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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Jennifer Birkett

Routledge
1999
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Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work. Following an up-to-date review and analysis of Beckett criticism, fifteen extracts of Beckett criticism are introduced and set in context by editors' headnotes. The book aims to make easily accessible to students and scholars stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new perspectives opened up by contemporary critical theory: philosophical, political and psychoanalytic criticism, feminist and gender studies, semiotics, and reception theory.
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SAMUEL aprende a ser FANTASMA

SAMUEL aprende a ser FANTASMA

Sergio Andrade

Excis S.a de C.V.
2011
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Una novela de fantasmas, tremendamente entretenida...y original. Un viaje al verdadero m s all , sin salir de tu habitaci n. Un acto de amor en otra dimensi n. Una entretenida historia de aventuras, de vida, de amor...y de fantasmas. La curiosa y sorprendente relaci n entre dos seres que se aman en distintos planos de la existencia. Ambientada en el s rdido mundo de una c rcel de Brasil, pero llev ndonos de la mano del protagonista a lugares maravillosos y lejanos, SAMUEL APRENDE A SER FANTASMA es la historia de la muerte - y la vida- de Samuel, en contacto con su gran amor (Luisa), pasando por momentos cruciales de la existencia. La magistral narraci n de su autor, Sergio Andrade, nos lleva, entre recuerdos, romance, aventuras, prisi n y fugas, a ese otro mundo, paralelo al nuestro, en que los esp ritus, los viajes astrales, las fuentes de energ a, el "cord n de plata", las percepciones extrasensoriales y mil maravillas m s, son cosas de todos los d as. SAMUEL APRENDE A SER FANTASMA nos introduce a un mundo de fantasmas en que no son necesarios ya m s, mediums o clarividentes, y en que el tomarnos de las manos alrededor de mesas temblequeantes, entre ruidos s bitos teatrales y voces cavernosas de "aparecidos", es cosa del pasado. sta es la sorprendente historia de un hombre (Samuel) que al morir, y por amor a su pareja (Luisa), aprende a ser fantasma. La narraci n de c mo ese hombre llega a entender, despu s de muerto, la importancia del recuerdo, la esencia de las religiones y el principio de la inmortalidad, a lo largo de sus solitarias noches en el m s all . Un singular curso de autoayuda (post mortem ) en que el personaje de la novela nos da no s lo una lecci n de vida, sino -algo aun m s importante para todos nosotros-: una lecci n de muerte, en un viaje por las planicies, monta as y ciudades de nuestro mundo, y entre las estrellas, lunas y planetas del cosmos, por los medios de transporte menos convencionales del mundo occidental -aqu llos que no requieren de autos, gasolina, barcos ni aviones Sergio Andrade, nos ofrece, en su novela SAMUEL APRENDE A SER FANTASMA, un sorprendente, distinto y original enfoque a la idea de la vida m s all de la muerte. Una historia en que el amor hace milagros desde ultratumba, vence los errores del pasado y rompe las cadenas que limitan, atan y apresan a la gente en su paso por la Tierra.Una aventura m s all del tiempo y el espacio...--------------------One of the most compelling ghosts' stories of our time. Andrade succeeds in giving us a completely new approach to the life beyond death eternal questions. Samuel -the main character- gets immediately our sympathy despite his own early death. SAMUEL APRENDE A SER FANTASMA is, perhaps, one of the very few novels in which the central participant dies exactly at the very beginning of the book. From that point on, everything can happens. We find through the pages of Andrade's new novel, many esoteric concepts about the spirits, the way of establishing contact with them, the "astral voyages" -in which the persons can travel to far places by leaving their physical bodies-, and the birth of the religions in manhood mind. One can read the story in many levels: it is a ghosts story, but also a love story, a tale of adventures, "a prison story" -since it takes place inside a brazilian jail-, a"romance" of and among spirits...In this novel, speaking with the dead, flying around the world and to other galaxies, changing the reality from different plans and dimensions of the universe and the existence, are day to day things; everything, without quitting the search of love. That's the ultimate question of Andrade's book: How is it possible to have an actual love relationship with those who live beyond dead?Find here the answer. The old practices of trembling tables and holding hands are, in Andrade's masterpiece, things from the past.
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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Lawrence Lipking

Harvard University Press
2000
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He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author."A book about the life of an author, about how an author is made, not born, Lipking's Samuel Johnson is the story of the man as he lived--and lives--in his work. Tracing Johnson's rocky climb from anonymity to fame, in the course of which he came to stand for both the greatness of English literature and the good sense of the common reader, the book shows how this life transformed the very nature of authorship.Beginning with the defiant letter to Chesterfield that made Johnson a celebrity, Samuel Johnson offers fresh readings of all the writer's major works, viewed through the lens of two ongoing preoccupations: the urge to do great deeds--and the sense that bold expectations are doomed to disappointment. Johnson steers between the twin perils of ambition and despondency. Mounting a challenge to the emerging industry that glorified and capitalized on Shakespeare, he stresses instead the playwright's power to cure the illusions of everyday life. All Johnson's works reveal his extraordinary sympathy with ordinary people. In his groundbreaking Dictionary, in his poems and essays, and in The Lives of the English Poets, we see Johnson becoming the key figure in the culture of literacy that reaches from his day to our own.
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Samuel Johnson: A Biography

