The American by Henry James6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() More recently, James scholarship has focused on sexuality and gender, race and morality, and the nature of consciousness critical trends Simon also considers. But beginning in the 1940s, such critics as Trilling, Rahv, Leavis, and, most influentially, Leon Edel secured James's place at the forefront of the American canon. She also shows how James's reputation became contested after his death: praised by some critics for psychological insight and stylistic innovation, he was dismissed by others as socially and politically irrelevant. ![]() James himself worked to secure that place with his prefaces to the standard edition of his works Simon analyzes criticism about those prefaces. The story begins in the 1870s, when critics saw James's works as mirrors of American identity and sought to establish him in the nation's evolving canon. Linda Simon chronicles and analyzes James criticism beginningwith contemporary newspaper and magazine reviews and ending with current academic criticism. Comprehensive survey and analysis of the scholarship and criticism on perhaps the greatest American writer.Īlthough some of Henry James's contemporary critics deemed him just short of a great writer, history has elevated him to indisputable preeminence in the American canon. ![]()
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Dh lawrence women6/7/2023 ![]() "My God - it could have been written in the 1960s." "In all of Lawrence's oeuvre this is one of the most explicitly anti-sexist statements, and it does come across as terribly modern," said Harrison. ![]() If he approached her as such, as a being instead of as a piece of lurid meat, he would have no horrors afterwards." ![]() Lawrence posits that "the hideousness he sees is the reflection of himself, and of the automatic meat-lust with which he approaches another individual," ending: "Even the most 'beautiful' woman is still a human creature. Lawrence's 185-word riposte – published for the first time by Harrison in the Times Literary Supplement last month – takes on JHR's challenge to the readers of the Adelphi to find a "better explanation" for why ever since he "awoke to sexual consciousness … I have had moments when the most beautiful woman I knew appeared ugly and repellent to me". "No doubt," he writes, "the evil growth is derived from Eve, who certainly did or thought something wicked beyond words." ![]() Fire and fury wolff6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Critics questioned details of Wolff’s reporting, but his underlying narrative of a chaotic White House and a volatile, easily distracted chief executive has held through numerous bestsellers which followed, from Bob Woodward’s “Fear” to John Bolton’s “The Room Where It Happened.” Wolff’s first book on Trump, published in January 2018, was an immediate sensation and went on to sell more than 2 million copies. “In ‘Landslide,’ Wolff closes the story of Trump’s four years in office and his tumultuous last months at the helm of the country,” the publisher announced, “based on Wolff’s extraordinary access to White House aides and to the former President himself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights about what really happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world.” Trump, who condemned “Fire and Fury” and attempted to have its publication halted, is among those who spoke to Wolff for his new book, according to Holt. Michael Wolff’s “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency” is scheduled for July 27, publisher Henry Holt told The Associated Press on Thursday. ![]() Holt via APThis cover image released by Holt shows “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency” by Michael Wolff. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]() ![]() Doesn’t mom deserve some Colonel this year? KFC will also surprise 100 fans on Facebook with the chance to win dinner and a hard copy of the book. Tender Wings of Desire is real, free, and available now for download. The novella, paired with KFC’s $20 Fill Up, will help fulfill mom’s twisted fast food fantasies, while providing a family meal for those responsible. ![]() KFC believes that this sordid tale of Southern love and greasy fingers could be part of the ultimate Mother’s Day gift. ![]() KFC has upped the Colonel’s sexy-game, with the release of Tender Wings of Desire, a romance novella featuring Harland Sanders as sex object. If Colonel Sander’s goatee, string tie and secret recipe ever did it for you, then you’re in for quite a treat. ![]() Lenora astalis6/7/2023 ![]() This perfect ending contains a beautiful bond between father and son. However, the ending was unbelievably beautiful. But after 30 % the action became more and more interesting and heroes more intriguing. I had a hard time to connect with Vaughn and Lenora. The beginning of this book was a bit shaky for me. For me, it was just a great book filled with a lot of angst and little heavy, with a theme of enemies-to-lovers. But I wouldn’t categorize this book as dark read. I’ll start by stating that this book deals with the sensitive subject some may find triggering but for me, it was just a sad and devastating fact that explains why Vaughn is so very different from other heroes of this series. Genres: New Adult Romance / Contemporary Romance Angry God, an all-new beautiful and dark new adult romance from USA Today bestselling author L.J. ![]() Winter from lunar