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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Book of English Essays
Author: Selected Essays
Author: John BergerPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Spanning more than forty years of work, this collection of essays, gathered from the author's previous collections--including Toward Reality, The Look of Things, and The Sense of Sight, among others--reflects on such topics as Jackson Pollock, museums, mass demonstratons, ideologies, philosophy, and more.
New Selected Essays
Author: Tennessee WilliamsPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217286
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"There isn't a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book."--Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post
On Periodization
Author: Virginia Walker JacksonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
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Selected Literary Essays
Author: C. S. LewisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107685389
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism,' from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis's best critical writing.
林語堂雙語文選
Author: Yutang LinPublisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 962996435X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Lin Yutang's essays on Chinese society and culture were written in both Chinese and English and spanned the immensely influential decades of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. In this collection of his seminal work, Yutang confronts the rapid cultural developments of the era and the role that a Chinese intellectual must assume as he shares and translates his native country to the West. Known best for introducing "humour" into Chinese literature and culture, Yutang was a writer of great scholarly and popular interest, reflected in these engaging, substantial, and inspiring works.
Less Than One
Author: Joseph BrodskyPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374520550
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 517
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Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.
Selected Essays
Author: T. S. EliotPublisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780571197460
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote; 'For myself this book is a kind of historical record of my interests and opinions.' The text includes some of his most important criticism, especially parts of The Sacred Wood, Homage to John Dryden, the essays on Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, For Lancelot Andrewes and Essays Ancient and Modern.
Dilemmas and Connections
Author: Charles TaylorPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674055322
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
In these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in his epochal A Secular Age.
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