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Glamour and Peril
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After decades in Alberto Moravia's shadow, Elsa Morante steps into the spotlight
If it often seems that readers' appreciation for writers stems as much from a fascination with the way they lived as an admiration for the texts they wrote, then Italian novelist Elsa Morante deserves a place among the most beloved literary celebrities. Living in Rome in the tense days of the late 1930s under Fascist rule, the beautiful young woman with sharp tongue and ambitious pen ran in prominent intel...
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Tony Morante breaks down the big ballyard in the Bronx
The Village Voice
; TONY MORANTE'S CONNECTION TO YANKEE STADIUM-NOT TO MENTION ITS BASES, FENCES, and ropes-goes back further than that of most sportswriters, or even any of the resident team's owners. Greeting a tour group at the press gate, Morante launches into a Stadium history that extends over a quarter-century.
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The Beginning and the End of Reading--The Beginning and the End of the Novel.(Critical Essay)
The Review of Contemporary Fiction
; The novel is like cancer. It lives on its metastases and is fed on them. Long ago I started putting to myself a question: Where are the beginning and the end of the novel? Does the novel start with Homer? And does the story about the novel end before the story of the story? That is to say, has the
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Caveats for teaching the novel.
Academic Exchange Quarterly
; Abstract The author credits much of the success he has had in teaching the novel to his adjustments to the realities of teaching. Is it realistic to teach the novel as if one's students are going to become English teachers? Is it realistic to teach a novel that is beyond the capacities of the
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THE FIRST NOVEL
Artforum
; ... Imagine he was writing a first novel? It would most likely be news to him that he had written the first novel. He was working out ... Attract Me (Counterpoint, 2004). Currently a critic for Bloomberg News, he has worked as an editor at the New Yorker and served as executive ...
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John Wayne: A Novel.(Review)
Harper's Magazine
; John Wayne: A Novel, by Dan Barden. Doubleday, 1997. 176 pages. $21.95. Michael Cunningham's The Hours, published last fall to admiring reviews and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for the year's best work of fiction, bravely offers as its animating force that most
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Telling the Tale of The Rise of the Novel.(Ian Watt, 'The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding')
CLIO
; The most influential story ever told about the origins of the novel is Ian Watt's The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding, published in 1957.(1) Indeed, for the past four decades, the debate over the novel's origins has been framed largely by Watt's account. While Watt's
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Redlands author to lead novel-writing workshop
Redlands Daily Facts
; REDLANDS - Bruce McAllister will lead an all-day novel-writing workshop Saturday, Feb. 9, at his home in Redlands. "Discovering all Those Novels Inside You - and Getting One Written Before the Next Millennium" will be a workshop in inner exploration and "choosing the novel that's right and true for
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Novel worship
Novel
; ... Chinese and Japanese novels, which predictably contain these tropes as well. This new-age, ahistoric universalism is the good news of Doody's aesthetic/religious view of the novel. Novel readers participate in a sacrament offered up to all humans for all times ...
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Women and novelistic authority.(Women and the Rise of the Novel)(Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel)(Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s)(Book Review)
Studies in the Novel
; JOSEPHINE DONOVAN. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. $18.95 paper. xiii + 176 pp. CAROLINE A. JEWERS. Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. $49.95 cloth. xii + 240 pp. LINDA LANG-PERALTA, ED.
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Monument or Tombstone? A Review of Encyclopedia of the Novel.(Review)
Narrative
; Schellinger, Paul, Christopher Hudson, and Marijke Rijsberman, eds. Encyclopedia of the Novel. 2 vols. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, December 1998. xxv + 1616 pp. $320.00. ISBN 1-57958-015-7 These massive volumes in oversize quarto, probably destined for the sturdy PN reference shelves
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