A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Author	: Dave Eggers
Publisher	: Vintage
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN 10	: 0375725784
Pages	: 500 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (257 users)

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Download or read book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book." —San Francisco Chronicle National Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read for decades to come.

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius

Author	: Dave Eggers
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2013-02-12
ISBN 10	: 9781476737546
Pages	: 416 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (767 users)

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Download or read book A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius written by Dave Eggers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exhilarating…Profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious...A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly" (The New York Times Book Review). A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the unique, moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. In his distinctive style unlike any other memoir, Egger's story is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive, as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Author	: Dave Eggers
Publisher	: Turtleback Books
Release Date	: 2001-02-01
ISBN 10	: 1417632240
Pages	: 437 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (322 users)

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Download or read book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius written by Dave Eggers and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Author	: Dave Eggers
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 0329809261
Pages	: 485 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (92 users)

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Author	: Tyler Cushing
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: UCSC:32106016060409
Pages	: 100 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (321 users)

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Modern Confessional Writing

Author	: Jo Gill
Publisher	: Psychology Press
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 0415339693
Pages	: 218 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (396 users)

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Download or read book Modern Confessional Writing written by Jo Gill and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a critique of the popular and powerful genre of confessional writing. Contributors discuss a range of poetry, prose and drama, including the work of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.

New Punk Cinema

Author	: Rombes Nicholas Rombes
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date	: 2019-08-07
ISBN 10	: 9781474472166
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (744 users)

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Download or read book New Punk Cinema written by Rombes Nicholas Rombes and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Punk Cinema is the first book to examine a new breed of film that is indebted to the punk spirit of experimentation, do-it-yourself ethos, and an uneasy, often defiant relationship with the mainstream. An array of established and emerging scholars trace and map the contours of new punk cinema, from its roots in neorealism and the French New Wave, to its flowering in the work of Lars von Trier and the Dogma 95 movement. Subsequent chapters explore the potentially democratic and even anarchic forces of digital filmmaking, the influences of hypertext and other new media, the increased role of the viewer in arranging and manipulating the chronology of a film, and the role of new punk cinema in plotting a course beyond the postmodern. The book examines a range of films, including The Blair Witch Project, Time Code, Run Lola Run, Memento, The Celebration, Gummo, and Requiem for a Dream.New Punk Cinema is ideal for classroom use at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as for film scholars interested in fresh approaches to the emergence of this vital new turn in cinema.Features* Offers a comprehensive examination of the term 'new punk' cinema.* Provides several new approaches for the study of digital cinema.* Includes close analysis of several key new punk films and directors.

Thematic Guide to Popular Nonfiction

Author	: Lynda G. Adamson
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 0313328552
Pages	: 352 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (285 users)

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Download or read book Thematic Guide to Popular Nonfiction written by Lynda G. Adamson and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonfiction is widely read and is increasingly prominent in the curriculum.

Self reflexivity in Literature

Author	: Werner Huber
Publisher	: Königshausen & Neumann
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 3826032497
Pages	: 284 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (324 users)

