The Beast In The Jungle
''The Beast in the Jungle'' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection ''The Better Sort''. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the worth and meaning of human life. Plot summary John Marcher is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier while living in southern Italy, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event, lying in wait for him like a "beast in the jungle". May decides to buy a house in London with the money she inherited from a great aunt, and to spend her days with Marcher, curiously awaiting what fate has in store for him. Marcher is a hopeless fatalist, who believes that he is precluded from marrying so th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Henry James
Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of Philosophy, philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between ''émigré ''Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as ''The Portrait of a Lady''. His later works, such as ''The Ambassadors'', ''The Wings of the Dove'' and ''The Golden Bowl'' were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in which ambiguous or contradictory motives and impressions were overlaid or juxtaposed in the discussion of a character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their compos ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lauro Escorel
Lauro Escorel Filho (born January 5, 1950), most known as Lauro Escorel, is an American-born Brazilian cinematographer and film director. He was born during his father, a Ministry of External Relations, stay in Washington, DC. He first worked as an assistant to Dib Lutfi and Affonso Beato, and made his debut in 1971 on Leon Hirszman's '' São Bernardo'', which won Gramado Film Festival Best Cinematography Award. He directed the short film ''Libertários'', winner of Margarida de Prata Award from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, in 1976. In 1978, he would win again the Gramado Film Festival Best Cinematography Award for his work on Héctor Babenco's ''Lúcio Flávio, o Passageiro da Agonia''. His first feature film, ''Sonho sem Fim'', won the Jury Special Award at the 1986 Gramado Film Festival. '' Ironweed'' (1987), another Babenco's film, would make him more known internationally. Selected filmography *'' All Nudity Shall Be Punished'' (1973) *'' Lucio Flavio'' (197 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blackbird (journal)
''Blackbird'' is an online journal of literature and the arts based in the United States that posts two issues a year, May 1 and November 1. During the six-month run of an issue, additional content appears as "featured" content. Previous issues are archived online in their entirety. Background ''Blackbird'' publishes fiction, poetry, plays, interviews, reviews, and art by both new and established writers and artists. The journal frequently includes streaming audio and video content, including readings, interviews, and art lectures. Each fall issue forefronts work by, and about, the late Larry Levis. The journal's reading period for poetry and fiction closes between April 15 and September 15. Unsolicited reviews, plays, and art work are not considered. Publisher ''Blackbird'' is published jointly by the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University in partnership with New Virginia Review, Inc., a nonprofit literary arts organizati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ennui (sonnet)
"Ennui" is a sonnet by Sylvia Plath published for the first time in November 2006 in the online literary journal '' Blackbird''. Sylvia Plath wrote the Petrarchan sonnet "Ennui" during her undergraduate years at Smith College. The first appearance of "Ennui" in print received international attention, from New York City to New Delhi. Reports on the poem were featured in the ''New York Times'', the ''Washington Post'', the ''Guardian Unlimited'', the ''International Herald Tribune The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France, for international English-speaking readers. It published under the name ''International Herald Tribune'' starting in 1967, but its ...'', and other journals. References External links Scan of final draft at the Blackbird Archive with comments of others {{Sylvia Plath Poetry by Sylvia Plath 2006 poems Works originally published in American magazines Works originally published in l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for '' The Colossus and Other Poems'' (1960), '' Ariel'' (1965), and '' The Bell Jar'', a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. ''The Collected Poems'' was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. Plath later studied with Robert Lowell at Boston University, alongside poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was tumultu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Author, Author (novel)
''Author, Author'' is a novel by David Lodge, written in 2004. The book is based on the life of the author Henry James. It was released at about the same time as '' The Master'' by Colm Tóibín and other books about James, and Lodge wrote ''The Year of Henry James: The Story of a Novel'' about this. Lodge populates his novel with several of the most famous figures of English literature from the time of the book's setting in the late nineteenth century. Plot summary The novel opens with a framing device wherein we are shown what is happening in the London home of the dying novelist at the beginning of World War I. One of the servant staff in James' house has taken a crude but sincere interest in discovering what her employer's books are all about and takes to reading one of his more famous stories, '' The Beast in the Jungle''. This story, whose hero is obsessed by a paranoid belief that his life will be marked by an unknown catastrophe, provides the opening for the novel pro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Lodge (author)
