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A Gogolian nightmare from the point of view of a small-town English professor

This book takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into question the notion of a singular "theory of fiction, " especially in relation to the novel. Unlike Forster's approach to "Aspects of the Novel, " which implied there is only one kind of novel to which there may be an aspect, this book deconstructs how one approach to studying something as protean as the novel cannot be accomplis...

This book takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into question the notion of a singular "theory of fiction, " especially in relation to the novel. Unlike Forster's approach to "Aspects of the Novel, " which implied there is only one kind of novel to which there may be an aspect, this book deconstructs how one approach to studying something as protean as the novel cannot be accomplis...

This creative yet scholarly book discusses prose's important relationship to close literary analysis, showing how such an approach can be beneficial for readers, scholars, and writers alike. Bringing together a literary history that consists of writers such as Lermontov, Chekhov, Camus, and Calvino, Mark Axelrod masterfully interweaves discussions of structure, context, genre, plot, and other key elements often applied to poetry but seldom app...

Defining what one means by the notion of 'otherness' is no mean feat. Typing the word into JSTOR results in no fewer than 39, 000 citations. There is 'Todorov's Otherness' and 'Taylor, Foucault, and Otherness'. There is the 'Other in the Writings of Heidegger' and 'Hegel on Others and Self', not to mention the notion of 'Otherness in the Pratyabhijña philosophy'. Lilia Melani defines the other as an individual who is perceived by the group as ...

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This book examines one work from each of five prominent authors dealing with madness. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the author associates with each text, and explores the reason for that - such as a historical moment, physical pressure (such as starvation), or the author’s or his narrator’s perspective. The project approaches the texts it explores from the perspective ...

In Mark Axelrod's new book, marketplace crudity and the immortal artist intersect in a riotous and outrageous fashion. Discover the chain of restaurants run by Flaubert's researchers Bouvard and Pecuchet, how an iconic fragrance arose from the erectile dysfunction of J.S. Bach, where Octave Mirabeau consummated his masterpiece L'Erotic Biblion, General Pinochet and Borges's contretemps involving olive oil, Faulkner's stint tinkering with lawnm...

Unlike most screenwriting guides that generally analyze several aspects of screenwriting, Constructing Dialogue is devoted to a more analytical treatment of certain individual scenes and how those scenes were constructed to be the most highly dramatic vis vis their dialogue. In the art of screenwriting, one cannot separate how the scene is constructed from how the dialogue is written. They are completely interwoven. Each chapter deals with how...

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Big Thoughts Are Free is a biography of the Serbian-born entrepreneur cum politician Milan Panic. It traces his childhood in the former Yugoslavia and the horrors he witnessed and endured during the Second World War, as well as how he persevered through those horrors and turned tenacity and business savvy not only to become the CEO of one of biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world, but to become Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of ...

Its heard so often that it seems cliched: "the book was better than the movie." Thats because adapting fiction to the silver screen is hard to do well. Why do some adapted screenplays work while others wilt? What do successful adaptations have in common? And what can the screenwriter learn from unsuccessful attempts to go from page to celluloid? If youre a writer who needs answers to these questions, this is the book youre looking for. In I Re...

This creative yet scholarly book discusses prose's important relationship to close literary analysis, showing how such an approach can be beneficial for readers, scholars, and writers alike. Bringing together a literary history that consists of writers such as Lermontov, Chekhov, Camus, and Calvino, Mark Axelrod masterfully interweaves discussions of structure, context, genre, plot, and other key elements often applied to poetry but seldom app...

Starting with general principles, this book takes you step by step through every aspect of generating compelling characters and gripping conflicts.

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A tongue-in-cheek guide to the connections between contemporary reality and the past, If art imitated capitalism, it would look like Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage. In this secret guide to culture, Mark Axelrod has scoured Europe and the Americas photographing products and businesses that bear the great names of Western civilization and then has recounted the little-known turns of fate by which our immortals ended up in these mundane strai...