Stories as Equipment for Living

2007 Fairfax (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Author : Barbara G. Myerhoff
Release : 2007
Genre : Fairfax (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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Book Rating : 705/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Stories as Equipment for Living written by Barbara G. Myerhoff. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes us deeper into Barbara Myerhoff's examination of the place of narrative in human life, providing a treasury of reflection, experience, and wisdom as colorful as any collection of tales

Equipment for Living

2010-03-10 Literary Criticism

Author : Kenneth Burke
Release : 2010-03-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 859/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Equipment for Living written by Kenneth Burke. This book was released on 2010-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke is the largest collection of Burke's book reviews, most of them reprinted here for the first time. In these reviews, as he engages famous works of poetry, fiction, criticism, and social science from the early 20th century, Burke demonstrates the prominent methods and interests of his influential career.

Equipment for Living

2017-07-18 Literary Collections

Author : Michael Robbins
Release : 2017-07-18
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 091/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Equipment for Living written by Michael Robbins. This book was released on 2017-07-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant, illuminating criticism from a superstar poet—a refreshing, insightful look at how works of art, specifically poetry and popular music, can serve as essential tools for living. How can art help us make sense—or nonsense—of the world? If wrong life cannot be lived rightly, as Theodor Adorno had it, what weapons and strategies for living wrongly can art provide? With the same intelligence that animates his poetry, Michael Robbins addresses this weighty question while contemplating the idea of how strange it is that we need art at all. Ranging from Prince to Def Leppard, Lucille Clifton to Frederick Seidel, Robbins’s mastery of poetry and popular music shines in Equipment for Living. He has a singular ability to illustrate points with seemingly disparate examples (Friedrich Kittler and Taylor Swift, to W.B. Yeats and Anna Kendrick’s “Cups”). Robbins weaves a discussion on poet Juliana Spahr with the different subsets of Scandinavian black metal, illuminating subjects in ways that few scholars can achieve. Equipment for Living is also a wonderful guide to essential poetry and popular music.

Stories of Your Life and Others

2010-10-26 Fiction

Author : Ted Chiang
Release : 2010-10-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 895/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Stories of Your Life and Others written by Ted Chiang. This book was released on 2010-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival

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