The Thief of Talant
Title | The Thief of Talant PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Reverdy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781939663191 |
Challenged by his friend, poet and art critic Max Jacob, to write a novel, Pierre Reverdy produced this fragmented, beautiful assemblage of loneliness, paranoia and depersonalization drawn from his own experience of Paris in the early 20th century, the sometimes antagonistic atmosphere of the avant-garde and his own troubled relationship with Jacob, who tended to detect the threat of his literary treasures being plagiarized among everyone he knew. Toward the end of his life, Reverdy confirmed that the alienated, anxious "thief" of this novel in verse was a portrait of himself ("Talant" conveys both the dual echo in French of "talent" and the small town of Talan near Dijon, thereby evoking a potential plagiarizer from the countryside), and "Abel the Magus," a semi-satirical portrait of Jacob. Originally published in French in 1917, The Thief of Talantis a radical experiment in verse and narrative, a moving evocation of the loss (and recovery) of self and an encrypted guidebook to the "heroic" years of Cubism. Pierre Reverdy(1889-1960) was a reclusive yet integral component of the early Parisian avant-garde and a friend to painters such as Modigliani, Picasso and Gris, who, with fellow poets such as Apollinaire and Jacob, came to represent a faction known as the "Cubist poets." In 1926, Reverdy withdrew from Paris for a life of seclusion in the northwest of France.
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice
Title | Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Caldwell |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2022-06-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 100058383X |
Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in popularity. With contributions by both practitioners and academics, this volume seeks to explore how its distinctive properties guide both writer and reader, and to address why this form is so well suited to the early twenty-first century. With discussion of both classic and less well- known writers, the essays both illuminate prose poetry’s distinctive features and explore how this "outsider" form can offer a unique way of viewing and describing the uncertainties and instabilities which shape our identities and our relationships with our surroundings in the early twenty-first century. Combining insights on the theory and practice of prose poetry, Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice offers a timely and valuable contribution to the development of the form, and its appreciation amongst practitioners and scholars alike. Largely approached from a practitioner perspective, this collection provides vivid snapshots of contemporary debates within the prose poetry field while actively contributing to the poetics and craft of the form.
British Prose Poetry
Title | British Prose Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Monson |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2018-07-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319778633 |
This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem’s unsettled history and reception in the UK as well as its recent popularity. The essays cover the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries exploring why this form is particularly suited to the modern age and yet can still be problematic for publishers, booksellers and scholars. Refreshing perspectives are given on the Romantics, Modernists and Post-Modernists, among them Woolf, Beckett and Eliot as well as more recent poets like Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Claudia Rankine, Jeremy Over and Vahni Capildeo. British Prose Poetry moves from a contextual overview of the genre’s early volatile and fluctuating status, through to crucial examples of prose poetry written by established Modernist, surrealist and contemporary writers. Key questions around boundaries are discussed more generally in terms of race, class and gender. The British prose poem’s international heritage, influences and influence are explored throughout as an intrinsic part of its current renaissance.
A Korean-English Dictionary
Title | A Korean-English Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | James Scarth Gale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1180 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Korean language |
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It's Only a Movie
Title | It's Only a Movie PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Chandler |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2008-12-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1847397093 |
IT'S ONLY A MOVIE is as close to an autobiography by Alfred Hitchcock that you could ever have. Drawn from years of interviews with her subject, his friends and the actors who worked with him on such classics as THE BIRDS, PSYCHO and REAR VIEW WINDOW, Charlotte Chandler has created a rich, complex, affectionate and honest picture of the man and his milieu. This is Hitchcock in his own voice and through the eyes of those who knew him better than anyone could.
An Approach to the Genetic Classification of Vocabulary in the Izbornik of 1076
Title | An Approach to the Genetic Classification of Vocabulary in the Izbornik of 1076 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert William Goedecke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 760 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Church Slavic language |
ISBN |
The Freemason's Chronicle
Title | The Freemason's Chronicle PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | |
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