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Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780253203182 |
Discusses the differences between "open" and "closed" texts, or, texts that actively involve the reader and texts that evoke a limited, predetermined response from the reader. -- Back cover.
Author | : Bernhard Schlink |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2001-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375726977 |
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. "A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." —Los Angeles Times When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780674639768 |
This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.
Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253208699 |
Presents four theories describing the limits of literary interpretation, challenging "the cancer of uncontrolled interpretation" that diminishes the meaning and the basis of communication. -- Back cover.
Author | : Umberto Eco |
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Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Meredith Russo |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250078407 |
Amanda Hardy only wants to fit in at her new school, but she is keeping a big secret, so when she falls for Grant, guarded Amanda finds herself yearning to share with him everything about herself, including her previous life as Andrew.
Author | : Jean Kwok |
Publisher | : Riverhead Books (Hardcover) |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781594487569 |
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty. A first novel.
Author | : Neil Gaiman |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0062262289 |
An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics—from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories—observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing, and distinctive style. An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his bestselling fiction. Now, The View from the Cheap Seats brings together for the first time ever more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts the author’s experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood. Insightful, incisive, witty, and wise, The View from the Cheap Seats explores the issues and subjects that matter most to Neil Gaiman—offering a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed, beloved, and influential artists of our time.
Author | : Christina Pascual Aransáez |
Publisher | : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag) |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2014-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3954893134 |
This book explores Wilde's works from the hypothesis that they call upon the active participation of the reader in the production of meaning. It has a twofold objective: first, it shows that Wilde's emphasis on the creative role of the audience in his critical writings makes him conceive the reader as a co-creator in the construction of meaning. Second, it analyses the strategies which Wilde employs to impel the reader to collaborate in the creation of meaning of his literary works and casts light upon the social criticism derived from these. The examination of Wilde’s writings reveals how he gradually combined more sophisticated techniques that encouraged the reader's dynamic role with the progressive exploitation of self-advertising strategies for professional purposes. These allowed the ‘commercial’ Oscar to make his works successful among the Victorian public without betraying the ‘literary’ Wilde’s aesthetic principles. The present study re-evaluates Wilde as a critic and as a writer. It demonstrates that, while Wilde the ‘myth’ was ahead of his time in many ways, Wilde the ‘ARTIST’ anticipated in his aesthetic theory various themes which occupy contemporary literary theoreticians. Thus, it may contribute to give him the status he rightly deserves in the history of literature.
Author | : Mary Kole |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1599635763 |
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