Lectures On Literature

Author : Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547541325
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Literature written by Vladimir Nabokov and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike. In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov’s teaching, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, as he introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. This volume collects Nabokov’s famous lectures on Western European literature, with analysis and commentary on Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Gustav Flaubert’s Madam Bovary, Marcel Proust’s The Walk by Swann’s Place, Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and other works. This volume also includes photographic reproductions of Nabokov’s original notes, revealing his own edits, underlined passages, and more. Edited and with a Foreword by Fredson Bowers Introduction by John Updike

Author : Ben Dhooge
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9789004352865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature written by Ben Dhooge and published by Brill. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays focus on Nabokov's lectures on European and Russian literature at American universities, and shed new light on the relationship of his views on aesthetics to the development of his own oeuvre.

Author : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780156027762
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Literature written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595584099
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobel Lectures written by and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection in which meditations on imagination and the process of writing mingle with keen discussions of global affairs, geography and colonialism, cultural change, and the deeply lasting influences of the past.

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307482065
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bech at Bay written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the final volume in John Updike’s mock-heroic trilogy about the Jewish American writer Henry Bech, our hero is older but scarcely wiser. Now in his seventies, he remains competitive, lecherous, and self-absorbed, lost in a brave new literary world where his books are hyped by Swiss-owned conglomerates, showcased in chain stores attached to espresso bars, and returned to warehouses just three weeks later. In five chapters more startling and surreal than any that have come before, Bech presides over the American literary scene, enacts bloody revenge on his critics, and wins the world’s most coveted writing prize. It’s not easy being Henry Bech in the post-Gutenbergian world, but somebody has to do it, and he brings to the task his signature mixture of grit, spit, and ennui.

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139446129
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Taste of Knowledge written by Michael Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This 2005 book seeks to answer and to prolong these questions through the close examination of individual works and the exploration of a broad array of examples. Chapters on Henry James, Kafka, and the form of the villanelle are interspersed with wider-ranging inquiries into forms of irony, indirection and the uses of fiction, with examples ranging from Auden to Proust and Rilke, and from Calvino to Jean Rhys and Yeats. Literature is a form of pretence. But every pretence could tilt us into the real, and many of them do. There is no safe place for the reader: no literalist's haven where fact is always fact; and no paradise of metaphor, where our poems, plays and novels have no truck at all with the harsh and shifting world.

Author : Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674267478
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Rereading written by Patricia Meyer Spacks and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.

Author : Mary Cappello
Publisher : Undelivered Lectures
ISBN 13 : 9781945492426
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lecture written by Mary Cappello and published by Undelivered Lectures. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An energetic and irreverent essay on the forgotten art of the lecture, part of Transit's new Undelivered Lectures series.

Author : Julio Cortázar
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225356
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 written by Julio Cortázar and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar “I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which he lived. Covering such topics as “the writer’s path” (“while my aesthetic world view made me admire writers like Borges, I was able to open my eyes to the language of street slang, lunfardo…”) and “the fantastic” (“unbeknownst to me, the fantastic had become as acceptable, as possible and real, as the fact of eating soup at eight o’clock in the evening”), Literature Class provides the warm and personal experience of sitting in a room with the great author. As Joaquin Marco stated in El Cultural, “exploring this course is to dive into Cortázar designing his own creations.… Essential for anyone reading or studying Cortázar, cronopio or not!”

Author : BI Feiyu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000554082
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Lectures written by BI Feiyu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of lectures on literature given in top universities in China by Bi Feiyu, one of the country's best known writers. From the perspective of a novelist, the author revisits and interprets classic works by renowned writers, aiming to illuminate what constitutes a classic. The lectures explore works of classical and modern Chinese literature such as A Dream of Red Mansions, Water Margin and works by Lu Xun and Wang Zengqi, as well as world-famous writers such as Guy de Maupassant, V.S. Naipaul, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Hardy. The interpretation and criticism of the works goes beyond academic textual analysis, highlighting the instincts, writing experience and insights of a creative writer. Comparison is made between the literary elements of modernism and classical Chinese works, techniques of character shaping and plot development, thematic dimensions, narrative style, literary topos, literary aesthetics and the language of literature. These essays will appeal to readers interested in literature, literary criticism, Chinese literature and world classics.