Literary essays

Damn Great Empires!

Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present.

What is the meaning of "e;adventure"e; as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes?

Included are conversations with Nicole Aragi, Lesley Hazleton, and George Packer, and features and poetry from Tomaz Salamun, Kiese Laymon, Ann Neumann, J.

Paul Stoller has been writing a popular blog for the Huffington Post since 2011.

Ob Uwe Kolbe mit Hölderlin von Bad Homburg nach Frankfurt wandert, ob er Vater und Sohn ein Bratkartoffelgericht zubereiten lässt, in Rheinsberg oder Arkadien unterwegs ist - immer spürt er mit großer Intensität dem geschichtlichen Prozess und der eigenen Identität nach.

A revealing look at contemporary Japanese culture.

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Transformationen der Gefühle - Eine faszinierende philosophiehistorische Reise durch die Theorien der Gefühle von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit.

Das Wichtigste zu verbaler und nonverbaler Kommunikation: So überzeugst du sie alle!

From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion'She's a joy.

I was born in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.

Satiate your sense of wanderlust and take an edible journey around New York City with food and travel journalist Tracey Ceurvels.

The pieces in this collection range in setting from the small towns of New England to the deserts of the Southwest.

Arthur James Marshall Smith - prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic - died in 1980.

In 1951 Octavio Paz travelled to India to serve as an attach in the Mexican Embassy.

The poems, stories and essays of Mphutlane wa Bofelo operate within a framework of thinking that is an amalgam of philosophies: that of black consciousness, humanistic Islam and socialism.

This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era.

We All Come Home Alive is the story of a life told through the moments which remade it - from car crashes to first kisses, from the stumbling magic of drunkenness to the tearing open of birth - to offer consolation and companionship, deep wisdom and luminous beauty.

Water is the most sought resource for human use.

Baiers Essays stützen sich ebenso auf Anschauung wie auf Recherche, neugierige Beobachtung bestimmt sie nicht weniger als genaue Lektüre.

Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this ';breathtaking anthology celebrating the power of the written word to forge change' (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Autobiography has been an essential element of the London Review of Books since its founding in 1979.

Professor Leech examines here the changing nature of Shakespeare's comic art, from its early forms in such plays as The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, where delight predominates, to later developments in Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale, where elements of the playwright's tragic vision intrude to prevent the effect from being wholly comic.

Auf Grundlage langjähriger therapeutischer Arbeit mit Betroffenen jeden Alters beschreibt die Autorin anschaulich die Symptome, fundierte neurobiologische Erkenntnisse sowie die evidenzbasierte Diagnosestellung und Therapie von ADHS.

"e;[This] remarkable debut essay collection touches on art and literature and pop culture, but also feels intensely intimate, filled with stunning insights.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series comes a collection of ambitious, remarkably erudite essays on art, literature, culture, and philosophy.

Este cuarto volumen comprende el título La estructura de la subjetividad (1967).

In her highly anticipated nonfiction debut, comedian Kelly Bandas uses her trademark humor to recount stories of growing up and becoming a semifunctional adult in a dysfunctional world.

Gedanken einer Frau von WeltWas hat US-Präsident Donald Trump mit einer Katze gemeinsam?

Cultural criticism for people who grew up with television as the primary background noise.

Defuse any heated conflict by learning which of the five conflict styles you are and how to resolve even the most sensitive dispute with this must-read guide.

New essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, including contributions by both eminent scholars and new voices.

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

A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by Andre Aciman *; Sarah Boxer *; Jennifer Finney Boylan *; Susie Boyt *; Gerald Early *; Esther Freud *; Rivka Galchen *; Adam Gopnik *; David Gordon *; Siri Hustvedt *; Sheila Kohler *; Peter D.

Funktion, Rolle und Geschichte des Außenseiters von der Antike bis zu den QuerdenkernUrsprünglich stammt der Begriff aus der Welt des Sports: »Outsider« sind solche, die ohne Siegchance ins Rennen gehen.

A collection of essays from some of the best writers in America, about what it means to be a fully functional, and sometimes fully dysfunctional, 21st–century, born–in–the–USA LatinaTired of the trite cultural clichés by which the media has defined Latinas, the editors of this collection of personal essays by both established and emerging authors, have gathered them with the intention of representing their varied experiences, through hilarious anecdotes from each of their colorful lives.

Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel is an exploration of the relationship between walking and writing.

Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm.

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?

Recognising the multi-faceted nature of the Scots law of delict, this new edition provides a complete guide to the law.

Roger Bromley deals with the ways in which certain popular forms contribute to the social production of memories.

She was our conscience.

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This collection of essays examines, in context, eastern Native American speeches, which are translated and reprinted in their entirety.