Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Oxford English Prize Essays
Author: The Oxford English prize essays
Author: Oxford univ, prize essaysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Oxford English Prize Essays. A New Edition
Author: University of OxfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
New Medieval Literatures
Author: Wendy ScasePublisher: New Medieval Literatures
ISBN: 9780198187387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
On Essays
Author: Thomas KarshanPublisher:
ISBN: 019870786X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various incarnations of the form, offers new accounts of major essayists in English, and traces a wide range of significant themes.
The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays
Author: Ilan StavansPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
An intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Author: Richard DawkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199216819
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory.This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whoseworks have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.
Time and Antiquity in American Empire
Author: Mark StoreyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019264498X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This is a book about two empires—America and Rome—and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, Time and Antiquity in American Empire reconfigures our understanding of how cultural and political life has generated an analogy between Roman antiquity and the imperial US state—both to justify and perpetuate it, and to resist and critique it. The book takes in a wide scope, from theories of historical time and imperial culture, through the twin political pillars of American empire—republicanism and slavery—to the popular genres that have reimagined America's and Rome's sometimes strange orbit: Christian fiction, travel writing, and science fiction. Through this conjunction of literary history, classical reception studies, and the philosophy of history, however, Time and Antiquity in American Empire builds a more fundamental inquiry: about how we imagine both our politics and ourselves within historical time. It outlines a new relationship between text and context, and between history and culture; one built on the oscillating, dialectical logic of the analogy, and on a spatialising of historical temporality through the metaphors of constellations and networks. Offering a fresh reckoning with the historicist protocols of literary study, this book suggests that recognizing the shape of history we step into when we analogize with the past is also a way of thinking about how we have read—and how we might yet read.
The Lesser Bohemians
Author: Eimear McBridePublisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 110190349X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A breathtaking award-winning novel about an extraordinary, all-consuming love affair One night an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older man—a well-regarded actor in his own right. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by more than a few demons, and the clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both. A captivating story of passion and innocence, joy and discovery set against the vibrant atmosphere of 1990s London over the course of a single year, The Lesser Bohemians glows with the eddies and anxieties of growing up, and the transformative intensity of a powerful new love. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlisted for the 2016 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
Author: Linda Wagner-MartinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195132458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
"A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry. . . . Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--"USA Today."