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(0)Mary Ann Caws
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Caws analyzes an important feature of modern literary narrative--passages that stand out from the flow of the prose, larger-than-life scenes that seem to hold the essence of the work. She analyzes the techniques of literary framing in the works of Jane Austen, Melville, Poe, Hardy, Baudelaire, Henry James, Proust, and Woolf. She moves from Jane Austen's psychological and architectural borders, Melville's Pierre as a parody of framing, and Hardy's...
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"Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech, Marquis of Pubol, was born in Catalonia on May 11, 1904, and died on January 23, 1989. Best known as a surrealist painter, his artistic output also included film, sculpture, photography and writing. Dalis is also notorious for his eccentric behaviour and his involvement with the Dada movement, which often drew more attention to himself than his art. In this new narrative exploration of Salvador Dali,...
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This book looks at the lives of three Bloomsbury women--writer Virginia Woolf, Virginia's sister and talented painter Vanessa Bell, and an unsuccessful, reclusive artist Dora Carrington. It also gives an intimate look at friendship, artistic endeavor, and women's search for selfhood.
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""Having the freedom of our perceptual conviction," writes Mary Ann Caws, "would mean the ability at once to challenge institutional presentations and individual visions and to invent our own fictions of seeing." In The Art of Interference Caws argues for a "personally passionate criticism," emphasizing that reading texts of literature and visual art can never be a fixed and closed process. She addresses the issues of how to look for, read, and know...
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"Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known for her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and for incomparable writings about English country houses and...
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Not since the publication of Paul Auster's The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1984) has there been a significant and widely read anthology of modern French poetry in the English-speaking world. Here for the first time is a comprehensive bilingual representation of French poetic achievement in the twentieth century, from the turn-of-the-century poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire to the high modernist art of Samuel Beckett to the contemporary...