Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Women Authors

Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions about human nature, ethics, social change, equality, and justice. Although political philosophy was not O'Connor's pursuit, her writings frequently address themes that are not only crucial to American life and culture, but also offer valuable insight into the interplay between fiction and...

Serious Fiction explores the novels of J.M. Coetzee, in dialogue with key works of the European literary tradition and several contemporary masterworks of world literature, in order to flesh out an ethico-aesthetic ideal for the contemporary novel. -Serious- refers back to the Aristotelian definition of tragedy to revive a certain communal, political-ethical task of the artwork; -fiction, - also referring back to Aristotle and the subsequent poetic tradition, stresses the element of play in the artwork in contrast to the seriousness of the world of daily survival, business, and...

Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print and were thus little known for many years. Now widely available and taught, Quicksand and Passing challenge conventional "tragic mulatta" and "passing" narratives. In part 1, "Materials," of Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen, the editor surveys the canon of Larsen's writing, evaluates editions of her works, recommends secondary readings, and compiles a list of useful multimedia resources for teaching.

The essays in part...

Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print and were thus little known for many years. Now widely available and taught, Quicksand and Passing challenge conventional "tragic mulatta" and "passing" narratives. In part 1, "Materials," of Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen, the editor surveys the canon of Larsen's writing, evaluates editions of her works, recommends secondary readings, and compiles a list of useful multimedia resources for teaching.

The essays in part...

Le jardin est l espace le plus representatif de la frontiere entre l homme et la nature ou s integrent les elements reels et imaginaires choisis par le savoir-faire des humains pour creer un objet de beaute. Il s agit d un lieu social s offrant a l artiste comme espace de lecture du monde. S approprier a la fois le naturel et l artifice, les organiser d une maniere intelligible, releve d une volonte esthetique qu il convient de dechiffrer comme etant le langage d un amour de la mesure, d une condensation du savoir, etant une ecriture amoureuse. La solitude du jardinier semble s accorder a...

Appearing first as a weekly serial in The Christian Herald, Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna was first published in book form in 1913. This popular story of an impoverished orphan girl who travels from America's western frontier to live with her wealthy maternal Aunt Polly in the fictional east coast town of Beldingsville went through forty-seven printings in seven years and remains in print today in its original version, as well as in various translations and adaptations. The story's enduring appeal lies in Pollyanna's sunny personality and in her glad game, her playful attempt...

Trotz der Aufmerksamkeit, die den gehenden Protagonisten im Prosawerk W.G. Sebalds in der theoretischen Beschaftigung zugekommen ist, hat die Forschung diese bislang nur selten unter der Perspektive Flaneur untersucht. Die Autorin widmet sich Sebalds sorgsamen Inszenierungen dieser Fureisen und verfolgt sie kritisch vor W.G. Sebalds Benjamin-Lekture. Sie zeigt, dass die als widerspruchlich aufgefasste Aneignung der Figur durch Walter Benjamin eine Chance ist, das Zugleich von intensiven, im Ubergang befindlichen und zerstorerischen Formen der Flanerie in Sebalds Texten aufzuzeigen. Der...

Terrorism has long been a popular subject for American fiction writers. This book argues that terrorism in 1990s novels by Paul Auster, Philip Roth, and Bret Easton Ellis serves as a key trope to interrogate the limits of writing and the power of literature. Based on the complex literary and philosophical thought of Maurice Blanchot, this study deals with the writer's terrorist temptation, language's investment in violence, and literature's negotiation of radical alterity. Auster's, Roth's, and Ellis's novels elucidate contemporary political and economic developments as well as our...

Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as they are read across the world?

Fighting Words responds to these questions by examining how the book as a cultural form has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. Through fifteen case studies that bring together literary, historical and book...