Category: Essays

The Autobiographical Eye

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Publisher: Ecco Pr : June 1993

Seller ID: 57622

ISBN-13: 9780880013291

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Best American Essays of the Century

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : September 2000

Seller ID: 66080

ISBN-13: 9780618043705

Binding: Hardcover

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This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. In her introduction to this volume, Joyce Carol Oates describes her project as "a search for the expression of personal experience within the historical, the individual talent within the tradition." Along with Robert Atwan, who has overseen the acclaimed BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS series since its inception in 1986, Oates has chosen a list of works that are both intimate and important, essays that take on...
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The Book of Twentieth-Century Essays

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Publisher: Fromm Intl : September 2000

Seller ID: 42736

ISBN-13: 9780880642514

Binding: Hardcover

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This collection of the best essays written in the English language during the past one hundred years includes many that have become landmarks defining their time: Norman Mailer's The White Negro, Tom Wolfe's These Radical Chic Evenings, James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, and Gore Vidal's The Holy Family. Others are in a lighter vein, like James Thurber's lampoon of Salvador Dali's Secret Life or Max Beerbohm's reflections on Laughter. There are Philip Roth on baseball and A. P. Herbert on bathrooms; Mary McCarthy's My Confession, on her Communist sympathies; and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The C...
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The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown

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Publisher: Crown : March 2017

Seller ID: 77617

ISBN-13: 9781101904404

Binding: Hardcover

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"Wonderful. --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Celebrating the 20th anniversary of storytelling phenomenon The Moth, 45 unforgettable true stories about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best ever told on their stages Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth, and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of live storytelling, All These Wonders features voices both familiar and new. Alongside Meg Wolitzer, John Turturro, Tig Notaro, and Hasan Minhaj, readers will encounter: an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time, an Afghan refugee le...
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The Norton Book of Personal Essays

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : March 1997

Seller ID: 57623

ISBN-13: 9780393036541

Binding: Hardcover

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Blending the profound and the buoyant, the traditional and the new, the expected and the surprising, The Norton Book of Personal Essays offers a basketful of delights sure to find a permanent place on readers' shelves. Mark Twain, Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, M. F. K. Fisher, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, Oliver Sacks, H. L. Mencken, Truman Capote, and Flannery O'Connor are among the contributors to this volume. The chief principle of selection has been the pleasure that essays, operating at their highest power, always give.
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The Poetics of Appalachian Space

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Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr : May 1991

Seller ID: 18636

ISBN-13: 9780870496929

Binding: Hardcover

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The Power of Experience: Great Writers over 50 on the Quest for a Lifetime of Meaning (AARP®)

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Publisher: Sterling : October 2007

Seller ID: 66083

ISBN-13: 9781402748875

Binding: Hardcover

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What impact have I had? What legacy am I leaving for others? What truths have I learned along the way--and can I be rock-solid certain of them? Anyone at the point in life where these questions naturally occur will savor this insightful, thought-provoking collection from such world-famous writers as Billy Collins, Nadine Gordimer, Donald Hall, Elmore Leonard, Jan Morris, Alice Munro, Richard Price, Annie Proulx, Amy Tan, Anne Tyler, and John Edgar Widemanto to name just a few. More than a literary smorgasbord, it's a moveable feast for ravenous readers Editor Jeremy James, an English teacher ...
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Visualizing Theory: Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994

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Publisher: Routledge : March 1994

Seller ID: 57631

ISBN-13: 9780415908436

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Review between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as a space for the critical representation of visual culture from the naive realist and exoticist inclinations that have beleaguered practitioners' efforts to date, Visualizing Theory is a major intervention into this growing field....
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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 4 (Liberties, 1)

By: Ackerman, Elliot,Grünbein, Durs,Williams, Thomas Chatterton,Shapira, Anita,Zagajewski, Adam,Satel, Sally,Kitaj, R.B.,Stephenson, Matthew,Vendler, Helen,Haziza, David,Stallings, A.E.,Berman, Paul,Collier, Clara,Kimmage, Michael,Boyers, Peg

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Publisher: Liberties Journal : August 2021

Seller ID: 42716

ISBN-13: 9781735718736

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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 1 (Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics, 2)

By: Ala, Mamtimin,Ford, Richard Thompson,Anders, Jaroslaw,Wilentz, Sean,Mlinko, Ange,Moser, Benjamin,Zimmerman, Jonathan,Cohen, Leonard,Sunstein, Cass R.,Lilla, Mark,Vendler, Helen,Brewer, Holly,Tchernikhovsky, Shaul,Thomson, David

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Publisher: Liberties Journal : October 2021

