Category: Anthologies

By Sonia Maasik, Jack Solomon

ISBN-10: 031264700X

ISBN-13: 9780312647001

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By Simon Guerrier

ISBN-10: 1844351491

ISBN-13: 9781844351497

Medical professional Who brief journeys is a chain of themed brief tale anthologies of recent physician Who fiction, that includes the medical professional in all of his first 8 incarnations. They function tales written via many of the best names in general practitioner Who, previous and current, together with Paul Cornell, Gareth Roberts, Christopher H. Bidmead, and Paul Magrs. Christmas is the busiest time of yr for the mysterious surgeon, even if he is caught-up within the violence of old Rome, taking Leonardo da Vinci on a day-trip to the celebs, or popping in at the first actual Christmas at the moon. Spend Christmas with the healthcare professional. when you dare.

By Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

ISBN-10: 0312144458

ISBN-13: 9780312144456

ISBN-10: 0312144490

ISBN-13: 9780312144494

ISBN-10: 0312144504

ISBN-13: 9780312144500

By Anthony Di Renzo

ISBN-10: 0809320304

ISBN-13: 9780809320301

Focusing the following at the comedian genius of Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, Anthony Di Renzo unearths a size of the author’s paintings that has been ignored via either her supporters and her detractors, such a lot of whom have heretofore focused completely on her use of theology and parable.Noting an especial kinship among her characters and the grotesqueries that embellish the margins of illuminated manuscripts and the facades of eu cathedrals, he argues that O’Connor’s Gothicism brings her stories nearer in spirit to the English secret cycles and the leering gargoyles of medieval structure than to the Gothic fiction of Poe and Hawthorne to which critics have so frequently associated her work.Relying in part on Mikhail Bakhtin’s research of Rabelais, Di Renzo examines the several different types of the ugly in O’Connor’s fiction and the parallels in medieval artwork, literature, and folklore. He starts off via demonstrating that the determine of Christ is the proper in the back of her satire—an perfect, notwithstanding, that has to be degraded in addition to exalted whether it is ever to be a dwelling presence within the actual global. Di Renzo is going directly to talk about O’Connor’s strange remedy of the human physique and its dating to medieval fabliaux. He depicts the interaction among the saintly and the demonic in her paintings, illustrating how for her stable is simply as gruesome as evil since it continues to be "something below construction."

By Rich Horton (editor)

ISBN-10: 0809562979

ISBN-13: 9780809562978

By David Starkey

ISBN-10: 0803260083

ISBN-13: 9780803260085

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By Ann Massa (eds.)

ISBN-10: 0312031904

ISBN-13: 9780312031909

ISBN-10: 1349204358

ISBN-13: 9781349204359

ISBN-10: 1349204374

ISBN-13: 9781349204373

By Patti Carr Black

ISBN-10: 0585201587

ISBN-13: 9780585201580

ISBN-10: 1578061490

ISBN-13: 9781578061495

In 1917 while H. L. Mencken belittled the South as "almost as sterile artistically, intellectually and culturally because the Sahara Desert," he trigger a response that continues to be reverberating this day. the 1st factor of The Double broker out of recent Orleans in 1921 reported it "high time, we think, for a few doughty clear-visioned penmen to emerge from the sodden marshes of Southern literature." enormous quantities did. Supplanting the romantic novelists of the previous South, the recent Southern fiction author displayed a tremendous variety of curiosity and bold procedure. certainly, Southern fiction got here to be seen as might be the main major circulation in smooth American writing. right here in a quiz booklet pinpointing twentieth-century Southern writers are questions (and solutions) that inquiring minds want to know. What do Southern writers care approximately? What very good characters inhabit their pages? What Southern titles could be on each interpreting checklist? The Southern Writers Quiz ebook is stuffed with assessments in case you recognize and understand they be aware of Southern literature. The quizzes incorporated recommend a mess of attention-grabbing characters, unique locales, and mythic minds. This e-book is a video game of unabashed neighborhood chauvinism. It professes completely no try and search or express unifying ideas of Southern writing. as a substitute, it exists for the sheer pleasure of bragg adocio. Play alongside, and also you can also turn into a Southern Writers groupie. Patti Carr Black is the writer of paintings in Mississippi, 1790-1980 and lots of different books approximately Mississippi artwork and writers. She previously served as director of the previous Capitol Museum in Jackson.

By Ralph J. Mills Jr.

ISBN-10: 0816603049

ISBN-13: 9780816603046

ISBN-10: 081665221X

ISBN-13: 9780816652211

Theodore Roethke - American Writers 30 was once first released in 1963. Minnesota Archive variations makes use of electronic know-how to make long-unavailable books once more available, and are released unaltered from the unique college of Minnesota Press versions.

By Fernando Pessoa, M. J. De Lancastre, A. Tabucchi

ISBN-10: 8845910210

ISBN-13: 9788845910210