chronicles6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() While working as a mechanic at the marketplace, she meets the son of the Emperor, Prince Kai, who asks her to fix Nainsi, his personal android. As a cyborg, Cinder is discriminated against and often looked down upon by others, despite building up a reputation as the best mechanic in New Beijing. Cinder is under the guardianship of her cruel adopted mother, Linh Adri, along with her two stepsisters, Linh Pearl and Linh Peony, the latter of which treats her as a close friend. ![]() Letumosis, a fatal disease started by the Lunars and nicknamed the "Blue Fever", or "The Plague", is raging throughout the world and a cure is unknown. ![]() Set in the futuristic city of New Beijing, when the countries of the world have re-organized to form various new empires and alliances and the Moon has been colonized, Asia is now an emperor-ruled country known as the Eastern Commonwealth. Cinder was selected as one of IndieBound's Kids' Next List for winter 2012. The story is loosely based on the classic fairytale Cinderella. It is the first book in The Lunar Chronicles and is followed by Scarlet. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-bookĬinder is the 2012 debut young adult science fiction novel of American author Marissa Meyer, published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. ![]() Roger ebert the great movies book6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() From The Godfather: Part II to Groundhog Day, from The Last Picture Show to Last Tango in Paris, the hundred pieces gathered here display a welcome balance between the familiar and the esoteric, spanning Hollywood blockbusters and hidden gems, independent works and foreign language films alike. Enter The Great Movies III, Ebert's third collection of essays on the crème de la crème of the silver screen, each one a model of critical appreciation and a blend of love and analysis that will send readers back to the films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed enthusiasm-or maybe even lead to a first-time viewing. ![]() But it's fair to say: If you want to take a tour of the landmarks of the first century of cinema, start here. ![]() As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, "They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of great movies are a foolish attempt to codify works which must stand alone. Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. ![]() ![]() That spring, Brinnin had famously asked his assistant, Liz Reitell - who had had a three-week romance with Thomas - to lock the poet into a room in order to meet a deadline for the completion of his radio drama turned stage play Under Milk Wood. In the fall of the following year, Thomas - a self-described “roistering, drunken and doomed poet” - drank himself into a coma while on a reading and lecture tour in America organized by the American poet and literary critic John Brinnin, who would later become his biographer of sorts. Written in 1947, Thomas’s masterpiece was published for the first time in the Italian literary journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951 and soon included in his 1952 poetry collection In Country Sleep, And Other Poems. ![]() ![]() Few poems furnish such a wakeful breaking open of possibility more powerfully than “Do not go gentle into that good night” - a rapturous ode to the unassailable tenacity of the human spirit by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (October 27, 1914–November 9, 1953). “Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock,” Denise Levertov asserted in her piercing statement on poetics. “Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire,” Adrienne Rich wrote in contemplating what poetry does. ![]() On Beauty by Zadie Smith6/6/2023 ![]() Filled with a fresh enthusiasm for life, Archie flips a coin and then finds his way into the aftermath of a New Year's Eve party. On New Year's Day 1975, Archie Jones, a 47-year-old Englishman whose disturbed Italian wife has just walked out on him, is attempting to take his own life by gassing himself in his car when a chance interruption causes him to change his mind. ![]() In 2022, it was included on the " Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Time magazine included the novel in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. White Teeth won multiple honors, including the 2000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the 2000 Whitbread Book Award in category best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. The novel centres on Britain's relationship with immigrants from the British Commonwealth. ![]() It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends-the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones-and their families in London. ![]() White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also passionate in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, and-most important-in her dedication to "her girls," the students she selects to be her "creme de la creme."įanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie set-Eunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandy-is "famous for something," and Miss Brodie strives to bring out the best in each one. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, preaching the value of art, passion, and daring. In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of her students.Īt the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. ![]() |