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A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School
For a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the nation's top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stone's throw of one another in the southwestern corner of Connecticut-a bit of bohemia in the middle of those men in their gray flannel suits.
Cullen Murphy's father, John Cullen...
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Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students. Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian nationalism and globalization is no longer valid in today's...
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In A New Sublime, literary critic Piero Boitani reveals the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. Ranging from Homer to Tacitus, with Thucydides, Aristotle, Sophocles, Cicero, and many others in between, Boitani's fresh and inspiring insights remind us of the enduring importance and beauty of the classics of the Western canon.
Boitani explores what the classics have...
9624) En quelques traits
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Voici réunis 35 portraits, écrits entre 1942 et 2009 par Pierre Vadeboncoeur, dont certains sont publiés ici pour la première fois. Parfois incisif, souvent généreux, l'écrivain nous donne à voir son XXe siècle québécois, o l'indignation trouve facilement son objet, certes, mais o il existe également quelques exemples de solidarité et de courage.
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Parce que notre rapport aux lieux, aux livres, au temps est marqué par le périssable et l'éphémère, Philippe Jaccottet note, depuis toujours, tout ce qui l'a touché lors d'une promenade, d'une lecture ou d'un rêve. Écho d'une émotion ou projection de son ombre portée jusqu'au plus secret de ...
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La relación entre imagen y memoria con base en la novela Terra nostra (1975) de Carlos Fuentes abre distintas posibilidades de reflexión y debate que contribuyen a pensar América Latina desde nuevas lecturas. Por un lado la obra permite desentrañar historias ocultas cuestionar la verdad de las imágenes y cómo ellas consolidan la memoria de los pueblos; es decir su producción tiene que ver con la historia real en concreto con la España colonial...
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Imagined Landscapes teams geocritical analysis with digital visualization techniques to map and interrogate films, novels, and plays in which space and place figure prominently. Drawing upon A Cultural Atlas of Australia, a database-driven interactive digital map that can be used to identify patterns of representation in Australia's cultural landscape, the book presents an integrated perspective on the translation of space across narrative forms and...
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Tino Balio, in his book The American Film Industry, said that the Production Code meant that American films could not deal with political or social issues 'in an honest and truthful fashion'. This incisive essay tests out the legitimacy of Balio's claims, using The Lost Weekend (directed by Billy Wilder, 1945) as an example of the Hollywood 'problem film'. Rather than treating the film as being an entity with a single, unchanging meaning, it is put...
9629) The Call of the Tribe
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The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable project.
In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he...
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An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle years.
"Never trust the teller," wrote D. H. Lawrence, "trust the tale." Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and again, a pioneer of autofiction, no writer before Lawrence had made so permeable the border between life and literature. In Burning...
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Décryptez La Parure de Guy de Maupassant avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr!
Que faut-il retenir de La Parure, une des nouvelles emblématiques du mouvement réaliste? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche:
• Un résumé complet
• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Monsieur Loisel, Mathilde Loisel et Madame Forestier
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Dynamic Form traces how intermedial experiments shape modernist texts from 1900 to 1950. Considering literature alongside painting, sculpture, photography, and film, Cara Lewis examines how these arts inflect narrative movement, contribute to plot events, and configure poetry and memoir. As forms and formal theories cross from one artistic realm to another and back again, modernism shows its obsession with form-and even at times becomes a formalism...
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In the tradition of classic essayists from Virginia Woolf to Annie Dillard, Meghan Florian combines personal narrative with careful analysis, taking the ordinary material of undramatic daily life and distilling it into moments of clarity and revelation. Centering each essay in this collection on a different aspect of coming of age as a feminist woman within the ethos of the theological academy and the church, Florian interrogates the problems that...
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The new ways of writing pioneered by the literary avant-garde invite new ways of reading commensurate with their modes of composition. Dictionary Poetics examines one of those modes: book-length poems, from Louis Zukofsky to Harryette Mullen, all structured by particular editions of specific dictionaries. By reading these poems in tandem with their source texts, Dworkin puts paid to the notion that even the most abstract and fragmentary avant-garde...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
On a pu dire de la poétique conçue comme discipline que son histoire coïncidait pratiquement avec celle de la réception de la Poétique (Poiètikè) d'Aristote (env. 385-env. 322 av. J.-C.), composée vers 340 avant J.-C.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Poétique d'Aristote
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Small Island is a delightfully entertaining and probing book about Jamaican immigration to Britain in the days after WWII. Andrea Levy's parents were part of this immigration movement and she is interested in investigating the perspective of these people. The Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide to this novel looks at Andrea Levy's exploration of the black and white issues of post-war London, which includes questions of class, race, and Empire. This...
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Want to read at the speed of sight, focus like a laser, and remember like a computer? The truth is, you already have this ability. You're just not using the correct approach. By understanding how your brain likes to take in, process, and store information, you can quickly accelerate reading speed, concentration, and memory.
Read faster and with better accuracy
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9638) Montaigne: A Life
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"One of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017" Philippe Desan is the Howard L. Willett Professor in Renaissance Literature and History of Culture at the University of Chicago and the author of many books.
A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinker
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that...
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LGBTQ Christians read, love, scrutinize, become absorbed with, and find deep spiritual meaning in the Bible. As these testimonies show, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer Christians are inaugurating a fresh, exciting, new era in biblical interpretation. It is they whose rare insights into particular Bible stories and characters, told with poignancy and clarity, reveal a gay-friendly Bible and a gay-friendly God who cherishes and...
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Décryptez Le Ravissement de Britney Spears de Jean Rolin avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr!
Que faut-il retenir du Ravissement de Britney Spears, un roman noir et humoristique à la fois? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche :
• Un résumé complet
• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que le narrateur, Fuck, Britney Spears,...
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