Seller ID: 42715

ISBN-13: 9781735718743

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Even the Stars Look Lonesome

By: Angelou, Maya

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Publisher: Random House : August 1997

Seller ID: 81538

ISBN-13: 9780375500312

Binding: Hardcover

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The renowned author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman imparts compelling wisdom learned during a remarkable lifetime in Even the Stars Look Lonesome--a glorious continuation of Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now.
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Directions in Euripidean Criticism: A Collection of Essays

By: Burian, Peter

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Publisher: Duke Univ Pr : May 1985

Seller ID: 23891

ISBN-13: 9780822306108

Binding: Hardcover

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Clean and tightly bound.
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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

By: Chabon, Michael

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Publisher: Harper : October 2009

Seller ID: 66069

ISBN-13: 9780061490187

Binding: Hardcover

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"Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus stories with the metaphor-rich descriptions of John Updike and John Irving's inventive sleight of hand. . . . As in his novels, he shifts gears easily between the comic and the melancholy, the whimsical and the serious, demonstrating once again his ability to write about the big subjects of love and memory and regret without falling prey to the Scylla and Charybdis of cynicism and sentimentality." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Wondrous, wis...
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Letter to the Americans

By: Cocteau, Jean

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Publisher: New Directions : June 2022

Seller ID: 77632

ISBN-13: 9780811231596

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In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America's promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confront--its hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirations--in order to realize this potential. Never before tr...
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The Devil Never Sleeps: and Other Essays

By: Codrescu, Andrei

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press : April 2000

Seller ID: 66074

ISBN-13: 9780312202941

Binding: Hardcover

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The Devil is alive and well and living in America, Andrei Codrescu tells us, and with good reason. Nowhere else in the world--not even in Codrescu's native Transylvania--is he taken quite as seriously. When Codrescu gently derided the fundamentalist Christian belief in Rapture ("a pre-apocalyptic event during which all true believers would be suctioned off to heaven in a single woosh") in one of his commentaries on National Public, NPR received forty thousand letters in a protest spearheaded by Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition. Codrescu was warned to "stay away from eschatology." Thankful...
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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005

By: Coetzee, J. M.

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Publisher: Viking Adult : July 2007

Seller ID: 69507

ISBN-13: 9780670038657

Binding: Hardcover

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A new collection of essays and literary criticism from Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplished fiction writers in the world, J. M. Coetzee is also a literary critic of the highest caliber. As Derek Attridge observes in his illuminating introduction, reading Coetzees nonfiction offers one the opportunity to see how an author at the forefront of his profession engages with his peers, not as a critic from the outside, but as one who works with the same raw materials. In this collection of twenty recent pieces, Coetzee examines the work of s...
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Late Essays: 2006-2017

By: Coetzee, J. M.

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Publisher: Viking : January 2018

Seller ID: 66077

ISBN-13: 9780735223912

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A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author. J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. In Late Essays 2006-2016, a thought-provoking collection of twenty-three pieces, he examines the work of some of the world's greatest writers, from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Goethe and Ir ne N mirovsky to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Challenging yet accessib...
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Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millennial South (Southern Literary Studies)

By: Crowther, Hal

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Publisher: LSU Press : September 2005

Seller ID: 66097

ISBN-13: 9780807131008

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To read Hal Crowther is to find yourself agreeing with views on topics you never knew you cared so much about. In Gather at the River, Crowther extends the wide-angle vision of Southern life presented in his highly acclaimed collection Cathedrals of Kudzu. He cuts to the heart of recent political, religious, and cultural issues but pauses to appreciate the sweet things that the South has to offer, like music, baseball, great writers, and strong women.Some of these essays invite debate. Crowther gives a balanced perspective on the tragedy of the Branch Davidians at Waco, shedding light on a dif...
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Irish Essays

By: Donoghue, Denis

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press : May 2011

Seller ID: 18658

ISBN-13: 9781107006904

Binding: Hardcover

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Denis Donoghue has been a key figure in Irish studies and an important public intellectual in Ireland, the UK and US throughout his career. These essays represent the best of his writing and operate in conversation with one another. He probes the questions of Irish national and cultural identity that underlie the finest achievements of Irish writing in all genres. Together, the essays form an unusually lively and far-reaching study of three crucial Irish writers - Swift, Yeats and Joyce - together with other voices including Mangan, Beckett, Trevor, McGahern and Doyle. Donoghue's forceful argu...
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We Irish: Essays on Irish Literature and Society

By: Donoghue, Denis

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Publisher: Knopf : September 1986

Seller ID: 18640

ISBN-13: 9780394554518

Binding: Hardcover

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Category: Essays