This Literary Life tells the story of Hemingway the writer by
concentrating on four periods of his best work, shaped in part by study
of the correspondence between him and his four wives--and in the case
of Mary Welsh, his last wife, of her diary and her autobiography. Focus
falls on the Hadley Richardson period (In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises), the Pauline Pfeiffer years (A Farewell to Arms), the Martha Gellhorn period (For Whom the Bell Tolls) and the last (The Old Man and the Sea).
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Product Description Offering a wealth of maps and geographic routes for 28 books, this guide illustrates how to teach with literary maps, taking students on a journey through real and imaginary terrains. Entries span a range of genres and literary formats (including novels, dramas, and diaries); each follows a book's protagonist through space and time, covering places visited as well as historical figures, customs, cultures, and events. Geographic summaries, itemized itineraries, and detailed maps help students trace each character's journey and comprehend the geographic scale of action. As a prelude to reading, the maps can help disadvantaged readers better understand the stories and settings of a book, which will significantly enhance any student's reading experience. Instruction on marking maps with notes and arrows will help students prepare for college-level classes as they organize their work, simplify confusing elements, outline chronology, and incorporate additional reading and research.
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Product Description
This book argues that Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past had a profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.
It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks in order to provide a framework for examining her response to the literary past. It presents chronological studies of eight novels, exploring how Woolf's intensive reading surfaced in her fiction. The book sheds light on Woolf's varied and intricate use of literary allusions; examines ways in which Woolf revisited and revised plots and tropes from earlier fiction; and looks at how she used parody as a means both of critical comment and homage.
Key Features
* The first book-length study of intertextuality in Virginia Woolf's novels
* Offers a challenging and provocative new perspective on Woolf's art as a novelist
* Develops detailed close readings offering fresh insights into individual works
* Presents complex ideas in a lucid and accessible fashion.
Working at the crossroads of
contemporary geographical and cultural theory, the book explores how
social spaces function as sites which foreground D. H. Lawrence and
Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change.
Looking at various social spaces from homes to nations to utopian space
brought into the here and now the book shows the ways in which these
writers criticize and deconstruct the contemporary symbolic, physical,
and discursive spatial topoi of the dominant socio-spatial order and
envision a more liberating and inclusive human geography. In addition,
the book calls for the need to redress the tendency of some spatial
theories to underestimate the political potential of literary discourse
about space, instead of simply and mechanically appropriating some
theoretical concepts to literary criticism. One of the central findings
in the book, therefore, is that literary texts can perform subversive
interventions in the production of social space through their critical
interaction with dominant spatial codes.
Over the past twenty years J. A. Cuddon's Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory has become firmly established as a classic work of reference. Now in its fourth edition, complete with many new entries and insights, it remains the most comprehensive and accessible work of its kind and constitutes essential reading for students, teachers and general readers alike.
