The Faraway Nearby

2013-06-13 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Release : 2013-06-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 776/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Faraway Nearby by : Rebecca Solnit

Download or read book The Faraway Nearby written by Rebecca Solnit. This book was released on 2013-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others—an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth—to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

Intimate Reading

2001-06-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Janet Mason Ellerby
Release : 2001-06-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 866/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Intimate Reading written by Janet Mason Ellerby. This book was released on 2001-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintaining that the memoir requires a more personal relationship with its readers and critics, Janet Mason Ellerby calls for "intimate readings." She begins this work with her own memoir, narrating a long-held secret-her pregnancy at age sixteen, her life in the Florence Crittendon Home for Unwed Mothers, and the birth and adoption of her first daughter. She goes on to tell about the aftermath of this pivotal time in and the painful consequences of keeping a secret. Included are detailed analyses of more than a dozen contemporary memoirs by American women, all of which share a common purpose: the disclosure of secrets. Ellerby describes the costs of this secrecy and explores the possibilities of breaking intractable codes of silence. It is a study that is germane to the intellectual and e~otional lives of all women. This book is the first serious exploration of a genre that has gained acceptance with an expanding audience of readers. Ellerby maintains that the efforts of memoirists to plumb their painful pasts has cultural significance and precipitates important social work. The memoir joins fiction and autobiography as an important commentary on modem life.

Intimate Reading

2020-04-20 History

Author : Jessica Barr
Release : 2020-04-20
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 699/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Intimate Reading written by Jessica Barr. This book was released on 2020-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God. She thus explores the differences between mystics’ biographies and their self-presentation, analyzing as well the complex rhetorical moves that medieval women writers employ to render their accounts more effective. This new volume is structured around five case studies. Chapters consider the biographies of 13th-century holy women from Liège, the writings of Margery Kempe, Gertrude of Helfta, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. At the heart of Intimate Reading is the question of how reading works—what it means to enter imaginatively and intellectually into the words of another. The volume showcases the complexity of medieval understandings of the work of reading, deepening our perception of the written word’s capacity to signify something that lies even beyond rational comprehension.

Intimate Ties

2019-05-28 Fiction

Author : Robert Musil
Release : 2019-05-28
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 248/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Intimate Ties written by Robert Musil. This book was released on 2019-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of high modernist literature explores female sexuality and desire through the eyes of two women—one, married and unfaithful; the other, caught in a love triangle—in these two erotic novellas First published in 1911, Intimate Ties is Robert Musil’s second book, consisting of two novellas, “The Culmination of Love” and “The Temptation of Silent Veronica”. Each revolves around a troubled woman in the throes of her sexual and romantic woes, as their memories of the past return to influence their present desires. Musil tracks the psyche of his protagonists in a blurring of impressions that is reflected in his experimental prose. Intimate Ties offers the reader an early glimpse of the high modernist style Musil would perfect in his magnum opus The Man Without Qualities.

Intimate Reading

2001-06-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Janet Mason Ellerby
Release : 2001-06-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 857/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Intimate Reading written by Janet Mason Ellerby. This book was released on 2001-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet Mason Ellerby offers an analysis of the tragic events which have most influenced her writing and explores the relationship of her own narrative to others like it.

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