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Olive Kitteridge

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 290

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again “Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her.”—USA Today “Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force.”—The New Yorker One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post Book World, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, People, Entertainment Weekly, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer, The Atlantic, Rocky Mountain News, Library Journal At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized...

Olive Kitteridge

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 402

Olive est l'épouse du pharmacien de Crosby, une petite ville côtière du Maine. Elle a un fils, Christopher, qu'elle étouffe. Et c'est aussi un professeur de mathématiques brutal et tyrannique, capable, pourtant, d'élans de bonté. Personnalité hors normes, a priori peu aimable, mais ô combien attachante, Olive traverse cette fresque polyphonique où les destins des habitants de Crosby - héros ordinaires - s'entremêlent sur une période de trente ans. Salué outre-Atlantique pour la virtuosité de sa construction et la finesse de son ton, Olive Kitteridge s'inscrit dans la lignée de romans comme Le cœur est un chasseur solitaire, de Carson McCullers, ou Les Corrections, de Jonathan Franzen. Ce livre a reçu le prix Pulitzer.

Olive Kitteridge

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 276

The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge from the author of Olive, Again and Oh William! Olive Kitteridge: indomitable, compassionate, and often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, as Olive grows older, she struggles to make sense of the changes in her life. She is a woman who sees into the hearts of those around her, their triumphs and tragedies. A penetrating, vibrant exploration of the human soul, the story of Olive Kitteridge will make you laugh, nod in recognition, wince in pain, and shed a tear or two. 'As perfect a novel as you will ever read' Evening Standard 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel

Olive, enfin

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 371

Dans la petite ville côtière de Crosby, dans le Maine, Olive Kitteridge est connue – et redoutée – pour son caractère bien trempé et son franc-parler détonant. Professeure de maths retraitée, veuve depuis peu, elle apprend à négocier les épreuves mais aussi à apprécier les joies que lui réserve cette nouvelle période de sa vie : bientôt, Olive se remarie, renoue avec son fils, essaie d’apprivoiser ces créatures étonnantes que sont ses petits enfants, et, surtout, le temps qui passe. Au fil des années, elle croise sur son chemin nombre de connaissances, amis ou anciens élèves : une jeune femme sur le point d’accoucher au moment le plus incongru, une autre qui vit recroquevillée depuis qu’elle a un cancer, ou encore une fille confrontée à l’effroi de ses parents lorsqu’elle leur révèle exercer la profession de maîtresse SM. Dans le sillage d’Olive, on pousse des portes et découvre les histoires, les drames et les destinées singulières des habitants de Crosby. Une fois encore, Elizabeth Strout met brillamment à nu la vie des gens ordinaires et livre un roman superbe, tendre, mélancolique et plein d’humour sur le couple, l’amour, la...

Olive Kitteridge

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Olive, Again

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 267

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton 'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel 'A novel to treasure' Sunday Times Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes - sometimes welcome, sometimes not - in her own existence and in those around her. Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, experiences loss and loneliness, witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine - and, finally, opens herself to new lessons about life. 'A powerful storyteller immersed in the nuances of human relationships' Observer 'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell 'Her writing is exquisite; her vision is boundless. What a sublime book.' Rachel Joyce 'Glorious' The Times 'A perfect novel' Financial Times Elizabeth Strout's new novel Tell Me Everything is available for...

Independent Women

Autor: Claire Perkins , Michele Schreiber

Número de Páginas: 155

Independent Women: From Film to Television explores the significance for feminism of the increasing representation of women on and behind the screen in television contexts around the world. "Independent" has functioned throughout film and television history as an important euphemism for "feminist". This volume investigates how this connection plays out in a contemporary environment that popular feminist discourse is constructing as a golden age of television for women. The original essays in the volume offer insights into how post-network television is being valued as a new site of independent production for women. They also examine how these connotations of creative control influence perceptions of both female creators and their content as feminist. Together, they provide a compelling perspective on the feminist consequences of how independence and "indie" have intensified as cultural sensibilities that coincide and engage with the digital transformation of television during the first decades of the 21st century. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of Feminist Media Studies.

