Figuring Grief
Figuring Grief

Author: Karen E. Smythe

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1992-11-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 077356361X

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The title, Figuring Grief, refers to the narrative process whereby mourning is depicted. In her textual analysis, Smythe explores various connections between representation and consolation. Drawing on genre and narratological theory, she outlines the development of the "fiction-elegy" as a sub-genre and suggests that the modernist writings of Woolf and Joyce are paradigmatic examples of the form. She then uses these paradigms as suggestive "reading models" for the interpretation of works by Gallant, Munro, and other contemporary fiction-elegists. Figuring Grief offers new readings of specific works and suggests that new ways of reading are both demanded and rewarded by a poetics of elegy.

Epiphanies & Elegies
Epiphanies & Elegies

Author: Brian Doyle

Publisher: Abhinav Publications

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781580512046

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Epiphanies & Elegies is a collection of delightful, accessible poems shot through with wonder, humor, faith, and Irish Catholic heritage. Brian Doyle illuminates seemingly ordinary, everyday events in poems that will immediately touch with the reader with their truth. These warm and insightful pieces are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant takes on the small wonders and inevitable tragedies of life.

Chicago
Chicago

Author: Brian Doyle

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-03-29

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1250061997

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On the last day of summer, some years ago, a young college graduate moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the vast and muscular lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there, during which he meets gangsters, gamblers, policemen, a brave and garrulous bus driver, a cricket player, a librettist, his first girlfriend, a shy apartment manager, and many other riveting souls, not to mention a wise and personable dog of indeterminate breed. A love letter to Chicago, the Great American City, and a wry account of a young man's coming-of-age during the one summer in White Sox history when they had the best outfield in baseball, Brian Doyle's Chicago is a novel that will plunge you into a city you will never forget, and may well wish to visit for the rest of your days.

Patterns of Epiphany
Patterns of Epiphany

Author: Martin Bidney

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780809321162

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Taking his cue from the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, he postulates that any writer's epiphany pattern usually shows characteristic elements (earth, air, fire, water), patterns of motion (pendular, eruptive, trembling), and/or geometric shapes.

A Book of Uncommon Prayer
A Book of Uncommon Prayer

Author: Brian Doyle

Publisher: Ave Maria Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1933495634

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Brian Doyle was a one-of-a-kind author who wrote one-of-a-kind prayers about everyday subjects that help readers change the way they see the world. Prayers for cashiers and good shoes; for shorter sermons and better senators; prayers for the bruised, foolish, glorious, stumbling, brilliant Church; for chaplains and mathematicians; for idiot authors and muddy dogs: These are the most heartfelt and headlong prayers you will ever read and share—the grinning, snarling prayers we mouth quietly in the car and the shower and the pub, the small chapels of our everyday life. Doyle said he aimed to write short pieces that functioned like “arrows to the heart.” This book is a quiver full of those sharp arrows, "stealth theology” that explores everyday encounters—from nuns to possums, from Chet Baker to Port-A-Potties—through a Catholic, sacramental imagination. Since Doyle’s death in 2017 from a brain tumor, enthusiasm for his award-winning writing has only swelled, whether it’s his quirky prayers, kinetic essays, or magical novels such as Mink River and The Plover. This tenth anniversary edition of A Book of Uncommon Prayer includes a new foreword from his wife, Mary, and an afterword from his good friend Peter Boland, who delivered the eulogy at Doyle’s funeral.

The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World
The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World

Author: Brian Doyle

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1250100526

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-The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married ... and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world ... Now Brian Doyle brings Stevenson's untold tale to life, braiding the adventures of seaman John Carson with those of a young Stevenson, wandering the streets of San Francisco, gathering material for his fiction, and yearning for his beloved across the bay---

Activist Poetics
Activist Poetics

Author: John Kinsella

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1846314690

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John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with—and often through—those creative works, Kinsella is also a prominent political activist. In this collection of essays, he explores anarchism, veganism, pacifism, and ecological poetics and makes a compelling argument for poetry as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills. Building on his own earlier notion of "linguistic disobedience," he analyzes his poetry and prose in the context of resistance. For Kinsella, all poetry is a call to action, and Activist Poetics reads like a lively manifesto for it to escape the aesthetic vacuum and enter the real world.

lilacsandlilies
lilacsandlilies

Author: Mimansa Mukherjee

Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing

Published: 2022-05-09

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9354907318

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A collection of poems and poetic proses exploring the themes of sadness, grief, pain, love, loss, betrayal, acceptance and hope. The book is divided into three parts. The first part, Child Of Melancholy, focuses on the emotions of grief and sadness. The second part, Child Of Anguish, focuses on pain and desolation. The third and final part, Child Of Evil, explores the nuanced feelings of rage, betrayal and hopelessness along with loyalty, kinship, hope and love.

Martin Marten
Martin Marten

Author: Brian Doyle

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1250045207

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"Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as Dave prefers to call it, like the Native Americans once did, Wy'east). He is entering high school, adulthood on the horizon not far off in distance, and contemplating a future away from his mother, father, and his precocious younger sister. And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms on Wy'east that summer. Martin, a pine marten (a small animal of the deep woods, of the otter/mink family), is leaving his own mother and siblings and setting off on his own as well"--