Narrative Discourse Revisited
By: Gérard Genette
3.98
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a be…
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1. Image - Music - Text
By: Roland Barthes , None
4.10
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Image-Music-Text brings together major essays by Roland Barthes on the structural analysis of narra… read more
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"The author enters into his own death, writing begins."-Roland Barthes, Image - Music - Text
"There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence."-Roland Barthes, Image - Music - Text
2. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more
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"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
3. The Gathering
By: Anne Enright
3.13
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more
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"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
4. Beasts of No Nation
By: Uzodinma Iweala
3.79
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures … read more
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"And now the woman is praying to God............... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country."-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
"I am also thinking as I am rubbing the mud off my feets and then folding my arm up in my lap how it is strange that all of these men are always looking at this whole country on map and acting as if i…"-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
"I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it …"-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
"Sometimes when you are hearing what you do not want to be hearing then everything in your body stops to working and all you can be doing is looking because unless you are blind then your eye never st…"-Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
5. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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6. How to Do Things with Words
By: J.L. Austin
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lect… read more
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7. Los de abajo
By: Mariano Azuela
3.59
Format: None pages,
Durante la Revolucion Mexicana, Mariano Azuela fue medico de la faccion la que comandaba Francisco … read more
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8. Anatomy of Criticism
By: Northrop Frye
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northr… read more
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- literary criticism
9. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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11. La preuve
By: Ágota Kristóf
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Avec Le Grand Cahier nous etions dans un pays en guerre ou deux enfants, des jumeaux, apprenaient a… read more
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12. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
13. Poesía completa
By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu
2.74
Format: None pages,
Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more
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14. A House for Mr Biswas
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more
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15. The Joys of Motherhood
By: Buchi Emecheta
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Nnu Ego is a woman who gives all her energy, money and everything she has to raising her children -… read more
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16. An Inspector Calls
By: None
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more
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17. Il visconte dimezzato
By: Italo Calvino
3.82
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
[Trovi un'edizione con copertina alternativa per questo ISBN qui] Il narratore rievoca la storia… read more
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"نظراً لقلة معرفتهم بكل ما هو خطيئة ,كانوا يضاعفون في الممنوعات حتى لا يخطئوا."-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato
"Gridò, se si può dir che gridi chi parla senza emetter quasi suono ma con tutta la sua forza."-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato
"جوانی... سنی که احساس ها هنوز حالتی مبهم دارند و خیر و شر هنوز مشخص نیست، سنی که عشق به زندگی به هر تجربه جدید، حتی غیر انسانی و مرگبار، حدت و جوش و خروش خاصی می بخشد."-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato
18. The Death of the Author
By: Roland Barthes
4.00
Format: 126 pages,
"The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes… read more
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19. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
20. Selected Poems
By: Linda Gray Sexton , Anne Sexton
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Paperback
This selection, which is drawn from Anne Sexton's ten published volumes of poems as well as from re… read more
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21. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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22. Morphology of the Folktale
By: Alan Dundes , Vladimir Propp , Laurence Scott , None , None , None
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretica… read more
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23. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
By: Mikhail Bakhtin , Michael Holquist , None
2.82
Format: 3 pages, Paperback
These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of R… read more
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24. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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25. Writing Degree Zero
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers , Susan Sontag , Colin Smith
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Is there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? … read more
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26. Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
By: Mieke Bal
2.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the internationa… read more
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27. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
28. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
29. Monkey King
By: Wu Cheng'en
4.10
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a spa… read more
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30. Narrative Discourse Revisited
By: Gérard Genette
3.98
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a be… read more
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31. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
