The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's

The Short Story and Photography, 1880's-1980's

Author: Jane Marjorie Rabb

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780826318718

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For over a hundred years stories about photographs and photography have reflected the profound uncertainties and inconclusive endings of the modern world. For many writers, photography, supposedly the most realistic of the arts, turns out to be the most ambiguous. As Jane Rabb observes in her introduction, a number of the stories in this collection involve mysteries, perhaps because photography has a capacity for both documentary reality and moral and psychological ambiguity. Many nineteenth-century writers represented here, including Thomas Hardy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped make short fiction as respectable as the novel. Some of them were even serious photographers themselves. The twentieth century is arguably a golden age for both the short story and photography. This collection includes examples from a worldly group of writer--Eugène Ionesco, Julio Cortá¡zar, Michel Tournier, and Italo Calvino, as well as the Chinese writer Bing Xin and John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, and Raymond Carver. In this wide range of stories, varying from sentimental to obsessive, to sinister, to tragic and even fatal, the reader will find provocative examples of the confluence of the short story and photography, both once considered the bastard stepchildren of literature and art.


The Golden Droplet

The Golden Droplet

Author: Michel Tournier

Publisher: Doubleday Books

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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A modern fable about a fourteen-year-old Berber shepherd who is drawn away from his Sahara oasis when a French tourist takes his photograph. The young shepherd plans a route to Paris in search of the photograph and the beautiful blonde who took it.


Security of Biochip Cyberphysical Systems

Security of Biochip Cyberphysical Systems

Author: Shayan Mohammed

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-03-28

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 3030932745

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This book provides readers with a valuable guide to understanding security and the interplay of computer science, microfluidics, and biochemistry in a biochip cyberphysical system (CPS). The authors uncover new, potential threat and trust-issues to address, as this emerging technology is poised to be adapted at a large scale. Readers will learn how to secure biochip CPS by leveraging the available resources in different application contexts, as well as how to ensure intellectual property (IP) is protected against theft and counterfeits. This book enables secure biochip CPS design by helping bridge the knowledge gap at the intersection of the multi-disciplinary technology that drives biochip CPS.


Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions

Michel Tournier's Metaphysical Fictions

Author: Susan Petit

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9789027217608

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This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works. Guided by Tournier's essays and interviews, Petit examines his fiction in light of plot sources, philosophical and anthropological training, and his belief that fiction should change the world. Close study of Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique, Le Roi des aulnes, Les Meteores, Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, and La Goutte d'or, as well as the short fiction in Le Coq de bruyere and Le Medianoche amoureux, shows Tournier's revolutionary conception of plot structuring as he develops key themes, whether religion, sensuality, or prejudice, in more than twenty years spent reconceiving the nature of fiction.


Road of Cultivation

Road of Cultivation

Author: Nong MinErShu

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2020-06-11

Total Pages: 906

ISBN-13: 1649487800

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He had unexpectedly discovered a great secret ... Orphan Zhou Xingchen had accidentally acquired a wordless heavenly book, opened his cultivation gate, and embarked on the road of cultivation.


Michel Tournier

Michel Tournier

Author: Michael Worton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1317896394

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This volume of essays brings together critical analysis and commentary on the literary work of Michel Tournier.


The Writer's Source Book

The Writer's Source Book

Author: Chris Sykes

Publisher: Teach Yourself

Published: 2011-09-30

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1444136607

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Is your creative writing in need of inspiration? Do you need confidence to create watertight plots and believable characters? The Writer's Source Book provides dozens of practical exercises to help you create storylines, craft people and generate ideas, with support and creative insight for every stage. It will give you support in identifying your genre and crafting your work around it, and help you to understand the complexities of plot and character before beginning to create your own. Inspired and inspiring exercises will help you master the structure of your book, story or play, while focused and innovative advise will help those who have run into trouble. This is a technical manual ideal for any writer who needs to build, fix, polish or perfect their storyline.


Beyond the Great Mist

Beyond the Great Mist

Author: Asia Khafiz

Publisher: Litres

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 5457924394

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During long summer evenings under the Central Asian skies, my little sister in her insatiable curiosity demanded new tales. And when all the famous stories had already been told, it became clear that the time had come to create. Thus, the novel “The Great Mist” was born. This fantasy tells the story of love and hate, of passion and longing, of dreams and reality – all on the edges of consciousness and subconsciousness. Wonderful illustrations were made by a talented illustrator, Ksenia Tkach.


Transfigurations of the Maghreb

Transfigurations of the Maghreb

Author: Winifred Woodhull

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780816620555

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This work presents a critical perspective on many of the best-known texts of Algerian literature in French. It also discusses Maghrebian immigration into France; contemporary French writing about the Maghreb; and "nomadic" poststructuralist theories of language, subjectivity and sociality. Woodhull offers a thorough and detailed exploration of the historical context and the ways in which femininity has been represented in the texts of North African and French writers since the mid-1950s. She aims to provide an important corrective to some (male) models of anticolonialist ideology. Through informed readings of texts by "metropolitan" writers such as Le Clezio, Tournier, Cardinal, and Sullerot, Woodhull challenges the sterile dichotomies which continue to occur in the institutional organization of French departments - namely, the separation between French and Francophone literatures and cultures. In her refusal to allow nationalist concerns to take precedence over the needs of women, Woodhull breaks away from traditional Marxist readings of literature. "Transfigurations of the Maghreb" reveals how Maghrebian texts challenge the very existence of a repressive paternal law, while also attending to the historical contexts from which Maghrebian writing emerges, and the national and global conflicts that encumber its efforts to displace restrictive identities of sex, class, race, nationality and language.