An opening : twelve love stories about art [Book Review]

Review(s) of: An opening: Twelve love stories about art, by Stephanie Radok 2012, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, xiv, 168 p., ISBN 9781743050415 (pbk).

Some old love stories.

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Literary Love Making in Nicholas Sparks Novels: Finding the Balance Between the Writer's Life and Writer's Work in Bestselling Romantic Love

For almost a decade now Nicholas Sparks has been writing love stories. Not only has he been publishing his stories, but they have received high acclaim in each of their installments. Several of his novels have been made into major motion pictures and increased his popularity quite significantly. His status as a successful romantic fiction writer is undeniable, but the question is, why? What is it about Nicholas Sparks that makes his novels so engaging, and personally, what do I need to do as an aspiring novelist to try and acquire the same literary status? Sparks’s novels reach readers at a number of different levels, thus giving them appeal no matter the intellectual intent of the reader. Theoretically, Sparks engages reader response techniques as well as formalist processes such as “habitualization” and “defamiliarization,” while also developing engaging plot lines that represent many of the experiences from his own life. His writing is not only academically redeemable, but it is also creatively stimulating; between the two, Sparks represents the thunder and lightning combination all writers strive for while trying to achieve literary success. This project also offers a creative element in which I attempt to exemplify many of the traits discussed in the analytical sections of this document, by recreating them in a creative, fictitious fashion. Themes such as: motion versus stasis, life versus death, and the ordinary versus the extraordinary all exist within the narrative structure of my short story “Trip to Fall.” Besides these thematic elements, the creative section strives to represent the balance Sparks achieves between the experiences of his own life and the fictitious world he creates. Overall, this project delves into the life of Nicholas Sparks to better understand the inspiration for his writing at the level of form as well as content, while also paying tribute to Sparks’s style through a representation of his work in my own words.

Literary love making in Nicholas Sparks novels: Finding the balance between the writer’s life and the writer’s work in bestselling Romantic Literature

For almost a decade now Nicholas Sparks has been writing love stories. Not only has he been publishing his stories, but they have received high acclaim in each of their installments. Several of his novels have been made into major motion pictures and increased his popularity quite significantly. His status as a successful romantic fiction writer is undeniable, but the question is, why? What is it about Nicholas Sparks that makes his novels so engaging, and personally, what do I need to do as an aspiring novelist to try and acquire the same literary status? Sparks’s novels reach readers at a number of different levels, thus giving them appeal no matter the intellectual intent of the reader. Theoretically, Sparks engages reader response techniques as well as formalist processes such as “habitualization” and “defamiliarization,” while also developing engaging plot lines that represent many of the experiences from his own life. His writing is not only academically redeemable, but it is also creatively stimulating; between the two, Sparks represents the thunder and lightning combination all writers strive for while trying to achieve literary success. This project also offers a creative element in which I attempt to exemplify many of the traits discussed in the analytical sections of this document, by recreating them in a creative, fictitious fashion. Themes such as: motion versus stasis, life versus death, and the ordinary versus the extraordinary all exist within the narrative structure of my short story “Trip to Fall.” Besides these thematic elements, the creative section strives to represent the balance Sparks achieves between the experiences of his own life and the fictitious world he creates. Overall, this project delves into the life of Nicholas Sparks to better understand the inspiration for his writing at the level of form as well as content, while also paying tribute to Sparks’s style through a representation of his work in my own words.

Henrietta Temple, a love story,

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Women in love,

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Cougars, grannies, evil stepmothers, and menopausal hot flashers : roles, representations of age and the non-traditional romance heroine

Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine is an examination of the stereotyped roles of age and the under-representation of women over forty as worthy protagonists in romance fiction.

Piranesi in Ghent

Piranesi in Ghent is an exhibition, a catalogue and a symposium. It is also a telling story in the recent scholarship and recurring ‘fashionable’ re-discoveries of Piranesi’s work. It is a funny story, a serious cultural enterprise that begins, like all good love stories, by chance. But there’s more here: scholarly passion, intellectual curiosity, design and experimentations: as well as reproductions, plates and debates, and a lot of challenging hypotheses and development possibilities. This is indeed a very Piranesian story and, as in Piranesi’s work, here the less visibly obvious is worthy of the greatest attention, because it reveals more, much more indeed, than what appears at first.

L'Amour dácadent em dramas de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam e Maurice Maeterlinck

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

As narrativas camilianas no espaço folhetim do diário do Gram-Pará na década de 1860

A circulação da literatura na cidade de Belém do Pará no século XIX foi uma consequência das mudanças promovidas na capital pela expansão econômica, manifestada na urbanização do espaço público e na ampliação do mercado bibliográfico, responsável, ao lado da imprensa periódica, pelo contato da sociedade local com a produção literária estrangeira. A rápida popularização do folhetim no Brasil, com sua inerente força democrática, determinou uma rápida difusão dos nomes de alguns escritores nas capitais do país, da mesma forma que contribuiu para a criação de um mercado livreiro e permitiu a maciça circulação de obras de autores franceses e portugueses, os mais lidos no período, dentre os quais Camilo Castelo Branco. A popularidade do romancista luso em solo paraense pode ser identificada pela apresentação diária de seus textos em jornais locais como o Diário do Gram-Pará e pelos frequentes anúncios de seus romances para venda. Embora Camilo Castelo Branco seja um escritor conhecido do leitor de hoje, as informações sobre a obra do autor comumente se baseiam na expressão do romantismo presente em seus escritos, histórias de amor com fortes e por vezes intransponíveis obstáculos. Mas, a produção camiliana tem um alcance maior. Conhecedor do gênero humano e escritor muito habilidoso, Camilo Castelo Branco deu vida a personagens que ultrapassaram os limites do gênero romântico e desvendaram facetas capazes de provocar sentimentos contraditórios no leitor, cuja reação pode ser filtrada pelo espírito crítico do escritor português. E o escritor assim o fez em romances de grande circulação no século XIX, como A filha do doutor negro, mas pouco conhecidos pelo leitor de hoje, que merecem também ter seus elementos descobertos, como forma de revelar um Camilo Castelo Branco vivo em muitos romances a conhecer.

An old captivity,

A young airmen, an Oxford don, and his daughter are aided on an expedition to the Arctic by Norsemen and their longships of a thousand years before.

Mr. Fortescue : an Andean romance /

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Lillian Simmons, or the conflict of sections : a story /

Illustrations on t.p. and p. 25, 103, 131, 187, 191,b and 201.