The Edge of the Alphabet
Title | The Edge of the Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Frame |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories, a volume of poetry, a children's book, and her heartfelt and courageous autobiography -- all published by George Braziller. This fall, we celebrate our thirty-ninth year of publishing Frame's extraordinary writing. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
EDGE OF THE ALPHABET.
Title | EDGE OF THE ALPHABET. PDF eBook |
Author | JANET. FRAME |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024 |
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ISBN | 9781804271186 |
The Edge of the Alphabet, a Novel
Title | The Edge of the Alphabet, a Novel PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Cromie |
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Release | 1962 |
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A Thematic Study of Janet Frame's The Edge of the Alphabet
Title | A Thematic Study of Janet Frame's The Edge of the Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Phillipa Anne Ballard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1973 |
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Lost Alphabet
Title | Lost Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Olstein |
Publisher | Copper Canyon Press |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2012-12-11 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1619320525 |
“This poet brings a sparkling consciousness to the page and an exciting new voice to American poetry.”—Library Journal “Most appealing is Olstein's sensitive, quietly pained and earnest tone, w hich, more than the unusual subject, is the real star of this book.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review In Lisa Olstein’s daring new book, an unnamed lepidopterist—living in a hut on the edge of an unnamed village—is drawn ever deeper into the engrossing world of moths, light, and seeing. Structured as a naturalist’s notebook, the four-part sequence of prose poems create a layered pilgrimage into the consequences of intensive study, the trials of being an outsider, and the process of metamorphosis. In an interview, Olstein once said, “I don’t want poetry to limit itself to reflecting or recapitulating experience; I want it to be an experience.” I have learned to peer at specimens through a small crack at the center of my fist. It’s a habit herders use for distance: vision is concentrated, the crude tunnel brings into focus whatever small expanse lies on the other side, something in the narrowing magnifies what remains. At the table, my hand tires of clenching, my left eye of closing, my right of its squint, but the effect: a blurred carpet of wing becomes a careful weave of eyelashes colored, curved, exquisitely laid . . . Lisa Olstein is the author of the Hayden Carruth Award–winning volume Radio Crackling, Radio Gone. She earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts and directs the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Am Rande des Alphabets (The edge of the alphabet,dt.)
Title | Am Rande des Alphabets (The edge of the alphabet,dt.) PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Frame |
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Release | 1963 |
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The Unharnessed World
Title | The Unharnessed World PDF eBook |
Author | Cindy Gabrielle |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2015-06-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1443879762 |
Though New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924–2004) lived at a time of growing dissatisfaction with European cultural models, and though her (auto-)biography, fiction and letters all testify to the fact that a direct encounter between herself and Buddhism occurred, her work has, so far, never been examined from the vantage point of its indebtedness to Buddhism. It is of the utmost significance, however, that a Buddhist navigation of Frame’s texts should shed fresh light on large segments of the Framean corpus which have tended to remain obdurately mysterious. This includes passages centering on such themes as the existence of a non-dual world or a character’s sudden embrace of a non-ego-like self. Of equal significance is the conclusion one then draws that this unharnessed world which human beings are often unable to embrace has always been right under their nose, for, whenever the aspect of the intellect that filters perceptions into mutually excluding categories fails to function, he or she finds a place of subjective arrival in, and sees, this supposedly unknowable ‘beyond’. Thus, possibly against the grain of mainstream criticism, this study argues that Janet Frame constantly seeks ways through which the infinite and the Other can be approached, though not corrupted, by the perceiving self, and that she found in the Buddhist epistemology a pathway towards evoking such alterity.