Read and Download Joan Axelrod-Contrada book Isabel Allende in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Isabel Allende. This book was released on 2011 with total page 164 pages. Book excerpt: Readers of the books in Todays Writers and Their Works will learn the story behind each writers story.

Read and Download Isabel Allende book Paths of Resistance in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Paths of Resistance. This book was released on 1989 with total page 167 pages. Book excerpt: Five novelists examine the correlation between their writing and their sense of social responsibility, emphasizing how good political fiction deepens the reader's awareness of the urgency of modern society

Read and Download William Zinsser book Paths of Resistance in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Paths of Resistance. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Peter Preston book Writing the City in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Writing the City. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 366 pages. Book excerpt: `The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'. Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic potential: these empirically conceived models of urban geography fail to accommodate the crucial human aspect of city life. Located at the interface of geography and literature, Writing the City visualizes the city through the hopes, aspirations, disappointments and pains of international novelists and creative writers. From Manchester, Montreal and Sydney to Osaka, Varanasi amd Odessa, cities become more than their built environment, more than a set of class or economic relationships: they are also an experience to be lived, suffered and undergone. Thus cities are seen in terms of the innocence of an Eden now lost, a threat of sinful Babylon and the promise of a New Jerusalem.

Read and Download Sharon M. Harris book Redefining the Political Novel in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Redefining the Political Novel. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Book excerpt: While critical studies of the American political novel date from the 1920s, such considerations of the genre have failed, whether wittingly or unwittingly, to recognize works by women. The exclusion is usually based on a distinction between "social" novels and "political" novels, and the result is an understanding of the "political" as a largely male province. In this thought-provoking collection of essays, the contributors seek not simply to add works by women to the canon of political novels but, rather, to demand a conceptual revolution - one that questions the very precepts on which the canon is based. This redefinition of the political novel takes many factors into account, including gender, race, and class and their relation to our most basic conceptions of literary and aesthetic value.

Read and Download Olena Boylu book Politics Satire and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary American Novel in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Politics Satire and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary American Novel. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 136 pages. Book excerpt: What is the role of the historical and political novel in our lives? Is it just a story from the past, or does it shape our historical consciousness? Can we rely on the information within this type of fiction? According to many historicists, we cannot. However, we can also question numerous ideologically shaped history books that look more like fiction than scientific sources. Hence, historically and politically loaded fiction has an equal chance in the formational process of our historical consciousness. Besides, through satire and humor, which a scientist omits in a history book, a novelist manages to affect its reader on a different scale and leave a deeper trace. As E.,L. Doctorow once stated, ``The historian tells you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.'' Hence, this study analyzes several significant concepts such as historiography, historical consciousness, power, its elements, and the way it operates; traces major characteristics of historical and political fiction, and determines the role of satire within them. Eventually, through the analysis of several prominent contemporary novels, it provides vivid examples of all the concepts that have been discussed.

Read and Download Bryan A. Garner book Garner on Language and Writing in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Garner on Language and Writing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 884 pages. Book excerpt: Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects. This collection of his essays shows both profound scholarship and sharp wit. The essays cover subjects as wide-ranging as learning to write, style, persuasion, contractual and legislative drafting, grammar, lexicography, writing in law school, writing in law practice, judicial writing, and all the literature relating to these diverse subjects.

Read and Download Thomas Moylan book Scraps Of The Untainted Sky in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Scraps Of The Untainted Sky. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 368 pages. Book excerpt: Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation by way of imaginary societies which are even worse than those that lie outside their authors' and readers' doors.In Scraps of the Untainted Sky , Tom Moylan offers a thorough investigation of the history and aesthetics of dystopia. To situate his study, Moylan sets out the methodological paradigm that developed within the interdisciplinary fields of science fiction studies and utopian studies as they grow out of the oppositional political culture of the 1960 and 1970s (the context that produced the project of cultural studies itself). He then presents a thorough account of the textual structure and formal operations of the dystopian text. From there, he focuses on the new science-fictional dystopias that emerged in the context of the economic, political, and cultural convulsions of the 1980s and 1990s, and he examines in detail three of these new "critical dystopias:" Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower , and Marge Piercy's He, She, and It .With its detailed, documented, and yet accessible presentation, Scraps of the Untainted Sky will be of interest to established scholars as well as students and general readers who are seeking an in-depth introduction to this important area of cultural production.

