Literary essays

A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl' and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation.

As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests.

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation - challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature.

The Peruvian Nobel laureate presents a collection of essays on the decline of intellectual life in the age of media spectacle.

Essential reading for all those interested in Irish literature and culture and its far-reaching effects on the world.

»Wo andere Völker nach den Sternen greifen, fangen die Schweizer an zu klettern«, schreibt Hugo Loetscher.

Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts.

Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings.

Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met.

Brigitte Kronauer, Alexander Nitzberg und Ferdinand Schmatz sprechen über Dichtung: Im Rahmen der Ernst-Jandl-Dozentur für Poetik gewährten die deutsche Autorin Brigitte Kronauer, der russisch-deutsche Dichter und Übersetzer Alexander Nitzberg und der österreichische Dichter Ferdinand Schmatz Einblicke in Positionen poetischen Schaffens.

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Knusprige Brotkrusten, Eier von glücklichen Hühnern, familiäres Miteinander bei spanischer Paella, Innehalten bei grünem Tee mit japanischen Reisbällchen und Kindheitserinnerungen an Melonen-Momente – wenn Doris Dörrie über das Essen schreibt, liest sich das, als umarme sie die Welt.

A prolific writer, famous pacifist, respected teacher, and literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the 20th century.

'I will do as the Senate decrees.

En consideración a que Argentina ha sido el país invitado de honor en la FIL de Guadalajara 2014, el FCE publica en la Revista Sur esta particular e innovadora antología, realizada por Gerardo Villadelángel, quien reúne textos de varios autores o de temas mexicanos que se difundieron de 1931 a 1951.

Found Anew is an anthology of new poetry and prose from writers with strong ties to the Palmetto State that creatively engages with historical photographs found in the digital collections of the University of South Carolina's South Caroliniana Library.

Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semiferal creatures on the African farm where she grew up.

Bestseller-Autorin und Friedenspreis-Trägerin Carolin Emcke denkt in diesem persönlich-politischen Journal über das Ausnahme-Jahr 2020 nach.

Why was Malcolm Turnbull removed and how did Scott Morrison emerge as Australia's thirtieth prime minister?

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artistsLike Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work.

A Handful of Mischief: New Essays on Evelyn Waugh is a collection of essays based on presentations at the Evelyn Waugh Centenary Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, in 2003.

**A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year**From one of Canadas most distinctive and intelligent emerging voices, a heartfelt collection of essays in Durga Chew-Boses captivating and truly inimitable style.

This volume includes many of the best essays by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), one of the most original scholars of Russian culture of her generation.

More than six decades after John Dewey's death, his political philosophy is undergoing a revival.

In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given text's complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or psychopathologies.

'The Constitution [of India] has within it the ability to produce social catharsis.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields.

The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Emile Zola.

Despite the fact that post-modern aesthetics deny the existence or validity of genres, the tendency nowadays is to assume that there was in Antiquity a homogeneous group of works of narrative prose fiction that, despite their differences, displayed a series of recurrent, iterative, thematic, and formal characteristics, which allows us to label them novels.

This Van Der Post 'reader', thematically organised to reflect the patterns and themes which have influenced his life and his writing, distils the essence of the writer, thinker, spiritual guru and man of action.

»Eine Kompetenzgranate mit Dauerzündung, die unterhalten, aber nicht unterfordern will« Ulrich Blumenbach.

This is not a book about a dog.

My Favourite Crime ranges across the world and over a wide array of contemporary issues.

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Changing one's diet not only improves physical health, but benefits mood, behaviour and cognitive function at a fundamental level.

Readers familiar with Lia Purpura's highly praised essay collections-Becoming, On Looking, and Rough Likeness-will know she's a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between humans and the things they see.

"e;I think that we can hold our position here against any force that the enemy can bring against us, as we have an admirable position & are all ready.

In a series of long essays, James Wood examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a startlingly wide group of writers.

Putting on the Dog explores the age-old relationship between humans and animals, providing fascinating details about the historic use of animals as clothing.

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This book offers a rare insight into the history of the Civil War in the western theatre through the eyes of a regimental surgeon.

A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders.

'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.

Before she was a renowned children's author, J.

Published originally in 1809-1810, The Friend was revised in 1812, by public demand.