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What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that has captured the imagination of millions of people around the world? And why does Tolkien's visionary creation continue to fascinate and inspire us eighty-five years after its first publication?
Beginning with Tolkien's earliest influence—and drawing on key moments from his life, Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century is an engaging and vibrant reinterpretation of the beloved author's work. Not...
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John Gardner's essential collection encompassing the fundamentals of fiction writing. In this posthumously published collection of his essays and reviews, acclaimed novelist John Gardner discusses the craft of fiction writing, taking to task some of his best-known contemporaries in the process. Gardner criticizes some for writing disingenuous fiction, and commends others who produce literature that acts as a life-affirming force. He offers insights...
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En busca de lectores -y de sus bibliotecas personales-, Javier Vargas de Luna ha recorrido la ciudad hispánica en ambos lados del Atlántico. Ha visitado todos los acentos y todas las fronteras de la lectura en nuestra lengua, ha entrado y salido de bares bohemios en el lago Titicaca, ha frecuentado tiraderos de libros en La Habana y ha vagado por las desoladas plazas de San Pedro de Atacama. En Salta conoció a los bibliópatas de la ciudad antes...
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A comprehensive study of the work of Lewis Edwards (1809-87), Wales's foremost scholar of the nineteenth century, and one who raised the standard of Nonconformist Wales erudition. A Calvinistic Methodist in his upbringing and through conviction, he was a pious man belonging to his era.
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Les plantes bougent, se déplacent, se transforment, même si leurs mouvements sont souvent imperceptibles à l'oeil humain. Alors, comment faire pour mieux les voir, les percevoir et les sentir ? Les concepts issus des sciences botaniques – phototropisme, géotropisme, hydrotropisme, chimiotropisme – ne permettent pas de décrire leur poéticité ou leur capacité à « faire monde » en nouant des relations avec d'autres organismes vivants et...
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Impregnada de onirismo, pero con una prolija atención a la vida cotidiana de la Francia finisecular, esta noveleta nos enfrenta al terror de todo forastero: en un país extraño, arribar a un hogar desconocido, cuyos habitantes no están. Mediante un monólogo –¿o una confesión?–, el protagonista narrador va registrando los acontecimientos, los personajes y la angustia ante su ajenidad al entorno y la misteriosa ausencia de sus anfitriones....
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With the erudition that has distinguished his lifelong study of literary criticism, Wellek considers the trends, theories, and quarrels of recent years. He continues to insist that criticism--whether written by structuralists, phenomenologists, Marxists, or the New Critics--makes judgments and also takes into account "a common humanity that makes all art accessible to us." He also considers the relationship between literature and linguistics and the...
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Asentir o desestabilizar reúne por primera vez los trabajos de crítica literaria y opinión que Chirbes escribió para publicaciones como Ozono, Saida, Reseña o La Calle entre 1975 y 1980. Una recopilación que recoge desde reseñas y artículos hasta entrevistas a grandes personalidades de la literatura española que el joven Chirbes realizó antes de debutar como novelista y que restituyen, en su conjunto, una imagen precisa y a contracorriente...
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Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organizing principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of "arms and the...
11) Carta a Orestes
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CARTA A ORESTES reúne cinco obras de lákovos Kambanelis. Carta a Orestes, La cena, El camino pasa por dentro, Stella con guantes rojos y El epicedio constituyen una selección que ofrece buena parte de las preocupaciones estéticas del patriarca del teatro griego contemporáneo.
En estas obras se trasluce la tragedia en los personajes femeninos enfrentados a la imposibilidad del amor, al enorme trecho que vislumbran al frente para conquistar espacios...
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The present volume is the second publication generated by the Project "Text, Action and Space". The first volume, Exploring Textual Action (Aarhus University Press, Acta Jutlandica, Humanistic Series, 2010), focused on textual action and performativity and their spatial implications. This volume aspires to contribute to the investigation of emotions and their interaction with the dynamics of textuality and spatiality, showing the essential role of...
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Get the Summary of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Solomon Northup was born a free man in New York State. At the age of 33 he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and placed in an underground slave pen. Northup was transported by ship to New Orleans where he was sold into slavery. He spent the next 12 years working as a carpenter, driver, and cotton...
14) Lire des scénarios: Pour une approche interdisciplinaire et renouvelée des pratiques scénaristiques
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Au cours des dernières décennies, la création narrative a connu un essor significatif dans les médias tels le cinéma, la télévision, le web et les jeux vidéo. Dans ce contexte, l'intérêt pour les pratiques scénaristiques s'est étendu tant dans le monde professionnel que dans les milieux de formation et de recherche.
Ce livre met en lumière des perspectives interdisciplinaires et des enjeux intermédiaux liés à la lecture de scénarios....
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"You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. . . . They are running in the streets--and they are coming right at you!" When a real murderer accuses the society he has brutalized, we are shocked, but we are thrilled...
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La civilización occidental se ha impuesto de forma tan abrumadora que a veces necesitamos que nos recuerden a qué reemplazó. La voz de Lawrence nos habla de nuestros orígenes, de una libertad instintiva y gozosa que quizá poseyéramos alguna vez. Sus obras, de las mejores escritas en lengua inglesa, evocan una vida que hemos perdido. En ellas vislumbramos algo vivo, actualmente herido, que no obstante reconocemos en nosotros mismos.
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Between these pages, you will find critiques, observations, commentaries, and occasional flights of fancy--all inspired by the character and career of Sherlock Holmes. In total, they suggest an explanation for his fascination. He gives readers so much to think about. The more you seek, the more you find, and the more you find, the more compelled you are to seek. So read at your own peril. You have been warned. This sampling could seduce you into joining...
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Dans la production artistique québécoise s'établit souvent un rapport de force entre des groupes dominants et des exclus, des êtres « gâchés », qui témoigne d'une fabrique de l'exclusion foncièrement injuste et répressive. L'autrice de cet ouvrage observe cette violence dans la littérature et le cinéma par une analyse qui s'inspire non seulement de la sociologie et de l'anthropologie, mais aussi de l'histoire ou de la psychologie. Se...
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This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the literature of Spain, France, England, Germany, Russia, and the United States. Blackburn uses for the first time the resources of myth criticism to demonstrate how the picaresque masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age founded a narrative structure that was continued by Defoe, Smollett, Melville, Twain, and...
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