The essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts; Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen's understanding of the arts, her aesthetic philosophy, and her role as artist.
Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "e;armchair"e; travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "e;Age of Gandhi,"e; placed between 1914-1948.
***ONE OF BILLBOARD'S TOP TEN MUSIC BOOKS OF 2018*** A brilliant book about singing I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now.
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period.
During a time of increased book banning and censoring, of scrutiny of the word critical, andeven calls for surveillance of K12 teachers, the burgeoning field of critical media literacy is moreimportant than ever.
La autora, licenciada y profesora en educación especial, aborda críticamente las representaciones sociales que impactan la inclusión en el Sistema Educativo Argentino.
This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical "e;snippets of experience"e; written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively personal with the everyday and the world-historical.
Erfolgsautor Dietmar Grieser über ein außergewöhnliches Land In dreizehn Reisereportagen und Porträts erzählt der begnadete literarische Spurensucher berührend und eindringlich von persönlichen Erlebnissen in der Ukraine, von berühmten Ukrainern und was aus ihnen wurde – und ihren Verbindungen zu Österreich.
This collection of essays, the result of a 2006 conference at the University of Wales in Lampeter, look at the influence of philosophical texts on the ancient novel.
This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relation between these ideas and the political and economic events of the day.
This beautiful book of thirty-eight essays, illustrated by Mississippi's premier watercolorist Wyatt Waters, will ring true with treasured recollections of Christmases past.
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s early columns “peopled by some of the funniest, looniest and saddest characters anywhere outside of a zoo” (The New York Times).
During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications.
Michelle Fishburne did the unthinkable during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: she motor-homed 12,000 miles all over the United States and sat down with hundreds of people face to face.
When Sam Bax, that charming daredevil of a Boston lawyer, sails his boat into a storm off the coast of Maine, Elizabeth 'Olly' Bax, his wife and ardent sidekick, becomes a widow at the edge of twenty-seven.
Shakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of renowned Shakespearean and co-founder of the American Shakespeare Center, Ralph Alan Cohen.
This book reconsiders the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States and its consequent cultural and literary histories.
When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from.
