Literary essays

For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous critic.

Laugh-out-loud observations from “America’s foremost humorist” (Chicago Tribune).

In the late 1970s, Robert Brunk discovered the world of auctioneering.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement.

Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (1821-1890) was a British writer, poet, linguist, explorer, translator, geographer, ethnologist, orientalist, Freemason, diplomat, and cartographer best remembered for extensively travelling in and exploring Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options.

The philosophical significance of Maurice Blanchot's writings has rarely been in doubt.

"Mit Fremden sprechen" ist eine vom Autor selbst zusammengestellte Auswahl seiner besten Essays und Schriften aus fünfzig Jahren, die sowohl berühmte Texte als auch bislang Unveröffentlichtes enthält.

"e;You will perceive by this I am at least in the Confederate service.

Finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction Finalist for the 2024 Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature One of CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall A Tyee Best Book of 2023 A CBC Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 AHamilton Review of Books Best Book of 2023 An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of 2023We need community to live.

Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many books to chronicle the people and places of eastern Carolina.

The northeastern seaboard of North America, extending from Labrador to Cape Cod, was the first region of North America to suffer from human exploitation.

This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor.

'In a book this good, in the company of a mind this judicious and fine, the reader is left wanting more' TelegraphPoetry, poker, mountaineering, novels - a sparkling collection of essays from Britain's best-loved man of letters________________________Al Alvarez's writing career has come in many guises.

Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.

In Honor Thy Gods Jon Mikalson uses the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides to explore popular religious beliefs and practices of Athenians in the fifth and fourth centuries B.

«Si un engaño puede materializarse es porque siempre hay alguien dispuesto a creer».

One of America's most beloved authors and a master of the personal essay, Willie Morris (1934-1999) wrote nineteen books and hundreds of articles and reflections.

'His moral courage shines through from the start.

"e;Packed with inspirational, useful, and thought-provoking essays on the craft of writing from some of the best writers around.

From "e;one of the master naturalists of our time"e; (American Scientist), a fascinating exploration of what seashells reveal about biology, evolution, and the history of lifeGeerat Vermeij wrote this "e;celebration of shells"e; to share his enthusiasm for these supremely elegant creations and what they can teach us about nature.

• Gesundheitsfördernd kommunizieren: Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungsgestaltung auf der Grundlage der Neurobiologie• Anregungen: Für therapeutische und pädagogische Prozesse hilfreichDer Autor, Experte für gesundheitsfördernde Kommunikation, zeigt in diesem Buch, welche Bedingungen wir für eine erfolgreiche, förderliche und angenehme Kommunikation brauchen – und was sie behindern kann:- Wie sieht dysfunktionale im Gegensatz zu geglückter Kommunikation aus?

'In the kitchen, via the garden, I am often torn between theory and praxis, when surely the latter is all that matters here.

The Turning Point is a rare glimpse into the most important and fascinating moments of people's lives.

The fourth issue of Fairy Tale Review, The White Issue features original fiction and poetry with fairy tale aesthetics.

Fall under the spell of Florida's natural environmentIn this captivating collection, Florida s most notable authors, poets, and environmentalists take readers on a journey through the natural wonders of the state.

Exploring drawing, fate, and the mysterious human body, Boruch embarks on a journey of dark wonder in The Figure Going Imaginary.

The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies.

Kein Land hat die Sehnsucht der Deutschen mehr geweckt als Italien.

A prominent and prolific Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is known for her novels, plays, short stories, and essays.

This volume gathers together the papers given at a conference at University of Western Ontario in honour of the Tercentenary of Paradise Lost.

One of Mississippi's most fascinating personalities and one of its absolutely best raconteurs, Capers can hold any reader or listener enthralled with her witty, delicious narratives.

Wer in den zwölf weißen Bänden von Christoph Ransmayrs »Spielformen des Erzählens« nach dem klassischen Ton großer Erzählungen sucht, wird jene 13 Geschichten entdecken, die nun erstmals in einem Band versammelt sind.

SUPERSCHNELL, SUPERSTARK, SUPERKLUG: ZEIT FÜR HELDEN!

Critical Essays on William Faulkner compiles scholarship by noted Faulkner studies scholar Robert W.

Warum erzählen?

In this collection of nine essays, a group of internationally known classicists examine from a variety of viewpoints the speeches that Thucydides inserted into the history of the Peloponnesian War.

Cet ouvrage éclaire l’érotisme à travers la plus ancienne et la plus tenace des littératures qui en fit sa spécialité.

He was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, e.

In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced-an unprecedented number.

In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother.

Was bedeutet es, heute in Deutschland jüdisch zu sein?

This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition.

Dissing Elizabeth focuses on the criticism that cast a shadow on the otherwise celebrated reign of Elizabeth I.

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the SeasonThe work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues-political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making.

"Migration is a good instance of what anthropologists used to call a "total social fact.

"e;Paris"e; could be the first word of an epic poem.

Julia Kavanagh was a popular and internationally published writer of the mid-nineteenth century whose collective body of work included fiction, biography, critical studies of French and English women writers, and travel writing.