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The Besieged City
Author | : Clarice Lispector |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811226721 |
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Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last. Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors—soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus—are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with Sao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucrécia is tamed by marriage, Sao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive—a viaduct—it takes on the progressively more metropolitan manners that Lucrécia, with her vulgar ambitions, desires too. Yet it is precisely through this woman’s superficiality—her identification with the porcelain knickknacks in her mother’s parlor—that Clarice Lispector creates a profound and enigmatic meditation on “the mystery of the thing.” Written in Europe shortly after Clarice Lispector’s own marriage, The Besieged City is a proving ground for the intricate language and the radical ideas that characterize one of her century’s greatest writers—and an ironic ode to the magnetism of the material.
Besieged
Author | : Sharon Alker,Holly Faith Nelson |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780228005919 |
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Siege literature has existed since antiquity but has not always been understood as a crucial element of culture. Focusing on its magnetic force, Besieged brings to light its popularity and potency between the British Civil War and the Great Northern War in Europe, a period in which literary texts reflected an urgent interest in siege mentality and tactics. Exploring the siege as represented in canonical works by Milton, Dryden, Defoe, Davenant, Cowley, Cavendish, and Bunyan, alongside a wide array of little-known memoirs, plays, poems, and works of prose fiction on military and civilian experiences of siege warfare, Besieged breaks new ground in the field of early modern war literature. Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson draw on theories of space and place to show how early modern Britons feverishly worked to make sense of the immediacy, horror, and trauma of urban warfare, offering a valuable perspective on the literature that captured the cultural imagination during and after the traumatic civil wars of the 1640s. Alker and Nelson demonstrate how the narratives of besieged cities became a compelling way to engage with the fragility of urban space, unstable social structures, developing technologies, and the inadequacy of old heroic martial models. Given the reality of urban warfare in our own age, Besieged provides a timely foundation for understanding the history of such spaces and their cultural representation.
Memos from the Besieged City
Author | : Djelal Kadir |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804770507 |
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This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature—the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers—at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik.
Fortress Besieged New Directions Classic
Author | : Qian Zhongshu |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2004-02-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811223546 |
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The greatest Chinese novel of the twentieth century, Fortress Besieged is a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of parodic fiction that plays with Western literary traditions, philosophy, and middle-class Chinese society in the Republican era. Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. Qian writes, "With Miss Pao it wasn't a matter of heart or soul. She hadn't any change of heart, since she didn't have a heart." In a sort of painful comedy, Fang obtains a teaching post at a newly established university where the effete pseudo-intellectuals he encounters in academia become the butt of Qian's merciless satire. Soon Fang is trapped into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity. Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
Author | : Anonymous |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2022-10-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783368127121 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
Author | : Henry Labouchere |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2023-03-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783382159825 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Besieged City and the Heroes of Sweden
Author | : Anonymous |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2023-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783368163273 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
Author | : Henry Du Pré Labouchere |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600051939 |
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