Literary essays

Wade's self-aware, grief-inflected essays attempt to answer the questionwhat have you given up in order to become who you are?

Traces the development of Roberto Bolaño''s work from the beginning to the end of his career.

For nearly half a century Anne Lake Prescott has been a force and an inspiration in Renaissance studies.

This edited collection, a tribute to the late noted eighteenth-century scholar Betty Rizzo, testifies to her influence as a researcher, writer, teacher, and mentor.

A heartfelt collection of personal stories that connect a common past and offer hope for a promising futureFor many, South Carolina is a sunny vacation destination.

Texte von Hans Wollschläger - gegenwartsbezogen, politisch hellwach und außerordentlich unterhaltsam.

We have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebald s case the claim was triumphantly justified.

In these wonderfully stylish and eclectic essays, Charles Nicholl pursues the fugitive traces of the past with the skill and relish that have earned him a reputation as one of the finest literary and historical detectives of our time.

In den Gebärden der Entsagung fallen Selbstverlust und Souveränität zusammen.

'Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.

David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem.

In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors.

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From the acclaimed creator of Subway Book Review, Between the Lines gloriously takes to the underground and showcases in over 170 interviews what moves us forwarda thrilling ride as unexpected as New York City itself.

Was ist Eleganz?

A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us.

The book leads off with fourteen short essays on poems from James Dickey's last book, The Eagle's Mile, twelve short essays on James Wright's best prose poems, a long essay on Dickey's third novel, To the White Sea, a long essay on W.

Seit über dreißig Jahren betrachtet der Westen den Osten.

Selections from Leopardi’s prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim ParksRevenge—Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don’t mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.

Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up constitutes a collection of articles and essays written over the last five decades of his career.

Raymond Knister had a strong sense of commitment both to his own career and to literature, particularly Canadian literature.

Less than a year before his death in 1972, John Berryman signed a contract with his publisher for a book of prose, The Freedom of the Poet, for which he had made a selection from his published and unpublished writings.

"e;Powerful"e; essays exploring the experience of the writer-and the nature of experience itself (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).

»Zum ersten Mal habe ich das Gefühl, über etwas, das mich betrifft, so sprechen zu können, als ginge es alle etwas an«, erklärt das Ich dieses Textes, »weil ich schon lange in der Welt lebe, in die jetzt alle geraten sind.

Can a case be made for reading literature in the digital age?

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______________'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian'A marvellous eavesdrop on the discourse of exchange between two great intellects' - Nadine Gordimer, TLS'An extraordinary meeting of minds in troubled times' - Financial Times'A fascinating exchange of ideas on music, politics and literature' - Classic FM Magazine______________Israeli Daniel Barenboim, one of the finest musicians of our times, and Palestinian Edward Said, eminent literary critic and leading expert on the Middle East, were close friends for years.

Think moving in with your mother-in-law is your worst nightmare?

Determination, grit and humour shine through Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.

For it is in the simple act of reading where the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, meet.

In a small but comfortable conference room, in a publishing house in San Francisco, a group of high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles.

All of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905.

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus.

Porphyry's On Abstinence from Killing Animals is one of the most interesting books from Greek antiquity for both philosophers and historians.

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.

The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Browns new and previously published writings on literature and music.

Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men's and women's shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery.

Dieser Band beinhaltet alle nichtfiktionalen Texte Thomas Manns von den Beiträgen zur Schülerzeitung ›Frühlingssturm‹ 1893 bis zum Kriegsausbruch 1914.

The Food Almanac II is an annual, seasonal collection of recipes and stories celebrating the joy of food - a dazzling, diverse mix of memoir, history, short stories and poems alongside recipes, cooking tips, menus and reading lists.

In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life.

Thirty-two prominent writers share the Bible passages most meaningful to them in this Sunday School class youve been waiting for (Garrison Keillor).

Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John Updike - warts and all.

Set primarily in Mexico and the American Northwest, yet equally at home with Achilleus on the Trojan plains or with Walt Whitman in his New Jersey home, these fifteen essays pass back and forth across international boundaries as easily as they cross the more fluid lines separating past and present.

Renommierte Autorinnen und Autoren geben Einblick in ihre Werkstatt und erteilen Auskunft zu ihrer "Werkpolitik".