David John Lodge (28 January 1935 – 1 January 2025) was an English author and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – ''Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses'' (1975), ''Small World: An Academic Romance'' (1984) and ''Nice Work'' (1988). The second two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel ''The Picturegoers'' (1960). Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. His edition of ''Twentieth Century Literary Criticism'' (1972) includes essays on 20th-century writers such as T. S. Eliot. In 1992, he published ''The Art of Fiction (book), The Art of Fiction'', a collection of essays on literary techniques with illustrative examples from great authors, such as "Point of View" (Henry James), "The Stream of C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Phyllis Gotlieb
Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (née Bloom; May 25, 1926 July 14, 2009) was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet. Biography Born of Jewish heritage in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 (BA) and 1950 (MA). In 1961, John Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press published Gotlieb's first collection of poems, the pamphlet ''Who Knows One'' Her first novel, the science-fiction tale ''Sunburst'', was published in 1964. Gotlieb won the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel ''A Judgement of Dragons''. The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel. Her husband was Calvin Gotlieb (1921–2016), a computer-science professor who lived in Toronto, Ontario. Bibliography Science fiction novels *''Sunburst''. New York: Fawcett, 1964. *''Birthstones''. Toronto: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2007. Dahlgren *''O Master Caliban!'' New York: Harper and Row, 1976. *''Heart of Red Iron''. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Starcat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bertrand Bonello
Bertrand Bonello (; born 11 September 1968) is a French film director, screenwriter, producer, composer and actor. His work has been associated with the New French Extremity. He wrote and directed ''Something Organic'' (1998), '' The Pornographer'' (2001), '' Tiresia'' (2003), '' Cindy: The Doll Is Mine'' (2005), '' On War'' (2008), '' House of Tolerance'' (2011), '' Saint Laurent'' (2014), '' Nocturama'' (2016), '' Zombi Child'' (2019), ''Coma'' (2022), and '' The Beast'' (2023). He also starred in '' Portrait of the Artist'' (2015), and '' Titane'' (2021). He was nominated for the César Award for Best Director for ''Saint Laurent'', and was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2015. Early life Bonello's background is in classical music, and he started playing the piano at the age of five. Later on he had a band, and then he discovered punk and rock music and switched from classical to pop music. He became interested in films at the age of twelve by ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Beast (2023 Film)
''The Beast'' () is a 2023 science fiction romantic drama film directed and written by Bertrand Bonello from a story he co-wrote with Guillaume Bréaud and Benjamin Charbit. A co-production between France and Canada, the film is loosely based on Henry James's 1903 novella '' The Beast in the Jungle''. It stars Léa Seydoux and George MacKay, with Guslagie Malanda, Dasha Nekrasova, Martin Scali, Elina Löwensohn, Marta Hoskins, Julia Faure, Kester Lovelace, Félicien Pinot and Laurent Lacotte in supporting roles. ''The Beast'' had its world premiere on 3 September 2023 at the 80th Venice International Film Festival as part of the official competition. The film was released theatrically in France on 7 February 2024 by Ad Vitam and in Canada on 19 April by Maison 4:3. Plot In 2044, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken over most of the jobs in the world. Although AI is credited with saving the world by stopping climate change, it has a low opinion of humans, and deems most ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Patric Chiha
Patric Chiha (born 3 March 1975) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and film editor of Hungarian and Lebanese origin. After directing several short films and documentaries, his first feature film, ''Domain'' (2009), premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. In 2014, he directed his second feature film, ''Boys Like Us''. His documentaries ''Brothers of the Night'' (2016), and '' If It Were Love'' (2020) were both selected for the Berlin Film Festival. His third feature film, '' The Beast in the Jungle'', was released in 2023. Early life Chiha was born in Vienna, Austria on 3 March 1975. He is of Hungarian and Lebanese origin, and has lived in France since the age of 18. Chiha studied fashion design at ESAA Duperré in Paris and film editing at INSAS in Brussels. Career After directing several short films and documentaries, his first feature film, ''Domain'' (2009), premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival. In 2014, he directed his second feature film, ''Boys Like Us' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |