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Literary feuds : a century of celebrated quarrels from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe / by Arthur, Anthony.(CARDINAL)518315;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-229) and index.Partners no more : Mark Twain and Bret Harte -- The boy with the interested eyes : Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein -- The slap heard 'round the world : Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and the Nobel Prize -- Not always a "pleasant tussle": the difficult friendship of Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov -- The battle of the "two cultures": C.P. Snow and F.R. Leavis -- "Now there's a play": Lillian Hellman and Mary MCarthy -- Les Enfants Terribles: Truman Capote and Gore Vidal -- Not-so-dry bones: Tom Wolfe, John Updike, and the perils of literary ambition.
Subjects: Biographies.; Literary quarrels; American literature; Authors, American;
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Rude talk in Athens : ancient rivals, the birth of comedy, and a writer's journey through Greece / by Smith, Mark Haskell,author.(CARDINAL)670069;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203).In ancient Athens, thousands would attend theatre festivals that turned writing into a fierce battle for fame, money, and laughably large trophies. While the tragedies earned artistic respect, it was the comedies--the raunchy jokes, vulgar innuendo, outrageous invention, and barbed political commentary--that captured the imagination of the city. The writers of these comedic plays feuded openly, insulting one another from the stage, each production more inventive and outlandish than the last, as they tried to win first prize. Of these writers, only the work of Aristophanes has survived and it's only through his plays that we know about his peers: Cratinus, the great lush; Eupolis, the copycat; and Ariphrades, the sexual deviant. It might have been the golden age of Democracy, but for comic playwrights, it was the age of Rude Talk. Watching a production of an Aristophanes play in 2019 CE and seeing the audience laugh uproariously at every joke, Mark Haskell Smith began to wonder: what does it tell us about society and humanity that these ancient punchlines still land? When insults and jokes made thousands of years ago continue to be both offensive and still make us laugh? Through conversations with historians, politicians, and other writers, the always witty and effusive Smith embarks on a personal mission (bordering on obsession) exploring the life of one of these unknown writers, and how comedy challenged the patriarchy, the military, and the powers that be, both then and now. A comic writer himself and author of many books and screenplays, Smith also looks back at his own career, his love for the uniquely dynamic city of Athens, and what it means for a writer to leave a legacy.
Subjects: Literary quarrels; Smith, Mark Haskell; Comedy.; Greek drama (Comedy); Greek drama (Comedy); Authors, Greek.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Tilting at windmills : a novel of Cervantes and the errant knight / by Branston, Julian.(CARDINAL)761608;
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Fiction.; Historical fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616; Authors; Knights and knighthood; Literary quarrels;
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The Grub-street journal / by Hillhouse, James Theodore,1890-1956.(CARDINAL)129117;
The history of the Grub-street journal.--Pope and the Dunces.--Bentley's Milton and Theobald's Shakespeare.--Quarrels with other periodicals.--Literary and dramatic criticism.--The law, theology, and medicine.--Appendix: Summary of the contents of the Journal and the Literary courier.
Subjects: Grub-street journal.; Old State Library Collection.;
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Miscellanies of literature / by Disraeli, Isaac,1766-1848.(CARDINAL)128016;
v.1.Literary miscellanies. Calamities of authors.--v.2.Quarrels of authors.--v.3.The literary character. Character of James the First.
Subjects: James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Litterateurs.; Authors, English.; English literature; Old State Library Collection.;
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Edgar Allan Poe : his life and legacy / by Meyers, Jeffrey.(CARDINAL)506029;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.; Authors, American;
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Poe / by Hutchisson, James M.(CARDINAL)740274;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Childhood : Boston, Richmond, England (1809-1825) -- The byronic youth : university, the army, and West Point (1826-1830) -- Baltimore : early tales and satires (1831-1834) -- Return to Richmond : marriage, the Southern Literary Messenger, and The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1835-1837) -- Philadelphia : Burton's Gentleman's magazine and the great tales (1838-1840) -- Graham's magazine, "The Penn," and The red death (1841-1843) -- New York : triumphs and troubles, "The raven" and the Longfellow war (1844-1845) -- Quarrels, loves, and losses (1846-1848) -- The journey and the lighthouse (1849).
Subjects: Biographies.; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.; Authors, American; Critics;
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Who is Mark Twain? / by Twain, Mark,1835-1910.(CARDINAL)139043; Hirst, Robert H.(CARDINAL)512406;
MARCIVE 10/07/09"Stacks of literary remains" : a note on the text -- Whenever I am about to publish a book -- Frank Fuller and my first New York lecture -- Conversations with Satan -- Jane Austen -- The force of "suggestion" -- The privilege of the grave -- A group of servants -- The quarrel in the strong-box -- Happy memories of the dental chair -- Dr. Van Dyke as a man and as a fisherman -- On postage rates on authors' manuscript -- The missionary in world-politics -- The undertaker's tale -- The music box -- The Grand Prix -- The devil's gate -- The snow-shovelers -- Professor Mahaffy on equality -- Interviewing the interviewer -- An incident -- The jungle discusses man -- I rise to a question of privilege -- Telegraph dog -- The American press -- About Mark Twain.
Subjects: Essays.; American essays;
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The saddest words : William Faulkner's Civil War / by Gorra, Michael Edward,author.(CARDINAL)780253;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-407) and index.Part One. Twice-told tales -- Part two. Yoknapatawpha's war -- Part three. Dark house."How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such iconic novels as Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury, creating in Yoknapatawpha County the richest gallery of characters in American fiction, his achievements culminating in the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. But given his works' echo of "Lost Cause" romanticism, his depiction of black characters and black speech, and his rendering of race relations in a largely unreconstructed South, Faulkner demands a sobering reevaluation. Interweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, The Saddest Words recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today"--
Subjects: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962; African Americans in literature.; Race relations in literature.; Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place);
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Will and testament / by Hjorth, Vigdis,author.(CARDINAL)813671; Barslund, Charlotte,translator.(CARDINAL)685829;
"Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island summer houses to her sisters, disinheriting the two eldest siblings from the most meaningful part of the estate. To outsiders, it is a quarrel about property and favoritism. But Bergljot, who has borne a horrible secret since childhood, understands the gesture as something very different - a final attempt to suppress the truth and a cruel insult to the grievously injured. Will and Testament is a lyrical meditation on trauma and memory, as well as a furious account of a woman's struggle to survive and be believed. Vigdis Hjorth's novel became a controversial literary sensation in Norway and has been translated into twenty languages." --
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Dysfunctional families; Inheritance and succession; Sisters; Divorce; Forgiveness; Family secrets; Norwegian fiction;
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