Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.
A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "e;early"e; and "e;late"e; workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact.
From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction.
Reclam Lektüreschlüssel XL – hier findest du alle Informationen, um dich zielsicher und schnell vorzubereiten: auf Klausur, Referat, Abitur oder Matura!
A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora n here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition.
The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions and Invisible presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers.
Auster's unforgettable coming-of-age tale from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian)Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMEMcGahern's 'masterpiece: the sort of book which you can give anyone of any age and know that they will be changed by it' (Colm Toibin) by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel).
From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan * Kristen Case * George Howe Colt * Gerald Early * Paul Elie * Will Eno * Adam Gopnik * Lauren Groff * Celeste Headlee * Pico Iyer * Alan Lightman * James Marcus * Megan Marshall * Michelle Nijhuis * Zoe Pollak * Jordan Salama * Tatiana Schlossberg * A.
The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.
This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war.
This book introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee and Pudd nhead Wilson.
Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns logic, language, and reality topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career.
In this important study, Michael Luntley offers a compelling reading of Wittgenstein s account of meaning and intentionality, based upon a unifying theme in the early and later philosophies.
In this engaging book David Clark guides the reader through the theology of CS Lewis and illuminates the use and understanding of scripture in the works of this popular author.
A BRONT ENCYCLOPEDIA This lively, absorbing, meticulously researched compendium is a rich resource both for the general reader and for the specialist Bront scholar.
This 2021 represents a greater challenge than 2020, since we continue to sustain the effects of #pandemia in our population, but with the advantage of vaccines that were generated, although in very slow doses applied in Latin America and the Caribbean, which allow us to have a more hopeful vision of the uncertain time to come.
Wie kann man erklären, dass ein Autor – wie der Schriftsteller Christian Kracht im Jahr 2012 – für einen seiner Romane eine merkwürdig rassistische Sprache verwendet, seine Begeisterung für die Symbole nationalistischer Parteien äußert, deshalb mit dem Vorwurf einer rechten Gesinnung konfrontiert wird, und dennoch von der literarischen Öffentlichkeit vom Vorwurf einer rechten Gesinnung freigesprochen wird?
A Best Book of the Year in HARPER'S BAZAAR, BBC, THE NEW YORKER, GLAMOUR, GAL-DEM and HUFFPOST'Witty and thought-provoking' Stylist'Blistering' Glamour'Unusual, original and strikingly contemporary' Guardian'Absolutely brilliant' Ruth Ozeki'A gripping contemporary fable about embracing difference' The Times'A wholly 21st century take on bloodsucking' ObserverLydia is hungry.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteriesfrom character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers';this is a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again' (Booklist, starred review).
'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things.
** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.