Olive, Again

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 321

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions. “Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I’d never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is.”—Zadie Smith, The Guardian “Just as wonderful as the original . . . Olive, Again poignantly reminds us that empathy, a requirement for love, helps make life ‘not unhappy.’”—NPR ONE OF PEOPLE’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses ...

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Autor: Samarra Hyde

Número de Páginas: 11

Cuéntamelo todo

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 277

La nueva novela de Elizabeth Strout, ganadora de los premios Pulitzer y Llibreter, entre otros, con tres millones y medio de lectores. Es otoño en Maine y Bob Burgess, el abogado del pueblo, está inmerso en la investigación de un asesinato, mientras entabla una profunda amistad con la aclamada escritora Lucy Barton, que vive calle abajo con su exmarido William. Juntos, Lucy y Bob salen a pasear y hablan de sus vidas, de sus miedos y remordimientos, y de lo que podría ser o haber sido. Lucy, por su parte, conoce por fin a la mítica Olive Kitteridge, que ahora vive en una urbanización de jubilados a las afueras de la ciudad. Pasan las tardes en el apartamento de Olive contándose historias sobre personas que han conocido «vidas no registradas», las llama Olive y, de paso, llenando de significado las suyas propias. La premiada e inimitable Elizabeth Strout regresa al pueblo de Crosby, Maine, y a su querido elenco de personajes con sus amores posibles e imposibles, para enfrentarse a la pregunta: «¿Qué sentido tiene la vida de cualquiera?». La crítica ha dicho: «Con las historias sencillas pero universales de sus vecinos en un pequeño pueblo de la costa nordeste de...

American Literature

Autor: Krishna Sharma

Número de Páginas: 109

This book provides the knowledge of American literature from American Renaissance to post modern era.

A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth Strout

Autor: Katherine Montwieler

Número de Páginas: 304

Including an exclusive interview with bestselling American novelist Elizabeth Strout, this groundbreaking study will engage literature scholars and general readers alike. Written in accessible language, this book is the first to offer a sustained analysis of Elizabeth Strout’s work. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the O. Henry Award, among other accolades, Strout has achieved a vast popular following as well. Amy and Isabelle was made into a television movie; Olive Kitteridge, which sold more than one million copies, was adapted as a miniseries; The Burgess Boys has been optioned for HBO; and My Name Is Lucy Barton was reimagined for the stage in London and on Broadway. Oh William!, the sequel to My Name Is Lucy Barton, appeared in 2021, and Strout’s latest book, Lucy by the Sea, is slated for release in fall 2022. At the height of her literary powers as a chronicler of American life and particularly the lives of American women, Strout is currently enjoying both commercial and critical success. Her sales and perennial presence on book club lists indicate a tremendous impact on the popular realm and the growing attention to her in academia charts her importance in...

Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 353

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. “Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.”—The Washington Post SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Vogue, Parade With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?” It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding...

The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition

Autor: Judy Gelman , Vicki Levy Krupp

Número de Páginas: 499

“Part cookbook, part celebration of the written word, [The Book Club Cookbook] illustrates how books and ideas can bring people together.” —Publishers Weekly "We are what we eat, they say. We can eat what we read, too. The Book Club Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp (Tarcher/Penguin, $21.95), first published in 2004 and now newly updated and revised, offers up dozens of new recipes inspired by book clubs’ favorite books, their characters and authors." —USA Today "It's pretty much a no-brainer why we love something like The Book Club Cookbook - it combines two of our all-time favorite things: food and books. Even better - the recipes in the book let us get a fuller experience of our favorite novels by thinking up recipes either inspired by the story or literally contributed by the author as essential to the book." —Flavorwire "The Book Club Cookbook excels at offering book groups new title ideas and a culinary way to spice up their discussions." —Library Journal Whether it's Roman Punch for The Age of Innocence, or Sabzi Challow (spinach and rice) with Lamb for The Kite Runner, or Swedish Meatballs and Glögg for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, nothing...

