Описание: The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colourful history. This encyclopaedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms. Its A-Z format provides ready reference by title. Detective fans browsing for new discoveries will enjoy the entertaining style.
Описание: Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts: Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir, by Daniel T. O'Hara, acknowledges that the modern conception of literary genius is probably most lucidly expressed in the criticism of Lionel Trilling. But O'Hara also demonstrates that certain important and widely read mid-century modern fictional memoirs subversively return to an earlier conception that emphasizes the demonic nature of genius, a conception that is associated with the occult and the visionary and embraces the vision of evil articulated in earlier literature. O'Hara argues that Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947), Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955), and William Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) all demonstrate an imagining of genius in art and in life that stands in stark and total opposition to the emerging post-World War II age of conformity. These influential works show that genius is inherently a dangerous reality, albeit a creative one. Despite its most transcendent appearances, the full immanence of this conception of demonic genius condemns the modern world to a Last Judgment that is every bit as severe as any envisioned in the Western religious traditions.
Автор: Cologne-Brookes Gavin Название: Rereading William Styron ISBN: 0807152870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807152874 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9311.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first critical study of William Styron since his death in 2006, Rereading William Styron offers an eloquent reflection on the writer`s works, world, and character. Gavin Cologne-Brookes combines personal anecdote, scholarly research, travel writing, and primary material to provide fresh perspectives on Styron`s achievements.
Автор: Kurnick David Название: The Savage Detectives Reread ISBN: 0231194102 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231194105 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 11035.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: David Kurnick argues that the controversies surrounding Roberto Bolano`s life and work have obscured his achievements-and that The Savage Detectives is still underappreciated for the subtlety and vitality of its portrait of collective life. He explores the novel as an epic of social structure and its decomposition.
Описание: Offers an examination of how crime and criminality representations within adapted UK detective dramas impact contemporary definitions of Englishness. This title presents a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this.
Автор: Konstantinou, Lee Название: Last samurai reread ISBN: 0231185820 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231185820 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7920.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Lee Konstantinou combines a riveting reading of The Last Samurai with a behind-the-scenes look at Helen DeWitt`s fraught experiences with corporate publishing. He shows how interpreting the ambition and richness of DeWitt`s work in light of her struggles with literary institutions provides a potent social critique.
Автор: Konstantinou, Lee Название: Last samurai reread ISBN: 0231185839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231185837 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Lee Konstantinou combines a riveting reading of The Last Samurai with a behind-the-scenes look at Helen DeWitt`s fraught experiences with corporate publishing. He shows how interpreting the ambition and richness of DeWitt`s work in light of her struggles with literary institutions provides a potent social critique.
Название: A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread ISBN: 0231187114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231187114 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel today with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time.
Название: A visit from the goon squad reread ISBN: 0231187106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231187107 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 10771.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel today with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time.
Автор: Michael McGrath Название: Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality ISBN: 1557538999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781557538994 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5642.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Four hundred years since its publication, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote continues to inspire and to challenge its readers. The universal and timeless appeal of the novel, however, has distanced its hero from its author and its author from his own life and the time in which he lived. The discussion of the novel's Catholic identity, therefore, is based on a reading that returns Cervantes's hero to Cervantes's text and Cervantes to the events that most shaped his life. The authors and texts McGrath cites, as well as his arguments and interpretations, are mediated by his religious sensibility. Consequently, he proposes that his study represents one way of interpreting Don Quixote and acts as a complement to other approaches. It is McGrath's assertion that the religiosity and spirituality of Cervantes's masterpiece illustrate that Don Quixote is inseparable from the teachings of Catholic orthodoxy. Furthermore, he argues that Cervantes's spirituality is as diverse as early modern Catholicism. McGrath does not believe that the novel is primarily a religious or even a serious text, and he considers his arguments through the lens of Cervantine irony, satire, and multiperspectivism. As a Roman Catholic who is a Hispanist, McGrath proposes to reclaim Cervantes's Catholicity from the interpretive tradition that ascribes a predominantly Erasmian reading of the novel. When the totality of biographical and sociohistorical events and influences that shaped Cervantes's religiosity are considered, the result is a new appreciation of the novel's moral didactic and spiritual orientation.
Автор: Patch Howard Rollin Название: On Rereading Chaucer ISBN: 0674423666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674423664 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 8966.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
