In The Age Of Prose

Author : Erich Heller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521254939
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Age of Prose written by Erich Heller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been achieved - such as the comic triumphs of Wilhelm Busch. As elsewhere in Professor Heller's work, Thomas Mann's attempt to outwit and redeem his circumstances through art - 'despite' them, as he said himself - occupies a central place. Three of the present essays are devoted to him. Others consider Kleist, Fontane, Hamsun, Karl Kraus and the crucial figures of Hölderlin (who plays such a central role in Heidegger's later philosophical writings) and Rilke. Written with feeling, and the distinctive elegance and wit that have characterized all of Professor Heller's work, the essays here reaffirm the vital interdependence of literature and human values.

Author : Alan W. Bellringer
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051830507
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Age in Prose written by Alan W. Bellringer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan W. Bellringer
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789062039814
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Age in Prose written by Alan W. Bellringer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1980 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In an Age of Prose written by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Wilson Bowyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Age written by John Wilson Bowyer and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.8K/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Authors of All Ages written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Royston Oscar Jones
Publisher : London : Benn ; New York : Barnes & Noble
ISBN 13 : 9780389041917
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age: Prose and Poetry written by Royston Oscar Jones and published by London : Benn ; New York : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1971 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Kemper Broadus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483262140
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Prose From Bacon to Hardy (Classic Reprint) written by Edmund Kemper Broadus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Prose From Bacon to Hardy The choice of passages has often been guided by what is characteristic of an author or period rather than by what is intrinsically best. In the case of Dickens, fer instance, the chapter on the death of Little Nell has been included because it represents an important side of the novelist's work better than some passages less open to criticism. In most cases, fortunately, it has been possible to reconcile the two principles of selection. An attempt has been made, in a way not usually done in books of selections, to present the various aspects of an author's work. Thus Bacon is represented not only by some of his essays, but also by passages from The Advancement of Learning and The Life of Henry VII. Other examples which illustrate the same purpose are Swift, Johnson, Scott, Coleridge, and Stevenson. One feature of the book which may be mentioned is the selection from the essayists and letter-writers of the eighteenth century. The main purpose in this case is to throw some light on the social background of literature at the time, and to represent fairly liberally two types of literature peculiarly characteristic of the period. No similar selections from the nineteenth century have been given because the compact literary society of the previous age had disappeared and the more complex conditions which replaced it could not be illustrated in the same simple way. There is also the reason that many of the greatest nineteenth-century letter-writers are known chiefly as poets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168569X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of the Poets written by Alain Badiou and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the “age of the poets,” which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,” Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062397885
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What to Read and Why written by Francine Prose and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers she admires above all others, from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan and Roberto Bolaño. In an age defined by hyper-connectivity and constant stimulation, Francine Prose makes a compelling case for the solitary act of reading and the great enjoyment it brings. Inspiring and illuminating, What to Read and Why includes selections culled from Prose’s previous essays, reviews, and introductions, combined with new, never-before-published pieces that focus on her favorite works of fiction and nonfiction, on works by masters of the short story, and even on books by photographers like Diane Arbus. Prose considers why the works of literary masters such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Jane Austen have endured, and shares intriguing insights about modern authors whose words stimulate our minds and enlarge our lives, including Roberto Bolaño, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jennifer Egan, and Mohsin Hamid. Prose implores us to read Mavis Gallant for her marvelously rich and compact sentences, and her meticulously rendered characters who reveal our flawed and complex human nature; Edward St. Aubyn for his elegance and sophisticated humor; and Mark Strand for his gift for depicting unlikely transformations. Here, too, are original pieces in which Prose explores the craft of writing: "On Clarity" and "What Makes a Short Story." Written with her sharp critical analysis, wit, and enthusiasm, What to Read and Why is a celebration of literature that will give readers a new appreciation for the power and beauty of the written word.