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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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

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

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• 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

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• 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

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

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

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

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• 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

Theory of Literature

René Wellek, Austin Warren

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• It is said that this book reached an important milestone in the study of literature by crystalizing a movement that had been under way for two decades... 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

Monogamy

Robert Von Hallberg

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• Monogamy elaborates an ideology of romance from extraordinary poems and songs, one by one. Poems and popular songs are still the main medium for prese... Lees meer

Nicholas Mosley's Life and Art

Shiva Rahbaran

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• Nicholas Mosley is a writer for whom fiction is a way both to convey and confront the paradoxes and dilemmas of life. Lees meer

Counterclaims

H L Hix

• Paperback | Engels | Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• In Counterclaims , renowned poet H. L. Hix has amassed the responses of more than one hundred and fifty of his fellow writers, scholars, and artists t... Lees meer