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Spanning more than forty years of work, this collection of essays, gathered from the author's previous collections--including Toward Reality, The Look of Things, and The Sense of Sight, among others--reflects on such topics as Jackson Pollock, museums, mass demonstratons, ideologies, philosophy, and more.
Great Books programs have become increasingly popular among Christian colleges, high schools, and even home schoolers. This one-of-a-kind book is designed for those who do not have the opportunity to attend such a program but are still interested in directly engaging with the Western Canon. It contains substantial excerpts from thirty of the most important books in history, with each excerpt followed by an essay placing the work in historical and Christian context. Readers can learn directly from such authors and thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, de Tocqueville, Freud, and Chesterton. Selected as one of 2011's Best Books for Preachers by Preaching Magazine
The Book of Twentieth-century Essays by Ian Hamilton Pdf
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 Crack-up. Each reader will have his or her own favorites: Eudora Welty capturing the precise moment at which she grew up, or Arthur Koestler debunking the effects of magic mushrooms. And each essay has stood the test of time, like Hannah Arendt's The Concentration Camps, Edmund Wilson's now classic The Wound and the Bow, and Paul Fussell on World War II.
"Fifty Essays" is a collection of 50 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. Included in this collection: - The Spike (1931) - A Hanging (1931) - Bookshop Memories (1936) - Shooting an Elephant (1936) - Down the Mine (1937) - North and South (1937) - Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937) - Marrakech (1939) - Boys' Weeklies and Frank Richards's Reply (1940) - Charles Dickens (1940) - Charles Reade (1940) - Inside the Whale (1940) - The Art of Donald McGill (1941) - The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941) - Wells, Hitler and the World State (1941) - Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942) - Rudyard Kipling (1942) - Mark Twain—The Licensed Jester (1943) - Poetry and the Microphone (1943) - W B Yeats (1943) - Arthur Koestler (1944) - Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali (1944) - Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944) - Antisemitism in Britain (1945) - Freedom of the Park (1945) - Future of a Ruined Germany (1945) - Good Bad Books (1945) - In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse (1945) - Nonsense Poetry (1945) - Notes on Nationalism (1945) - Revenge is Sour (1945) - The Sporting Spirit (1945) - You and the Atomic Bomb (1945) - A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946) - A Nice Cup of Tea (1946) - Books vs. Cigarettes (1946) - Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946) - Decline of the English Murder (1946) - How the Poor Die (1946) - James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution (1946) - Pleasure Spots (1946) - Politics and the English Language (1946) - Politics vs. Literature: an Examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946) - Riding Down from Bangor (1946) - Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946) - The Prevention of Literature (1946) - Why I Write (1946) - Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947) - Such, Such were the Joys (1947) - Writers and Leviathan (1948) - Reflections on Gandhi (1949)
Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne Pdf
An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne’s best reader—a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne’s ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne—though how extensively remains a matter of debate—and that the translation he read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath, man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself. Florio’s Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne’s and Shakespeare’s visions of the world, and Platt’s introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio. Altogether, this book provides a remarkable new experience of not just two but three great writers who ushered in the modern world.
The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays by Ilan Stavans Pdf
An intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.
Malleable Forms is a book of forty-seven essays, rich and broad in ideas and subjects as far-ranging as art, architecture, literature, family, place, dogs, spirituality, birds, rabbits, and whimsy. However it isn?t just about the subjects presented in the essays but the way in which Walsh has made connections within them. A piece, for example, that looked at the memoir of Sonic Youth?s Kim Gordon takes the reader on a trip that includes surprising links between Gordon and Ab Ex painter Robert Motherwell. Another essay finds correspondences among critics as disparate as Linda Nochlin, Dave Hickey, and John Berger. Another measures the poetic sensibilities of Rainer Maria Rilke, Cynthia Ozick and Vladimir Nabokov, and another describes the romantic tale of a courtship between a woman and a blue jay.For 30 years Meeka Walsh has been the Editor of Canada?s leading art magazine, ?Border Crossings?. A selection of her much admired essays published in each issue of that magazine have been selected for this substantial book. Noted international critic and art writer, Barry Schwabsky has written an introductory essay. The persistent engagement of memory winds through the book and resonant is EM Forster?s dictum, ?only connect?. Walsh makes her particular kind of connections throughout. What the collection reveals is that in being a uniquely astute reader and observer, Walsh becomes just such a writer.
Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays by Yanwu Gu Pdf
Gu Yanwu pioneered the late-Ming and early Qing-era practice of Han Learning, or Evidential Learning, favoring practical over theoretical approaches to knowledge. He strongly encouraged scholars to return to the simple, ethical precepts of early Confucianism, and in his best-known work, Rizhi lu (Record of Daily Knowledge), he applied this paradigm to literature, government, economics, history, education, and philology. This volume includes translations of selected essays from Rizhi lu and Gu Yanwu's Shiwen Ji (Collected Poems and Essays), along with an introduction explaining the personal and political dimensions of the scholar's work. Gu Yanwu wrote the essays and poems featured in this volume while traveling across China during the decades immediately after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. They merge personal observation with rich articulations of Confucian principles and are, as Gu said, "not old coin but copper dug from the hills." Like many of his contemporaries, Gu Yanwu believed the Ming Dynasty had suffered from an overconcentration of power in its central government and recommended decentralizing authority while strengthening provincial self-government. In his introduction, Ian Johnston recounts Gu Yanwu's personal history and reviews his published works, along with their scholarly reception. Annotations accompany his translations, and a special essay on feudalism by Tang Dynasty poet and scholar Liu Zongyuan (773–819) provides insight into Gu Yanwu's later work on the subject.
An irreverent selection of essays by the best-selling author of Wry Martinis traces his literary friendships, family experiences and travels in such entries as "How to Teach Your Four-Year-Old to Ski," "A Short History of the Bug Zapper" and "The Art of Sacking."
Selections and Essays by John Ruskin,Frederick William Roe Pdf
A leading art patron, lecturer, and author of the Victorian era, John Ruskin was also one of the period's foremost art and social critics. This anthology features excerpts from some of his best-known books, including Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice, on the subjects he held most dear: nature, art, and society.
A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. On Some Lines of Virgil opens out into a frank discussion of sexuality and makes a revolutionary case for the equality of the sexes. In On Experience he superbly propounds his thoughts on the right way to live, while other essays touch on issues of an age struggling with religious and intellectual strife, with France torn apart by civil war. These diverse subjects are united by Montaigne's distinctive voice - that of a tolerant man, sceptical, humane, often humorous and utterly honest in his pursuit of the truth. M.A. Screech's distinguished translation fully retains the light-hearted and inquiring nature of the essays. In his introduction, he examines Montaigne's life and times, and the remarkable self-portrait that emerges from his works. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1586) studied law and spent a number of years working as a counsellor before devoting his life to reading, writing and reflection. If you enjoyed The Essays: A Selection, you might like Francis Bacon's The Essays, also available in Penguin Classics.
Writing Essays about Literature by Kelley Griffith Pdf
Widely used in introductory literature courses as a style guide or as a supplement to anthologies, this book provides valuable guidelines for interpreting literature and writing essays. It includes full-length selections as well as essays.
