in his leadership of a select group of writers, Saenz mixed the mystical and baroque with the fantastic, the psychological, and the symbolic. In masterly translations by two poet-translators, Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander, Saenz's strange, innovative, and wildly lyrical poems reveal a literary legacy of fierce compassion and solidarity with indigenous Bolivian cultures and with the destitute, the desperate, and the disenfranchised of that unreal city, La Paz.In long lines, in odes that name desire, with Whitmanesque anaphora, in exclamations and repetitions, Saenz addresses the reader, the beloved, and death in one extended lyrical gesture. The poems are brazenly affecting. Their semantic innovation is notable in the odd heterogeneity of formal and tonal structures that careen unabashedly between modes and moods; now archly lyrical, now arcanely symbolic, now colloquial, now trancelike. As Saenz's reputation continues to grow throughout the world, these inspired translations and the accompanying Spanish texts faithfully convey the poet's unique vision and voice to English-speaking readers.
Bolivian literature. --- Spanish Literature --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Bolivian poetry. --- Bolivian literature --- Bolivian poetry --- Poetry, Bolivian --- POETRY / General. --- 20th century. --- Translations into English. --- anthology. --- apocalyptic. --- baroque. --- bisexuality. --- bolivia. --- bolivian cultures. --- bolivian poet. --- dramatic. --- english translation. --- famous authors. --- famous poets. --- international literature. --- la paz. --- lgbtq. --- lit scholars. --- lit students. --- lit studies. --- literary critics. --- lyrical poetry. --- modern art. --- modern poetry. --- mystical. --- occult. --- odes. --- poetry book. --- poetry collection. --- poetry textbook. --- poets. --- psychological. --- sexuality. --- spanish poetry. --- symbolic. --- visionary.
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When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality-for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of "the godless side of American life." It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature. Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time, not only because of his literary efforts, which included publication of the brutal and heartbreaking An American Tragedy in 1925, but also because of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, and ended in Hollywood. The Last Titan paints a full portrait of the mature Dreiser between the two world wars-through the roaring twenties, the stock market crash, and the Depression-and describes his contact with important figures from Emma Goldman and H.L. Mencken to two presidents Roosevelt. Tracing Dreiser's literary roots in Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and especially Whitman, Loving has written what will surely become the standard biography of one of America's best novelists.
Novelists, American --- Journalists --- Dreiser, Theodore, --- Dreiser, Theodore --- Novelists [American ] --- 20th century --- Biography --- United States --- american authors. --- american literature. --- american novels. --- biography. --- class. --- classics. --- communism. --- dreiser. --- emerson. --- emma goldman. --- factory workers. --- famous authors. --- fbi. --- fdr. --- gender. --- hawthorne. --- hollywood. --- immigration. --- industrialists. --- journalist. --- labor movement. --- literary celebrity. --- literature. --- lynchings. --- mencken. --- naturalism. --- new woman. --- nonfiction. --- politics. --- progressive era. --- realism. --- roaring 20s. --- robber barons. --- roosevelt. --- sexual morality. --- sexuality. --- social change. --- social commentary. --- thoreau. --- urban life. --- western canon. --- whitman. --- workers rights.
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o Includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902o Publishes, for the first time, the complete text of "Villagers of 1840-3," Mark Twain's astounding feat of memoryo Features a biographical directory and notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in MissouriThroughout his career, Mark Twain frequently turned for inspiration to memories of his youth in the Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Missouri. What has come to be known as the Matter of Hannibal inspired two of his most famous books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and provided the basis for the eleven pieces reprinted here. Most of these selections (eight of them fiction and three of them autobiographical) were never completed, and all were left unpublished. Written between 1868 and 1902, they include a diverse assortment of adventures, satires, and reminiscences in which the characters of his own childhood and of his best-loved fiction, particularly Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, come alive again. The autobiographical recollections culminate in an astounding feat of memory titled "Villagers of 1840-3" in which the author, writing for himself alone at the age of sixty-one, recalls with humor and pathos the characters of some one hundred and fifty people from his childhood. Accompanied by notes that reflect extensive new research on Mark Twain's early life in Missouri, the selections in this volume offer a revealing view of Mark Twain's varied and repeated attempts to give literary expression to the Matter of Hannibal.
Indians of North America --- Humorous stories, American. --- Finn, Huckleberry --- Sawyer, Tom --- 19th century authors. --- 19th century literature. --- american authors. --- american humorists. --- american lit. --- american literature criticism. --- american literature. --- american writers. --- bildungsroman. --- classic lit. --- classic literature. --- famous authors. --- famous books. --- father of american literature. --- growing up. --- high school english class. --- huckleberry finn. --- literary criticism and theory. --- literary criticism. --- literary movements and periods. --- mark twain biography. --- mark twain life. --- samuel langhorne clemens. --- short stories.
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Meir Wieseltier's verbal power, historical awareness, and passionate engagement have placed him in the first rank of contemporary Hebrew poetry. The Flower of Anarchy, a selection of Wieseltier's poems spanning almost forty years, collects in one volume, for the first time, English translations of some of his finest work. Superbly translated by the award-winning American-Israeli poet-translator Shirley Kaufman-who has worked with the poet on these translations for close to thirty years-this book brings together some of the most praised and admired early poems published in several small books during the 1960's, along with poems from six subsequent collections, including Wieseltier's most recent, Slow Poems, published in 2000. Born in Moscow in 1941, Wieseltier spent the first years of his life, during the war, as a refugee in Siberia, then again in Europe. He settled in Tel-Aviv a few years after coming to Israel in 1949 and has lived there ever since. A master of both comedy and irony, Wieseltier has written powerful poems of social and political protest in Israel, poems that are painfully timeless. His voice is alternately anarchic and involved, angry and caring, trenchant and lyric.
Electronic books. --- POETRY / General. --- Books in machine-readable form --- Digital books --- E-books --- Ebooks --- Online books --- Books --- Electronic publications --- Wieseltier, Meir --- Ṿizelṭir, Meʼir --- Ṿizalṭir, Meʼir --- ויזלטיר, מאיר --- 20th century. --- anarchism. --- art and literature. --- contemporary poetry. --- english translation. --- european poetry. --- famous authors. --- hebrew poetry. --- historical poetry. --- israel. --- israeli poets. --- judaism. --- life changes. --- lit students. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- lyric poetry. --- moscow. --- poems in translation. --- poetry collection. --- poetry scholars. --- political poetry. --- political protest. --- protest poems. --- russian poets. --- siberia. --- social protest. --- tel aviv. --- world poets. --- Hebrew poetry, Modern
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