Alive and Kicking at All Ages

Autor: Ulla Kriebernegg , Roberta Maierhofer , Barbara Ratzenböck

Número de Páginas: 325

The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role the notion of health plays in such an interaction.

Luz de febrero

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 231

LA NOVELA MÁS EXITOSA Y ACLAMADA DE LA AUTORA PREMIO PULITZER DE ME LLAMO LUCY BARTON En Crosby, un pequeño pueblo en la costa de Maine, no suceden muchas cosas. Y sin embargo, las historias sobre la vida de las personas que viven allí contienen un mundo entero. Está Olive Kitteridge, una maestra jubilada, irascible, indecorosa, de honestidad inquebrantable. Tiene setenta años y aunque es más dura que una roca, sintoniza con los matices del alma humana. Está Jack Kennison, antiguo profesor de Harvard, que busca desesperadamente la cercanía de esa extraña mujer, Olive, siempre tan Olive. Su relación tiene la fuerza de quienes se aferran a la vida. Una novela conmovedora que habla del amor y la pérdida, de la madurez y la soledad, y de esos inesperados instantes de felicidad. «Qué escritora tan increíble.» Zadie Smith «Tengo una misión: lograr que miles de lectores se rindan como yo ante Elizabeth Strout.» Pablo Giordano «Lo más valioso de Elizabeth Strout es la sutileza con que explora los recovecos de la condición humana.» Fernando Aramburu «Esta mujer que tanto me ha dado llenando mis horas de insomnio.» Elvira Lindo

New Approaches to Transcodification

Autor: Massimo Fusillo , Doriana Legge , Mirko Lino , Mattia Petricola , Gianluigi Rossini

Número de Páginas: 427

This collection aims to renew our perspective on adaptation and intermedial processes by thinking of them in terms of codes rather than media. As a result, the notion of transcodification emerges as a crucial tool in order to study the circulation of semiotic and aesthetic resources across disciplines, knowledge systems, and cultures. Defined as the transfer of meaning-making potential from one semiotic domain to another, transcodification both includes and transcends intermediality, thus dramatically expanding the scope and research potential of adaptation and intermedial studies. The essays collected here apply this framework to an incredibly wide variety of objects and issues, from the relationship between art and historiography to the visual culture of finance, from contemporary approaches to ekphrasis to the hidden labor of screenwriters, from modern surveillance to digital comics, from fansubbing to the reception of the classical world in the digital age, from medieval theater to the role of videogames in the “war on terror”. By fostering dialogue between radically different disciplines, the book offers a unique approach to the study of semiotic interrelations across the ...

The Best of Mary Schmich

Autor: Mary Schmich

Número de Páginas: 566

Over the last two decades, Mary Schmich’s biweekly column in the Chicago Tribune has offered advice, humor, and discerning commentary on a broad array of topics including family, milestones, mental illness, writing, and life in Chicago. Schmich won the 2012 Pulitzer for Commentary for “her down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city.” This book compiles her 10 Pulitzer-winning columns along with 154 others, creating a captivating collection that reflects Schmich’s thoughtful and insightful sensibility. Schmich’s 1997 “Wear Sunscreen” column (which has had a life of its own as a falsely attributed Kurt Vonnegut commencement speech) is included, as well as her columns focusing on the demolition of Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing project. One of the most moving sections is her 12-part series with US District Judge Joan Lefkow as the latter reflected on rebuilding her life after the horrific murders of her mother and husband. Throughout the book, Schmich reflects wisely and wryly on the world we live in, and her fond observances of Chicago life bring the city in all its varied character to warm, vivid life.

