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Dark harbor: building house and home on an enchanted island (Nation Bks.)
Par Ved Mehta. 2003
In this continuation of his Continents of Exile memoir series, Mehta, a blind writer, recounts his undertaking to build a…
house on a small Maine island in 1984 and the importance of this home in his marriage and family life. 2003L'étreinte des vents
Par Hélène Dorion. 2009
[...] Un jour on rencontre un être avec qui l'on prête tous les serments. Avec qui l'on fait tous les…
rituels, l'on invente toutes les danses. Puis chaque lien qui nous rattachait à la vie se rompt, le souffle est coupé. On avait oublié la leçon de l'arbre et du vent qui vient tout balayer. On avait oublié le recommencement toujours possible. Comme si, pour se rejoindre, il fallait véritablement aller au bout de soi-même, sans jamais se quitter. C'est comme une lente traversée, du crépuscule à l'aube, une histoire que je ne cesse de reprendre du début, pour qu'à la fin le cercle se transforme en spirale. -- 4e de couvThe life of Saint Teresa of Avila by herself
Par Teresa. 1957
Autobiography of St. Teresa (1515-1582), written at the request of her confessors. The devout Spanish Carmelite nun and mystic founded…
seventeen convents in Spain. A classic spiritual work translated and with an introduction by J.M. Cohen. 1957Fifteen stories set in California during the 1850s Gold Rush. Archetypal characters--gold-fevered pioneers, gamblers, preachers, drunkards, cattle-robbers, and iron-willed women--experience…
twists of fortune and the realities of frontier life. Reuben H. Margolin introduces the collection, which spans the career of this author, poet, and literary critic. 1997Antimanuel de philosophie: leçons socratiques et alternatives
Par Michel Onfray. 2002
On peut philosopher en charentaises, tranquille, sans mettre en jeu le monde comme il va ; on peut aussi user…
de la philosophie comme de la dynamite - en nietzschéen. C'est ce que propose Michel Onfray dans cet Antimanuel qui interroge philosophiquement le monde réel à partir de questions très contemporaines : l'esclavage généré par les sociétés libérales, les nouvelles limites de la liberté dessinées par le Net, la possible production génétique de monstres, la haine généralisée pour l'art contemporain, la passion du mensonge chez les politiciens, etc. [...] -- 4e de couvGaston Miron, tel un naufragé: biographie (Collection Le Cercle des poètes disparus)
Par Yannick Gasquy-Resch. 2008
"Je n'ai jamais voyagé vers autre pays que toi mon pays", a pu affirmer, tout au long de sa vie,…
le poète Gaston Miron, tant il a épousé le destin incertain du Québec. Mais rien n'est plus éloigné de sa poésie que la notion de régionalisme ou d'exotisme. Ce poète a su, à partir de ses héritages, se nourrir des grands espaces et s'ouvrir à l'universel. Intellectuel engagé, il a dénoncé la situation d'aliénation linguistique, culturelle, des Canadiens français, et défendu avec passion l'existence de la langue française en terre nord-américaine. En tant qu'éditeur et cofondateur de l'Hexagone, il a travaillé à l'épanouissement de la poésie québécoise contemporaine et à la reconnaissance d'une littérature autonome, mais son engagement poétique a été incontestablement sa plus grande passion. L'Homme rapaillé, son oeuvre unique sans cesse reprise, reconfigurée, retrace la marche forcenée d'un poète en quête de son unité, un poète qui se dit empêché d'écrire et qui s'invente tel un naufragé dans sa langue". -- 4e de couvThe life of Samuel Johnson: Introduction By Claude Rawson (Everyman's Library Classics Ser.)
