Essays 92

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,……続きを見る

A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler’s The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa.……続きを見る

More than 50 years after independence, Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958ーthe yea……続きを見る

A collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many not……続きを見る

More than Charles Lamb himself could ever know, the creation of Elia as his personal artistic voice was his way to endure the memories of September 22, 1796, a day of primal horror when his sister M……続きを見る

This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of po……続きを見る

Men's Fear of Women as Vampires in Dracula connects the themes in vampire novels, particularly Dracula, to men's fear of women's bodies and sexuality. 続きを見る

Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He examines how the Personalism of anarcho-ant……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: " Gesammelte Werke: 15 Romane, 27 Erzählungen, 2 Novellen, 2 Abhandlungen & Essays" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekt……続きを見る

On the whole, an artist in England gains something by being attacked. His individuality is intensified. He becomes more completely himself. Of course, the attacks are very gross, very impertinent, a……続きを見る

Ambrose Bierce is best known for writing "The Devil's Dictionary," He is also known for being unsentimental, dark, and so full of vehemence that he was nicknamed "Bitter Bierce." "A Cynic Looks at L……続きを見る

Arguably Conor Cruise O'Brien's most influential and admired book was this brilliant collection of essays - on history, literature and public affairs - first published in 1965. 'I can still remember……続きを見る

'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate importan……続きを見る

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the the field, most notably devot……続きを見る

'unless you know everything, you really know nothing' Diderot's brilliant and witty dialogue begins with a chance encounter in a Paris caf? between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly acros……続きを見る

TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a ……続きを見る

Tucholskys unterhaltsamer Blick auf die Stadt. Dieses Buch vereint ironische und kritische Artikel und Gedichte aus Feuilletons Berliner Zeitungen von 1912 bis 1930. Geschehnisse, Wörter und Dinge, ……続きを見る

Ob Hans Dieter Schäfer nach Bagdad reist, in Berlin die Friedrichstraße entlang geht, im Aquarium Tintenfische betrachtet oder den Leuten in der Kneipe zuhört - immer ist er ein genauer Beobachter, ……続きを見る

Ob Uwe Kolbe mit Hölderlin von Bad Homburg nach Frankfurt wandert, ob er Vater und Sohn ein Bratkartoffelgericht zubereiten lässt, in Rheinsberg oder Arkadien unterwegs ist - immer spürt er mit groß……続きを見る

`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced……続きを見る

The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impo……続きを見る

“Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'” ーWorld Literature Today Denise Levertov's New & Select……続きを見る

Burning Bridges is a much deeper and darker look at social, political and emotional issues. It's a collection of poems that go from full rage to a softened view about life. It was initially a collec……続きを見る

There appear to be three ways in which people of one culture respond to immersion in another culture, a evidenced by the works of multicultural authors. 続きを見る

I've been a big fan of D. H. Lawrence since my first year of college. I loved his novels Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Women in Love, and The Rainbow. The novel that I couldn't quite get my arms around w……続きを見る

“The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” centers on the theme of the speaker’s desire for an act of lovemaking, a subject of discussion that was forbidden at the time when the poem was written. In the ……続きを見る

The flagship Radio 4 programme From Our Own Correspondent gives Britain's most celebrated reporters the chance to describe much more than they can in a normal report: context, history and characters……続きを見る

This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. In this book, Chesterton explores the relationship betwee……続きを見る

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagan……続きを見る

Alcohol aside, few substances can be said to have occupied such a place in Western literature as opium. From the exuberant isolation of Romanticism to the the paranoia of postmodernism, opiates have……続きを見る