Essays

This title was first published in 1982. The authors deal with the experiences of modern women with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but their philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, their intellectual capacity to view their experience in a...

First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in...

Defoe's Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion. This series is the first complete scholarly edition of the entire run of Defoe's Review. It is...

Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965618380Author Neil HagertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint Drag CityPublisher Drag CityWeight(grams) 163g

A better quality national conversation? Conducted by clever people who know a thing or two? You're holding it in your hand. This annual journal of provocative, passionate and argumentative essays is made for anyone who thinks there's little to stimulate...

A compendium of non-fiction pieces held together by the theme of 'Home' and commissioned from 21 of New Zealand's best writers. Strong, relevant, topical and pertinent, these essays are also compelling, provocative and affecting, they carry the reader...

GREAT MINDS SHARE GREAT IDEAS AND STRONG VIEWSA better-quality national conversation? Conducted by clever people who know a thing ortwo? You're holding it in your hands.From the state of our rivers and our justice system to a new way to fight obesity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935810738Author Clay ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Primer Publishers,U.S.Publisher American Traveler PressWeight(grams) 316g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559741Author Harry SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 158g

In The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence, David Axelrod recalls a balmy night in May 1970 when he vowed to allow no one and nothing he loves to pass from this life without praise, even if it meant praising the most bewildering losses. In each of...

Charles Lamb, one of the most engaging personal essayists of all time, began publishing his Elia essays in the ""London Magazine"" in 1820; they were so immediately popular that a book-length collection was published in 1823...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865439924Author Toyin FalolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 704g

An early sixteenth century Spanish romance.Book InformationISBN 9780859893374Author Ximenez De Urrea,Pedro ManuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint University of Exeter PressPublisher University of Exeter Press

H. L. Mencken's reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and...

Edith Lewis met Willa Cather in 1903 and remained her close friend and traveling companion until Cather's death in 1947. In this straightforward and affectionate biography Lewis illuminates the human side of the great American novelist.A personal...

Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick Shepherd. But a significant part of the joke is that the Shepherd provides lay sermons...

Money makes the world go round, but does it make us happy? Money is one of the most fraught subjects; it raises powerful emotions in all of us. Too much money often corrupts people - too little can make people feel desperate. Growing up in rural...

A collection of five interviews with one of the most versatile and prolific Welsh authors of the 20th century, celebrating his life and work as he reaches his eightieth birthday.Book InformationISBN 9780708315613Author Rocet Arwel JonesFormat...

A critical study of a Welsh translation of Ystorya Gwlat Ieuan Vendigeit, a letter supposedly sent by Prester John to Manuel, emperor of Constantinople about 1165, comprising presentations of two translations of the document, taken from manuscripts Jesus...

Of Angie Estes, the poet and critic Steph Burt has written that she "has created some of the most beautiful verbal objects in the world." In The Allure of Grammar, Doug Rutledge gathers insightful responses to the full range of Estes's...

In her admired works of fiction, Ann Hood explores the transformative power of literature. Now, with warmth and honesty, Hood reveals the personal story behind these works of fiction. Growing up in a household that didn't foster the love of literature,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSir Thomas Parry was a scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal and poet.Book InformationISBN 9780708313565Author Thomas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388271844Author Rachna SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120736108Author Jasbir JainFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 362g

The body of the filmmaker is itself a discrepancy. This may be one of this book's claims, if it were to advance something like an argument. Instead it writes its way through to a dry swamp, in the elusive company of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mizoguchi Kenji,...

Philosopher-playwright Alain Jugnon's a body, in spite introduces this prolific French author to an English-speaking readership. The aphorisms that comprise this slight philosophy for actors are an inventoried body with and without its defenses. With...

Edge collects thirty years of essays, reviews, and interviews by celebrated Newfoundland poet Mary Dalton. Driven by a need to reconfigure how the margin is seen in literature, culture and politics, Dalton explores the work of writers and artists who...

Soon after returning from his celebrated journey to Mecca disguised as an Arab, Burton set out on a similarly perilous trip to the city of Harrar in the heart of little-known Somaliland. As related in the preface to his journal: 'He disappeared into the...

Guernica is an award-winning online magazine of ideas, art, poetry and fiction published twice monthly. The contributors come from dozens of countries and write in nearly as many languages. This annual collects the best of Guernica's published features,...

Montaigne is one of the most cross-cultural writers ever - both in the assimilation of writings from other cultures into his own work and in the subsequent translations, critical receptions, and creative adaptations of the Essais by other writers...

Using Mikhal Bakhtin's concept of dialogism as a theoretical starting point, this volume investigates the manifestations of competing 'voices' within the tradition of lyric poetry. The lyric subject's understanding of himself/herself - through the very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589881235Author David MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry BooksWeight(grams) 272g

During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume...

Author Marie Corelli's brilliant commentary on the personal and professional politics of the literary community full of colorful characters fueled by fame, criticism and competition. It's a bold and insightful depiction of nineteenth century publishing. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438461120Author Anthony Di RenzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York Press

The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Award-winning Indecency comes a gory new mutation in the shape of nonfiction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714489Author Nick ThranFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions

From the "Personal to the Political" seeks to analyze the autobiographical perspective of mothering and motherhood not purely as their inner, emotional and private narratives. The collection aims at evidentiating how autobiographical writing gives voice...

The articles in this book stress the relevance to the present of the early stages of Critical Theory. On the one hand they aim at the recognition of the fundamental role played by such authors as Benjamin, Bloch and Lukacs in the shaping of Critical...