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For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal
work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars.
Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of
literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in
the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre
narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they
carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature
of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point
of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary
narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it
included a chapter on the oral heritage of written narrative and an
appendix on the interior monologue in ancient texts.
A reconsideration of the all-too-neat assumptions we make about modernism in art and literature In this lively, personal book, Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945. While critics of and apologists for modernism have defined modern art and literature in terms of binary oppositions-high/low, old/new, hard/soft, poetry/rhetoric-Scholes contends that these distinctions are in fact confused and misleading. Such oppositions are instances of "paradoxy"-an apparent clarity that covers real confusion. Closely examining specific literary texts, drawings, critical writings, and memoirs, Scholes seeks to complicate the neat polar oppositions attributed to modernism. He argues for the rehabilitation of works in the middle ground that have been trivialized in previous evaluations, and he fights orthodoxy with such paradoxes as "durable fluff," "formulaic creativity," and "iridescent mediocrity." The book reconsiders major figures like James Joyce while underscoring the value of minor figures and addressing new attention to others rarely studied. It includes twenty-two illustrations of the artworks discussed. Filled with the observations of a personable and witty guide, this is a book that opens up for a reader's delight the rich cultural terrain of modernism.
James Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed obscene and scandalous, resulting in the eventual seizure of The Little Review and the placing of a legal ban on Joyce's masterwork that would not be lifted in the United States until 1933. For the first time, The Little Review "Ulysses" brings together the serial installments of Ulysses to create a new edition of the novel, enabling teachers, students, scholars, and general readers to see how one of the previous century's most daring and influential prose narratives evolved, and how it was initially introduced to an audience who recognized its radical potential to transform Western literature. This unique and essential publication also includes essays and illustrations designed to help readers understand the rich contexts in which Ulysses first appeared and trace the complex changes Joyce introduced after it was banned.
For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal
work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars.
Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of
literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in
the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre
narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they
carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature
of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point
of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary
narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it
included a chapter on the oral heritage of written narrative and an
appendix on the interior monologue in ancient texts.
"I believe that it is in our interest as individuals to become
crafty readers, and in the interest of the nation to educate
citizens in the craft of reading. The craft, not the art. . . .
This book is about that craft."--from the Introduction
Ernest Hemingway has long been regarded as a fiercely heterosexual writer who advocated and embodied an exaggerated masculinity. This witty and intelligent book, the first to focus exclusively on gender in Hemingway's writing, presents a new view of the author, demonstrating that issues of gender and sexuality are more complex and subtle in his work than has ever been imagined. Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes reread the Hemingway Text-his published and unpublished writing and what is known about his life-and show that gender was one of his conscious preoccupations. They explore the anguish and uncertainty beneath the blunt facade of Papa Hemingway; they examine a range of Hemingway's fictional women in such works as The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls and suggest that his best representations of women take on attributes of gender commonly viewed as male; they discuss how lesbianism, sex changes, and miscegenation appear in Hemingway's early and late writing; and they analyze examples of homosexual desire among boys and men in Hemingway's stories of bullfighters and soldiers. Offering new readings of familiar and previously unknown Hemingway texts, this book will change the way this author is read and evaluated.
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