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Limits of the Novel

Evolutions of a Form from Chaucer to Robbe-Grillet

By: David I. Grossvogel

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Limits of the Novel

Evolutions of a Form from Chaucer to Robbe-Grillet

By: David I. Grossvogel

What are the limits of the novel? What is the relationship between a work of fiction and reality? How does the writer engage the reader's commitment, and how do successive generations of readers affect the work of art? These are some of the questions that Professor Grossvogel seeks to answer in his wide-ranging new study of the novel. After a chapter on the relation between the novel and its reader, he explores in detail the significant efforts of increasingly sophisticated authors to respond to increasingly sophisticated readers from the Middle Ages to the present. Variously experimental works such as Troilus and Criseyde, Don Quixote, La Princesse de Clevès, Tristram Shandy, The Trial, Remembrance of Things Past, and Nausea give lively evidence for his thesis. There is also a comparative study of Joyce and Robbe-Grillet, as well as the concluding chapter "The Novel as Ritual," based on Robinson Crusoe and The Idiot. In developing a new methodology for analyzing fiction, Professor Grossvogel clarifies and characterizes the most recent experiments in novelistic technique, and places them in perspective by comparing them to earlier ones. His conclusions about the nature of the novel, about the continuing interaction between author and reader, and about the evolutions of the novel as a form are an original contribution to modern critical theory. One of the first works in English to make extensive use of the methods of postwar European philosophical criticism, the book will stimulate controversy and make fascinating reading for anyone concerned with the history—and future—of the novel.

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Cornell University Press

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150174206X

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9781501742064

Marianne and the Puritan

Transformations of the Couple in French and American Films

By: David I. Grossvogel

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Marianne and the Puritan

Transformations of the Couple in French and American Films

By: David I. Grossvogel

Marianne and the Puritan provides a sociological, political, and aesthetic analysis of French and American cultures as seen through their respective cinemas. Author David I. Grossvogel focuses on highly popular and available French and American films which, taken together and through the 20th century, treat permutations of the couple.

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252

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Lexington Books

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0739109464

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9780739109465

Behind the Van Gogh Forgeries

A Memoir

By: David I. Grossvogel

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Behind the Van Gogh Forgeries

A Memoir

By: David I. Grossvogel

Recent research has called into question many of Van Gogh's best-known works, including the most expensive canvas sold in the twentieth century, the SUNFLOWERS acquired in 1987 for just under 40 million dollars. The waves raised by this research have shaken museums and collectors, and have enven reached into the corridors of government. These and their spokesmen are the characters of this book.

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218

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iUniverse

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0595177174

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9780595177172

Changing Channels

America in TV Guide

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,David I. Grossvogel

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Changing Channels

America in TV Guide

By: Glenn C. Altschuler,David I. Grossvogel

With weekly sales of 20 million copies TV Guide has had the largest circulation of any magazine in the U.S. and has dealt for decades with contemporary social and political issues. Here is a star-studded tour of television history that also chronicle's the publication's more recent moves under the ownership of Rupert Murdoch. Photographs.

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240

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University of Illinois Press

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025201779X

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9780252017797

A History of Modern Drama, Volume I

By: David Krasner

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A History of Modern Drama, Volume I

By: David Krasner

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and offering original interpretations Includes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global view of modern drama Considers the influence of modernism in art, music, literature, architecture, society, and politics on the formation of modern dramatic literature Takes an interpretative and analytical approach to modern dramatic texts rather than focusing on production history Includes coverage of the ways in which staging practices, design concepts, and acting styles informed the construction of the dramas

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420

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444343742

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9781444343748

The Perfect Murder

A Study in Detection

By: David Lehman

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The Perfect Murder

A Study in Detection

By: David Lehman

Drawing on a selection of the best British and American detective fiction past and present, Lehman takes readers on a probing investigation of why men and women of all educational and social backgrounds are continually fascinated by the murder mystery.

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288

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University of Michigan Press

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0472085859

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9780472085859

Signs of the Times

Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man

By: David Lehman

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Signs of the Times

Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man

By: David Lehman

One of the most talked about books of the year. "A lucid and fiercely intelligent study of the disturbing implications of deconstruction, and at the same time, an impassioned argument for a more humane study of literature".--The New York Times.

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Simon & Schuster

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0671775944

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9780671775940

Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War

The Conspiratorial Heritage

By: David McKnight

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Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War

The Conspiratorial Heritage

By: David McKnight

From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA, Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services. They were amateurs and the reason for their success is intriguing. Using Soviet archives, this work explores these successes.

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249

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Routledge

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1136338128

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9781136338120

On Higher Education

The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism

By: David Riesman

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On Higher Education

The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism

By: David Riesman

On Higher Education is about the consequences of the student revolt of the 1960's and the decline of faculty influence. This shift from emphasis on academic merit to student consumerism is one of two great reversals of direction in the history of American higher education. This is a book for those curious about our society and its institutions and for all who share a civic concern about the society's future.

