If art imitated capitalism, it would look like "Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage." In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas photographing products and businesses that bear the great names of Western civilization and then has recounted the little-known turns of fate by which our immortals ended up in these mundane straits. For those who lament our culture's prostitution to capital, "Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage" offers definitive proof that art lives on. Learn the untold history of Rembrandt's Toothpaste, Van Gogh's Potatoes, Lautrec...
If art imitated capitalism, it would look like "Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage." In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe ...
The Poetics of Novels deals with the fundamentals of novel-writing and the execution of such, and though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Novels include: Austen's Northanger Abbey, Beckett's Company, Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Hamsun's Hunger, Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Lispector's Hour of the Star and Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ."
The Poetics of Novels deals with the fundamentals of novel-writing and the execution of such, and though it engages specific notions of literary and c...
Unlike most screenwriting guides that generally analyze several aspects of screenwriting, Constructing Dialogue is devoted to a more analytical treatment of certain individual scenes and how those scenes were constructed to be the most highly dramatic vis a vis their dialogue. In the art of screenwriting, one cannot separate how the scene is constructed from how the dialogue is written. They are completely interwoven.
Each chapter deals with how a particular screenwriter approached dialogue relative to that particular scene's construction. From Citizen Kane to The...
Unlike most screenwriting guides that generally analyze several aspects of screenwriting, Constructing Dialogue is devoted to a more analyti...
Unlike most screenwriting guides that generally analyze several aspects of screenwriting, Constructing Dialogue is devoted to a more analytical treatment of certain individual scenes and how those scenes were constructed to be the most highly dramatic vis a vis their dialogue. In the art of screenwriting, one cannot separate how the scene is constructed from how the dialogue is written. They are completely interwoven.
Each chapter deals with how a particular screenwriter approached dialogue relative to that particular scene's construction. From Citizen Kane to The...
Unlike most screenwriting guides that generally analyze several aspects of screenwriting, Constructing Dialogue is devoted to a more analyti...
Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors including Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the theories of Jacques Lacan.
Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the ...
This creative yet scholarly book discusses prose's important relationship to close literary analysis, showing how such an approach can be beneficial for readers, scholars, and writers alike. Bringing together a literary history that consists of writers such as Lermontov, Chekhov, Camus, and Calvino, Mark Axelrod masterfully interweaves discussions of structure, context, genre, plot, and other key elements often applied to poetry but seldom applied to various forms of prose in order to offer bold and surprisingly fresh claims about the writer's purpose. By peeling back these layers of...
This creative yet scholarly book discusses prose's important relationship to close literary analysis, showing how such an approach can be beneficial f...
The project approaches the texts it explores from the perspective of a writer of fiction as well as from the perspective of a critic, and discusses them as unique manifestations of literary madness.
The project approaches the texts it explores from the perspective of a writer of fiction as well as from the perspective of a critic, and discusses th...