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Download or read book Self reflexivity in Literature written by Werner Huber and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction - C. Henke: Self-Reflexivity and Common Sense in A Tale of a Tub and Tristram Shandy: Eighteenth-Century Satire and the Novel - C. Goer: Wie Tyrann Amor seine Meisterin fand: Die Geburt des Individuums aus dem Geist der Musik in Wilhem Heinses Musikroman Hildegard von Hohenthal - H. Breuer: John Keats' Ode To Autumn als Metapoesie - H. Zapf: Structure, Chaos, and Self-Reference in Edgar Allan Poe - U. Böker: "A raid on the inarticulate:" Hawthorne, Hopkins, Hofmannsthal - T. Fischer-Seidel: Archetypal Structures and Literature in Joyce's Ulysses: Aristotle, Frye, and the Plot of Ulysses - P. Freese: Trouble in the House of Fiction: Bernard Malamud's The Tenants - B. Hesse: "The moo's an arrant thief" - Self-Reflexivity in Nabokov's Pale Fire - W. Huber: "Why this farce, day after day?" On Samuel Beckett's Eleuthéria - L. Volkmann: Explorationen des Ichs: Hanif Kureishis post-ethnische Kurzgeschichten - P. Lenz: Talking-Cures oder Tall Stories? The (Dis)Establishing of Reality in Conor McPherson's The Weir - A. Merbitz: The Art of Listing: Selbstreflexive Elemente in Nick Hornbys High Fidelty - A.Nünning: Fictional Metabiographies and Metaautobiographies: Towards a Definition, Typology and Analysis of Self-Reflexive Hybrid Metagenres - M. Middeke: Self-Reflexivity, Trans-/Intertextuality, and Hermeneutic Deep-Structure in Contemporary British Fiction - A. H. Kümmel: Mighty Matryoshka: Zum Konzept der fraktalen Person - M. Markus: Tu put it shortly: Abkürzungen, reflektiert am Beispiel englischer und deutscher Eigennamen - R. Weskamp: Selbstreflexion und Fremdsprachenerwerb

Quotes Web 555

Author	: Voicu Mihnea Simandan
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	: 2009-12-28
ISBN 10	: 9780557218431
Pages	: 78 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (572 users)

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Download or read book Quotes Web 555 written by Voicu Mihnea Simandan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 555 quotes on 171 topics: Academia * Achievements * Age * Airlines * Alcohol * Amateurs * America & The Americans * Anger * Animals * Beauty * Books * Boredom * Bosses * Britain & The British * Buddhism * Burma & The Burmese * Business * Capital Punishment * Cats * Children * Chinese, The* Christianity * Churches * Clothes * Cities * Communication * Communism * Conscience * Conspiracies * Countries * Cowards * Crying * Culture & Civilization * Curiosity * Dancing * Danger * Death * Desert * Desires * Destiny * Dignity * Dirt * Dogs * Dreams * Drinking * Duty * Education * Emotions * Enemies * English Language, The * Envy * Europe * Evil * Family * Faith * Fate * Fear * Fighting * Fitness * Food * Football * Foreigners * Free Will * Freedom * Friends * Friendship * Future * Germans * Generosity * Geology * God * Good & Evil * Gossip and many more...

Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context 4 volumes

Author	: Linda De Roche
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2021-06-30
ISBN 10	: 9781440853593
Pages	: 1348 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (48 users)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context 4 volumes written by Linda De Roche and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research. Covers significant authors, as well as those neglected by history, and their works from major historical and cultural periods of the last century, including authors writing today Situates authors' works not only within their own canon but also with the historical and cultural context of the U.S. more broadly Positions primary documents after specific authors or works, allowing readers to read excerpts critically in light of the entries Examines literary movements, forms, and genres that also pay special attention to multi-ethnic and women writers

English Literature

Author	: Ezekiel Leon
Publisher	: Scientific e-Resources
Release Date	: 2019-01-28
ISBN 10	: 9781839472978
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (394 users)

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Download or read book English Literature written by Ezekiel Leon and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book methodicallly graphs the direction of the English novel from its rise as the chief scholarly class in the mid twentieth century to its mid twenty first century status of unpredictable greatness in new media conditions. Precise parts address 'The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre', 'The Novel in the Economy', 'Genres', 'Gender' (performativity, masculinities, woman's rights, eccentric), and 'The Burden of Representation' (class and ethnicity). Broadened contextualized close readings of more than twenty key writings from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015) supplement the methodical approach and energize future research by giving reviews of gathering and hypothetical points of view. Expanding specialization inside the teach of English and American Studies has moved the concentration of insightful dialog toward hypothetical reflection and social settings. These improvements have profited the train in more courses than one, yet they have likewise brought about a specific disregard of close perusing. Therefore, understudies and scientists inspired by such material are compelled to swing to grant from the 1970s, quite a bit of which depends on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook means to fill this hole by giving new readings of writings that figure unmistakably in the writing classroom and in academic level headed discussion aE ' from James' The Ambassadors to McCarthy's The Road.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works

Author	: Geoff Hamilton
Publisher	: Infobase Publishing
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN 10	: 9781438129709
Pages	: 433 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (381 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works written by Geoff Hamilton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of the best writers and works of the current English-speaking literary world.

