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Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0393924041
Collects five plays spanning Ibsen's career, with general introductions, explanatory annotations, criticism, and selections from his correspondence and other writings.
Author : Scott McMillin
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Drama
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The five plays included in this volume William Wycherley's "The Country Wife," Sir George Etherege's "The Man of Mode," William Congreve's "The Way of the World," Sir Richard Steele's "The Conscious Lovers" and Richard B. Sheridan's "The School for Scandal" are the most distinguished comedies written during an especially exciting and innovative period in the London theater and English society. This Norton critical edition offers an authoritative text for each play and a unique collection of documents and critical essays (ranging from Charles Lamb to the present) for a deeper understanding of them.
Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679641386
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 'American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin,' said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional 'fallen woman' story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naïve young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. 'Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman,' noted Sinclair Lewis. 'Dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by a kind of historical accident if you will, the range of American literature,' observed Robert Penn Warren. '[Sister Carrie] is a vivid and absorbing work of art.'
Author : Ivo de Figueiredo
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300245025
A magnificent new biography of Henrik Ibsen, among the greatest of modern playwrights Henrik Ibsen (1820–1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and Hedda Gabler, A Doll’s House, Peer Gynt, and Ghosts are all masterpieces of psychological insight. This is the first full-scale biography to take a literary as well as historical approach to the works, life, and times of Ibsen. Ivo de Figueiredo shows how, as a man, Ibsen was drawn toward authoritarianism, was absolute in his judgments over others, and resisted the ideas of equality and human rights that formed the bases of the emerging democracies in Europe. And yet as an artist, he advanced debates about the modern individual’s freedom and responsibility—and cultivated his own image accordingly. Where other biographies try to show how the artist creates the art, this book reveals how, in Ibsen’s case, the art shaped the artist.
Author : Christine De Pizan
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393970104
Contains selections from eighteen major works by Christine de Pizan, Europe's first professional woman writer, presented in contemporary translation with annotations, and includes an introduction, and seven critical analyses.
Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393090024
The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov s creative career."
Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393927801
Fourteen conjure tales by one of America's most influential African American fiction writers. This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern how Chesnutt experimented with plots and characters and with the idea of the conjure story over time. With one exception, the text of each tale is that of the original publication. (The text of "The Dumb Witness" was established from two typescripts held at the archives of Fisk University.) The stories are accompanied by a thorough and thought-provoking introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, and illustrative materials. "Contexts" presents a wealth of materials chosen by the editors to enrich the reader's understanding of these canonical stories, including a map of the landscape of the conjure tales, Chesnutt's journal entry as he began writing fiction of the South, as well as writings by Chesnutt, William Wells Brown, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others, on the stories' central motifs-folklore, superstition, voodoo, race, and social identity in the South following the Civil War. "Criticism" is divided into two parts. "Early Criticism" collects critical notices for The Conjure Woman that suggest the volume's initial reception, assessments by William Dean Howells and Benjamin Brawley, and a biographical excerpt by the author's daughter, Helen Chesnutt. "Modern Criticism" demonstrates rich and enduring interest in The Conjure Stories with ten important essays by Robert Hemenway, William L. Andrews, Robert B. Stepto, John Edgar Wideman, Werner Sollors, Houston A. Baker, Eric J. Sundquist, Richard H. Brodhead, Candace J. Waid, and Glenda Carpio. A Chronology of Chesnutt's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 1911
Category :
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Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Norwegian drama
ISBN :
Edited and translated by Kai Jurgensen and Robert Schenkkan, this edition of The Wild Duck for performance and study has been translated by John Simon and features a sixteen-page introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Ibsen, and a selected bibliography.
Author : Confucius
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0393522903
“Leys has made Confucius speak English more persuasively than any translator to date. His achievement is one of simplicity. . . . Leys sees his task as making the Confucius of the Analects fully persuasive again. He does this brilliantly.” —Stephen Owen, The New Republic The Norton Critical Edition aims to situate the historical figure of Kongzi, the legendary figure of Confucius, and the Analects (or Lunyu), the single most influential book ascribed to the Master's circle of disciples, within their evolving ethical, cultural, and political contexts. Simon Leys’s acclaimed translation and notes are accompanied by Michael Nylan’s insightful introduction. Eleven essays by leading experts in the field of Chinese studies discuss a broad range of issues relating to the Analects, from the origins of the classicists (Ru) and the formation of the Analects text to the use (and abuse) of the Master’s iconic image in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Asian, diasporic, and Western settings. Collectively, these readings suggest that the Confucius we thought we knew is not the Kongzi of record and that this Kongzi is a protean figure given to rapid change and continual reevaluation. Contributors include Henry Rosemont Jr., Nicolas Zufferey, Robert Eno, Thomas Wilson, Sébastien Billioud and Vincent Goossaert, Julia K. Murray, Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Tae Hyun Kim, Eric L. Hutton, Luke Habberstad, He Yuming, and Sam Ho.