Read and Download Eva-Marie Herlitzius book A Comparative Analysis of the South African and German Reception of Nadine Gordimer s Andre Brink s and J M Coetzee s Works in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book A Comparative Analysis of the South African and German Reception of Nadine Gordimer s Andre Brink s and J M Coetzee s Works. This book was released on 2005 with total page 388 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Alice A. Nelson book Political Bodies in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Political Bodies. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Book excerpt: Furthermore, she argues that this contest has been enacted literally and figuratively on the stage of human bodies as sites of domination and resistance. Examining works by Pia Barros, David Benavente and the Taller de Investigacion Teatral, Ariel Dorfman, Diamela Eltit, and Isabel Allende, Political Bodies engages emergent feminist critiques of authoritarianism in terms of gender and class, history and language.

Read and Download James Dawes book The Novel of Human Rights in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book The Novel of Human Rights. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 240 pages. Book excerpt: James Dawes defines a new, dynamic American literary genre, which takes as its theme a range of atrocities at home and abroad. This vibrant and modern genre incorporates key debates within the human rights movement in the U.S. and in turn influences the ideas and rhetoric of that discourse.

Read and Download Herbert Reid book Recovering the Commons in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Recovering the Commons. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 304 pages. Book excerpt: This penetrating work culls key concepts from grassroots activism to hold critical social theory accountable to the needs, ideas, and organizational practices of the global justice movement. The resulting critique of neoliberalism hinges on place-based struggles of groups marginalized by globalization and represents a brave rethinking of politics, economy, culture, and professionalism. Providing new practical and conceptual tools for responding to human and environmental crises in Appalachia and beyond, Recovering the Commons radically revises the framework of critical social thought regarding our stewardship of the civic and ecological commons. Herbert Reid and Betsy Taylor ally social theory, field sciences, and local knowledge in search of healthy connections among body, place, and commons that form a basis for solidarity as well as a vital infrastructure for a reliable, durable world. Drawing particularly on the work of philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John Dewey, and Hannah Arendt, the authors reconfigure social theory by ridding it of the aspects that reduce place and community to sets of interchangeable components. Instead, they reconcile complementary pairs such as mind/body and society/nature in the reclamation of public space. With its analysis embedded in philosophical and material contexts, this penetrating work culls key concepts from grassroots activism to hold critical social theory accountable to the needs, ideas, and organizational practices of the global justice movement. The resulting critique of neoliberalism hinges on place-based struggles of groups marginalized by globalization and represents a brave rethinking of politics, economy, culture, and professionalism.

Read and Download William Zinsser book Easy to Remember in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Easy to Remember. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Book excerpt: In this warm and affectionate book, William Zinsser describes his lifelong love affair with American popular song and the American musical theater.

Read and Download Gale, Cengage Learning book A Study Guide for Isabel Allende s And of Clay Are We Created in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book A Study Guide for Isabel Allende s And of Clay Are We Created . This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 18 pages. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "And of Clay Are We Created," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Read and Download Helmbrecht Breinig book Hemispheric Imaginations in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Hemispheric Imaginations. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 410 pages. Book excerpt: What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? Combining American Studies, Canadian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Cultural Theory, Breinig relies on long scholarly experience to answer these and other questions. Hemispheric Imaginations, an ambitious interdisciplinary study of literary representations of Latin America as encounters with the other, is among the most extensive such studies to date. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars of American Studies.

Read and Download Heather Neilson book Political Animal in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Political Animal. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Book excerpt: The late Gore Vidal occupied a unique position within American letters. Born into a political family, he ran for office several times, but was consistently critical of his nation’s political system and its leaders. A prolific writer in several genres, he was also widely known – particularly in the United States – on the basis of his frequent appearances in the various electronic media. In this groundbreaking work examining the central theme of power throughout Vidal’s writings, Heather Neilson focuses primarily on Vidal’s historical fiction. In his novels depicting American history and those set in ancient times, Vidal evokes a world in which deliberately propagated falsehood – ‘disinformation’ – becomes established as truth. Neilson engages with Vidal’s representations of political and religious leaders, and with his deeply ambivalent fascination with the increasingly inescapable influence of the media. She asserts that Vidal’s oeuvre has a Shakespearean resonance in its persistent obsession with the question of what constitutes legitimate power and authority.

Read and Download Brady Harrison book Agent of Empire in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Full book Agent of Empire. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Book excerpt: At the heart of our ongoing interest in Walker, says Harrison, is the need to understand the ever-shifting ambitions and arguments that have driven American economic, military, and paramilitary ventures around the globe for the past 150 years.".