Author: Henry Spackman PancoastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A First Book in English Literature
Author: Henry Spackman PancoastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Hall of Uselessness
Author: Simon LeysPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176383
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature, history, and politics and is an unflinching observer of the way we live now. The Hall of Uselessness is the most extensive collection of Leys’s essays to be published to date. In it, he addresses subjects ranging from the Chinese attitude to the past to the mysteries of Belgium and Belgitude; offers portraits of André Gide and Zhou Enlai; takes on Roland Barthes and Christopher Hitchens; broods on the Cambodian genocide; reflects on the spell of the sea; and writes with keen appreciation about writers as different as Victor Hugo, Evelyn Waugh, and Georges Simenon. Throughout, The Hall of Uselessness is marked with the deep knowledge, skeptical intelligence, and passionate conviction that have made Simon Leys one of the most powerful essayists of our time.
One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature
Author: The Grolier ClubPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781500783259
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Dreamthorp
Author: Alexander SmithThe Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Author: Elizabeth HardwickPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371545
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, describes places where she lived and locations she visited, and writes about the foundations of American literature—Melville, James, Wharton—and the changes in American fiction, though her reading is wide and international. She contemplates writers’ lives—women writers, rebels, Americans abroad—and the literary afterlife of biographies, letters, and diaries. Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, the Collected Essays gathers more than fifty essays for a fifty-year retrospective of Hardwick’s work from 1953 to 2003. “For Hardwick,” writes Pinckney, “the poetry and novels of America hold the nation’s history.” Here is an exhilarating chronicle of that history.
Seduction and Betrayal
Author: Elizabeth HardwickPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A vivid and provocative literary criticism of famous women writers from Virginia Woolf to Zelda Fitzgerald by a “gifted miniaturist biographer” (Joyce Carol Oates) The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits—of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle—as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer’s reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.
Orpheus
Author: George Robert Stow MeadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cults
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A Handbook of English Literature
Author: Henry Austin DobsonPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780353926158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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Masscult and Midcult
Author: Dwight MacdonaldPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon “Midcult” and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. This new selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Author: John MandevillePublisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1647980542
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is the chronicle of the alleged Sir John Mandeville, an explorer. His travels were first published in the late 14th century, and influenced many subsequent explorers such as Christopher Columbus.