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1. 'A Failure of the imagination'? the fiction vs. nonfiction debate

Author

Cunningham, Sophie

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Australian literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

IN HIS 2003 ARTICLE 'IS THE NOVEL DEAD?' MARK Mordue put forward the thesis that fiction is in trouble and literary nonfiction is taking its place. I have edited both [...]

Published
2003

2. Surgical imprecision and the Baudelairean poeme en prose

Author

Krueger, Cheryl

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Prose poems -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Languages and linguistics, Literature/writing
Abstract

Though Baudelaire's 'Dedicace Arsene Houssaye' provides a dubious manifesto of the prose poem genre, (1) it more importantly builds a network of repeated images and allusions from which, along with [...]

Published
2002

3. Authors 'not unknown' in Milton's 'Tetrachordon.'

Author

Dzelzainis, Martin

Subjects
Tetrachordon (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Editors -- Criticism and interpretation, Poets -- Works, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Criticism and interpretation, Works
Abstract

Towards the end of Tetrachordon (March 1645), Milton reluctantly supplies some sixteen pages of 'testimony' from a range of classical, patristic and renaissance sources which support his case for divorce. [...]

Published
1998

4. Awake to particulars: the prose of Robert Creeley

Author

Barone, Dennis

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Aesthetics, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

We met Robert Creeley at Miriam and Toby Olson's. Michael Heller and Bobby Byrd were there too. Creeley walked Bobby Byrd to our place at three A.M. or so. We [...]

Published
1995

5. 'When novelists become Cubists': the prose ideograms of Guy Davenport

Author

Furlani, Andre

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Fashion and beauty, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

Guy Davenport's narratives are hybrids of fiction, documentary, poem, and illustration, A disciple of Ezra Pound, he adapts to the short story the ideogrammatic method of The Cantos, where a [...]

Published
2002

6. The 'moreness' or 'lessness' of 'natural' narratology: Samuel Beckett's 'Lessness' reconsidered

Author

Alber, Jan

Subjects
Lessness (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Fashion and beauty, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

In Towards a 'Natural' Narratology (1996). Monika Fludemik reconstitutes narativity on the basis of experientiality, i.e., humanity's embodiedness in the world, and claims that incomprehensible texts can be made more [...]

Published
2002

7. Summer reading

Author

Golden, Marita, Kenan, Randall, Petry, Ann Lane, Baraka, Amiri, and Cary, Lorene

Subjects
African American authors -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation
Published
1992

8. Books for Christmas: our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers

Author

Baden, John A., Barnes, Fred, Barzun, Jacques, Becker, Gary S., Boswell, Thomas, Fitzwater, Marlin, Greve, Michael S., Hart, Gary, Keiser, Michael L., King, Florence, Kozinski, Alex, Kristol, William, Lenkowsky, Leslie, Lurie, Elizabeth B., and McCurdy, Dave

Subjects
Prose literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

A variety of well-known writers, politicians, public officials, and other celebrities with diverse political backgrounds recommend books worthy of holiday giving.

Published
1991

10. What's behind the notion that nonfiction is more 'relevant' than fiction?

Author

Galchen, Rivka and Mishra, Pankaj

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

Each week in Bookends, two writers take on pressing and provocative questions about the world of books. This week, Rivka Galchen and Pankaj Mishra discuss the boundaries of fiction and [...]

Published
2013

11. Where Fiction Meets Nonfiction: Mapping a Rough Terrain

Author

HEYNE, ERIC

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Journalism -- Criticism and interpretation, Narration (Rhetoric) -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

As a decade closes during which nearly everyone seemed to complain about the nightly news and in which media coverage of events like the Gulf War or the O. J. [...]

Published
2001

12. Thomas Bernhard

Author

Cousineau, Thomas J.

Subjects
Austrian literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Authors -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

The essential details of Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's formative years are unforgettably recorded in his autobiographical work Gathering Evidence, which is written in the same iconoclastic, relentlessly repetitive style of [...]

Published
2001

13. From a past contemporary: three Victorian novelists

Author

Edwards, Amelia

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Authors, English -- Criticism and interpretation, Novelists -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, News, opinion and commentary, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

Editor's Note: In the 128 years of its history, the Contemporary Review has carried a wealth Of important articles on virtually every subject. We plan to include a short selection [...]

Published
1994

14. AT LARGE AND AT SMALL

Author

MALLON, THOMAS

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Poetry -- Criticism and interpretation, General interest, Political science, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

On Not Being a Poet Last year a novelist friend of mine mentioned that he'd soon be coming to New York to recite a poem of his choosing at a [...]

Published
2000

15. Fiction & non-fiction: how do we draw the line between what is fiction and what is non-fiction? Where do we place autobiography, biography, journalism and travel writing? Neil King analyses the difficulties such labels pose while affirming the value of the 'non-fictional' text

Author

King, Neil

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature -- Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

The International Baccalaureate labels two separate topic areas of study as Prose: the Novel and Short Story and Prose: Other than the Novel and Short Story. The thinking behind these […]

Published
2004

16. An unpublished 'character' by Matthew Prior

Author

Lindsay, Alexander

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

AMONG the literary forms occasionally attempted by the ever versatile Matthew Prior was the prose |character'. Three examples of character-writing, |A Coxcomb', |Shylon', and |Montus', have been published in the [...]

