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  1. The other shore
    essays on writers and writing /
    Author: Jackson, Michael,
    Published: 2013.
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley, Calif. :

    In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a... more

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    In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible--a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark night of the soul, unrequited love, nostalgic or utopian longing, and the ethnographer's attempt to know the world from the standpoint of others, to put himself or herself in their place. Every writer, whether of ethnography, poetry, or fiction, imagines that his or her own experiences echo the experiences of others, and that despite the need for isolation and silence his or her work consummates a relationship with them.

     
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  2. Reading the Odyssey :
    Selected Interpretive Essays /
    Contributor: Schein, Seth L., (editor.)
    Published: [2020]; ©1996
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of... more

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    This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; its representation of gender roles and, in particular, of Penelope; its narrative strategies and form; and its relation to the Iliad, especially to that epic's distinctive conception of heroism. In the introduction, Seth L. Schein describes the poetic background to the work and suggests a variety of interpretive approaches, some of which are developed in the essays that follow. These essays include previously published work by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pietro Pucci, and Charles P. Segal. There also are a new essay by Laura M. Slatkin, two revised and expanded ones by Nancy Felson-Rubin and Michael N. Nagler, and three appearing in English for the first time by Uvo Hlscher, Karl Reinhardt, and Vernant. The result is a collection that juxtaposes older, often hard-to-find articles with significant newer pieces in a way that allows for a fruitful dialogue among them.

     
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  3. No. 44, the mysterious stranger
    being an ancient tale found in a jug and freely translated from the jug /
    Author: Twain, Mark,
    Published: 2003.
    Publisher:  University of California Press,, Berkeley :

    This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to... more

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    This is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the "The Mysterious Stranger." Albert Bigelow Paine's edition of the same name has been shown to be a textual fraud.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Tuckey, John S.; Gibson, William M.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-283-27971-1; 9786613279712; 0-520-94957-9
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    Edition: 3rd ed.
    Series: The Mark Twain library
    Subjects: American fiction.
    Other subjects: american literature.; austria.; canon.; classic fiction.; classics.; comedy.; evil.; famous authors.; fear.; fiction.; good.; historical fiction.; human nature.; humanity.; humor.; literary criticism.; literature.; magic.; mercy.; morality.; novella.; paranormal.; religion.; religious fanaticism.; righteousness.; samuel clemens.; satan.; satans nephew.; satire.; simple people.; sin.; social commentary.; spirituality.; supernatural powers.; supernatural.; temptation.; village.; western canon.; witch trials.
    Scope: 1 online resource (216 p.)
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    "A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library."

    Includes bibliographical references.