*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street'Fl neuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French.
Este ensayo es el resultado de años de trato con la actividad literaria a cargo de su autor, Constantino Bértolo, uno de los críticos y editores más prestigiosos de España, y es también el resultado de la reflexión sobre algunas de las claves de dicha actividad: la escritura, la lectura y la crítica.
'One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class' Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage to machinery' and argued instead that the wonder and joy of culture - in particular the 'sweetness and light' of classical civilization - were essential to human life.
Este libro parte de la reflexión colectiva en torno a los estudios culturales, proyecto heterogéneo que surgió en Birmingham, Inglaterra, en la década de los años sesenta del siglo XX, el cual rápidamente se convirtió en un vasto campo de producción en torno a una gran diversidad de enfoques e intereses, en cuyo centro se situaba una clara preocupación política, pues además de su reformulación del marxismo se incorporó a los "nuevos movimientos sociales", como el feminismo, el poscolonialismo y el movimiento gay, entre otros.
En los albores del siglo XXI, la eutanasia se ha impuesto en algunos paises como una solucion eticamente aceptable para poner fin a situaciones de gran sufrimiento.
Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work.
In this collection of essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture, and politics, Ngugi wa Thiong'o delivers a groundbreaking critique of colonialism and capitalism in postcolonial Africa.
Woolf on Women is a powerful and thought-provoking collection of Virginia Woolf's most influential essays on women-both real and fictional, historical and contemporary-and the ways in which they navigate the constraints of society.
In this intellectually challenging collection of literary criticism, Rebecca West undertakes the question of art’s value, examining the works of her contemporaries and their places in history “The Strange Necessity,” one of the twelve essays collected here and first published in 1928, anchors West’s quest to understand why art matters and how aesthetics of every caliber can not only inspire but reveal the author’s inner world.
Roping a buffalo, running off cattle rustlers, sitting out a winter storm in a cave-adventures like these were all part of everyday life for the cowboy.
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.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s.
From one of Americas most celebrated poets, Nikki Giovanni, comes this poignant collection of poetry that celebrates the simple pleasures of everyday life and the bonds we share with those closest to us.
"e;The Study of Imagination"e; is a brand new collection of classic essays written by various authors on the subject of fairy tales, mythology, and folk-Lore.
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