Theory of Prose

8 best books like Theory of Prose (Victor Shklovsky): Ask the Dust, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Morphology of the Folktale, The Comedies, The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, The Rope and Other Plays, Tarantula

Ask the Dust

Author	John Fante
ISBN	0060822554

Ask the Dust is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young Italian-American writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Author	Laurence Sterne
ISBN	0141439777

No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and...

Morphology of the Folktale

Author	Vladimir Propp
ISBN	0292783760

Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretical breakthroughs in the field of folklore in the twentieth century. -- Alan Dundes. Propp's work is seminal...[and], now that it is available in a new edition, should be even more valuable to folklorists...

The Comedies

Author

Terence

Terence Theatre complete

Terence flourished in the second century BC and was a prosperous Roman playwright and the initiator of European comic drama.

His plays are inspired if not wholly copied from Greek poets like Menander and others.

This edition is the collection of...

The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro

Author	Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
ISBN	0140441336

“The Barber Of Seville,” translated, and with a panegyric introduction on the life of Beaumarchais and the social import of his plays, by John Wood. This romantic comedy, a very short and predictable light farce, is brilliant; I laughed out loud several times. It’s fast-paced, witty, subtle,...

The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man

Author	Marshall McLuhan
ISBN	1584230509

This is the devastating book which first established Marshall McLuhan's reputation as the foremost (and the wittiest) critic of modern mass communications.The Mechanical Bride is vintage McLuhan -- so aptly illustrated by dozens of examples from ads, comic strips, columnists, etc., that those...

The Rope and Other Plays

Author	Plautus
ISBN	0140441360

Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters...

Tarantula

Author	Bob Dylan
ISBN	0743230418

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.

Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection...