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Author | : Tim Parks |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2011-12-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 162872238X |
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In Adultery and Other Diversions, Tim Parks seeks, as he puts it, to “dramatize the intimate relation between reflections that are timeless and the ongoing story of our lives.” He succeeds magnificently. Whether his focus is adultery, marriage, his relationship with his father, ghosts, his children, Italian soccer mania, or his work as a renowned writer and translator, Parks writes with astonishing clarity and intensity. He is one of a handful of writers who can capture the drama of our lives—erratic pulse and all—and offer a perspective by which that drama might be illuminated. Intimate, absorbing, unsparing but always compassionate, the thirteen “diversions” in Adultery and Other Diversions—three of which have appeared in The New Yorker—reflect the vagaries of the human heart and a brilliant writer’s engagement with them.
Author | : Gillian Fenwick |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781570034565 |
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"Fenwick reckons with Parks's full literary range, from his novels and nonfiction books to his translations and journalism, and sheds light on the work of a versatile English writer whose international recognition is steadily growing."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Cliff Fell |
Publisher | : Victoria University Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780864734600 |
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A wickedly entertaining collection of poems from one of the most distinctive new voices in New Zealand writing, this book offers a wide-ranging variety of poetry. The selection includes everything from autobiographical lyrics like 'The Adulterer Becomes a Roadie for the Clash and Thinks About Sleeping with Their Girlfriends' and the long poem 'Ophelia', about the tender love between an adolescent boy and an orang-utan, to the reconstructed writings of Nelson legend Fidel Serif.
Author | : Tim Parks |
Publisher | : Rodale |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-07-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1609614488 |
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"Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took to find his own way out. Overwhelmed by a crippling conditionwhich nobody could explain or relieve, Parks follows a fruitless journey through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: a breathing exercise that eventually leads him to take up meditation. This was the very last place Parks anticipated finding answers; he was about as far from New Age as you can get. As everything that he once held true is called into question, Parks confronts the relationship between his mind and body, the hectic modern world that seems to demand all our focus, and his chosen life as an intellectual and writer. He is drawn to consider the effects of illness on the work of other writers, the role of religion in shaping our sense of self, and the influence of sports and art on our attitudes toward health and well-being. Most of us will fall ill at some point; few will describe that journey with the same verve, insight, and radiant intelligence as Tim Parks"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Rudolf Freiburg |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783825843953 |
Download "Do You Consider Yourself a Postmodern Author?" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents a collection of twelve interviews with eminent English contemporary writers held during a period of four years. The book allows an illuminating insight into a very lively and thought-provoking literary culture, stirred not only by recent ideas of postmodernism but also by the manifold issues of nationality, culture, and gender subjected to permanent redefinitions towards the end of the twentieth century. The interviews with Peter Ackroyd, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Alain de Botton, Maureen Duffy, Tibor Fischer, John Fowles, Romesh Gunesekera, Tim Parks, Terry Pratchett, Jane Rogers, and Adam Thorpe cover topics such as the relationship between writer and public, the role of the literary tradition, the relevance of contemporary literary theory for the production of literature, images of nationality, intertextuality, changes in the attitude towards language and meaning, and the reception of literary texts by critical reviewers and literary critics.
Author | : New York Times Staff |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 1284 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781579580582 |
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This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Author | : Reginald Berkeley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : English wit and humor, Pictorial |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lorna Crozier |
Publisher | : Greystone Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 177164186X |
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"Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, it can have devastating consequences - yet it can also be a source of inspiration. In this updated edition featuring three new essays on addiction to marijuana, video games, and sex, leading American and Canadian writers explore their surprisingly diverse personal experiences with this complex phenomenon and reveal in candid, graphic, powerful prose what happens when their compulsions took over their lives."--Back cover.
Author | : Rachael Gilmour |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1784991791 |
Download End of empire and the English novel since 1945 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.
Author | : Duncan Minshull |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2014-09-04 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1448191920 |
Download While Wandering Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
‘A book to start your heart and feet beating for the road’ The Times With its stories of strolling, poems about pavement-pounding and wonderings on wandering, this is the indispensable collection for the flâneur and the rambler – and everyone in between. Take a turn with Jane Austen, stride side by side with Colm Tóibín, let restless William Wordsworth lead you through brook and road before a detour with Stella Gibbons to the park.Whether mountaineering with Mark Twain or visiting Oxford Street with Julian Barnes – be sure to take this anthology with you on your ambulations. With a new foreword by Robert Macfarlane. Previously published with the title The Vintage Book of Walking