Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738192742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 851
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738192742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 851
Book Description
Driving Home
Author: Barbara BelyeaPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889208824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
This lively and diverse bilingual collection of essays by writers and critics examines contemporary Canadian literary arts. The perspectives range from highly personal and introspective to scholarly and objective, yet each adds significantly to an understanding of the dialogue between writers and readers. Proceedings from a workshop held at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities during the summer of 1982, the volume includes such contributors as E.D. Blodgett, Jacques Brault, Richard Giguère, D.G. Jones, Myrna Kostash, Peter Stevens, Aritha van Herk, and Christopher Wiseman. The collection will naturally be of interest to any student of Canadian literature, but the essays also forcefully address, both explicitly and implicitly, the question of a nationalism of the arts, an issue of great importance to performers and critics in many fields.
OEuvres Complètes de H. de Balzac
Author: Honoré de BalzacReading Writers Reading
Author: Danielle SchaubPublisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888644596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"I am a writer because I was a reader first." Alison Gordon. "Nobody has ever written who never read." Mavis Gallant. "Reading is a connection, at once a way and a goal, a liberating destiny." Robert Kroetsch. Over 160 Canadian writers, in English and French, write about their experiences of reading. With striking photographs of each writer, Reading Writers Reading offers a sublime voyage into the heart of literary creation.
Les littératures nationales depuis leur apparition et la littérature latine depuis la mort de Charles le Chauve jusqu'au commencement du onzième siècle
Author: Adolf EbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Reading in Proust's A la recherche
Author: Adam WattPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191570265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Through close textual analysis of the scenes of reading in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, Adam Watt offers an invigorating new study of the novel and previously unacknowledged paths through it. After considering key childhood 'Primal Scenes' which mark the act of reading as revelatory and potentially traumatic, the book then identifies and examines the interwoven strands of the novel's narrative of reading: showing that scenes where the narrator reads and where others provide 'lessons in reading' are intricately connected within the narrator's ever unfolding considerations of intelligence, sense experience, knowledge, and desire. These acts of reading, often bewildering the narrator with their mix of illuminations, wrong turns and over-determinations, lead us to interrogate our own understanding of the act we accomplish as we read A la recherche. This book emphasizes the complexities and contradictions with which reading (always inescapably an engagement of both mind and body) is riven, and which connect it repeatedly to the experience of involuntary memory. Reading is shown to be frequently fraught with heady instability-'délire'-of a highly revealing sort, from which narrator and readers alike have much to learn. The book's final chapter shows how the narrator's critical energies, turned contemplatively inwards in the Guermantes' library, are subsequently turned outwards for a final interpretive effort-the reading of his now aged acquaintances at the 'Bal de têtes'-in a shift that provides the narrator not only the confidence to begin his work of art, but also the humility to face, undeterred, the approach of death.
The Studio
Author: The French Romantics' Knowledge of English Literature (1820-1848)
Author: Eric PartridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Histoire Des Livres Populaires, Ou, de la Littérature Du Colportage, Depuis L'origine de L'imprimerie Jusqu'à L'établissement de la Commission D'examen Des Livres Du Colportage--30 Novembre 1852
Author: Charles NisardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Sartre: Literature and Theory
Author: Rhiannon GoldthorpePublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521338783
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this major study Rhiannon Goldthorpe takes up the challenge of Sartre's diversity in an original and provocative way. Her detailed and comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the theoretical and literary works pays due attention to their characteristic complexity. The discussion of La Nausée, Les Mouches, Huis clos, Les Mains sales and Les Séquestrés e'Altona, for example, does not present these literary texts as mere 'illustrations' of Sartre's theories of consciousness, imagination and emotion, but as subtle philosophical and linguistic investigations in their own right. In addition, by reference to recently published fragments from Sartre's earlier work, Goldthorpe calls into question existing views of Sartre's intellectual development and provides a new history of the crucial Sartrean concept of 'commitment'.