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Author : Douglas Glover
Release : 2012-04-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 471/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Attack of the Copula Spiders by : Douglas Glover
Download or read book Attack of the Copula Spiders written by Douglas Glover. This book was released on 2012-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitriolic and incisive, Douglas Glover's newest essays defend literature against the assaults of a post-literate age.
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Release : 2012
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Book Synopsis Attack of the Copula Spiders : And Other Essays on Writing by :
Download or read book Attack of the Copula Spiders : And Other Essays on Writing written by . This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood, Douglas Glover has produced a book on writing at once erudite, anecdotal, instructive, and amusing. Attack of the Copula Spiders represents the accumulated wisdom of a remarkable literary career: novelist, short story writer, essayist, teacher and mentor, Glover has for decades been asking the vital questions. How does the way we read influence the way we write? What do craft books fail to teach aspiring writers about theme, about plot and subplot, about constructing point of view? How can we maintain drama on the level of the sentence'and explain drama in the sentences of others? What is the relationship of form and art? How do you make words live? Whether his subject is Alice Munro, Cervantes, or the creative writing classroom, Glover's take is frank and fresh, demonstrating again and again that graceful writers must first be strong readers. This collection is a call-to-arms for all lovers of English, and Attack of the Copula Spiders our best defense against the assaults of a post-literate age.
Author : Douglas Glover
Release : 2019-08-13
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 925/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Erotics of Restraint by : Douglas Glover
Download or read book The Erotics of Restraint written by Douglas Glover. This book was released on 2019-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great Polish experimentalist Witold Gombrowicz have in common? In the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Kundera, Douglas Glover’s new essay collection fuses his long experience as an author with his love of philosophy and his passion for form. Call it a new kind of criticism or an operator’s manual for readers and writers, The Erotics of Restraint extends Glover’s long and deeply personal conversation with great books and their authors. With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his fiction, he dissects narrative and shows us how and why it works, why we love it, and how that makes us human. Erudite and obsessively detailed, inventive, confessional, and cheeky, these essays offer a brilliant clarity, a respite in an age of doubt. They raise the bar.
Author : Douglas Glover
Release : 2013
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 013/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Savage Love by : Douglas Glover
Download or read book Savage Love written by Douglas Glover. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Savage Love marks the long-awaited return of one of Canada's most lauded and stylistically brilliant authors. Glover skewers every conventional notion we've ever held about that cultural-emotional institution of love we are instructed to hold dear. Peopled with forensic archaeologists, horoscope writers, dental hygienists, and even butchers, Glover's stories are of our time yet timeless; spectacular fables that stand in any era, any civilization. Whether writing about sexually ambiguous librarians or desperadoes most despicable, Glover exposes the humanity lurking behind our masks, the perversities that underlie our actions. Savage Love heralds the return of a master, with laugh-out-loud stories of the best kind, often completely unexpected, rife with moments of tragedy or horror. This is Douglas Glover country, and we are all willing visitors."--publisher's description.
Author : Douglas H. Glover
Release : 2003
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 861/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bad News of the Heart by : Douglas H. Glover
Download or read book Bad News of the Heart written by Douglas H. Glover. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seeing-eye dog leads a blind man into a frozen river, a southern Baptist loses his memory and finds true love in Bel Air, an obese dot.com executive has "anorgasmic" latex sex with her CEO, and a homeless man in New York creates an intellectual universe based on Post-it notes stuck to the inside of his cardboard box shelter--Douglas Glover's stories are wildly inventive, deadpan comedies of our universal human catastrophe. They are sly, demanding and wise--stories about language, desire and love (in a very dark place). The humor veers from the wry and sardonic to the salacious, mordant and playful. And always there are moments of such stark emotional intimacy that the reader slides, almost without noticing, from laughter to lament.