Par James Boswell. 1992
Classic biography of the eighteenth-century English man of letters, originally published in 1791. Based on detailed notes compiled by Boswell…
during their twenty-year friendship, the text for the most part comprises conversations and statements of Johnson's strong opinions. 1791Green hills of Africa (Scribner classics)
Par Ernest Hemingway. 1998
The Dears: Lost in the Plot (Bibliophonic #1)
Par Lorraine Carpenter. 2011
Over a decade after the release of their first album, The Dears have weathered the indie fringes, the collapse of…
the music industry as we knew it and the near implosion of the band itself, with their creative vision and gang dynamic intact. The Dears: Lost in the Plot looks at how The Dears survived the fallout, and helped launch the acclaimed mid-aughts music scene in their hometown of Montréal. The Dears: Lost in the Plot is the first book in Invisible Publishing’s new Bibliophonic series. The Bibliophonic Series is a catalogue of the ongoing history of contemporary music. Each book is a time capsule, capturing artists and their work as we see them, providing a unique look at some of today’s most exciting musicians.Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic
Par Ephraim Nissan, Alberto Ferreiro. 2023
This book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype…
of heretics. Ephraim Nissan and Alberto Ferreiro explore how Simon Magus has been represented in text, visual art, and music. Special attention is devoted to the late medieval Catalan painter Lluís Borrassà and the Italian librettist and musician Arrigo Boito. The tradition of Simon Magus’ demonic flight, ending in his crashing down, first appears in the patristic literature. The book situates that flight typologically across cultures. Fascinating observations emerge, as the discussion spans flight of the wicked in rabbinic texts, flight and death of King Lear’s father and a Soviet-era Buryat Buddhist monk, flight and doom of the fool in an early modern German broadsheet, and more. The book explains and moves beyond extant scholarly wisdom on how the polemic against Mani (the founder of Manichaeism) was tinged with hues of Simon Magus. The novelty of this book is that it shows that Simon Magus’ receptions teach us a great deal about the contexts in which this archetype was deployed.Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain: Time, Transnational Identities and Hybridity
Par Manuela D'Amore. 2023
This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain, including 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose,…
verse, and drama. This book shows how authors both recount the history of the migrant community in the period 1880-1980 while creatively experimenting with hybrid forms of expression and blending words with visuals. Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain discusses topical issues like migration and social integration, cultures and foods in transition, as well as plurilingualism. The book pays special attention to discussions of the horrors of the Second World War – especially on the tragedy of the Arandora Star (2nd July 1940) – to show this literary community’s political commitments. More importantly, it will begin to fill the void left by a critical tradition which has only appreciated the northern American and Australian branches of Italian writing.Shakespeare: From The Quarto Of 1609, With Variorum Readings And Commentary (Routledge Revivals)
Par Raymond Macdonald Alden. 1922
This fascinating title, first published in 1922, presents a detailed overview of the life and works of Shakespeare. Alden first…
considers Shakespeare’s Elizabethan context, alongside exploring the Classical and Italian foundations, political theories, concepts and theatrical trends that influenced his works. Next, a comprehensive biography provides insight into Shakespeare’s probable education, relationships and contemporaries. The final sections are devoted to the genres into which Shakespeare’s works have been categorised, with full analyses of and backgrounds to the poems, histories, comedies and tragedies. An important study, this title will be of particular value to students in need of a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare’s life and works, as well as the more general inquisitive reader.The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction (Routledge Literature Handbooks)
Par Graham Wolfe. 2023
Novelists have long been attracted to theatre. Some have pursued success on the stage, but many have sought to combine…
these worlds, entering theatre through their fiction, setting stages on their novels’ pages, and casting actors, directors, and playwrights as their protagonists. The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction has convened an international community of scholars to explore the remarkable array of novelists from many eras and parts of the world who have created fiction from the stuff of theatre, asking what happens to theatre on the pages of novels, and what happens to novels when they collaborate with theatre. From J. W. Goethe to Louisa May Alcott, Mikhail Bulgakov, Virginia Woolf, and Margaret Atwood, some of history’s most influential novelists have written theatre-fiction, and this Companion discusses many of these figures from new angles. But it also spotlights writers who have received less critical attention, such as Dorothy Leighton, Agustín de Rojas Villandrando, Ronald Firbank, Syed Mustafa Siraj, Li Yu, and Vicente Blasco Ibañez, bringing their work into conversation with a vital field. A valuable resource for students, scholars, and admirers of both theatre and novels, The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction offers a wealth of new perspectives on topics of increasing critical concern, including intermediality, theatricality, antitheatricality, mimesis, diegesis, and performativity.Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods (Literary Cultures and Childhoods)
Par Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith. 2024
Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the nineteenth…
century through the application of fresh theoretical approaches and attention to aspects of literary childhoods that have only recently begun to be illuminated. This scope enables examination of the child in canonical nineteenth-century novels by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, and Thomas Hardy alongside well-known fiction intended for young readers by George MacDonald, Christabel Coleridge, and Kate Greenaway. The century was also distinctive for the rise of the children’s magazine, and this book broadens the definition of literary cultures to include magazines produced both by, and for, young people. The volume examines how the child and family are conceptualised, how children are positioned as readers in genres including the domestic novel, school story, Robinsonade, and fantasy fiction, how literary childhoods are written and politicised, and how childhood intersects with perceptions of animals and the natural environment. The range of chapters in this collection and the texts they consider demonstrates the variability and fluidity of literary cultures and nineteenth-century childhoods.The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms (Routledge Literature Handbooks)
