Mark Twain fragt: War William Shakespeare wirklich der Dichter, fur den wir ihn halten? Ein Dichter ohne Bucher? Ein Autor, der nicht einen Brief schrieb? Ein gefeierter Dramatiker und Schauspieler, an den sich kurz nach seinem Tod schon niemand mehr erinnert? Das Leben eines gewissen William Shakespeare aus dem englischen Provinzort Stratford upon Avon gab dem amerikanischen Literaten und scharfzungigen Beobachter Mark Twain zu denken. Er besa ...
Packaged for a new generation of readers to discover Wendell Berry, this collection of 50 of his most essential essays is an urgent and essential addition to the canon of American literature Counterpoint is committed to marketing Wendell Berry to a new and broader audience of readers; with new covers for Berry's books, a new look for his website, and endorsements from Zach Galifianakis, Nick Offerman, Robert Redford and other cultural icons ...
Предметом исследования стали биографии некоторых представителей рода Толсты?х. Понятно, что наибольшее внимание уделено личности Льва Николаевича и его многочисленному семейству. Автор попытался разобраться в причинах тех или иных поступков классика и его детей. Выводы основаны на анализе содержания дневниковых записей и свидетельствах современников. С помощью интернета читатель сможет убедиться в подлинности использованных цитат – достаточно по ...
In Lasagne, acclaimed poet Wayne Holloway-Smith moves between internal and external landscapes with pace, panache and vulnerability. This short collection of poems is a defibrillator resurrecting a small part of the universe at each new twist: a silent scream rearranging the flowers in a window, the miracle of a near-dead cow sprung back to life and feeding orphans, tears coming at the speed of cars. When these poems hit, you hardly see it comin ...
Arji Manuelpillai hits the ground running with this debut and I freaking love it. His poems are funny, irreverent, hugely affecting. Hes fidgety, darts momentto moment youll rush after him, then suddenly find hes stopped, spun on his heel and youre face-to-face with his good-natured grin. Manuelpillai will dial up the volume just to whisper something damn beautiful beneath its surface. Every page of Mutton Rolls is tasty, and announces by increm ...
The book deals with the issue of the Holocaust in the Polish literature for children and adolescents. Drawing upon some of the leading Polish authors of the twentieth and the twentieth-first centuries, the author reveals the historical, ideological, and cultural entanglement of their works. The main focus of the book is to search for reasons behind the outpouring of interest in the Holocaust noticed in the most recent Polish literature for young ...
As a space of extremes, the skyscraper has been continually constructed as an urban frontier in American cultural productions. Like its counterpart of the American wilderness, this vertical frontier serves as a privileged site for both subversion and excessive control. Beyond common metaphoric readings, this study models the skyscraper not only as a Foucauldian heterotopia, but also as a complex network of human and nonhuman actors while retraci ...
