Category: Literary

By Jerome Klinkowitz

Klinkowitz’ accomplished Introduc­tion presents the clearest, liveliest explo­ration to this point of the technical and criti­cal advancements within the paintings of the unconventional during the last decades. Using various techniques from po­lemic and lyric to non-public witness, Klinkowitz discusses John Updike, Grace Paley, Robley Wilson, Ishmael Reed, John Gardner, Thomas McGuane, John Irving, Richard Yates, John Barth, Jerzy Kosinski, Dan Wakefield, and Tom Glynn.

By Professor Robert S. Kawashima

Trained via literary idea and Homeric scholarship in addition to biblical stories, Biblical Narrative and the loss of life of the Rhapsode sheds new mild at the Hebrew Bible and, extra more often than not, at the chances of narrative shape. Robert S. Kawashima compares the narratives of the Hebrew Bible with Homeric and Ugaritic epic in an effort to account for the "novelty" of biblical prose narrative. lengthy earlier than Herodotus or Homer, Israelite writers practiced an leading edge narrative artwork, which expected the trendy novelist's craft. notwithstanding their paintings is undeniably associated with the linguistic culture of the Ugaritic narrative poems, there are significant ameliorations among the our bodies of labor. Kawashima perspectives biblical narrative because the results of a in particular written verbal artwork that we should always counterpose to the oral-traditional artwork of epic. past this strictly ancient thesis, the examine has theoretical implications for the examine of narrative, literature, and oral tradition.Indiana stories in Biblical Literature -- Herbert Marks, basic Editor

By Jonathon King

Along with his first novel The Blue fringe of Midnight, Jonathon King used to be praised for his "powerful storytelling" (San Diego Union-Tribune), for his "stunning" and "superb" writing (Pittsburgh Tribune), and for including "new dimensions to the trendy crime novel" (Michael Connelly). And, in a starred evaluation, Publishers Weekly in comparison King to James corridor, Robert Parker, and James Lee Burke.

Now, in A obvious Darkness, King grants one other gripping, unforgettable tale. Max Freeman is looking for safe haven from the known demons of his former lifestyles as a Philadelphia police officer, in his secluded shack deep within the Everglades. yet his self-imposed isolation is inter-rupted while he gets a determined name from his ally, legal professional Billy Manchester. there was a up to date string of suspicious deaths-all aged ladies, all from a terrible local, and all with massive and lately sold-off assurance policies-which the police were not able, or unwilling, to enquire. Billy believes anything sinister might be at paintings, and so, to assist his good friend, Max needs to reluctantly pry the place he isn't sought after, and act just like the cop he is attempting to disregard he was once.

to find an unseen killer, Max will confront not just the risks of a forgotten Florida cityscape, however the unforeseen and darkish corners of his personal previous in addition. choked with twists, turns, and a wide ranging evocation of a not often glimpsed underside of contemporary the US, A obvious Darkness confirms Jonathon King's position on the leading edge of a brand new iteration of crime novelists.

The Human activates our inventive strivings past the usual around of lifestyles towards striking achievements. This booklet explains how the emergence of Human situation lifts average endowment of the person to the extent of excellence. It exhibits how usual forces and promptings of existence transmute via artistic Human situation subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of religious significance.

By Justin Hill

The 12 months is 1016 and England burns whereas the Viking armies blockade the good urban of London. King Ethelred lies death and the britain he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the point of nice swap. One guy lives to undergo witness to the upheaval: Godwin, slightly out of boyhood and destined to develop into certainly one of his country's nice warriors. while Ethelred's son Edmund takes the throne, made up our minds to be triumphant the place his father failed, he plucks Godwin from household peace to be right-hand guy in his unswerving protect wall. Godwin needs to traverse the meadows, wintry forests and fogbound marshes of Saxon England, elevating armies of clergymen, ploughmen and shepherds opposed to the Viking invader. With epic braveness and ferocity, Godwin and Edmund repel the butchering Danes in 3 nice battles. yet an outdated enemy, the treacherous Earl Eadric, canines Godwin's footsteps, and because the ultimate conflict ways, round the valiant English the capture starts to shut.

By Nivedita Sen

This seminal paintings examines the concurrence of early life uprising and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including grownup texts), a pertinent but unexplored sector, making it a primary of its sort. it's a research of the voice of kid protagonists throughout children’s and grownup literature in Bengali vis-à-vis the associations of kin, the schooling approach, and the nationalist move within the ninenteenth and 20th centuries.

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This ebook is set the interplay among literary stories and the philosophy of literature. It good points essays from the world over well known and rising philosophers and literary students, difficult readers to hitch them in taking heavily the thought of interdisciplinary research and forging ahead in new and interesting instructions of thought.

By Mariama Ba

Written by means of award-winning African novelist Mariama Ba and translated from the unique French, So lengthy a Letter has been well-known as one in every of Africa's a hundred most sensible Books of the 20 th Century. The short narrative, written as a longer letter, is a series of reminiscences—some wistful, a few bitter—recounted by way of lately widowed Senegalese schoolteacher Ramatoulaye Fall. Addressed to a lifelong pal, Aissatou, it's a list of Ramatoulaye's emotional fight for survival after her husband betrayed their marriage by means of taking a moment spouse. This semi-autobiographical account is a perceptive testimony to the plight of knowledgeable and articulate Muslim girls. Angered via the traditions that let polygyny, they inhabit a social milieu ruled by way of attitudes and values that deny them prestige equivalent to males. Ramatoulaye hopes for a global the place the easiest of outdated customs and new freedom should be mixed.

Considered a vintage of latest African women's literature, So lengthy a Letter is a must-read for an individual drawn to African literature and the passage from colonialism to modernism in a Muslim country.

Winner of the distinguished Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.

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By Lu Xun