Mind of the Novel

Bruce F Kawin

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• From Moby-Dick to The Unnamable, from A Tale of a Tub to The Book of Questions, Bruce Kawin explores the nature of self-conscious fiction and compares... Lees meer

Confessions of Narcissus

Sean Scully

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• A rumination on authority and its limitations, about what we think we know - and the spaces in between. In Confessions of Narcissus , Scully suggests ... Lees meer

Prancing Novelist

Brigid Brophy

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• One of the most penetrating and sympathetic explorations ever undertaken by one writer into the mind of another, Prancing Novelist is far more than a ... Lees meer

Making Figures

Bruce Bromley

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• As species, and as a culture, we recognize ourselves by our capacity for possession, so that personhood is made equivalent to ownership. If, however, ... Lees meer

Telling It Again and Again

Bruce F Kawin

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• How do writers and filmmakers use repetition? It is useful when accenting an idea, but, in this original and thought-provoking book, Bruce F. Kawin ar... Lees meer

The Arts of the Beautiful

Etienne Gilson

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• With his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that "art is the making of beauty for beauty's own sake." By distinguishing between aesthet... Lees meer

Re: Quin

Robert Buckeye

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• An unabashedly personal and partisan critical biography of the great British experimentalist of the 1960s. Lees meer

Enamoured Knight

Douglas Glover

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• This book is filled with passion and love for the art of writing and is a celebration of reading. Through the prism of the great Russian Formalist Vik... Lees meer

An Unwritten Novel

Thomas J Cousineau

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• A richly insightful guide to Fernando Pessoa's masterpiece, for both students and the common reader. Lees meer

Approaching Disappearance

Anne McConnell

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictio... Lees meer

Paradox of Freedom

Shiva Rahbaran

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• As the first book-length study of Nicholas Mosley, "The Paradox of Freedom" combines a discussion of the author's incredible biography with an investi... Lees meer

Barbara Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th cent... Lees meer

Mirror Gazing

Warren Motte

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• Mirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking, about what people seek when they read, and about what stares back at them from the printed page. It... Lees meer

Balthus

Nicholas Fox Weber

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time: the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de ... Lees meer

Caring for Japanese Art at the Chester Beatty Library

Yoshiko Ushioda

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• Caring for Japanese Art at the Chester Beatty Library is a memoir of Yoshiko Ushioda, looking back at more than five decades of life in Dublin. The st... Lees meer

Minuit

Steve Spalding

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• An investigation into the formation of French literary culture through the lens of publishing house Editions de Minuit, responsible for the "New Novel... Lees meer

Knight's Move

Viktor Shklovsky

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• First published in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky, no doubt the most original literar... Lees meer

H.D.'s Dramatic Poetics

Catherine Theis

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• Hilda Doolittle operates primarily as a mythopoetic writer, rewriting the eternal dramas of myth into self- knowledge. She sh... Lees meer

When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• In "When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness," Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling "our desire to think of A... Lees meer

Non-Memoirs

Yuri M Lotman

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• One afternoon in December 1992, in Tartu, Estonia, Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman reluctantly sat down to dictate his memoirs to Elena Pogosian, his assista... Lees meer

French Fiction Today

Warren Motte

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• French Fiction Today focuses on the French novel in the twenty-first century, examining a series of works that are exemplary of broader currents in th... Lees meer

John Barth

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• For the past half-century, John Barth has been recognized as our quintessential postmodernist and praised as one of the best writers "we have ever had... Lees meer

Utterly Other Discourse

Ellen G Friedman, Richard Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• The British novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose (born 1923) is increasingly being regarded as one of the most significant writers of the contemp... Lees meer

Field of Nonsense

Elizabeth Sewell

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• This magnificent and witty study by an unrecognized innovator seeks to define and explore the nature of "nonsense" in literature. Relying mainly on re... Lees meer