In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God'. 'Invigoratingly suggestive . . .
Author: Milan Kundera
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571268047
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 176
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This book is for creative writing students writers and readers of novels teachers of creative writing With contributions from Leone Ross, Tom Bromley, Jenn Ashworth, AJ Dalton, Nikesh Shukla, Stella Duffy, Mark Morris, Alison Moore, ...
Author: Nicholas Royle
Publisher:
ISBN: 1907773657
Category:
Page: 256
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Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change.
Author: Mark McGurl
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691214832
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 221
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Swashbuckling sailors, dashing dukes, naughty nurses, and sexy steward-esses caught in webs of love, passion, betrayal, and intrigue: these are the raw materials of the romance novel--and the lusty covers that advertise them.
Author: Jennifer McKnight-Trontz
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568983123
Category: Architecture
Page: 144
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William Berg traces the impact of vision in many of the major areas of novelistic endeavor: Zola's theories stress the key role of vision in the the experimental method. Optical instruments and effects, underscoring.
Author: William J. Berg
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: UOM:39015025294904
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 308
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One of the most satisfying things about this learned, insightful book is that it gives the impression of absolute saturation in the art and in the fictions, and thus it earns its authority in both fields.
Author: Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691127263
Category: Art
Page: 252
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In this account of how the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence, Yi-Ping Ong shows that the existentialists discovered a radical way of thinking about the relation between the form of the novel and the nature of self ...
Author: Yi-Ping Ong
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674916104
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 292
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In the aftermath of her father's death, Caroline, a young American woman, returns to New York to attend to final arrangements, oversees the death of a best friend, and tests the limits of love and the power of art in the face of life's ...
Author: Carole Maso
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811216292
Category: Fiction
Page: 249
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An inspiring and timely debut novel from Lisa Williamson, The Art of Being Normal is about two transgender friends who figure out how to navigate teen life with help from each other.
Author: Lisa Williamson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 9780374302399
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Page: 288
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Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of ...
Author: David Lodge
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780099554240
Category: Fiction
Page: 254
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