Ecocritical Menopause

Autor: Nicole Anae

Número de Páginas: 211

Ecocritical Menopause: Women, Literature, Environment, “The Change” is the first volume of its kind to bring together cross-sectional ecofeminist voices privileging women’s menopausal positionality within literary works. This collection reexamines menopause across the disciplinary fields of ecofeminism and ecocriticism as clearly the most neglected phase of the menstrual cycle and aims to develop a critical discourse in counterpoint to the persistent cultural and critical legacies that sustain underrating women in midlife. In highlighting selected literary representations of female being in transition, this volume includes: • Exploration of the core motifs mediating the fashioning of menopausal women, including biology, the body, body shaming, climacterium, hysteria, the crone/hag figure, femininity, gender, identity, reproduction, sexlessness and asexuality • Reexamination of histo-cultural biases that continue to perpetuate a devaluation of women after menopause, such as ageism, degeneration, loss of fertility and myths of essentialism, patriarchy and hegemony, social taboos, the medicalization of menopause, and cultural “menophobia” • Analysis of literature...

On Grief

Autor: Peter J. Conradi

Número de Páginas: 152

How do you 'prepare' for bereavement? Religious faith can help, as can ritualised codes of dress and behaviour that recognise different stages of mourning. But many of us feel singularly unprepared when we lose someone. No one 'theory' can sooth the bereaved, precisely because grief so strips us naked and profoundly wounds us. Nothing pre-cooked helps. No quick fix, no one-shot deal. In this inspirational book, Peter J Conradi draws on literature, history and philosophy to present a broad array of different voices and perspectives on grief. His carefully chosen stories, excerpts and poems offer wisdom and consolation, but they also make us think, break down taboos and sometimes even find humour and light amidst the painful, bewildering reality of death. Everyone's experience of grief is different, but reading of the myriad different ways in which others have approached it can, while not necessarily easing our grief, certainly help us feel less alone.

The Burgess Boys

Autor: Elizabeth Strout

Número de Páginas: 354

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes “a portrait of an American community in turmoil that’s as ambitious as Philip Roth’s American Pastoral but more intimate in tone” (Time). “What truly makes Strout exceptional . . . is the perfect balance she achieves between the tides of story and depths of feeling.”—Chicago Tribune A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Good Housekeeping Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed the brothers’ relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever. This edition includes an original essay by...

My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout (Trivia-On-Books)

Autor: Trivion Books

Número de Páginas: 70

Trivia-on-Book: My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! Lucy Barton was only supposed to have her appendix removed, but she ends up staying in the hospital due to an undiagnosed illness. One day, her estranged mother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to in years, comes to visit her. Her mother's arrival brings back heartbreaking memories from her childhood—memories of abuse, poverty, and loneliness. Readers are presented real and raw emotions that may, at times, be difficult to process. My Name is Lucy Barton is written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout. Her other bestselling novels include Olive Kitteridge, The Burgess Boys, Abide With Me, and Amy and Isabelle. You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan? Trivia-on-Books is an independently curated trivia quiz on the book for readers, students, and fans alike. Whether you're looking for new materials to the book or would like to take the challenge yourself and share it with your friends and family for a time of fun,...

Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction

Autor: Josep M. Armengol

Número de Páginas: 195

This book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including shifting perceptions of physical and sexual prowess, depression, and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, as well as new affective patterns. The collection also incorporates factors such as race, sexuality and religion. The volume includes studies, amongst others, on Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, and Edmund White. Ultimately, this study proves that men’s aging experiences as described in contemporary U.S. literature and culture are as complex and varied as those of their female counterparts.

The Burgess Boys - 101 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know

Autor: G Whiz

Número de Páginas: 36

Did you know that Elizabeth Strout used to be an Oxford student of England? Or, did you know Strout holds a certificate for both Gerontology and Law? What are the amazing facts of The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout? Do you want to know the golden nuggets of facts readers love? If you've enjoyed the book, then this will be a must read delight for you! Collected for readers everywhere are 101 book facts about the book & author that are fun, down-to-earth, and amazingly true to keep you laughing and learning as you read through the book! Tips & Tricks to Enhance Reading Experience • Enter "G Whiz" after your favorite title to see if publication exists! ie) Harry Potter G Whiz • Enter "G Whiz 101" to search for entire catalogue! • Tell us what title you want next! • Combine your favorite titles to receive bundle coupons! • Submit a review and hop on the Wall of Contributors! “Get ready for fun, down-to-earth, and amazing facts that keep you laughing & learning!" - G Whiz DISCLAIMER: This work is an derivative work not to be confused with the original title. It is a collection of facts from reputable sources generally known to the public with source URLs for further...

