Publisher :Random House Release Date :2013-10-21 ISBN :1448162963 Pages :352 pages Rating Book:4.4/5 (448 users)
Download or read book The Love of a Good Woman written by Alice Munro and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems: as in her title story it can be needy and murderous. Here are women behaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running off with unstuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts.
Publisher :Lulu Press, Inc Release Date :2016-06-18 ISBN :1365202305 Pages : pages Rating Book:4.6/5 (365 users)
Download or read book For the Love of a Good Woman: Four Historical Romances written by Doreen Milstead and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2016-06-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making A Home With The Horse Taming Cowboy In Arizona - A governess from England arrives on American soil and finds out that the couple she works for has fired her. Native Fear - A woman decides to go out west after becoming widowed, but when she arrives her fiancé is nothing at all like she imagined he would be. His appearance brings back horrid memories of a family tragedy, and she doubts that she can even speak to him, let alone get married. Abigail & the Lost Soul - When a woman sets out for Colorado to meet her future husband, she encounters many trials of faith and endurance, as well as one temporarily lost soul whose life becomes entwined with her own as the struggle to survive begins. A Loss That Cannot Be Borne - A man helps his friend by working on a house that the friend is creating in anticipation of the man’s soon-to-arrive mail ordered bride, but something happens that pulls the reins on the friend’s hopes and dreams.
Publisher :Zebra Books Release Date :2022-12-27 ISBN :1420152165 Pages :359 pages Rating Book:4.2/5 (42 users)
Download or read book The Love of a Good Amish Woman written by Rosalind Lauer and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overworked bishop and a resilient widow are a help to nearly everyone in their faith-filled Amish community of Joyful River, Pennsylvania—but what will help them see just how right they can be for each other? Collette Yoder’s path hasn’t been easy since her husband abandoned her—and she recovered from a near-fatal injury. But now-widowed, she feels blessed to provide for her children, especially when her new job means helping the also newly widowed Bishop Aaron Troyer straighten out his too-busy life. She simply won’t let herself hope too much that their friendship could blossom into much, much more . . . Aaron Troyer can only thank Gott that he’s finally found help. With a thriving congregation and two lively daughters growing up fast, the bishop has more demands on his time than hours in the day. And he’s long admired Collette Yoder's quiet courage and ability to find joy in the smallest things—an inspiring example for three visiting Englisch girls. But amid unforeseen trouble and strife, Aaron may realize that his admiration for Collette could lead to a lifetime of joy together . . . Praise for An Amish Homecoming “Biblical themes of faith and love echo throughout. . . . Lauer’s fans will be satisfied with the happy endings and eagerly await the next trip to Joyful River.” –Publishers Weekly
Publisher : Release Date :2008 ISBN : Pages : pages Rating Book:4.1/5 (11 users)
Download or read book Die Liebe zu Zeiten der Cholera written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Publisher :ABC-CLIO Release Date :2008 ISBN :0275991210 Pages :184 pages Rating Book:4.7/5 (275 users)
Download or read book The Fiction of Alice Munro written by Brad Hooper and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a short-story writer, Alice Munro has achieved high critical and popular regard in both her native Canada and in the United States. Indeed, Munro has been adopted by the entire English-speaking world as one of its own, and her work has received many awards and honors. In the U.S., she is roundly regarded as one of the best--if not the best--contemporary writers of the short story, and one of the greatest living fiction writers. Here, Brad Hooper takes readers through her fiction, work by work, discussing the themes, forms, techniques, and styles she employs to make her work come alive. Munro has founded her own brand of the short story: longer than traditionally practiced in the short-story form and encompassing broader time frames. Her stories are primarily character studies that explore the impact of physical and mental isolation in adolescence, middle age, and into elder years. Hooper traces Munro's evolving definition of the short story form and surveys the fiction in an effort to elucidate the works for newcomers and enthusiasts alike.
Publisher :Infobase Publishing Release Date :2009 ISBN :1604135875 Pages :219 pages Rating Book:4.0/5 (64 users)
Download or read book Alice Munro written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the years, this Canadian writer has emerged as a master of the short story. The compressed and encapsulated energies of the form allow Alice Munro to peel away at the smooth and mundane surfaces that contain her characters' lives to reveal harsher truths within. This acclaimed writer is profiled for the first time in this indispensable series through full-length critical essays that plumb the depths of her rich, fictive worlds. In this new work, a chronology of her life, a bibliography of Munro's work, and an index provide valuable information for student researchers.
Publisher :McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP Release Date :2007-10-26 ISBN :0773575715 Pages :384 pages Rating Book:4.7/5 (773 users)
Download or read book Tropes and Territories written by Marta Dvorak and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-10-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropes and Territories demonstrates how current debates in postcolonial criticism bear on the reading, writing, and status of short fiction. These debates, which hinge on competing definitions of "trope" (motif vs rhetorical turn) and "territory" (political or aesthetic), lead to studies of space, place, influence, and writing and reading practices across cultural divides. The essays also explore the character of diasporic writing, the cultural significance of oral tale-telling, and interconnections between socio/political issues and strategies of style.
