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Author |
: Walter Pater |
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Total Pages |
: 290 |
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: 1895 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015065980602 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Appreciations by : Walter Pater
Author |
: Walter Pater |
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Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1910 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101068155801 |
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: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Appreciations by : Walter Pater
Author |
: James Wolcott |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2015-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780767930635 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0767930630 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical Mass by : James Wolcott
James Wolcott’s career as a critic has been unmatched, from his early Seventies dispatches for The Village Voice to the literary coverage made him equally feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair. Bringing together his best work from across the decades, this collection shows Wolcott as connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer. We begin with “O.K. Corral Revisited,” Wolcott’s career-launching account of the famed Norman Mailer–Gore Vidal dust-off on the original Dick Cavett Show. He goes on to consider (or reconsider) the towering figures of our culture, among them Lena Dunham Patti Smith, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen, and John Cheever. And we witness his legendary takedowns, which have entered into the literary lore of our time. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, Critical Mass offers a bracing taste of the real thing.
Author |
: Brian Dillon |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2018-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681372839 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681372835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essayism by : Brian Dillon
A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag. Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon’s style incorporates diverse features of the essay. By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Susan Sontag, to name just a few of his influences. Whether he is writing on origins, aphorisms, coherence, vulnerability, anxiety, or a number of other subjects, his command of language, his erudition, and his own personal history serve not so much to illuminate or magnify the subject as to discover it anew through a kaleidoscopic alignment of attention, thought, and feeling, a dazzling and momentary suspension of disparate elements, again and again.
Author |
: Kerry Powell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 437 |
Release |
: 2013-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107016132 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107016134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oscar Wilde in Context by : Kerry Powell
Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.
Author |
: Janet Malcolm |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2013-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374709723 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374709726 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forty-one False Starts by : Janet Malcolm
A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction—as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one "false starts," or serial attempts to capture the essence of the painter David Salle, which becomes a dazzling portrait of an artist. Malcolm is "among the most intellectually provocative of authors," writes David Lehman in The Boston Globe, "able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight." Here, in Forty-one False Starts, Malcolm brings together essays published over the course of several decades (largely in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books) that reflect her preoccupation with artists and their work. Her subjects are painters, photographers, writers, and critics. She explores Bloomsbury's obsessive desire to create things visual and literary; the "passionate collaborations" behind Edward Weston's nudes; and the character of the German art photographer Thomas Struth, who is "haunted by the Nazi past," yet whose photographs have "a lightness of spirit." In "The Woman Who Hated Women," Malcolm delves beneath the "onyx surface" of Edith Wharton's fiction, while in "Advanced Placement" she relishes the black comedy of the Gossip Girl novels of Cecily von Zeigesar. In "Salinger's Cigarettes," Malcolm writes that "the pettiness, vulgarity, banality, and vanity that few of us are free of, and thus can tolerate in others, are like ragweed for Salinger's helplessly uncontaminated heroes and heroines." "Over and over," as Ian Frazier writes in his introduction, "she has demonstrated that nonfiction—a book of reporting, an article in a magazine, something we see every day—can rise to the highest level of literature." One of Publishers Weekly's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013
Author |
: John Updike |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 1025 |
Release |
: 2012-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780679645856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0679645853 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Odd Jobs by : John Updike
To complement his work as a fiction writer, John Updike accepted any number of odd jobs—book reviews and introductions, speeches and tributes, a “few paragraphs” on baseball or beauty or Borges—and saw each as “an opportunity to learn something, or to extract from within some unsuspected wisdom.” In this, his largest collection of assorted prose, he brings generosity and insight to the works and lives of William Dean Howells, George Bernard Shaw, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and dozens more. Novels from outposts of postmodernism like Turkey, Albania, Israel, and Nigeria are reviewed, as are biographies of Cleopatra and Dorothy Parker. The more than a hundred considerations of books are flanked, on one side, by short stories, a playlet, and personal essays, and, on the other, by essays on his own oeuvre. Updike’s odd jobs would be any other writer’s chief work.
Author |
: Laura Amy Schlitz |
Publisher |
: Candlewick Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2015-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780763679439 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0763679437 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hired Girl by : Laura Amy Schlitz
Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.
Author |
: Jonathan Franzen |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2012-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374708764 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374708762 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Farther Away by : Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "a masterpiece of American fiction" and lauded its illumination, "through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew." In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
Author |
: Walter Pater |
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Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1910 |
ISBN-10 |
: YALE:39002018462557 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Renaissance by : Walter Pater