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Author: Edward Hoagland
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780395860557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis year's wonderfully diverse collection features such respected writers as Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Mary Gordon, and Arthur Miller. The essays range widely across the American landscape and, along the way, introduce readers to a fine array of talented new voices.
Author: Andr Aciman
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0358359910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Author: John Updike
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 810
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.
Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1847679668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.
Author: Nathan Mitchell
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780814625118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Is ritual a "forgotten way of doing things'?" That is the question posed famously by Romano Guardini in a letter written in 1964 to liturgists meeting in the German city of Mainz. Guardini believed that the future of liturgical renewal lay not in "improved texts," nor in the recovery of some mythic "golden age," nor in the "rearrangement of furniture," but in relearning ritual behavior. Christian ritual, Guardini believed, is not the contemplative act of an individual but the public deed of an assembly -- a community gathered in faith and prayer in obedience to Jesus' command. Can people and presiders today relearn this communal way of "doing"? Can they learn to "read" ritual acts simply by doing them, by performing them -- without being self-conscious, theatrical, and fussy? Over the past thirty-five years, Christian liturgists have sought to reinterpret ritual's multiple meanings by transplanting insights from the social sciences (sociology, anthropology). Have the transplants worked? This book tries to answer that question.
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Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1999-04-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780807062173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is for the once, never, and much married. For believers and skeptics, love's fools and love's thieves. It is for people with long memories and long histories and for people who reinvent themselves in every new town, new decade, new relationship. This book is for everyone whose heart lies where it should, where it shouldn't, and, in the end, where it must. -Amy Bloom, from the Foreword In these intensely personal essays, contemporary writers probe their experiences in and thoughts about one of our most enduring social and cultural institutions. Husbands and wives celebrate marriages that work, mourn those that don't, and write frankly about adultery. Includes essays by Mark Doty, Gerald Early, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cynthia Heimel, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Nancy Mairs, and David Mamet.
Author: Ammiel Alcalay
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1999-12
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780872863606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text features essays from Ammiel Alcalay covering Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the war in Bosnia, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the destruction of Carthage, and much more.
Author: Jean Franco
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780822322481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author, one of the most influential Latin Americanists in the US, has published a number of books, but none display the importance of her work in literary criticism, cultural studies and marxist and feminist theory as successfully as this collection o
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 632
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.
Author: Helen Barolini
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780299160845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A lively, lucid, and often extremely moving collection of essays."--Sandra Gilbert, author of Wrongful Death: A Memoir "Barolini's essays moved me. Their commitment, their passion, their intelligence struck me very powerfully and made them among the most incisive essays on Italian-Americana, ethnicity, and diversity in literature that I have ever read."--Fred Misurella, author of Understanding Milan Kundera: Public Events, Private Affairs and Short Time Part memoir, part social commentary, and part literary criticism, Chiaroscuro is not only profoundly original but also of crucial importance in establishing the contours of an Italian-American tradition. Spanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini's essays explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political. Included in Chiaroscuro is an updated re-introduction to Barolini's American Book Award-winning collection, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.
