Closure in the Novel

Closure in the Novel
Author: Marianna Torgovnick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400886619

Drawing on a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, French, American, and Russian novels, Marianna Torgovnick demonstrates the variety and complexity of the process by which a work reaches an appropriate conclusion. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Closure

Closure
Author: Nancy Berns
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2011-08-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781439905760

When it comes to the end of a relationship, the loss of a loved one, or even a national tragedy, we are often told we need “closure.” But while some people do find closure for their pain and grief, many more feel closure does not exist and believe the notion only promises false hopes. Sociologist Nancy Berns explores these ideas and their ramifications in her timely book, Closure. Berns uncovers the various interpretations and contradictory meanings of closure. She identifies six types of “closure talk,” revealing closure as a socially constructed concept—a “new emotion.” Berns also explores how closure has been applied widely in popular media and how the idea has been appropriated as a political tool and to sell products and services. This book explains how the push for closure—whether we find it helpful, engaging, or enraging—is changing our society.

Closure in Biblical Narrative

Closure in Biblical Narrative
Author: Susan Zeelander
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2011-12-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004221301

There has been much discussion of narrative aspects of the Bible in recent years, but the ends of biblical narratives – how the ends contribute to closure for their stories and how the ending strategies affect the whole narrative – have not been studied comprehensively. This study shows how the writers and editors of short narratives in Genesis gave their stories a sense of closure (or in a few cases, the sense of non-closure). Multiple and sometimes unexpected, forms of closure are identified; together these form a set of closural conventions. This contribution to narrative poetics of the Hebrew Bible in the light of source criticism will also be valuable to those who are interested in narrative and in concepts of closure.

Closure

Closure
Author: Hilary Lawson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415136501

Lawson's radical new study about the nature of ourselves and the world challenges the dominant faith of today - science. Drawing on practical examples of closure, it exposes the central questions of contemporary philosophy.

Closure

Closure
Author: Hilary Lawson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2005-07-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134982631

Lawson's radical new study about the nature of ourselves and the world challenges the dominant faith of today - science. Drawing on practical examples of closure, it exposes the central questions of contemporary philosophy.

A study guide for American Literature to 1900

A study guide for American Literature to 1900
Author: Mª Teresa Gibert Maceda
Publisher: Editorial Universitaria Ramon Areces
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2009-01-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 8480047488

Esta guía esta pensada para utilizarse conjuntamente con el libro American literature to 1900 de la misma autora y editado por la misma editorial. Ofrece los siguientes recursos adicionales como un extenso material complementario que ayuda y guía al alumno a lo largo de las 24 unidades, una colección de veinte ejemplos de exámenes y un glosario con una lista de los términos más importantes de la literatura en general y de la literatura americana en particular.

The Canadian Novel

The Canadian Novel
Author: John Moss
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1983-02
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780920053041

A collection of essays about contemporary Canadian novels by Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Mordechai Richler, Rudy Weibe, as edited by professor of English at the University of Ottawa John Moss.

Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

Satire and the Postcolonial Novel
Author: John Clement Ball
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415965934

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
Author: Steven Connor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317894103

Dickens is second only to Shakespeare in the range and intensity of critical discussion which his work has provoked. His writing is central to literature and culture across the English-speaking world. In this important new anthology, Steven Connor gathers together representative examples of the range of new critical approaches to Dickens over the last two decades.