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480

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Transaction Publishers

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1412830087

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9781412830089

Hollywood's America

Understanding History Through Film

By: Steven Mintz,Randy W. Roberts,David Welky

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Hollywood's America

Understanding History Through Film

By: Steven Mintz,Randy W. Roberts,David Welky

Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywood’s America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history This fifth edition contains nine new chapters, with a greater overall emphasis on recent film history, and new primary source documents which are unavailable online Entries range from the first experiments with motion pictures all the way to the present day Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film

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453

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118976495

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9781118976494

Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre

By: David Beard

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Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre

By: David Beard

A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain's foremost living composers.

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489

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Cambridge University Press

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0521895340

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9780521895347

Gale Researcher Guide for: Mystery and Detective Fiction: Agatha Christie

By: David Hawkes,Sami H. Atassi

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Mystery and Detective Fiction: Agatha Christie

By: David Hawkes,Sami H. Atassi

Gale Researcher Guide for: Mystery and Detective Fiction: Agatha Christie is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

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Gale, Cengage Learning

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1535853557

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9781535853552

Making Peace with the 60s

By: David Burner

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Making Peace with the 60s

By: David Burner

David Burner's panoramic history of the 1960s conveys the ferocity of debate and the testing of visionary hopes that still require us to make sense of the decade. He begins with the civil rights and black power movements and then turns to nuanced descriptions of Kennedy and the Cold War, the counterculture and its antecedents in the Beat Generation, the student rebellion, the poverty wars, and the liberals' war in Vietnam. As he considers each topic, Burner advances a provocative argument about how liberalism self-destructed in the 1960s. In his view, the civil rights movement took a wrong turn as it gradually came to emphasize the identity politics of race and ethnicity at the expense of the vastly more important politics of class and distribution of wealth. The expansion of the Vietnam War did force radicals to confront the most terrible mistake of American liberalism, but that they also turned against the social goals of the New Deal was destructive to all concerned. Liberals seemed to rule in politics and in the media, Burner points out, yet they failed to make adequate use of their power to advance the purposes that both liberalism and the left endorsed. And forces for social amelioration splintered into pairs of enemies, such as integrationists and black separatists, the social left and mainline liberalism, and advocates of peace and supporters of a totalitarian Hanoi. Making Peace with the 60s will fascinate baby boomers and their elders, who either joined, denounced, or tried to ignore the counterculture. It will also inform a broad audience of younger people about the famous political and literary figures of the time, the salient moments, and, above all, the powerful ideas that spawned events from the civil rights era to the Vietnam War. Finally, it will help to explain why Americans failed to make full use of the energies unleashed by one of the most remarkable decades of our history.

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323

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Princeton University Press

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1400847753

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9781400847754

Cesare Zavattinis Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea

An Intellectual Biography

By: David Brancaleone

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Cesare Zavattinis Neo-realism and the Afterlife of an Idea

An Intellectual Biography

By: David Brancaleone

How many Zavattinis are there? During a life spanning most of the twentieth century, the screenwriter who wrote Sciuscià, Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, and Umberto D. was also a pioneering magazine publisher in 1930s Milan, a public intellectual, a theorist, a tireless campaigner for change within the film industry, a man of letters, a painter and a poet. This intellectual biography is built on the premise that in order to understand Zavattini's idea of cinema and his legacy of ethical and political cinema (including guerrilla cinema), we must also tease out the multi-faceted strands of his interventions and their interplay over time. The book is for general readers, students and film historians, and anyone with an interest in cinema and its fate.

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464

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501316982

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9781501316982

The Magazine Century

American Magazines Since 1900

By: David E. Sumner

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The Magazine Century

American Magazines Since 1900

By: David E. Sumner

The future of magazines? Murky. Their past? Glorious. How we got from there to here is told in this compelling history. It's thrilling, funny, disturbing, sad, and ultimately inspiring. And in these pages are broad and helpful hints on how we can return to glorious."---Richard B. Stolley, Founding Editor, People, and Senior Editorial Adviser, Time Inc. --Book Jacket.

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256

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Peter Lang

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1433104938

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9781433104930

The Aesthetics of Disturbance

Anti-art in Avant-garde Drama

By: David Graver

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The Aesthetics of Disturbance

Anti-art in Avant-garde Drama

By: David Graver

Explores interconnections among early 20th-century visual, literary, and performance art

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274

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University of Michigan Press

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0472105078

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9780472105076

A Poetics of Resistance

Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini

By: David Ward

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A Poetics of Resistance

Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini

By: David Ward

A Poetics of Resistance: Narrative and the Writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini examines the writings of the Italian poet, novelist, filmmaker, theorist, and dramaturg.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838635857

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Limits of the Novel

Evolutions of a Form from Chaucer to Robbe-Grillet

By: David I. Grossvogel

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Evolutions of a Form from Chaucer to Robbe-Grillet

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