Literary essays

Returning to 1960s' India after decades beyond its borders, Ved Mehta explores his native country with two sets of eyes: those of the man educated in the West, and those of the child raised under the Raj.

Jedes große Werk der Literatur birgt Rätsel und Geheimnisse, und nicht selten findet sich der Schlüssel zur Lösung genau an jenem Punkt, an dem sich Leben und Schreiben ihrer Schöpfer berühren.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general.

Kamel Daoud, Picasso und der Dschihadist – ein Kulturclash der besonderen Art.

What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents?

As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness.

Toxic Relationship – der Mensch und die NaturZwischen Lovebombing, Grenzenlosigkeit und ZerstörungWir haben die Natur kartiert und taxonomiert, wir lieben und vernichten sie zugleich.

»Es gibt keinen treueren Freund als ein Buch«, sagte schon Ernest Hemingway.

A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.

Box-Abende, ein Papstbesuch, die Demokratie, der Kulturbetrieb und der ganze wunderbare Zeitgeist – der vorliegende Band versammelt 55 entlarvende Kolumnen, die der unkorrumpier-, aber nicht unbeeindruckbare Fauser unter anderem unter dem Namen ›Caliban‹ für das Berliner Magazin ›tip‹ geschrieben hat.

“In this collection commissioned by Amy Scholder, nine original essays explore the specific and personal impact of cultural icons.

Ernst Robert Curtius war eine der ganz wenigen großen Gestalten der Literaturwissenschaft in Deutschland im 20.

As a genre that confounds the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, fictocriticism continues to gain currency.

Through these varied essays on politics, ethics, music, race, and culture Philip Martin admits "e;a minor obsession"e; with what he calls "e;the American Frolic"e;-the essential lack of seriousness with which many of us approach the questions inherent in living in a free society.

“Reading [Cooke] is like spending an evening with him: you may have heard it all before, but never told with such grace and sparkle.

Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial modernity.

Pieces of the Frame is a gathering of memorable writings by one of the greatest journalists and storytellers of our time.

The book Presargonic Period (2700-2350 BC) provides editions of all known royal inscriptions of kings who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia down to the advent of King Sargon of Akkad.

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (19421995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil's Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics, and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora.

Wenn sich einer der profiliertesten deutschsprachigen Autoren unserer Zeit mit dem Thema Humor in der Literatur auseinandersetzt, braucht er gute Gründe.

Genesis in Japan rises from a journal of reflections that were collected by the author while teaching the Bible to Japanese university students in Tokyo.

“Thoughtful, candid” essays from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Sophie’s Choice (The Christian Science Monitor).

From the bestselling author of The Rum Diary and king of Gonzo journalism Hunter S.

Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people.

This book presents the Cultural Transduction framework as a conceptual tool to understand the processes that media and cultural products undergo when they cross cultural and national borders.

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.

Salt Journals is a compelling collection of essays by Tunisian women, sharing their personal experiences with dictatorship and oppression.

This 2003 volume brings together essays addressing the theoretical foundations of concept of autonomy.

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute's landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated approach was tested in both the US and in Mexico.

'Oh prams on concrete balconies, what will your children see?

Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "e;Generation of 1842"e;--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--Jos?

From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials.

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.

The Times has the most famous letters page of any newspaper.

"e;There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature,"e; raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right.

Unser Auschwitz – so hat Martin Walser im Jahr 1965 einen Aufsatz überschrieben, in dem er festhält, was er als Beobachter beim Auschwitz-Prozess erlebt hat.

After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important English female novelist of the early eighteenth century.

The recent spatial turn in social theory and cultural studies opens up exciting new possibilities for the study of William Faulkner's literature.

Wenn Uwe Timm über das Schreiben schreibt, kehrt der in den letzten Jahrzehnten so abstrakt gewordene literarische Diskurs zu den Anfängen zurück.

As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.

The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defence as well as her final prose meditations.

The Vagrant Mood is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays.

Contributions by Ruth R.

Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print bringstogether established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dynamic relationships between words and illustrations in awide variety of popular cheap print from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.