Notions of the feminine : literary essays from Dostoyevsky by M. Axelrod

By M. Axelrod

Coming near near the query of the way male novelists understand their woman characters, this selection of inventive but analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship as opposed to narration. Mark Axelrod seems at quite a lot of male authors together with Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the theories of Jacques Lacan.

Just how do male novelists understand their woman characters? Are there sophisticated or now not so refined symptoms within the narrative that replicate the perceptions of the writer instead of the narrator? And are a few of these perceptions pre-conceived in line with convinced cultural biases? those are a number of the questions that Notions of the female: Literary Essays from Dostoevsky to Lacan addresses. With that during brain, the essays examines these notions in such texts as: Dostoevsky's, Crime & Punishment; Tolstoy's, Anna Karenina; Lawrence's ladies in Love and The Virgin and the Gypsy; Fuentes', The previous Gringo; Boll's, The misplaced Honor of Katharina Blum; and with an extra essay in keeping with Lacan's suggestion of The Gaze that's germane to the opposite texts.--Page four cover. Read more...

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coming near near the query of ways male novelists understand their woman characters, this choice of inventive but analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship as opposed to narration. Read more...

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Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 by Jane Darcy

By Jane Darcy

This e-book deals an unique account of the improvement of literary biography within the lengthy eighteenth century and divulges alternative ways within which biographers probed the internal existence via writers' depression. the 1st part tracks the risky prestige of depression in biographical writing from Walton to Johnson within the context of adjusting clinical and theological knowing of the condition.

The moment part specializes in biographical experimentation of the 1790s. case experiences, Godwin's Memoirs of Wollstonecraft and Currie's lifetime of Burns, are examples of an important if short-lived style: philosophical biography. The dispassionate exploration of depression in those new secular biographies renders out of date older notions of the 'dignity' of biography. Anxieties concerning the more and more intrusive nature of the style accentuate over Hayley's lifetime of Cowper, coming to a head in 1816 with Wordsworth's impassioned critique of literary biography and the scandal because of Cowper's posthumously released conversion narrative Adelphi.

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Self's Punishment: A Mystery by Bernhard Schlink

By Bernhard Schlink

The bestselling detective novel from the writer of THE READER. to be had in paperback for the 1st time within the UK.

Sixty-eight years previous; a smoker of candy Aftons, a committed drinker of Aviateur cocktails, and the landlord of a charismatic cat named rapid, Gerhard Self is an unconventional deepest detective.

When Self is summoned by means of his long-time buddy and rival Korten to enquire numerous incidents of computer-hacking at a chemical compounds corporation, he reveals himself facing an unusual form of crime that throws up many demanding situations. yet in his look for the hacker, Self stumbles upon whatever way more sinister. His research finally finds darkish secrets and techniques which were hidden for many years, and forces Self to confront his personal demons.

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Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book) by Jonathan Lethem

By Jonathan Lethem

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-there's a rabbit in his ready room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a courageous new global the place developed animals are contributors of society, the police visual display unit voters by means of their karma degrees, and mind-numbing medicines corresponding to Forgettol and Acceptol are the entire rage. Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the spouse of an prosperous health professional. maybe he is falling a bit in love along with her even as. whilst the medical professional turns up useless, our amiable investigator unearths himself stuck in a crossfire among the men from the Inquisitor's place of work and gangsters who function out of the again room of a bar known as the Fickle Muse. blending components of sci-fi, noir, and secret, this shrewdpermanent first novel from the writer of Motherless Brooklyn is a wry, humorous, and satiric examine all that the longer term may possibly carry.

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Death Is Lighter Than a Feather by David Westheimer

By David Westheimer

On may well 25, 1945, whereas American and eastern forces on Okinawa have been locked in sour fight, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of employees despatched out plans for an amphibious invasion which might subjugate Japan. “Operation Olympic” used to be to grab Kyushu, whereas “Operation Coronet” used to be to strike without delay opposed to the Tokyo area.

Westheimer’s meticulously researched novel approximately this plan startled readers within the 1970s.

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