The Burgess Boys: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout (Trivia-On-Books)

Autor: Trivion Books

Número de Páginas: 75

Provocauteurs and Provocations

Autor: Maria San Filippo

Número de Páginas: 442

Twenty-first century media has increasingly turned to provocative sexual content to generate buzz and stand out within a glut of programming. New distribution technologies enable and amplify these provocations, and encourage the branding of media creators as "provocauteurs" known for challenging sexual conventions and representational norms. While such strategies may at times be no more than a profitable lure, the most probing and powerful instances of sexual provocation serve to illuminate, question, and transform our understanding of sex and sexuality. In Provocauteurs and Provocations, award-winning author Maria San Filippo looks at the provocative in films, television series, web series and videos, entertainment industry publicity materials, and social media discourses and explores its potential to create alternative, even radical ways of screening sex. Throughout this edgy volume, San Filippo reassesses troubling texts and divisive figures, examining controversial strategies—from "real sex" scenes to scandalous marketing campaigns to full-frontal nudity—to reveal the critical role that sexual provocation plays as an authorial signature and promotional strategy within the...

Researching Stylistics

Autor: Furzeen Ahmed , Marcello Giovanelli , Caroline Godfrey , Chloe Harrison , Robbie Love , Megan Mansworth , Stephen Pihlaja , Ella Wydrzynska

Número de Páginas: 185

Researching Stylistics: A Student Guide explores key topics in literary and non-literary stylistics, examining the multiple ways in which students can undertake research in this discipline. Inherently practical and reader-friendly in focus, the book not only acts as a guide to key elements of the research process but also provides a useful overview of core knowledge and successful research projects in stylistics. The book provides an overview of stylistics as a discipline, identifying its core principles and working parameters. It outlines, in a clear and systematic way, the design stages and practical considerations needed to plan for and undertake research. Reflecting the latest thinking in contemporary stylistics, the book demonstrates how various methods can be applied to study a range of different text types. The practical activity of ‘doing’ stylistics and key examples from existing research are emphasised so that readers will be confident in their ability to apply their knowledge to their own working contexts. This is an essential text for advanced students and researchers working in stylistics and discourse analysis, and those working in interdisciplinary spaces who...

The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes

Autor: Patrick O'donnell , Stephen J. Burn , Lesley Larkin

Número de Páginas: 1607

Neue Perspektiven und aufschlussreiche Erörterungen der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Belletristik Mit der Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 präsentiert ein Team renommierter Geisteswissenschaftler eine umfassende zielgerichtete Sammlung von Beiträgen zu einigen der bedeutendsten und einflussreichsten Autoren und literarischen Themen der letzten vier Jahrzehnte. In aktuellen Beiträgen bekannter und neuer Autoren werden so unterschiedliche Themen wie Multikulturalismus, zeitgenössische Regionalismen, Realismus nach dem Poststrukturalismus, indigene Erzählungen, Globalismus und Big Data im Kontext der amerikanischen Belletristik der letzten 40 Jahre betrachtet. Die Enzyklopädie bietet einen Überblick über die amerikanische Belletristik zur Jahrtausendwende sowie einen Ausblick auf die Zukunft. In diesem Werk findet sich eine ausgewogene Mischung aus Analyse, Zusammenfassung und Kritik für eine erhellende Betrachtung der enthaltenen Themen. Außerdem enthält das Werk: * Eine spannende Mischung von Beiträgen bekannter und aufstrebender Autoren aus aller Welt, in denen zentrale aktuelle Themen der amerikanischen Belletristik diskutiert werden *...

