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Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain
and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence
and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers
ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to
Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, and Irene Nemirovsky.
Taking its cue from Percy Shelley's dictum that great writers are
to some extent created by the age in which they live, this book
shows how much the politics and warfare of the years from 1939 to
1941 drove the literature of this period. Its novels, poems, and
plays differ radically from histories of World War II
because-besides being works of imagination-- they are largely
products of a particular stage in the author's life as well as of a
time at which no one knew how the war would end. This is the first
comprehensive study of the impact of the outbreak of the Second
World War on the literary work of American, English, and European
writers during its first years.
In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's "Odyssey "to
Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "the giving and taking of
hospitality is sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous.
Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest
writings, including Christ's Last Supper, Macbeth's murder of his
royal guest, and Camus's short story on French colonialism in Arab
Algeria. By means of such examples and many more, this book
considers what literary hosts, hostesses, and guests do "to "as
well as "for "each other. In doing so, it shows how often treachery
rends the fabric of trust that hospitality weaves.
Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal
representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent,
ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as
it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word.
Over the ages its practitioners have created a museum of words
about real and imaginary paintings and sculptures.
In the first book ever to explore this museum, James Heffernan
argues that ekphrasis stages a battle for mastery between the image
and the word. Moving from the epics of Homer, Virgil, and Dante to
contemporary American poetry, this book treats the history of
struggle between rival systems of representation. Readable and well
illustrated, this study of how poets have represented painting and
sculpture is a major contribution to our understanding of the
relation between the arts.
Why is the anniversary of the French Revolution celebrated on July
14, the day the Bastille was stormed, rather than on August 26, the
day the Declaration of the Rights of Man was signed? Why don't the
French do as the Americans, who see their revolution epitomized by
the signing of the Declaration of Independence? "There is surely
something to be learned from contemplating the difference between
these two ways of representing a revolution," writes James
Heffernan. In this volume, he and 13 other distinguished scholars
consider representations of the French Revolution in literature,
historical narratives, and art as central to understanding it.
Challenging the idea that history is a body of fact separable from
fictions wrought by literature and the visual arts, they show that
study of a major historical event inevitably leads to study of
representation.
Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the works of four
artists and writers, and demonstrates that the verbal and visual
sides of romanticism are parts of a coherent whole.
Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy,
Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be
cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy. Using examples such as
the pre-historic cave paintings of Lascaux, film versions of
Frankenstein , the provocative photographs of Sally Mann, and the
abstract canvases of Gerhard Richter, the volume illustrates how
learning to decode the language of pictures resembles the process
of learning to read. While words typically frame and regulate our
experience of art, the study also explains how pictures can contest
the authority of the words we use to interpret art.
In over 100 exercises the workbook reviews the essentials of
sentence writing, punctuation, and mechanics covered in Parts 2 and
3 of the handbook.
Succinct, user-friendly, and positive in its approach, Writing: A
Concise Handbook is the perfect companion for any writer, in
college and beyond. Chapters including "Ten Ways to Invigorate Your
Style" and "Correcting Common Errors" provide essential tools for
making one's writing engaging, persuasive, and clear.
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