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Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind

Autor: Grzegorz Maziarczyk , Joanna Klara Teske

Número de Páginas: 207

Novelistic Inquiries into the Mind traces the multiple relations between the mind and the contemporary novel. The contributors here examine various types of narrative fiction, ranging from the postmodern novels of J. M. Coetzee and Ian McEwan through the experimental prose of Leslie Scalapino to the popular fiction of James Dashner and Christopher Moore. On the one hand, they investigate novelistic representations of various mind-related issues, including different states of consciousness, Alzheimer’s disease, thought experiments and formation of the self. On the other, by analysing and evaluating in these contexts such narrative devices as unreliable narration, development of conceptual networks or multimodal integration of verbal and non-verbal semiotic resources, they exemplify the multiplicity of techniques whereby the novel can explore the intricacies of mental processes. Taken together, the essays collected here demonstrate the potential of the novel as genre for representing the mind. In its exploration of the problems involved in the linguistic construction of reality, the cognitive function of art and the uncertain status of consciousness, the contemporary novel thus...

Cher Monsieur l'Editeur

Autor: Laurent Tournesac

Número de Páginas: 122

Pourquoi envoyer son manuscrit à des éditeurs lorsqu'on connaît les innombrables bévues que ceux-ci ont commises dans l'histoire littéraire ? Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov : 6 refus, Harry Potter de J. K. Rowling : 12 refus, Murphy de Samuel Beckett : 42 refus, L'Affaire Jane Eyre de Jasper Fforde : 76 refus, Le Boogie des rêves perdus de James Lee Burke : 111 refus... Et que dire des échecs essuyés par Marcel Proust, Julien Gracq, George Orwell, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Jack Kerouac, John Kennedy Toole, Andreï Makine, Michel Houellebecq, Amélie Nothomb et tant d'autres ? L'expéditeur de cette lettre révèle à un éditeur, rencontré lors d'une soirée, pourquoi il n'enverra jamais ses manuscrits aux gens de sa profession. Il n'a aucune confiance en leur jugement ! Il rappelle dans ces pages combien l'histoire littéraire, parsemée d'embûches, recense de chefs-d'œuvre rejetés avant que la chance, le hasard ou la persévérance les sortent in extremis de l'ombre à laquelle ils semblaient condamnés. Au-delà des anecdotes, ce correspondant tente de cerner les raisons de ces surprenantes méprises, les limites du métier d'éditeur, ses écueils... Au terme de sa ...

Rainbow Fleur de Lis

Autor: Frank Perez

Número de Páginas: 237

Rainbow Fleur de Lis: Essays on Queer New Orleans History is an anthology of eighty-five short, easy-to-read essays that originally appeared in Ambush Magazine and French Quarter Journal. Author Frank Perez has collected essays on a wide variety of topics in LGBTQ+ history and arranged them into multiple sections. Each section contains five essays and begins with a brief introductory overview that ties the individual pieces together. The book opens with Gay Carnival and provides a unique glimpse behind the scenes of this distinct New Orleans tradition. “Bars and Gay Spaces” examines the ever-shifting queer centers of gravity throughout the French Quarter. The section on the AIDS epidemic demonstrates how, by the end of the 1980s, New Orleans was a model city for providing AIDS-related services. “Arts and Letters” highlights figures such as lesbian photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston and playwright Tennessee Williams. The next section looks at homophobia in New Orleans in the 1950s. “Activists and Activism” traces the birth and rise of queer activism in New Orleans. Historical surveys of several organizations are then provided, followed by a unit on the Up Stairs...

Fears and Fascinations

Autor: Thomas Fredrick Haddox

Número de Páginas: 254

Looking at the works of diverse writers as the gens de couleur libre poets of antebellum New Orleans, this book focuses on the shifting and contradictory ways Catholicism has signified within southern literature and culture. It contributes to a more nuanced understanding of American and southern literary and cultural history.

I, John Kennedy Toole

Autor: Kent Carroll , Jodee Blanco

Número de Páginas: 205

A rich new novel that explores the true story of A Confederacy Of Dunces and the remarkable life of its author, John Kennedy Toole. I, John Kennedy Toole is the novelized story of the funny, tragic, riveting narrative behind the making of an American masterpiece. The book traces Toole’s life in New Orleans through his adolescence, his stay at Columbia University in New York, his attempts to escape the burden of his demanding mother and his weak father, his retreat into a world of his own creation, and finally the invention of astonishing characters that came to living reality for both readers (and the author himself) in his prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces. The other fascinating (and mostly unknown) part of the story is how after a decade of rebuke and dismissal the novel came to a brilliant author, Walker Percy, and a young publisher, Kent Carroll, who separately rescued the book, then published it with verve and devotion. The novel that almost never came to be went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and continues to sell at a satisfying rate as it winds its way to the 2 million mark. That audience is the happy ending for this brilliant, unrepentant writer, whose only reward...

Homemade Dairy Fresh to Your Kitchen

Autor: John Kennedy Toole

Número de Páginas: 0

Songs of the New South

Autor: Suzanne Disheroon Green , Lisa Abney

Número de Páginas: 256

The works of Louisiana authors differ from the works of other Southern writers in significant ways. Strong French, Spanish, Native American, and African American traditions shaped Louisiana culture, and Louisiana writers reflect that cultural diversity in their works. So too, historical and religious influences caused Louisiana to develop in a distinct way, and these influences have similarly affected Louisiana writers. The narrative styles employed by these writers generally differ from the styles of other Southern authors. While contemporary Louisiana writers have contributed a substantial body of work to Southern literature, their writings have not received adequate scholarly attention. This book provides a critical introduction to Louisiana literature and gives special attention to how Louisiana literature and culture depart from the rest of the South. The volume is the first collection of scholarly studies focusing on Louisiana writers from the 1930s to the present. Drawing together discussions of 15 of Louisiana's current premier fiction writers, the collection is organized into three broad sections. The first examines Louisiana narratives and folk traditions; the second,...

The Definitive Chair for Seniors

Autor: John Kennedy Toole

Número de Páginas: 0

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Número de Páginas: 2074

El basurero de la historia

Autor: Greil Marcus

Número de Páginas: 189

Este libro podría haberse llamado fácilmente “El robo de la historia”. Ni siquiera ser testigo –uno mismo- de los hechos es garantía de que permanezcan ininmutables. En el curso de averiguaciones recientes, comprendí que las palabras de Greil Marcus me eran citadas tan continuamente como las de los sujetos de sus ensayos. Pero una vez que hay suficientes palabras dando vueltas, alguien va a usarlas para hacerte meter la pata. Elvis Costello Como en los Estados Unidos, con sus linchamientos, revueltas raciales y ataques terroristas sepultados, borrados, silenciados, anónimos –como la Masacre de Bath School de 1927 cerca de East Lansing, capital del estado de Michigan (no se preocupen si no escucharon hablar de ella; casi nadie en los Estados Unidos la conoce)-, toda sociedad encontrará sus modos de silenciar sus propias historias; de convertir un sobrio testimonio en el griterío de un loco, de mezclar la verdad y la mentira hasta que, para el agrado de muchos, ni siquiera un investigador o un místico sea capaz de distinguir una de otra. Pero pasado el tiempo, tarde o temprano, todo fracasa. Greil Marcus, “Prólogo a la edición castellana” Como nunca, estamos...

Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction

Autor: Kirk H. Beetz

Número de Páginas: 744

The Ultimate Pre-Prepared Cookbook

Autor: John Kennedy Toole

Número de Páginas: 0

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