Publisher :Walter de Gruyter Release Date :2008-01-01 ISBN :3110969807 Pages :464 pages Rating Book:4.1/5 (11 users)
Download or read book Theorizing Narrativity written by John Pier and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading). There are chapters by Gerald Prince on narrativehood and narrativity, Meir Sternberg on the narrativity of the law-code, Werner Wolf on chance and Peter Hühn on eventfulness in fiction, Jukka Tyrkkö on kaleidoscope narratives, Marie-Laure Ryan on transfictionality and computer games, Ansgar Nünning and Roy Sommer as well as Monika Fludernik on the narrativity of drama, Beatriz Penas on (non)standard narrativities, David Rudrum on narrativity and performativity, Michael Toolan on textual guidance, John Pier on causality and retrospection, and José Ángel García Landa on retelling and represented narrations.
Publisher :John Benjamins Publishing Company Release Date :2015-09-15 ISBN :9027268177 Pages :300 pages Rating Book:4.2/5 (27 users)
Download or read book Made-in-Canada Humour written by Beverly J. Rasporich and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.
Publisher :McFarland Release Date :2017-04-06 ISBN :1476668590 Pages :274 pages Rating Book:4.7/5 (476 users)
Download or read book The English Short Story in Canada written by Reingard M. Nischik and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s. This book traces the development and highlights of the English-language Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to the present. The history as well as the theoretical approaches to the genre are covered, with in-depth examination of exemplary stories by prominent writers such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
Publisher :Bloomsbury Publishing Release Date :2010-09-15 ISBN :1137037202 Pages :208 pages Rating Book:4.3/5 (137 users)
Download or read book Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction written by Catherine Brady and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates how technique serves 'story logic,' the particular way fiction makes meaning. Writers raid the cupboard of theory looking for what works, and generic rules don't account for the rich variety of strategies they employ. For writers who are past the beginner stage, Brady offers a closer look at craft fundamentals, including plot, characterization, patterns of imagery, and style. The lively, lucid discussion draws on vivid examples from classic and contemporary fiction, ranging from George Eliot and William Faulkner to Haruki Murakami and Toni Morrison. Because it supplies the analytical tools needed to read as a writer, this text will enrich the reader's approach to any work of fiction, energizing discussion in a workshop or craft course.
Publisher :John Benjamins Publishing Release Date :2009 ISBN :9027233381 Pages :225 pages Rating Book:4.2/5 (27 users)
Download or read book Narrative Progression in the Short Story written by Michael J. Toolan and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader s forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close. Toolan uses corpus linguistic software and methods, and stylistic and narratological theory, in the course of delineating the matrix of eight parameters that he sees as crucial to creating narrative progression and expectation. The book will be of interest to stylisticians, narratologists, corpus linguists, and short story scholars."
Publisher :University of Pennsylvania Press Release Date :1992-09 ISBN :9780812214116 Pages :212 pages Rating Book:4.1/5 (214 users)
Download or read book Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Sandra Brown, Jayne Ann Krentz, Mary Jo Putney, and other romance writers refute the myths and biases related to the romance genre and its readers
Publisher :Springer Release Date :2018-09-03 ISBN :3319906445 Pages :250 pages Rating Book:4.1/5 (319 users)
Download or read book Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro written by Amelia DeFalco and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro’s writing. The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical criticism, age studies, disability studies, animal studies, and posthumanism. These essays offer us an Alice Munro who is not the kindly Canadian icon reinforcing small-town verities who was celebrated and perpetuated in acts of national pedagogy with her Nobel Prize win; they ponder, instead, an edgier, messier Munro whose fictions of affective and ethical perplexities disturb rather than comfort. In Munro’s fiction, unruly embodiments and affects interfere with normative identity and humanist conventions of the human based on reason and rationality, destabilizing prevailing gender and sexual politics, ethical responsibilities, and affective economies. As these essays make clear, Munro’s fiction reminds us of the consequences of everyday affects and the extraordinary ordinariness of the ethical encounters we engage again and again.
Publisher :Random House Release Date :2011-11-17 ISBN :1448128404 Pages :52 pages Rating Book:4.4/5 (448 users)
Download or read book Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (Storycuts) written by Alice Munro and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two teenage girls fabricate one end of a correspondence, they leave a lonely, unprepossessing housemaid with some sadly misguided ideas. The prank upsets several lives, even if all the pieces don't tip over in the expected directions. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
Publisher :Cambridge University Press Release Date :2016-03-08 ISBN :1316558703 Pages : pages Rating Book:4.1/5 (316 users)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro written by David Staines and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her artistic achievement. Considering a wide range of topics – including Munro's style, life writing, her personal development, and her use of Greek myths, Celtic ballads, Norse sagas, and popular songs – this volume will appeal to keen readers of Munro's fiction as well as students and scholars of literature and Canadian and gender studies.
Publisher :Springer Release Date :2011-04-05 ISBN :023031659X Pages :204 pages Rating Book:4.3/5 (23 users)
Download or read book Teaching the Short Story written by A. Cox and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism and genre. This book offers a practical guide to the short story in the classroom, covering all these fields and more.
