Author: College journal, Georgetown universityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 52
Book Description
Centennial Supplement ...
Author: College journal, Georgetown universityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 52
Book Description
In the Belly of the Beast
Author: Jack Henry AbbottPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679732373
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. When Normal Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, he received a letter from Jack Henry Abbott, a convict, in which Abbott offered to educate him in the realities of life in a maximum security prison. This book organizes Abbott's by now classic letters to Mailer, which evoke his infernal vision of the prison nightmare.
Mendelssohn in Performance
Author: Siegwart ReichwaldPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253002613
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.
The Prisoner of Sex
Author: Norman MailerPublisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Sex differences (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Here, by America's foremost candidate for the Nobel Prize, is the book that some fifteen years ago created a firestorm among true believeers of the women's liberation movement, and which on rereading and contemplation emerges as one of the most sensible, sensitive and probing works on the ageless dialectic of man, woman, man-woman ever to be written.
Conversations with Norman Mailer
Author: Norman MailerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878053520
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
In twenty eight interviews this great American writer rises to the occasion and is at his sharpest in conversations with Lillian Ross, Marshall McLuhan, Malcolm Muggeridge, William F. Buckley, Jr., and George Plimpton.
A Transit to Narcissus
Author: Norman MailerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
The first publication of a novel Mailer wrote at the age of 20, three years before he began work on The Naked and the Dead. Issued in an edition of 1,000 copies.
Norman Mailer
Author: J. Michael LennonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781732651913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Norman Mailer: Works and Days compiles and highlights the prodigious and wide-ranging Mailer record, and provides a context for Mailer's life and literary career.
Mind of an Outlaw
Author: Norman MailerPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679645659
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer’s most important and representative work in the form that many rank as his most electrifying. As America’s foremost public intellectual, Norman Mailer was a ubiquitous presence in our national life—on the airwaves and in print—for more than sixty years. With his supple mind and pugnacious persona, he engaged society more than any other writer of his generation. The trademark Mailer swagger is much in evidence in these pages as he holds forth on culture, ideology, politics, sex, gender, and celebrity, among other topics. Here is Mailer on boxing, Mailer on Hemingway, Mailer on Marilyn Monroe, and, of course, Mailer on Mailer—the one subject that served as the beating heart of all of his nonfiction. From his early essay “A Credo for the Living,” published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year before his death, Mailer wrestled with the big themes of his times. He was one of the most astute cultural commentators of the postwar era, a swashbuckling intellectual provocateur who never pulled a punch and was rarely anything less than interesting. Mind of an Outlaw spans the full arc of Mailer’s evolution as a writer, including such essential pieces as his acclaimed 1957 meditation on hipsters, “The White Negro”; multiple selections from his seminal collection Advertisements for Myself; and a never-before-published essay on Sigmund Freud. Incendiary, erudite, and unrepentantly outrageous, Norman Mailer was a dominating force on the battlefield of ideas. Featuring an incisive Introduction by Jonathan Lethem, Mind of an Outlaw forms a fascinating portrait of Mailer’s intellectual development across the span of his career as well as the preoccupations of a nation in the last half of the American century. Praise for Mind of an Outlaw “[Mailer’s] best and brightest.”—Esquire “The fifty essays collected in this retrospective volume span sixty-four years and show [Norman] Mailer (1923–2007) at his brawny, pugnacious, and egotistical best. . . . This provocative collection brims with insights and reflections that show why Mailer is regarded as a great literary mind of his generation.”—Publishers Weekly “The selections open a window onto the capacious mind and process of one of the most volatile intellects of the twentieth century.”—Library Journal “Vintage Mailer: brilliant, infuriating, witty and never, ever boring.”—Tampa Bay Times “As good an introduction to Mailer’s habits of mind as there’s ever been.”—Kirkus Reviews “There’s no arguing about Mailer the essayist—he was outstanding. . . . These insightful essays educate, argue and persuade on everything from politics and literature to film, philosophy and the human condition.”—Shelf Awareness
The Force of Habit
Author: Thomas BernhardPublisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A megalomaniacal ringmaster, Caribaldi, has a fixed idea: he must teach his troupe - a juggler, a tightrope dancer, a lion tamer, and a clown - to play Schubert's "Trout Quintet," a serene goal in the midst of a cacaphony of one-night stands, laws of gravity, fate, and the vagaries of human nature. Not one of Caribaldi's motley crew wants to play; not one is suited to his or her instrument.
Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer
Author: Seymour KrimPublisher: New York : Dutton
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Revolt of the homosexual", pp. 136-143.