This book demonstrates the significance of prose analysis by evaluating the writings of dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. This book will be a key resource for students studying fiction and the novel as well as those in creative writing, prose style and creative non-fiction courses.
Exploring the interplay between Charles Dickens's life and his imaginative storytelling, this book delves into the author's creative process and the themes that permeate his works. It examines how Dickens's personal experiences and societal issues influenced his narratives, offering insights into his characters and their development. The analysis highlights the trials and triumphs of imagination in shaping literature, making it a compelling read for those interested in the intricacies of Dickens's contributions to the literary world.
This book explores the cultural and mechanical contrivances that subtend the modernist invention and practice of cinema. This book ponders the place of authorial intention in making a movie: how and when does the author break through the technical/narrative framework that defines what movies are and can do. Important films and filmmakers are discussed--
To take the measure of literary writing, The Deed of Reading convenes diverse philosophic commentary on the linguistics of literature, with stress on the complementary work of Stanley Cavell and Giorgio Agamben.
Mediums: in the art world we never stop talking about them, and I don't mean the kind of mediums in the turbans and staring into crystal balls. The main agenda of modernist art (at least as Clement Greenberg saw it) was for a painting or sculpture to examine the limits of the medium in which it is rendered. But that's just the beginning: there is mixed media and there are experimental media, and digital media, and post-media, and mediality, and new media. What Garrett Stewart is writing about is a project by contemporary artists that brings two or more mediums together in an effort to stage something entirely new: not a new medium, but a kind of relationship between mediums, where artists create an object or event that overtly crosses/traverses media without resolving them. It's this transition that is the actual object of the work. Examples: Anthony McCall's light sculptures: cones of projected light that pierce and illuminate a dark space; Matt Saunder's process that draws upon painting, photography, and film to stage battles between them. Paul Sietsema's confrontations between paint, paint brushes, hammers, photographs and printmaking. This book is as current as it gets on contemporary media-driven practice. It will be of interest to artists, critics, art historians, art students, collectors and dealers.
In The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of Dickens's novels but that go regularly unnoticed in Dickensian criticism: the linguistic infrastructure of his textured prose. Stewart, in effect, looks over the reader's shoulder in shared...
This book assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working in the 21st century literary studies generally, in the relationships between the book and the digital age specifically.
"It seems painfully obvious to note that novels are composed one word at a time. Yet very few works of literary theory or criticism explore how words actually work in a literary context, how (some) writers effectively employ and deploy words (and the syllables that comprise them) to achieve stylistic effects that can heighten, distract from, make memorable, enliven, or deepen the experience of reading. Distinct from plot, theme, or character, the ways of the word are multiple, deviant, and convergent by turns, and in this book, Garrett Stewart charts some of these ways across dozens of works by authors classic to contemporary, in poetry as well as prose."--