Published
1994

17. Summer reading

Author

Paik, Felicia

Subjects
Books -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Business, Business, general
Published
1999

18. Alexander Benitskii and the Vostochnaia Povest in the reign of Alexander I

Author

Tosi, Alessandra

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

Russian prose writing during the reign of Alexander I (1801-25) is characterized primarily by the variety and heterogeneity of the works produced. A wide spectrum of experiments in narrative forms [...]

Published
1999

19. Prose-Poem-Drama: 'Proemdra'--'Black Aesthetics' versus 'White Aesthetics' in South Africa(1)

Author

Zander, Horst

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Drama -- Africa, African literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

As is well known, blacks in South Africa were not only at odds with political and economic colonialism right from the start, but also quarreled with white concepts of writing [...]

Published
1999

20. 'No other book': Randall Jarrell's criticism

Author

Leithauser, Brad

Subjects
Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Critics -- Appreciation, Prose poems -- Criticism and interpretation, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Political science, Criticism and interpretation, Appreciation
Abstract

Randall Jarrell once wrote, in praise of William Carlos Williams, 'When you have read Paterson you know for the rest of your life what it is like to be a [...]

Published
1999

21. LESBIA HARFORD

Subjects
Harford, Lesbia -- Biography, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Women authors -- Biography, Poets -- Biography, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, News, opinion and commentary, Criticism and interpretation
Abstract

Lesbia Harford died in 1927 at the age of thirty-six. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, where she read law alongside a future prime minister in R.G. Menzies and [...]

Published
1998

22. Hot type: a V.F. pick of spring books

Subjects
Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, General interest
Abstract

Newly released or re-issued books are mentioned with very brief descriptions of their contents. Vanity Fair's recommended authors include Ann Petry, Michael Crichton, Graham Swift and Nik Cohn.

Published
1992

23. John Locke (1632-1704)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Locke, John (English political theorist) -- Criticism and interpretation, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Essay) -- Criticism and interpretation, Two Treatises of Government (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

From a Puritan family background, Locke was educated at Oxford and became a physician, although he never established a general medical practice. He lived a quiet and contemplative life. He [...]

Published
1992

24. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Pepys, Samuel -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, Diary: A Novel (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

Although his family background was Puritan rather than royalist, Pepys (pronounced 'Peeps') was able to keep his position in the admiralty office after the Restoration. Like most English people, he [...]

Published
1992

25. John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Bunyan, John (English clergy) -- Criticism and interpretation, Grace Abounding (Autobiography) -- Criticism and interpretation, The Pilgrim's Progress (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

The son of a poor tinker, (that is, a traveling mender of pots and pans,) John Bunyan produced one of the most popular and influential books of the Restoration period [...]

Published
1992

26. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Hobbes, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, The Dark Journey (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

of the day, especially by Francis Bacon, whose secretary and disciple Hobbes had become. He applied the type of systematic and skeptical thinking that Bacon advocated to the study of [...]

Published
1992

27. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Bacon, Francis (English philosopher, 1561-1626) -- Criticism and interpretation, The Advancement of Learning (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Essays (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

After receiving legal training Bacon entered government service while Elizabeth I was still Queen of England. During the reign of King James I, Bacon rose to be lord chancellor of [...]

Published
1992

28. Robert Burton (1577-1640)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Burton, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, Anatomy of Melancholy (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

Burton, a widely read and learned man, spent his entire adult life at Oxford University. He had no other interest but books, no other activities than reading, studying, and writing. [...]

Published
1992

29. The Bible

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Bible (Sacred work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Bible as literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Bible and literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

The one great exception to the trend toward natural simplicity of expression was the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible, commissioned by King James I to correct and supersede the [...]

Published
1992

30. Sir Thomas Hoby (1530-1566)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Hoby, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, The Courtier (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation -- Translations and translating, The Courtier (Nonfiction work) -- Translations and translating -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

A staunch Protestant, Hoby was educated at Cambridge University and traveled widely in Germany, France, and especially in Italy, where he encountered the courtesy book Il Cortegiano, or The Courtier. [...]

Published
1992

31. John Lyly (1554-1606)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Lyly, John -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

Lyly was a student at Oxford University in the early 1570s, when the study of rhetoric was reaching a superrefined state. After taking an M.A., Lyly went to London in [...]

Published
1992

32. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Newton, Isaac (English physicist) -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, The Letter (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

During this era, philosophy encompassed what we now call science. Newton was the most creative scientific thinker of the Enlightenment. It was he who discovered that all motions in nature, [...]

Published
1992

33. Roger Ascham (1515-1568)

Author

McCoy, Kathleen and Harlan, Judith A.V.

Subjects
Ascham, Roger -- Criticism and interpretation -- Biography, The Schoolmaster (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation, Toxophilus (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation, Nonfiction -- Criticism and interpretation, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period) -- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism, Fiction -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing
Abstract

The educator Ascham was a scholar of Latin and Greek at Cambridge, but he insisted that studying the great writers in these languages was only a way to gain clarity [...]

Published
1992

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