India in Translation, Translation in India seeks to explore the contours of translation of and in India-how Indian texts travel around the world in translation, how Indian texts travel across languages in the subcontinent and how texts from various languages of the world travel to India.
Die wichtigsten Porträts des bekannten Literaturkritikers aus zwanzig Jahren: spannend erzählte Begegnungen mit Büchern und deren Verfassern - von Marcel Proust bis Christoph Ransmayr.
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style.
'The Jewish people in its very being constitutes a living protest against a world of hatred, violence and war' - Emeritus Chief Rabbi, Lord SacksThe history of Jewish persecution is as old as the written word, though the epithet `antisemitism` was only conceived in the late nineteenth century as it reached the beginning of its most horrifying chapter.
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Este tercer volumen comprende los títulos La función social de los saberes liberales (1961), Persona humana y justicia social (1962) y La formación de la personalidad humana (1963).
"e;Nearly every major figure of his era,"e; writes his biographer Adrian Frazier, "e;worked with Moore, tangled with Moore, took his impression from, or left it on, George Moore.
The internet has shaken the foundations of life: public and private lives are wrought by the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle that means no one is ever off duty.
Acclaimed as "e;the premier chronicler of America's complex relationship with our oceans"e; (Honolulu Weekly), David Helvarg has also been a war correspondent, investigative journalist, documentary producer, and private investigator.
'A work of genius' Ben Fountain'A bittersweet book, but also a sharp and profoundly wise one' Herald'Searcy writes with an urgency that makes his essays matter.
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.
A brilliant collection from one of Australia's leading writersClose to Home brings together Alice Pung s most loved writing, on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging and identity.
In The Book of Marvels, award-winning poet Lorna Crozier offers a delightful series of prose meditations on household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink.
In Myself with Others, Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics.
Douglas Clayton examines the tradition of commedia dell'arte as the Russian modernists inherited it, from its origins in Italian street theatre through its various transformations: in Italy (Gozzi and Goldini's plays); in France (the development of Pierrot and the restructuring of the plot); and in Germany (Tieck's and Hoffmann's metatheatre).
"e;Anecdote"e; and "e;theory"e; have diametrically opposed connotations: humorous versus serious, specific versus general, trivial versus overarching, short versus grand.
The books collected in this volume represent the first time since the mid-nineteenth century that the four seminal masterworks of ancient Chinese thought have been translated as a unified series by a single translator.
Ob Gabriel García Márquez, Heimito von Doderer, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, Karl Kraus oder Jonathan Franzen: Daniel Kehlmann ist als Leser ein scharfsinnig Rühmender, ein kritisch Liebender, ein Lernender.
'In the space of three years, I went from a thirty-something full-time corporate cog, wife and mother who didn't know a thing about business, to the owner of a $100 million company.
In Herod: Reflections on Political Violence (first published in 1978) Conor Cruise O'Brien collects a number of essays alongside three short plays that dramatise political arguments through the infamous figure of the Roman king of Judaea for whom the collection is named.
Exploring how the depiction of otherness or alterity during the Middle Ages became problematic in the aesthetics of the Romance epics written during the centuries of the Crusades, this book offers a vital contribution to the growing interest in the way foreign women are presented in the texts of the Latin West and will be of consuming interest to students in women's studies, cultural studies, and medieval literature.
By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.
In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years.
This new edition corrects shortcomings of earlier editors by providing a text which incorporates neglected or unavailable material from Greek manuscripts, recently published papyri, and quotations from the orations by rhetoricians dating from antiquity through to the Byzantine period.
From the editor of the celebrated anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, comes a new collection of original essays on what keeps writers tethered to New York City.
Michelle Orange uses the lens of pop culture to decode the defining characteristics of our media-drenched timesIn This Is Running for Your Life, Michelle Orange takes us from Beirut to Hawaii to her grandmother's retirement home in Canada in her quest to understand how people behave in a world increasingly mediated-for better and for worse-by images and interactivity.