Encyclopedia of Television Miniseries, 1936-2020

Autor: Vincent Terrace

Número de Páginas: 255

In 1936, as television networks CBS, DuMont, and NBC experimented with new ways to provide entertainment, NBC deviated from the traditional method of single experimental programs to broadcast the first multi-part program, Love Nest, over a three-episode arc. This would come to be known as a miniseries. Although the term was not coined until 1954, several other such miniseries were broadcast, including Jack and the Beanstalk and Women in Wartime. In the mid-1960s the concept was developed into a genre that still exists. While the major broadcast networks pioneered the idea, it quickly became popular with cable and streaming services. This encyclopedic source contains a detailed history of 878 TV miniseries broadcast from 1936 to 2020, complete with casts, networks, credits, episode count and detailed plot information.

On Marriage

Autor: Devorah Baum

Número de Páginas: 336

A compulsively readable, startling, and philosophically rich book about marriage, from an acclaimed critic and filmmaker A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick * A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year * A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 "Baum is an erudite and entertaining guide through the landscape of marriage. . . . A fascinating exploration."--Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian "As far back as our history books go, we have no record of a time preceding marriage. Isn't that an extraordinary fact?" So writes Devorah Baum in this searching and revelatory book. Marriage, for better or for worse, is how humans have organized their world and told their story. Straight, queer, coupled, single: none live outside the remit of marriage. One might as well try to live beyond language. But when confronted with the question "What do intellectuals think of marriage?" Baum concludes that most philosophers have preferred to avoid the subject. Is marriage then an intellectual blind spot? To fill in the gaps, she draws on a wide range of cultural material, from the classical to the contemporary, while interweaving reflections on her own experiences of matrimony to both critique and...

The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel

Autor: D. Quentin Miller

Número de Páginas: 143

The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel provides a comprehensive and engaging guide to this cornerstone literary genre, reframing our understanding of the American novel and its evolving traditions. This volume aims to engage productive classroom discussion, including: What differentiates the American novel from its European predecessors and traditions from other parts of the world? How have the related myths of the American Dream and the Great American Novel affected understanding of the tradition over time? How do American novels by or about women, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and members of lower social classes challenge the American cultural monomyth? How do experimental novels and eco-conscious novels alter the American novel tradition? Rethinking historical trends and debates surrounding the American novel, this text delivers a persuasive case for why it’s important to reevaluate the American novelistic tradition. The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel offers a much-needed update to the history and future of this literary form.

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

Autor: Emily Mcavan

Número de Páginas: 307

What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this century's most significant writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Mohsin Hamid, Michael Chabon, Howard Jacobson and Don DeLillo, Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred argues that contemporary social and cultural forms, most especially those of 21st century literature, are marked by what Emily McAvan calls a material sacred. Placing Christian, Jewish and Muslim writers in conversation with the new materialisms, this book shows how secular and sacred mix unpredictably in contemporary writing. In this important contribution to the understanding of religion, materialism and literature, McAvan maps new territory, arguing that the material sacred shows us that the human and non-human, the divine and the profane, have been interwoven from the start.

Reattachment Theory

Autor: Lee Wallace

Número de Páginas: 182

In Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality—far from being the threat to “traditional” marriage that same-sex marriage opponents have asserted—is so integral to its reimagining that all marriage is gay marriage. Drawing on the history of marriage, Stanley Cavell's analysis of Hollywood comedies of remarriage, and readings of recent gay and lesbian films, Wallace shows that queer experiments in domesticity have reshaped the affective and erotic horizons of heterosexual marriage and its defining principles: fidelity, exclusivity, and endurance. Wallace analyzes a series of films—Dorothy Arzner's Craig's Wife (1936); Tom Ford's A Single Man (2009); Lisa Cholodenko's High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and The Kids Are All Right (2010); and Andrew Haigh's Weekend (2011) and 45 Years (2015)—that, she contends, do not simply reflect social and legal changes; they fundamentally alter our sense of what sexual attachment involves as both a social and a romantic form.

