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Abdul loves telling stories but thinks his messy handwriting and spelling mistakes will keep him from becoming an author, until Mr. Muhammad visits and encourages him to persist.
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PHILIP ROTH PERSONAL LIBRARY: AN OVERVIEW
The collection also provides insight into works that influenced him, materials he purchased and used to research and write his own novels, as well as the books-largely nonfiction-that he read later in life. The books are shelved in Roth s own order; so one can see that his writing studio contained source material for The Plot Against America and Nemesis: drama and poetry were shelved in the bedroom; fiction was split between the living room and den; arranged by author; and over 2;500 nonfiction books were kept in the \"library room.\" Several dynamic outreach initiatives have been launched. Since September of 2022, poetry workshops have been taking place on a monthly basis.
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'More letters to write ... than the Home Secretary': The Relationship between Dickens's letters and the Writing of his Characters in Bleak House and Great Expectations
There is an instance where Charles Dickens thinks similarly to Pip in Great Expectations, the moment they both see handwriting from the young women they love. Concerning Bleak House, for example, correspondence is deployed to give women a voice which would otherwise remain unheard - mirroring Dickens's sense of the personal document as a space where the reality of the writer can be depicted not only with extraordinary accuracy, but also with an element of the unexpected. [...]in a most significant manner, Carolyn W. De La L. Oulton has read letters and fiction together, to discuss how they 'reveal a mutual dependency, a relationship that helps to explain why letters become such an important motif in the novels ... The 'fat black letters' on the figurine books excite the child Dickens's imagination: 'A was an archer, and shot at a frog. ..
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Jóhanna Mørk
A chance encounter with a magnetic stranger shifts something inside the narrator of this story set in the streets of Tórshavn.
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Gloria Naylor's \Sapphira Wade\
We introduce a handwritten manuscript draft of Gloria Naylor's long-promised historical novel \"Sapphira Wade,\" situating excerpts from the unfinished work in the context of Naylor's life and literary career. Gloria Naylor intended for this novel to explore the history of Willow Springs alluded to in her 1988 Mama Day: the means by which an enslaved woman, Sapphira Wade, gained the deed to island from Bascombe Wade. The opening section, written between 2004 and 2006 and included among the papers Naylor donated to Sacred Heart University in 2009, recounts Bascombe's upbringing in Norway during the early nineteenth century.
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Arthur Miller and Shakespearean Forgery
Arthur Miller is mostly known as a playwright, but he also wrote fiction, even a children’s book, and radio plays. During the 1930s and 1940s, radio plays were a popular form of entertainment. The productions were lavish, and the actors among the most famous in the theater of the time. The salary was lucrative for Miller, who was yet to write his most famous plays. Miller’s first radio play, William Ireland’s Confession, was broadcast on 19 October 1939 on Columbia Workshop. Miller displays great familiarity with William Henry Ireland (1775–1835) and his project to present his own writing under Shakespeare’s name and to collect memorabilia allegedly belonging to the great bard. This article reviews William Henry Ireland’s story and ultimate exposure and suggests that Miller’s radio play goes beyond retelling the story to making a statement about authorship and, in an uncanny way, foreshadowing his own experiences as a playwright.
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The Essay: Revelations
Pat Mora, who writes for adults, teens, and children, shares the pleasures and challenges of the essay form.
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W.G. Sebald’s Paper Universe: Austerlitz and the Poetics of Media Obsolescence
Late in his artistic and scholarly career, W.G. Sebald decided to eschew then-emergent modes of computational media in favor of analogue production techniques. Sebald himself often remarked on his encounters with media, both new and old, expressing a consistent interest in the materiality of writing. In his own artistic practice, he preferred the process of handwriting to what he called the tyranny of \"PC Perfectionism.\" Scenes of writing, and the technologies of pen, paper, and pencil, appear regularly throughout Sebald's corpus, especially in The Rings of Saturn (1995) and Austerlitz (2001). These elegiac encounters with residual technologies informed Sebald's literary aesthetic. The novel Austerlitz, in particular, foregrounds media history and the evolution of modes of writerly work. In this novel, written in the shadow of new modes of digital writing that were becoming ubiquitous at the end of the twentieth century, Sebald's poetics of media obsolescence emerges as key preoccupation in his aesthetic project.
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Silent Eloquence: Literary Extracts, the Aesthetics of Disability, and Melville’s “Fragments”
Herman Melville’s first published story, “Fragments from a Writing Desk” (1839; released in two parts in the Democratic Press, and Lansingburgh Advertiser), reimagines nineteenth-century American narratives of disabled female figures. In the first installment, Melville’s amorous narrator, L.A.V., quotes extensively from British romantic books of beauty, anthologies that gathered the best works from famous authors. In the second, Melville critiques L.A.V.’s exuberant citations, cultivating an alternative aesthetic we term “silent eloquence.” This essay argues that Melville’s early diptych reimagines deformed texts and disabled bodies by means of a deaf woman called “Inamorata.” Inspired by emergent deaf American communities, institutions, and forms of expression, and literary works by an array of deaf and hearing writers from James Nack and John R. Burnet to Washington Irving and Sarah Josepha Hale, Melville’s first fiction presents an early account of the communicative power of difference. Inamorata’s various, artful modes of expression— handwriting, signing, gestures, and expressions—put literary beauties and disabled bodies in conversation. Presenting nineteenth-century American readers with a new aesthetic vocabulary, “Fragments” simultaneously anticipates aspects of Melville’s major works and develops a concept of beauty capable of encompassing multiple senses, modes of address, experiences, and ways of knowing.
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“Le Revenant”: Baudelaire’s Afterlife in Wide Sargasso Sea
[...]as this article will demonstrate, Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal is of unquestionable significance to Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys knew Baudelaire’s work well and was influenced by him: she owned editions of his poetry in French and in English, refers to him in her correspondence, and transcriptions of poems in her handwriting survive in the Tulsa archive.4 Baudelaire’s theorizations of modernity, of the figure of the flaneur, and of fashion have featured in critical studies of Rhys, but his impact on her work is far more significant than has hitherto been realized.5 In 1962, Rhys told Francis Wyndham that an early title for Wide Sargasso Sea was “Le revenant” (Letters, 213). Marina Warner has argued that the source for this title is Lafcadio Hearn’s Two Years in the West Indies (1890).6 Warner’s broader argument for the influence of that text on Rhys is revealing, but ignores the fact that “Le Revenant” is also the title of a poem from Les Fleurs du mal.7 Rhys had a habit of using titles drawn from French literary texts, and this is no exception.8 Baudelaire’s poem envisions a destructive and masochistic ghostly passion that, as I will show, bears powerful correspondences with part two of Wide Sargasso Sea. Rhys clearly intended, at an early stage, to signal its relevance to her novel through the working title “Le Revenant,” but this title is later suppressed. [...]while Brontë is subjected to very explicit and vocal critique, Baudelaire holds a more ambivalent status.
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