Author: Sir Thomas BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norfolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Hydriotaphia
Author: Sir Thomas BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norfolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Garden of Cyrus..
Author: Sir Thomas BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Theater of Tony Kushner
Author: James FisherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136530150
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights.
Contemporary American Playwrights
Author: C. W. E. BigsbyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521668071
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.
The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
Author: William E. EngelPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107086817
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.
Urn Burial (New Directions Pearls)
Author: Thomas BrownePublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811221547
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Urn Burial, one of the most influential essays in Western literature, is now available as a New Directions Pearl. Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in the form of burial urns, Browne’s associative mind wanders to elephant graveyards, to pre-Christian cremation ceremonies, and finally to the idea of Christian burial. Browne then explores, with a more melancholic meditation, man’s struggles with mortality and the uncertainty of his fate and fame in the living world. This edition includes a magisterial discourse on Sir Thomas Browne taken from the first chapter of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521200042
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
The Rings of Saturn
Author: W. G. SebaldPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122130X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."
Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial); The Garden of Cyrus; Letter To A Friend
Author: Sir Thomas BrownePublisher:
ISBN: 9781911405900
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Thomas Browne's books are complex and multilayered; witty yet deeply humane. Both 'Letter to a Friend' and 'Hydriotaphia' deal with Death; but Browne's humour and eloquence transform his essays on this seemingly unpromising topic into entrancing works of art, while 'The Garden' reveals itself as an insightful meditation on Life and Mysticis
A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne, Kt, M.D.
Author: Geoffrey KeynesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description