MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 85–109. In Invisible Man (1952), Ralph Ellison presents an unnamed narrator who cannot be seen. General readers and critics of the novel have understood this narrator to have been rendered invisible by the impositions of a highly racist society. While this understanding is certainly valid, it ignores an intriguing possibility...
Papers on Language & Literature, 2011. This article looks at The Great Gatsby to discuss manifold instances of contrast between outer appearance/inner reality, instances which reinforce the distance between the promise and fulfillment of America.
The European Legacy, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 79–90, 2004. The self as the identification of the self with itself is a product of the dynamic transformation of European culture beginning in the Renaissance. The self, or absolute ego, was an outgrowth of the conscious rationalist spirit. However, modernity’s Faustian drive was conscious paradoxically without being self-conscious of...
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. — 236 p. Who killed Tolstoy. Babel in California. Summer in Samarcand. The House of Ice. The Possessed. Works Consalted.
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10th Anniversary Edition: Updated and Expanded. — Picador Edition, 2018. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-0-312-42847-1, 978-1-4299-0865-8. 10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction. "How Fiction Works" is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction — an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics...
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Dey Street Books, 2018. — 180 p. — ISBN10: 0062696386, 13 978-0062696380. A rollicking illustrated history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen's beer brewing to James Joyce's passion for Guinness to E.B. White's cure for writers' block-a dry martini-by celebrated illustrator Greg Clarke and award-winning editor/art director Monte Beauchamp. "The tools that I...