Par Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Grace L. Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, Taryne Jade Taylor. 2024
The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to…
large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender, and social justice. This comprehensive overview of the field explores representations of possible futures arising from non-Western cultures and ethnic histories that disrupt the “imperial gaze”. In four parts, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms considers the look of futures from the margins, foregrounding the issues of Indigenous groups, racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities, and any people whose stakes in the global order of envisioning futures are generally constrained due to the mechanics of our contemporary world. The book extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of science fiction and diverse futurisms as a whole. Offering a dynamic mix of approaches and expansive perspectives, this volume will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions into broader contexts.This book offers a solution to one of film history’s major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles’ and Herman…
J. Mankiewicz’s contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay. It establishes the vital importance of computing and statistics to solving previously intractable puzzles in the arts and humanities. Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the most acclaimed films in the history of cinema. For 50 years it topped the Sight & Sound film critics’ poll. Orson Welles directed the film and is credited with co-writing the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. But the co-writer credit generates furious disputes between those who argue Mankiewicz is the sole author of Citizen Kane and those who claim that Welles collaborated fully with its writing. The author employs computing and statistics to answer two questions: What are the distinguishing features of Welles’ and of Mankiewicz’s writing? And What did each contribute to the writing of the Citizen Kane screenplay? To answer these questions, the author bypasses opinions and impressions, and instead subjects the language of the Citizen Kane screenplay to a ‘forensic’ examination. Employing linguistics, basic statistical tests, plus computer technology and software, the author identifies the stylistic signature of each author – the combination of consistent and regular linguistic habits that make each author’s writing distinctive. This book replaces impressionistic discussions of Mankiewicz’s and Welles’ contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay with a rigorous, experiment-driven statistical analysis. Earlier statistical studies of authorship have discovered that small, unassuming language features (such as punctuation, pronouns, and prepositions) in statistically significant quantities, constitute a screenwriter’s distinctive writing habits. Only with the extensive experimentation carried out in this volume, did the author decide Mankiewicz’s and Welles’ specific habits and their contributions to Citizen Kane.Singular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies
Par Ketaki Chowkhani and Craig Wynne. 2024
This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health,…
and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, demographic studies, and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today. This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies, finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field and then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West and how class, age, gender, privilege, and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field, for example, analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role workplace, living arrangements, financial status, and gender play in single people’s life satisfaction. With an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline. This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, literature, linguistics, media studies, and psychology.Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological texts and…
examines how this body of work intersects with important cultural debates to define women’s social, physical, and mental health. The book sketches out prominent shifts in cultural reactions to the idea of diffused agency and the prized model of the interiorized, individual person capable of self will and governance. Melissa Rampelli takes up the work of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, showing how the authors play with and manipulate stock literary figures to contribute to this dialogue about the causes and cures of women’s hysterical distress.Romantische Ökologien: Vielfältige Naturen um 1800 (Neue Romantikforschung #4)
Par Roland Borgards, Frederike Middelhoff, Barbara Thums. 2023
Der Band widmet sich der Frage, wie sich europäische Romantiken im Zeitraum zwischen ca. 1790 und 1850 mit ökologischen Theoremen…
und umweltbezogenen Problembereichen auseinandersetzen. Die Aufsätze dieses interdisziplinären Sammelbandes untersuchen dabei insbesondere den spezifischen Beitrag, den die Künste bei der Ausgestaltung und Formierung eines modernen ökologischen Denkens leisten, das seit Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts Gestalt annimmt, in den 1860er Jahren mit Ernst Haeckels Definition der ‚Ökologie‘ terminologisch grundiert wird und bis heute unser Verständnis von ökologischen Zusammenhängen prägt. Der Band bereichert auf diese Weise die bereits lebendige Forschungslandschaft der Environmental Humanities im Allgemeinen, des Romantic Ecocriticism im Speziellen und fragt mit Blick auf die ‚Romantischen Ökologien‘ nicht nur nach der Diversität und den konfliktreichen Bruchlinien ökologischer Denkformen um 1800, sondern auch nach dem Stellenwert, dem Eigen- und möglicherweise Mehrwert des Ästhetischen sowie, damit verknüpft, nach der Rolle des Romantischen für die Entstehung, Reflexion und Transformation eines ökologischen Denkens.Human Insufficiency argues that early modern writers depict the human political subject as physically vulnerable in order to naturalize slavery.…
Representations of Man as a weak creature—“poor” and “bare” in King Lear’s words—strategically portrayed English bodies as needing care from people who were imagined to be less fragile. Drawing on Aristotle’s depictions of the natural master and the natural slave in the Politics, English writers distinguished the fully human political subject from the sub-human Slave who would care for his feeble body. This justification of a nascent slaving economy reinvents the violence of enslaving Afro-diasporic peoples as a natural system of care. Human Insufficiency’s most important contribution to early modern critical race studies is expanding the scope of the human as a racialized category by demonstrating how depictions of Man as a vulnerable species were part of a discourse racializing slavery.