Geektionnaire des séries télé

Autor: Carole Cian , Fabien Bulete

Número de Páginas: 422

Des balbutiements des années 1940 aux derniers succès comme La Casa de Papel ou Stranger Things, près de 900 entrées pour tout savoir des séries les plus cultes, des personnages qui ont marqué le petit écran, des acteurs qui ont laissé leur empreinte et des termes spécifiques aux séries. Consacré aux séries américaines, britanniques, françaises et nordiques, ce Geektionnaire présente un panorama complet de cet art télévisuel : séries, personnages, acteurs, producteurs, chaînes... Biographie des auteurs Derrière ce Geektionnaire se cachent Carole Cian et Fabien Bulete, les fondateurs de Critictoo.com, site indépendant entièrement dédié à l’univers des séries TV. Elle a d’abord débuté sur internet avec un site sur Buffy et lui sur X-Files, puis Les Soprano avant d’allier leurs plumes des années plus tard pour fonder un webzine dans le but de donner le jour à un espace où les amateurs passionnés pourraient se retrouver pour discuter de leurs dernières séries et découvertes, entre séries populaires et œuvres cultes. De Grey’s Anatomy à Game of Thrones, en passant par Big Bang Theory, Westworld, Star Trek, Walking Dead, Better Call Saul et...

Le Parfum de ces livres que nous avons aimés

Autor: Will Schwalbe

Número de Páginas: 282

Déclaration d'amour à la littérature et aux écrivains, hommage passionné à une mère, une œuvre d'une grande délicatesse sur l'extraordinaire capacité des livres à nous ouvrir à l'autre, à guider nos choix de vie, et à insuffler beauté et poésie dans le quotidien le plus difficile. Qu'est-ce que tu lis en ce moment ? C'est avec cette question que Will Schwalbe brise la glace chaque fois qu'il accompagne sa mère, Mary Anne, à ses séances de chimiothérapie. Car pour lui, éditeur new-yorkais, comme pour elle, fondatrice de la bibliothèque universitaire de Kaboul, lire, c'est le contraire de mourir ; lire, c'est vivre. John Irving, J. R. R. Tolkien, Khaled Hosseini, Irène Némirovsky, Thomas Mann, Colm Tóibín, Harold Pinter, Maurice Sendak... À travers leurs lectures communes, mère et fils dépassent pudeur et chagrin et échangent sur la famille, l'amour, la mort, la vie, et la magie de ces livres qui nourrissent notre regard sur le monde et nous font goûter, le temps de quelques pages, à une forme d'immortalité. " Une célébration de la vie et des livres qui l'enrichissent. " Booklist

La Seconde Femme - Ce que les actrices font à la vieillesse

Autor: Murielle Joudet

Número de Páginas: 149

" À un moment de nos vies, la jeunesse meurt et une seconde femme entre en scène. " Gena Rowlands dans Opening Night Comment faire avec le temps qui passe quand tout nous rappelle à notre image ? Nicole Kidman, Bette Davis, Isabelle Huppert, Mae West, Meryl Streep, Brigitte Bardot... Huit portraits d'actrices, comme autant de manières de composer avec cette " seconde femme " dont parle Gena Rowlands, qui entre en scène " lorsque la jeunesse meurt ". Car en face de la puissance pétrifiante du regard masculin, il y a l'inépuisable ingéniosité des femmes, qui s'organisent en espionnes des apparences. Les actrices racontent l'histoire de cette ingéniosité : ce qu'il est possible de faire à l'intérieur d'un espace restreint, codifié. S'y tenir bien sagement ou faire seulement semblant, en pousser les murs, les dynamiter, ou finir par le déserter. Comme sur un ring, elles transforment les films en espaces symboliques où se raconte, se commente et se spectacularise la condition du féminin. Où l'on peut raturer, dévier et réécrire " le scénario femme ". Elles sont, en somme, la métaphore étincelante de notre condition toutes....

