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B-side books essays on forgotten favorites
"There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list ... and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped through the cracks, went unread, missed their rightful appointment with posterity. They were ahead...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2021]
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| Colección: | Public books series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Foreword, by Sharon Marcus, series editor
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, by John Plotz
- Part I: Childhood, Through a Glass Darkly
- 1. A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter), by Rebecca Zorach
- 2. The Young Visiters (Daisy Ashford), by Caleb Crain
- 3. The Diary of "Helena Morley" (Elizabeth Bishop, trans.), by Elizabeth Ferry
- 4. Brown Girl, Brownstones (Paule Marshall), by Adrienne Brown
- 5. An American Childhood (Annie Dillard), by Salvatore Scibona
- 6. The Last Samurai (Helen DeWitt), by Toril Moi
- Part II. Other Worlds
- 7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by Seeta Chaganti
- 8. The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson), by Namwali Serpell
- 9. Lolly Willowes (Sylvia Townsend Warner), by Ivan Kreilkamp
- 10. Mythology (Edith Hamilton), by Kathryn Lofton
- 11. Other Leopards (Denis Williams), by Emily Hyde
- 12. Solaris (Stanislaw Lem), by Kate Marshall
- 13. Riddley Walker (Russell Hoban), by Paul Saint-Amour
- Part III. Comedy
- 14. The Beggar's Opera (John Gay), by Yoon Sun Lee
- 15. Lady Into Fox (David Garnett), by Maud Ellmann
- 16. Prater Violet (Christopher Isherwood), by Stephen McCauley
- 17. "Rogue's Gallery" (Mary McCarthy), by Sean McCann
- 18. Gringos (Charles Portis), by Carlo Rotella
- Part IV. Battle and Strife
- 19. The Road to Calvary (Alexei Tolstoy), by Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
- 20. The Forbidden Zone (Mary Borden), by Steven Biel and Lauren Kaminsky
- 21. Nikola the Outlaw (Ivan Olbracht), by Jonathan Bolton
- 22. The House of Hunger (Dambudzo Marechera), by Isabel Hofmeyr
- 23. The Short-Timers (Gustav Hasford), by Steven Biel
- 24. A Flag at Sunrise (Robert Stone), by Ben Fountain
- 25. The Vehement Passions (Philip Fisher), by Lorraine Daston
- Part V. Home Fires
- 26. Annals of the Parish (John Galt), by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 27. The Dry Heart (Natalie Ginzburg), by Merve Emre
- 28. Life Among the Savages
- Raising Demons (Shirley Jackson), by Sharon Marcus
- 29. My Uncle Napoleon (Iraj Pezeshkzad), by Pardis Dabashi
- 30. We Think the World of You (A.J. Ackerley), by Kevin Brazil
- 31. All Aunt Hagar's Children (Edward P. Jones), by Elizabeth Graver
- Part VI: Mysteries and Trials
- 32. The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford, by Ramie Targoff
- 33. The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers), by Margaret Cohen
- 34. Stamboul Train (Graham Greene), by Penny Fielding
- 35. The Hours Before Dawn (Celia Fremlin), by Leah Price
- Part VII: Journeys of the Spirit
- 36. A Life of One's Own (Marion Millner), by Vanessa Smith
- 37. Butcher's Crossing (John Williams), by John Plotz
- 38. Journey in Search of the Way (Satomi Myōdō), by Theo Davis
- 39. I Remember (Joe Brainard), by Andrew H. Miller
- 40. Transformatrix (Patience Agbabi), by Stephanie Burt
- List of Contributors