Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume One:
Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume One:

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Verbivoracious Press

Published: 2015-05-16

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9810794088

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The flagship issue fêtes Christine Brooke-Rose, one of the most innovative voices of the twentieth century, whose fiction plays challenging games with form and structure, using grammatical constraints, multiple languages, and a dicing of genre styles and theoretical discourses as an integral component of her novels. Brooke-Rose is among an unfortunate revue of writers whose work is fading out of print, rarely part of critical or academic discussion. This 320-page issue contains creative and critical responses to her fiction, theory, and criticism, written with an eye to the general literary reader unfamiliar with her output, but with enough homage, parody, imitation, and analysis to excite her devoted fan base.

Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories

Author: Donald Barthelme

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-09-30

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780142437391

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With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts. Like all of Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Between
Between

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Michael Joseph

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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The Death of the Author
The Death of the Author

Author: Gilbert Adair

Publisher: Melville House Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781933633572

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In a jet-black satire based on a real-life scandal, the leading writer in a school of literary criticism that says authors are meaningless-"dead"-is discovered to have been a Nazi. Gilbert Adair is the author of "Love and Death on Long Island" and the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers,"

Thru
Thru

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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Amalgamemnon
Amalgamemnon

Author: Christine Brooke-Rose

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781564780508

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History and literature seem to be losing ground in the contemporary world of electronic media, and battle lines have been drawn between the humanities and technology, the first world and the third, women and men. Narrator Mira Enketei erases these boundaries in a punning monologue that blends the contemporary with the historical, and in which she sees herself as Cassandra, condemned by Apollo to prophesy but never to be believed, enslaved by Agamemnon after the fall of Troy. Here, Brooke-Rose amalgamates ancient literature and modern anxieties to produce a powerful novel about our future.

The Evening Road
The Evening Road

Author: Laird Hunt

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0316268321

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Two women, two secrets: one desperate and extraordinary day. In the high heat of an Indiana summer, news spreads fast. When Marvel, the local county seat, plans to lynch three young black men, word travels faster. It is August, 1930, the height of the Jim Crow era, and the prospect of the spectacle sends shockwaves rumbling through farm country as far as a day's wagon-ride away. Ottie Lee Henshaw, a fiery small-town beauty, sets out with her lecherous boss and brooding husband to join in whatever fun there is to be had. At the opposite end of the road to Marvel, Calla Destry, a young African-American woman determined to escape the violence, leaves home to find the lover who has promised her a new life. As the countryside explodes in frenzied revelry, the road is no place for either. It is populated by wild-eyed demagogues, marauding vigilantes, possessed bloodhounds, and even by the Ku Klux Klan itself. Reminiscent of the works of Louise Erdrich, Edward P. Jones, and Marilynne Robinson, The Evening Road is the story of two remarkable woman on the move through an America riven by fear and hatred, and eager to flee the secrets they have left behind.

Christine Brooke-Rose and Post-War Literature
Christine Brooke-Rose and Post-War Literature

Author: Joseph Darlington

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-11

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 3030759067

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This book utilizes archive research, interviews and historical analysis to present a comprehensive overview of the works of Christine Brooke-Rose. A writer well-known for her idiosyncratic and experimental approaches to the novel form; this work traces her development from her early years as a social satirist, through her space-aged experimentalism in the 1960s, to her later poststructuralism and interest in digital computing and genetics. The book gives an overview of her writing and intellectual career with new archival research that places Brooke-Rose’s work in the context of the historically important events in which she was a participant: Bletchley Park codebreaking in the Second World War, the events in Paris during May 1968, the dawning of the internet and the rise of poststructuralism. Joseph Darlington begins with Brooke-Rose’s first novels written in the late 1950s of social satire, studies her experimental phase of writing and finally illuminates her unique approach to autobiography, arguing for reevaluating this interdisciplinary author and her contribution to poststructuralism, life writing and post-war literature.

A Book of Uncommon Prayer
A Book of Uncommon Prayer

Author: Matthew Vollmer

Publisher:

Published: 2015-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781937402761

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An anthology of everyday evocations, collecting original work from 68 authors. A benefit project for 826 Valencia.