Pdf: The White Hotel

It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrai ...

A psychological portrait of Lisa Erdman begins with an exchange of letters between her psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud, and his colleagues, continues through h ...

A novel of searing eroticism and sensuality set against the broad sweep of twentieth-century history, the Booker Prize shortlisted THE WHITE HOTEL is a mod ...

Examining the controversies that have accompanied the publication of novels representing the Holocaust, this compelling book explores such literature to an ...

Cowart presents a study of international historical fiction since World War II, with reflections on the affinities between historical and fictional narrati ...

In this illuminating study, Marilyn Randall takes on the question of why some cases of literary repetition become great art, while others are relegated to ...

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"Tanner deals with the central question of all narrative texts: how the reader is manipulated into empathy or distance by the text.... This study... is the ...

Traces the "non-making" of the author's novel White Hotel into a film, 1981-2008. ...

Waiting for the End examines two dozen contemporary novels within the context of a half century of theorizing about the function of ending in narrative. Th ...

... a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase in the mind itself. Thus Stephen Dedalus in ...

An arachnophobic woman plagued by nightmares about spiders since she was little attempts to feign a normal existence while working a mundane job. But no ma ...

On magical realism in literature ...

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During the last twenty years many English and American novelists have tried their hands at novels that deal with the past. This book examines two contempor ...

Michael, a retired bridge engineer, has lived away from Ireland for most of his life and now resides alone in Bilbao after the death of his girlfriend, Cat ...

As war crimes prosecutions seize Australia, Fiona Kovalenko discovers that her own family is implicated in the darkest events of the twentieth century. Thi ...

In 2011, Amy T Matthews published End of the Night Girl, a novel which engages creatively with questions of identity politics and the ethics of fictionalis ...

A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulti ...

'searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with ...

In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. T ...

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In 1986 Tony Porter and his wife, Beatrice bought Burgh Island off the Devon coast, with its near-derelict art deco hotel. Up to their necks in debt and wi ...

Lively, informed and thorough, this survey of the life and works of Graham Greene opens with a biographical account setting the writer in context of his ti ...

The goal of this book is to elaborate the theoretical framework with regard to reading postmodern fiction from the perspective of the bodies of their narra ...

Set at the top of the Cajon Pass in the High Desert of Southern California, Hesperia was built on the spirit and strength of character of American frontier ...

Collects stories, an unfinished novel, and sketches by the author--all of which focus on the part of 1930s New York society that lived in the Bronx, but lo ...

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Despite its significance in world and American history, the World War I era is seldom identified as a turning point in southern history, as it failed to tr ...

Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East is the personal, yet profoundly political first-person account of one man's unique interr ...

Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important his ...

Reprint. Contains material originally published by Victor H. Green in 1938, 1947, 1954, and 1963. ...

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Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded ...

Medina traces the history of a community that came to life with the building of the Erie Canal. Located at a bend in the canal, halfway between Buffalo and ...