L'Appel

Autor: Leila Guerriero

Número de Páginas: 431

En 1976, Silvia Labayru, militante du groupe armée Montoneros, est séquestrée à l’ESMA, l’un des pires centres clandestins de détention d’Argentine. À 20 ans, enceinte, elle subit la torture, le viol. Deux ans plus tard, libérée de l’enfer, elle doit affronter un autre calvaire: ses ex-camarades la traitent comme une paria, une collabo. Fruit de longs entretiens avec Silvia Labayru et ceux qui ont croisé son chemin, ce livre est un portrait, un testament, une exploration des mécanismes de survie à travers l'affection, le désir, l'humour, la liberté d’esprit. Avec son empathie discrète et son oreille absolue, Leila Guerriero éclaire les fascinantes nuances d’un destin tumultueux. Une oeuvre magistrale, "un tour de force dont on se souviendra dans cent ans", Samanta Schweblin.

Astrid et Veronika

Autor: Linda Olsson

Número de Páginas: 200

" Best-seller autant en Nouvelle-Zélande qu'en Suède, ce premier roman assez noir s'avère particulièrement digeste. Il laisse une empreinte toute légère, presque fragile. "Nils C. Ahl, Le Monde des Livres" Une histoire tendre et jolie, malgré les noirceurs et les deuils du passé. "TéléZ Veronika, écrivain, la trentaine, quitte la Nouvelle-Zélande pour revenir en Suède, son pays natal, afin de se reconstruire et d'y achever son roman.Elle loue une maison isolée en pleine campagne, avec pour seule voisine une vieille dame, Astrid, une octogénaire qui vit en quasi-ermite et l'observe s'installer avec retenue.Au fil des saisons, les deux femmes nouent pourtant une amitié improbable qui va bouleverser leur vie. Par petites touches, elles se racontent les drames de leurs vies et leurs inavouables secrets.Ce faisant, elles se libèrent du poids du passé et, surtout, réussissent à se souvenir des belles choses qu'elles croyaient oubliées à jamais : un sourire, une musique de Brahms, la beauté de l'amour...Ce roman sensible et délicat, servi par une belle prose, s'attache à la vie de deux femmes recluses dans leur solitude qui s'ouvrent de nouveau au monde.

The Tao of Bill Murray

Autor: Gavin Edwards , R. Sikoryak

Número de Páginas: 386

Perfect for the Bill Murray fan in all of us, this epic collection of “Bill Murray stories”—many reported for the first time here—distills a set of guiding principles out of his extraordinary ability to infuse the everyday with surprise, absurdity, and wonder. No one will ever believe you. New York Times bestselling author Gavin Edwards, like the rest of us, has always been fascinated with Bill Murray—in particular the beloved actor’s adventures off-screen, which rival his filmography for sheer entertainment value. Edwards traveled to the places where Murray has lived, worked, and partied, in search of the most outrageous and hilarious Bill Murray stories from the past four decades, many of which have never before been reported. Bill once paid a child five dollars to ride his bike into a swimming pool. The star convinced Harvard’s JV women’s basketball team to play with him in a private game of hoops. Many of these surreal encounters ended with Bill whispering, “No one will ever believe you” into a stranger’s ear. But The Tao of Bill Murray is more than just a collection of wacky anecdotes. A sideways mix of comedy and philosophy, full of photo bombs,...

La llamada

Autor: Leila Guerriero

Número de Páginas: 406

Esta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana. A fines de los sesenta, con trece años, la argentina Silvia Labayru era una adolescente tímida, lectora, amante de los animales, entusiasta de John F. Kennedy, hija de una familia de militares que incluía a su padre, miembro de la Fuerza Aérea y piloto civil. A esa edad ingresó en el Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires, una institución pública de gran prestigio, donde entró en contacto con agrupaciones estudiantiles de izquierda y se transformó en una militante aguerrida. En marzo de 1976 se produjo en la Argentina un golpe de Estado que dio comienzo a una dictadura militar. Para entonces, embarazada de cinco meses y con veinte años, Labayru integraba el sector de Inteligencia de la organización Montoneros, un grupo armado de extracción peronista. El 29 de diciembre de 1976 fue secuestrada por militares y trasladada a la ESMA, la Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada, donde funcionaba un centro de detención clandestino en el cual se torturó y asesinó a miles de personas. Allí tuvo a su hija que, una semana más tarde, fue entregada a los abuelos paternos. En la ESMA, Labayru fue torturada,...