Literary essays

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable.

This collection of essays features some of the best of R.

Ob Hans Dieter Schäfer nach Bagdad reist, in Berlin die Friedrichstraße entlang geht, im Aquarium Tintenfische betrachtet oder den Leuten in der Kneipe zuhört - immer ist er ein genauer Beobachter, dessen Wahrnehmungen Gedankenbewegungen in Gang setzen, die etwas über die Zeit, die Orte, über das Gewordensein und das eigene Ich erzählen.

One of the most distinctive and independent voices in American journalism .

Die Frage: was empfindet man in der Literatur als obszön?

"Denke, was du willst, aber sag es nicht.

Grantland Book of the YearVol.

In Dear Friend, you must change your life, we see some of the most fascinating thinkers in history at their most private and profound, reaching out to a friend, sharing, testing, confirming discoveries about the complexity of life, how to rise above its hardships and enjoy its pleasures.

Von der Skizze zum Buch, vom Bild zum RomanKlaus Modick gewährt mit seinem neuen Buch einen Blick auf seinen Schreibtisch, erklärt dem Leser die Entstehungszusammenhänge seiner erfolgreichsten Werke und lässt ihn teilhaben an der Inspiration, die den Schreibprozess auslöst und vorantreibt.

In den meisten Essays geht es um Entstehungsfragen, sowohl um die Werkentstehung im weiteren Sinne als auch um die eigentliche Erfindung des Textes bei der Niederschrift, die in Kafkas Fall oft kaum voneinander zu trennen sind (›Der Schreibakt und das Geschriebene‹).

La littérature joue un rôle important en tant que révélateur d’un rapport dynamique au végétal, basé sur une sensibilité écologique : c’est ce que cherche à montrer cet essai, qui offre une synthèse des réflexions collectives menées dans le cadre du groupe de recherche L’imaginaire botanique.

23 Glückwünsche an Uwe Timm.

"e;Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau's performance as both a character on stage and in history.

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682).

La obra de Juan de Espinosa Medrano, apodado en su tiempo «El Lunarejo» (c.

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.

Im Zweifelsfall ist die Blackbox die letzte Hoffnung auf der Suche nach Ursachen für Abstürze: Was hat versagt oder wer, lag es an der Technik, am Klima, oder war es menschliches Versagen?

In this volume of essays the Graeco-Roman background and context of early Christianity are explored for significant parallels.

Im Frühjahr 2022, kurz nach Kriegsbeginn in der Ukraine, veröffentlichte Marlene Streeruwitz ihr »Handbuch gegen den Krieg.

In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer.

Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent.

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was a British physician.

Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology.

This antiquarian book comprises a collection of forty-one essays written by the famous Anglo-French writer and historian, Hilaire Belloc.

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth.

With Let Us Build Us a City Tracy Daugherty considers the principles of literary art in a series of essays that focus on the nature of artistic vision and the creative individual's relationship to the world.

"e;Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer.

**A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR**Quite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The SpectatorAn essential study of post-war gay London life.

The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism.

The tenth-anniversary Emerald Issue contains new stories, poems, essays, and artwork inspired by the themes of "e;emeralds"e; and "e;Oz.

Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation.

'It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on his senses' Geoff Dyer Albert Camus was born in a 'world of poverty and sunshine' in Algeria, which would infuse all of his work.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "e;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"e; (1876) and "e;The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"e; (1884).

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction.

This is the first complete publication of a rare collection of letters and poems written from 1790 to 1792--many of which have never appeared in print--telling the true story of Peter Heywood, a young Royal Navy midshipman on H.

In Seasons of Hope, the follow up to her bestselling Day by Day, Sister Stan offers words of wisdom to calm the mind and refocus our energies.

'A splendid book .

"e;These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself.

On the morning of H.

An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraines voice of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time.

Many books have been written about The Lake Poets - those Romantic geniuses led by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who made their homes in the beautiful north-west corner of England known as The Lake District during the first half of the nineteenth century.

This is a collection of authoritative essays on Samuel Beckett''s writing from a pre-eminent scholar of twentieth-century literature and culture.