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“scott esposito”

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  • End of Oulipo?

    An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement

    by Lauren Elkin, Scott Esposito ...
    The Oulipo celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2010, and as it enters its sixth decade, its members, fans and critics are all wondering: where can it go from here? In two long essays Scott Esposito and Lauren Elkin consider Oulipo's strengths, weaknesses, and impact on today's experimental literature. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • New Directions in Transnational Mexican History

    Mexico On the World Stage

    by James Garza, Emily Casillas, Madelina Homberger Cordia, Andrea Scott, Matthew D. Esposito, Pablo A. Rangel, Juan E. Vega Ramirez ...
    New Directions in Transnational Mexican History: Mexico On the World Stage is the first collection by historians to examine foreign immigration to Mexico as a way to interpret the significance of Mexican transnationalism and pluriculturalism. The contributors analyze Mexico as a recipient nation, broadening the application of transnationalism to encompass not only foreign migrants but Mexican ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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    An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this ... Read more

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  • Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Series Book 59 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.”—The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond of pointing out that all writing is narrative. He published his famed debut novel The Name of the Rose when he was forty-eight years old, yet he believed that everything he had written to that point—from ... Read more

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  • Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (Book Analysis)

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    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Nausea with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, which follows one man as he becomes truly aware of the existence of the world around him and grapples with the rising sense of panic this causes. This realisation leads him to abandon the historical biography he is working on ... Read more

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  • On Doing Nothing

    Finding Inspiration in Idleness

    by Roman Muradov ...
    In an age of obsessive productivity and stress, this illustrated ode to idleness invites you to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down.Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradov weaves together the words and stories of artists, writers, philosophers, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. He reveals that doing nothing is both easily achievable and essential ... Read more

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  • Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

    A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

    by Roger Shattuck ...
    "Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."—Richard Bernstein, New York TimesFor any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Sympathy for the Traitor

    A Translation Manifesto

    by Mark Polizzotti ...
    An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and ... Read more

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  • Herald of a Restless World

    How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People

    by Emily Herring ...
    **The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought—a “fascinating biography and magnificent revival of this brilliant thinker” (Skye Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic)Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New Statesman**At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) became the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust

    by Adam Watt ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913–27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of Proust's life, the socio-historical and cultural contexts of his work and an assessment of his early works. At its core is a volume-by-volume study of In Search of Lost Time, which attends to its remarkable superstructure, as well as to ... Read more

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  • Georges Bataille

    by Stuart Kendall ...
    Series Book 15 - Critical Lives
    Georges Bataille was arguably the greatest influence on the post-structuralist revolution in twentieth-century thought and literature, yet few truly understand his large body of work or its impact. Stuart Kendall now translates the work and life of the renowned French writer into a concise yet informative biography that reveals fascinating facets of this intellectual giant.Until his death in 1962, ... Read more

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  • Narrative as Virtual Reality 2

    Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media

    by Marie-Laure Ryan ...
    Rethinking textuality, mimesis, and the cognitive processing of texts in light of new modes of artistic world construction.Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association of AmericaIs there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is ... Read more

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