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Author | : Joan Didion |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374608776 |
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
Author | : Anne Laskaya |
Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1995-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1580444679 |
This volume is the first to make the Middle English Breton lays available to teachers and students of the Middle Ages. Breton lays were produced by or after the fashion of Marie de France in the twelfth century and claim to be "literary versions of lays sung by ancient Bretons to the accompaniment of the harp." The poems edited in this volume are considered distinctly "English" Breton lays because of their focus on the family values of late medieval England. With the volume's helpful glosses, notes, introductions, and appendices, the door is opened for students to study Middle English poetry and the medieval family alike.
Author | : M. C. Tyndall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Terry Blonder Golson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780545005371 |
In search of the perfect place to lay her egg, Tillie the chicken leaves the barnyard and explores the farmhouse.
Author | : William Edmondstoune Aytoun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marie de France |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1603842985 |
This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lays; two anonymous Breton lays—-The Lay of Melion and The Lay of Tyolet; a glossary of proper names; a glossary of specialized terms; and an appendix of selected texts in the Old French, including Marie's Prologue, Guigemar, Bisclavret, and Yonec.
Author | : Bernard Malcolm Ramsay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Selva Almada |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555978908 |
A taut, lyrical portrait of four people thrown together on a single day in rural Argentina The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes deeply in God, morality, and his own righteousness, and another whose life experiences have only entrenched his moral relativism and mild apathy; a quietly earnest and idealistic mechanic’s assistant, and a restless, skeptical preacher’s daughter. As tensions between these characters ebb and flow, beliefs are questioned and allegiances are tested, until finally the growing storm breaks over the plains. Selva Almada’s exquisitely crafted debut, with its limpid and confident prose, is profound and poetic, a tactile experience of the mountain, the sun, the squat trees, the broken cars, the sweat-stained shirts, and the destroyed lives. The Wind That Lays Waste is a philosophical, beautiful, and powerfully distinctive novel that marks the arrival in English of an author whose talent and poise are undeniable.
Author | : Glyn Sheridan Burgess |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : French poetry |
ISBN | : 9780859914789 |
Bibliographical guide to the Old French narrative lay, listing editions, translations, critical studies and reviews. This volume presents an analytical bibliography of twenty narrative lays written in French in the late twelfth or early thirteenth centuries - Aristote, Conseil, Cor, Desiré, Doon, Espervier, Espine, Graelent, Guingamor, Haveloc, Ignaure, Lecheor, Mantel, Melion, Nabaret, Oiselet, Ombre, Trot, Tydorel and Tyolet -seeking to provide a complete list of the editions, translations, and substantial studies which have been devoted to them over theyears. The choice of the 20 poems corresponds to Donovan's The Breton Lay, the only synthesis so far available on this topic in English. Most references are accompanied by a summary which analyses their contribution to thetopic under discussion, covering the item's significance and interest, and items found in works of reference and briefer studies forming part of books or articles are included where appropriate. Each individual bibliography is intended to stand independently, with full references given in each case for editions and translation; cross-references to important items found in other parts of the volume are given at the end of each bibliography. The twenty partsare preceded by a general section which lists contributions to more than one lay. Professor GLYN BURGESSteaches in the Department of French at the University of Liverpool.
Author | : Glyn Sheridan Burgess |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 184384253X |
New editions, with translations and introductions. The three narrative lays presented here form a sequel to the authors' French Arthurian Literature IV: Eleven Old French Narrative Lays, published in 2007. No new edition of Ignaure has appeared since 1938 and in the meantime this poem has generated a considerable amount of critical comment, especially as it provides the first full-length example in medieval European literature of the theme of the "Eaten Heart". Oiselet recounts abird's use of three truths as a means of escaping from the clutches of an uncultivated vilain. In the extant manuscripts these truths occur in two different orders, both of which are provided in the present edition. Amours, which follows the progress of a love affair between a nobleman and his beloved, has not been edited since 1878. All three poems challenge our understanding of the term "lay", especially if we regard the lays of Marie de France as defining the principal features of this genre. GLYN S. BURGESS is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool; LESLIE C. BROOK is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in French at the University of Birmingham.