The Prestige of Violence
Language: en
Pages: 183
Authors: Sally Bachner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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In The Prestige of Violence Sally Bachner argues that, starting in the 1960s, American fiction laid claim to the status of serious literature by placing violenc
Pale Fire
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Vladimir Nabokov
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-02-18 - Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع

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The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade
The Prestige
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Christopher Priest
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-09-15 - Publisher: Macmillan

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In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in a darkened salon during the course of a fraudulent séance, and from this moment they try to expose and outwit each
A Fortune for Your Disaster
Language: en
Pages: 108
Authors: Hanif Abdurraqib
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-03 - Publisher: Tin House Books

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“When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this b
Interpreting Violence
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Cassandra Falke
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-30 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Representations of violence surround us in everyday life – in news reports, films and novels – inviting interpretation and raising questions about the ethic