The Sublime Today

Author	: Gillian B. Pierce
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2013-01-04
ISBN 10	: 9781443845151
Pages	: 225 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (438 users)

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Download or read book The Sublime Today written by Gillian B. Pierce and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sublime Today considers contemporary applications of aesthetic philosophy and earlier theories of the sublime from Longinus, Boileau, Burke, Kant, and Hegel to current literary and cultural contexts. Today, aesthetic experience itself seems to be changing, given the rise of new media and new conditions for the viewing and the reception of works of art. How might the rhetoric of the sublime be used to both describe our current situation and help formulate constructive responses to it? The Sublime Today collects the work of scholars in literature, film, art, and media studies and provides a forum for investigating the contemporary relevance of the sublime, both as it has been understood historically and as it has been formulated by more recent theorists such as Jameson, Lyotard, Kristeva, and others. The volume includes essays on literary readings of the sublime in Coetze, Eggers, Lahiri, and Auster; essays on film and the visual arts in the work of François Ozon and in recent participatory art; and essays on how new technologies and media, as in media representations of 9/11, re-frame our relationship to the aesthetics of the sublime, especially as they intersect with questions of gender, the postcolonial, and the uneasy politics of terror.

Persistence and Resistance in English Studies

Author	: Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester
Publisher	: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date	: 2018-06-11
ISBN 10	: 9781527512283
Pages	: 189 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (275 users)

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Download or read book Persistence and Resistance in English Studies written by Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persistence and Resistance: New Research in English Studies gathers together a selection of articles by members of the Association of Young Researchers in Anglophone Studies (ASYRAS). The volume covers a wide range of topics dealing with English literature and culture, language and linguistics. Varied in content and methodology, the articles here offer valuable insights into how young researchers approach the field of English Studies at a time of crisis when the very existence of the university is at risk. The work gathered here also shows that we need to reconsider the meaning of international research. Based mostly in Spanish universities, the researchers gathered here come from a variety of national backgrounds, mainly Spanish, but also British, American, Eastern European and Chinese. They are producing research in English Studies in a global Anglophone environment, contributing at the same time – with persistence and resistance – new approaches that enhance the research produced in the geographical areas where English is spoken.

The Preface

Author	: Ross K. Tangedal
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Release Date	: 2021-11-06
ISBN 10	: 9783030851514
Pages	: 220 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (38 users)

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Download or read book The Preface written by Ross K. Tangedal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on insights from the fields of textual criticism, bibliography, narratology, authorship studies, and book history, The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century examines the role that prefaces played in the development of professional authorship in America. Many of the prefaces written by American writers in the twentieth century catalogue the shifting landscape of a more self-consciously professionalized trade, one fraught with tension and compromise, and influenced by evolving reading publics. With analyses of Willa Cather, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Penn Warren, and Toni Morrison, Ross K. Tangedal argues that writers used prefaces as a means of expanding and complicating authority over their work and, ultimately, as a way to write about their careers. Tangedal’s approach offers a new way of examining American writers in the evolving literary marketplace of the twentieth century.

Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism

Author	: Rachel Greenwald Smith
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2015-04-20
ISBN 10	: 9781316241196
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (162 users)

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Download or read book Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism written by Rachel Greenwald Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in contemporary fiction emphasizes the personal lives of characters at a time when there is an unprecedented, and often damaging, focus on the individual in American life. Through readings of works by Paul Auster, Karen Tei Yamashita, Ben Marcus, Lydia Millet, and others who stage experiments in the relationship between feeling and form, Smith argues for the centrality of a counter-tradition in contemporary literature concerned with impersonal feelings: feelings that challenge the neoliberal notion that emotions are the property of the self.