Simplicianischer Wunder Geschichts Calender. Auf das Jahr 1682
Title | Simplicianischer Wunder Geschichts Calender. Auf das Jahr 1682 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 66 |
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Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah
Title | Courage, The Adventuress and The False Messiah PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2015-12-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400876362 |
Grimmelshausen's enduring fame as Germany’s greatest satirical novelist has rested mainly on The Adventerous Simplicissimus, the first of four novels comprising the Simplician cycle. Less well known, though of equal interest for their penetrating and satiric insight into seventeenth-century beliefs and superstitions, are the two Simplician tales now made available to English readers in this edition: Courage, The Adventuress, the fictional biography of a camp follower in the Thirty Years War, a grimly humorous tale told in the earthy language of the people; and The False Messiah, comprising nine chapters from Grimmelshausen’s last work, The Enchanted Bird’s Nest, Part II. The book includes an Introduction with an account of Grimmelshausen’s life, works, and philosophy, as well as critical comment on the two works. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Catalogs, Union |
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German Baroque Literature
Title | German Baroque Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of German Literature |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Baroque literature |
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Before Novels
Title | Before Novels PDF eBook |
Author | J. Paul Hunter |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780393308617 |
"By taking a close look at materials no previous twentieth-century critic has seriously investigated in literary terms--ephemeral journalism, moralistic tracts, questions-and-answer columns, 'wonder' narratives--Paul Hunter discovers a tangled set of roots for the early novel. His provocative argument for a new historicized understanding of the genre and its early readers brilliantly reveals unexpected affinities." --Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia
Defoe & Spiritual Autobiography
Title | Defoe & Spiritual Autobiography PDF eBook |
Author | George A. Starr |
Publisher | Ardent Media |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Art |
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Ariadne's Thread
Title | Ariadne's Thread PDF eBook |
Author | J. Hillis Miller |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1995-02-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780300063097 |
"What line should the critic follow in explicating, unfolding, or unknotting . . . passages? How should the critic thread her or his way into the labyrinthine problems of narrative form?--from chapter I In this brilliant and engaging book, one of America's leading literary critics explores the intricacies of narrative theory. Using the image of Ariadne's thread, which was given to Theseus to carry into the labyrinth so that he could find his way out, J. Hillis Miller traces out the "line" so often associated with narrative and writing in general. In the process he illuminates the nature of literature as well as the nature of narrative. Considering a wide range of texts from Western literature over the last two centuries--in particular Meredith's The Egoist, Goethe's Elective Affinities, and Borges's "Death and the Compass"--Miller explores the way rhetorical devices and figurative language interrupt, break into, delay, and expand storytelling. He also illustrates these rhetorical disruptions of narrative logic in his own work. In its four chapters--about the role of line, character, interpersonal relationships, and figurative language in narrative--Miller's study encounters in its own language the problems it discusses, as concepts and words are scrutinized for their diverse meanings and resonances. Demonstrating that every narrative, including this one about the nature of narrative, has divergent lines and multiple motives and uses, Ariadne's Thread tells its story and enacts its subject at the same time.