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

Peter Martin

Belknap Press
2010
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Bewigged, muscular and for his day unusually tall, adorned in soiled, rumpled clothes, beset by involuntary tics, opinionated, powered in his conversation by a prodigious memory and intellect, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was in his life a literary and social icon as no other age has produced. "Johnsonianissimus," as Boswell called him, became in the hands of his first biographers the rationalist epitome and sage of Enlightenment. These clich s--though they contain elements of truth--distort the complexity of the public and private Johnson. Peter Martin portrays a Johnson wracked by recriminations, self-doubt, and depression--a man whose religious faith seems only to have deepened his fears. His essays, scholarship, biography, journalism, travel writing, sermons, fables, as well as other forms of prose and poetry in which he probed himself and the world around him, Martin shows, constituted rational triumphs against despair and depression. It is precisely the combination of enormous intelligence and frank personal weakness that makes Johnson's writing so compelling. Benefiting from recent critical scholarship that has explored new attitudes toward Johnson, Martin's biography gives us a human and sympathetic portrait of Dr. Johnson. Johnson's criticism of colonial expansion, his advocacy for the abolition of slavery, his encouragement of women writers, his treatment of his female friends as equals, and his concern for the underprivileged and poor make him a very "modern" figure. The Johnson that emerges from this enthralling biography, published for the tercentenary of Johnson's birth, is still the foremost figure of his age but a more rebellious, unpredictable, flawed, and sympathetic figure than has been previously known.
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Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

Samuel Johnson

The Belknap Press
2011
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Thanks to Boswell’s monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. He is more often quoted than read, his name invoked in party conversation on such diverse topics as marriage, sleep, deceit, mental concentration, and patriotism, to generally humorous effect. But in Johnson’s own day, he was best known as an essayist, critic, and lexicographer: a gifted writer possessed of great force of mind and wisdom. Writing a century after Johnson, Ruskin wrote of Johnson’s essays: He “taught me to measure life, and distrust fortune…he saved me forever from false thoughts and futile speculations.” Peter Martin here presents “the heart of Johnson,” a selection of some of Johnson’s best moral and critical essays. At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Also included are Johnson’s great moral fable, Rasselas; the Prefaces to the Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; and selections from Lives of the Poets. Together, these works—allied in their literary, social, and moral concerns—are the ones that continue to speak urgently to readers today.
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The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist

The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist

Samuel Curwen

Harvard University Press
1972
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"He was a man of fair learning, and more than average accomplishment; not at all intolerant of opinions at issue with his own; in religion a Dissenter of the class still prevalent in New England: in his tastes scholarly and refined, not ill read in general literature, prone to social enjoyments, a reasonably good critic of what he saw, altogether an excellent example of the class of men out of whom the fathers and founders of that great republic sprang..."-Charles Dickens, in summing up the character of Samuel CurwenThis unabridged two-volume edition of Samuel Curwen's journal supersedes the only version previously available to historians: a fragmentary and inaccurate mid-nineteenth-century work published by George Atkinson Ward, which nevertheless was celebrated by Charles Dickens.Andrew Oliver, combining painstaking documentation with an abundance of illustrations, provides a colorful, complete work which ranks as a valuable source of English social history from 1775 to 1784. It was during these years that Curwen, a Salem merchant, after fleeing from the harassment incurred by his loyalist activities, migrated to England and kept this journal. A man small in size, physically timid, mentally brave, and remarkably injudicious, Curwen felt that he was "unhappily though unjustly ranked" as a tory. Thus his observations and thoughts are useful in understanding the attitudes and experiences of the loyalist exiles.Set primarily in England and sparked throughout with engaging reports on personalities, places, and even the weather, the journal traces Curwen's nine years of exile. It also briefly details his departure from Salem, his short and alarming sojourn in Philadelphia where he found the political climate no less unfavorable, and his subsequent sea voyage to England.The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist is the first in a series of Loyalist Papers, a long-term program to be undertaken independently by a number of publishers in Britain, Canada, and the United States. The program will locate, gather, and make available documents that place in perspective those Americans who, at the time of the Revolution, remained loyal to the Crown.
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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 16, Part 1

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 16, Part 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Princeton University Press
2001
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Poetry in its many guises is at the center of Coleridge's multifarious interests, and this long-awaited new edition of his complete poetical works marks the pinnacle of the Bollingen Collected Coleridge. The three parts of Volume 16 confirm and expand the sense of the Coleridge who has emerged over the past half-century, with implications for English Romantic writing as a whole. Setting new standards of comprehensiveness in the presentation of Romantic texts, they will interest historians and editorial theorists, as well as readers and students of poetry. They represent a work of truly monumental importance. The first part presents the reading texts of 706 poems in chronological sequence. Its blend of newly discovered and newly collected poems, presented in light of all known evidence and where practicable in unrevised forms, offers a fresh and original Coleridge: less inhibited by Victorian ideas about what poetry should be, moving easily and productively between genres and levels of seriousness. In texts that remained fluid and exploratory to the end, Coleridge alternates between lyric and satire, prophecy and conversation, symbol and allegory. Each poem is accompanied by a headnote and commentary that together provide its historical-biographical context and offer key textual variants. The book opens with an introduction and chronological tables. The three appendixes position individual poems in the contexts in which they appeared during Coleridge's lifetime. Illustrations such as contemporary scenes and portraits bring this rich collection, like the companion volumes, all the more to life.
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