Tag: Literary

Free Download Cynthia R. Wallace, "The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil: Feminism, Justice, and the Challenge of Religion "
English | ISBN: 0231214197 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She has also provoked an extraordinary range of literary writing focused on not only her ideas but also her person: novels, nonfiction, and especially poetry. Given the challenges of Weil’s ethic of self-emptying attention, what accounts for her appeal, especially among women writers?

Free Download Karl Ludwig Schmidt, "The Framework of the Story of Jesus: Literary-critical Investigations of the Earliest Jesus Tradition"
English | ISBN: 0227178874 | 2023 | pages | PDF | 3 MB
Now available for the first time in English, Karl Ludwig Schmidt’s The Framework of the Story of Jesus (Der Rahmen der Geschichte Jesu) has been a foundation of New Testament studies. Through meticulous analysis, Schmidt demonstrates that the Synoptic Gospels are collections of individual stories that circulated orally and independently in the earliest Christian communities. Schmidt shows persuasively how, in their oral forms, most of these traditions existed apart from any sequence or specific temporal or geographic location, and that the chronology and locations now evident in the Gospels were applied by the evangelists while collecting and recording the oral traditions. Across much of the twentieth century and even into the present day, Schmidt’s thesis has undergirded Gospel interpretation. Yet as long as The Framework of the Story of Jesus remained untranslated, Schmidt’s ideas have been open to neglect and misinterpretation among Anglophone scholars. Discussion of the Synoptic Gospels and broader New Testament study will be enriched by engagement with the evidence and argument as originally presented.

Free Download ruth-robbins, "Literary Feminisms"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0333689194, 0312228074, 1137612037, 0312228082 | PDF | pages: 312 | 57.2 mb
Literary Feminisms provides a map for charting the difficult waters that feminist theories have created in literary studies. Ruth Robbins shows the reasons for the development of feminist literary critiques, explains the difficulties and exposes some of feminism’s blindspots. A wide range of theorists is discussed, ranging from Wollstonecraft to Kristeva, showing the ways in which materialist, psychoanalytic and literary accounts of feminist thinking creatively intersect. Through a series of exemplary readings, of texts such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Yellow Wallpaper , she also points out how the student reader can begin to make her or his own feminist criticism, and can learn to engage with both the politics and poetics of the literature.

Free Download Antonio Sáez Delgado, "Iberian Interfaces: Literary and Cultural Relations between Spain and Portugal, 1870-1930"
English | ISBN: 3030917517 | 2022 | 193 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores a key historical moment for literary and cultural relations between Spain and Portugal. Focusing on the period between 1870 and 1930, it analyses the contacts between Portuguese and Spanish writers and artists of this period, showing that, at least among the cultural elites, there were intense and fruitful dialogues across political and linguistic borders. The book presents the Iberian Peninsula as a complex and multilingual cultural polysystem in which diverse literary cultures coexist and are mutually dependent upon each other. It offers a panoramic view of Iberian literary and cultural history, encompassing not just Portuguese and Spanish literary productions, but also Catalan, Galician and Basque works. Combining a clear theoretical foundation with deep historical knowledge and references to specific texts and works, the book offers a thorough introduction to Iberian literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Free Download Best Literary Translations 2024 edited by Jane Hirshfield
English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1646053354 | True EPUB | 226 pages | 4.7 MB
Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work.

Free Download A Companion to Literary Evaluation edited by Richard Bradford, Kevin De Ornellas, Madelena Gonzalez
English | March 21, 2024 | ISBN: 1119409853 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 0.8 MB
The first critical survey of its kind devoted solely to literary evaluation

Free Download The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells, Concocted Creative Nonfiction (Audiobook)
English | February 27, 2024 | ASIN: B0CTNLXJ21 | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 46m | 331 MB
Author and Narrator: Lee Gutkind
In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought his way into the academy. His goal: to make creative nonfiction an accepted academic discipline, one as vital as poetry, drama, and fiction. In this book Gutkind tells the true story of how creative nonfiction became a leading genre for both audiences and writers.

Free Download Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CTPNJJP6 | 2024 | 4 hours and 51 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Dennis Yi Tenen
Narrator: Rebecca Lam

Free Download Amanda Minervini, "Refiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration "
English | ISBN: 9004677607 | 2023 | 168 pages | PDF | 8 MB

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Free Download Jian Xu, "Deleuze and Chinese "Pure Literature": Literary Worlding from History to Becoming"
English | ISBN: 1498595499 | 2024 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 854 KB + 2 MB
Deleuze and Chinese "Pure Literature": Literary Worlding from History to Becoming probes into the potentialities of a new conception of literature obscured by the critical ambivalence in China’s literary field around the turn of the century. With the help of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, this book articulates many of the latent social, political, and cultural ideas embedded in "pure literature" subsisting as a literary sensibility waiting to be expressed. The specific practices and works of "pure literature" analyzed in the book also serve as instances of what Deleuze’s creative concepts can address, testing and fleshing out their efficacy. Identifying shared problem-solving areas between Deleuze’s philosophy and Chinese "pure literature," Jian Xu uses them to shed light on the hidden edges of Chinese "pure literature." Through such Deleuzian theses as the immanence of becoming, the need of the nonhistorical, the virtual real and pure event, the ills of representationalism, becoming-minoritarian, becoming-woman, becoming-imperceptible, pre-individual singularities, and so forth, the book sets about creating a new critical vocabulary to help "pure literature" become self-conscious of its own political creative potentials.