Essays category: 9344 books
Hers
Through Women's Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
A collection of sixty-five of the most memorable essays to appear in the “Hers” column in The New York Times
Among the talented writers who examined the private and public issues facing women are Lois Gould, Gail Godwin, Gail Sheehy, Joyce Maynard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Cantwell, Linda...
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville
Essays in Relation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the...
De wereld van Maarten 't Hart
De beste stukken over natuur, literatuur, religie en muziek
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Waar 't Hart vol van is
In 1976 verscheen, onder de titel De kritische afstand, de eerste essaybundel van Maarten 't Hart. Zijn vak, de ethologie, vormde de inspiratiebron voor prikkelende beschouwingen over het gedrag van mensen, bekeken via de omweg van diergedrag. In 1978 volgde de tweede...
by Nicolas Rothwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction
*Quicksilver *begins on a quiet day in contemplation of a lizard deep in the heart of the outback but quickly moves to the Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky, and on to other lands and times, bringing into play universal questions...
Reading Texts, Reading Lives
Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one’s own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz’s pluralistic, self-questioning approach to...
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Percy Bysshe Shelley is more widely known as one of the great Romantic Poets. Yet in his short life he was active politically but also as an essayist where his thoughts and ideas were fresh and innovative. Included in this collection is In Defence Of Poetry which contains the quite wonderful suggestion...
My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera
and the Philosophical Foundations of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Published here for the first time in English, My Individualism and The Philosophical Foundations of Literature are essays which explore issues close to famed Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume's heart: the philosophical and cultural significance of isolation, belonging and identity associated with rapid...
Editing Lives
Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
The Defendant
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
G. K. Chesterton’s hilarious defense . . . of just about anything
In this hodgepodge of early musings, a young G. K. Chesterton operates under the conceit that many objects in the human purview—ranging from the humdrum and mundane to the outright ridiculous—could use the advocacy of...
Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs
Selected Prose, 2000-2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Sixteen years’ worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist
“Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler” (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years’ worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts...
by Michelle Orange
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Michelle Orange uses the lens of pop culture to decode the defining characteristics of our media-drenched times
In This Is Running for Your Life, Michelle Orange takes us from Beirut to Hawaii to her grandmother's retirement home in Canada in her quest to understand how people behave in a world...
Some of Us Did Not Die
New and Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
"She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' "Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle*Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length...
by Ulrich Baer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer’s The Rilke Alphabet examines this promise by one of the greatest poets in any...
by Susan Sontag
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.