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Winner of the Herralde Novel Prize, The Key Biscayne Affair is a darkly funny coming-of-age novel where Florida’s sun-drenched strangeness meets t
How notions of progress, beauty, and cultural superiority structured the genre of nineteenth-century world histories of architecture—and shaped the discipline as we know it today.The nineteenth...
Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'.From this seemingly impossibly...
When Roy Pascal died in 1980 he had all but completed a book on narrative viewpoint in Kafka's shorter fiction: the stories and sketches, as well as the numerous fables and parables. It was for...
A new exploration of community and classical German aesthetics. Within the German tradition, the great promise of beauty is to link particular experiences within a conception of the whole. But this...
This work explores the way changes in technology have affected the relationship between ethics and medicine, generating new approaches to ethical issues and the implications of medical practice...
Comprehensive commentaries on the Homeric texts abound, but this commentary concentrates on one major aspect of the Odyssey--its narrative art. The role of narrator and narratees, methods of...
Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, which was developed in the 1960s, has helped...
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a...
Una rassegna sulla fotografia di Stanley Kubrick, uno dei maggiori registi contemporanei, qui presentato per la prima volta in veste di fotografo. Kubrick lavorò giovanissimo, dal 1945 al 1950, per...
"An award-winning historian revisits Marcel Proust's masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity-that of the novel's narrator and Proust's own. In this...
"The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the...
Rich in texture and anecdotal detail, this book provides a dramatic and dispassionate narration of some of the most important events of the last quarter century.
Preface: Twenty Years Later -- Introduction: The Bildungsroman As Symbolic Form -- The Comfort Of Civilization -- The Ring Of Life -- The Rhetoric Of Happiness -- Anti-robinson -- Aesthetic Education...
Perfectly titled, Vertigo --W.G. Sebald's marvelous first novel -- is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments,...
A major literary event, the publication of the final volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature...
The narrator's desire to record all of his experiences gradually becomes an obsession that overwhelms his real life and generates distrust of all those around him.
This volume, with contributions in the form of narrations, or of work sheets, by leading British and American translators, shows what happens: how problems present themselves and how they are...
The narrator, upset with the constant, rapid change of New York, and his job as a copy editor, flees to London, where life is lived at a more acceptable pace