Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410353885
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410353885
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410353885
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
SHORT STORIES FOR STUDENTS
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535838641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781535838641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up"
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375392730
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781375392730
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "The Night Face Up," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Final Exam
Author: Julio Cortázar
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. "Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed."--Pablo Neruda
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
One of Julio Cortázar's great early novels. "Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed."--Pablo Neruda
A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410388549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410388549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
The Porpoise
Author: Mark Haddon
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385544324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to escape on a boat bound for the Mediterranean. To his surprise he finds himself travelling backwards over two thousand years to a world of pirates and shipwrecks, of plagues and miracles and angry gods. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, Haddon conjures the worlds of Angelica and her would-be savior in thrilling fashion. As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a stirring and endlessly inventive novel from one of our finest storytellers.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385544324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to escape on a boat bound for the Mediterranean. To his surprise he finds himself travelling backwards over two thousand years to a world of pirates and shipwrecks, of plagues and miracles and angry gods. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, Haddon conjures the worlds of Angelica and her would-be savior in thrilling fashion. As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a stirring and endlessly inventive novel from one of our finest storytellers.
The Houseguest: And Other Stories
Author: Amparo Dávila
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811228223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811228223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.
Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire
Author: David Carrasco
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226094901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Davíd Carrasco draws from the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban ecology to explore the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organization, legitimation, and subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition. His new Preface addresses this tradition in the light of the Columbian quincentennial. "This book, rich in ideas, constituting a novel approach . . . represents a stimulating and provocative contribution to Mesoamerican studies. . . . Recommended to all serious students of the New World's most advanced indigenous civilization."—H. B. Nicholson, Man
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226094901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Davíd Carrasco draws from the perspectives of the history of religions, anthropology, and urban ecology to explore the nature of the complex symbolic form of Quetzalcoatl in the organization, legitimation, and subversion of a large segment of the Mexican urban tradition. His new Preface addresses this tradition in the light of the Columbian quincentennial. "This book, rich in ideas, constituting a novel approach . . . represents a stimulating and provocative contribution to Mesoamerican studies. . . . Recommended to all serious students of the New World's most advanced indigenous civilization."—H. B. Nicholson, Man
The New Short Story Theories
Author: Charles Edward May
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"This is all organized and thought-provoking collection of materials on what is no longer regarded as an 'underrated' form". -- Kliatt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"This is all organized and thought-provoking collection of materials on what is no longer regarded as an 'underrated' form". -- Kliatt
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "House Taken Over"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410348482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "House Taken Over," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410348482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Study Guide for Julio Cortazar's "House Taken Over," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.