Author: James Thomson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Poems, Essays and Fragments
Author: James Thomson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Her Tongue on My Theory
Author: Persimmon Blackbridge
Publisher: Raincoast Books
ISBN: 9780889740587
Category : Kiss & Tell (Group of artists)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A daring collage of explicit lesbian sexual imagery, erotic writing, humour, personal histories, and provocative analysis." ... feed[s] a craving for imagery by a community alternately written out of history or misrepresented by commercial straight porn." -Montreal Mirror
Publisher: Raincoast Books
ISBN: 9780889740587
Category : Kiss & Tell (Group of artists)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A daring collage of explicit lesbian sexual imagery, erotic writing, humour, personal histories, and provocative analysis." ... feed[s] a craving for imagery by a community alternately written out of history or misrepresented by commercial straight porn." -Montreal Mirror
Melville and His Circle
Author: William B. Dillingham
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature--arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville in his later years, this is a remarkable and unprecedented account of the aged author giving himself over to a life of the mind. Focusing exclusively on a period usually associated with the waning of Melville's literary powers, William B. Dillingham shows that he was actually concentrating and intensifying his thoughts on art and creativity to a greater degree than ever before. Biographers have written little about Melville's deceptively "quiet" years after the publication of the long poem Clarel in 1876 and before his death in 1891. It was a time when he saw few friends or acquaintances, answered most of his letters as briefly as possible, and declined most social invitations. But for Melville, as for Emily Dickinson, such outward appearances belied an intense, engaged inner life. If for no other reason, Dillingham reminds us, this period merits more discerning attention because it was then that Melville produced Billy Budd as well as an impressive number of new and revised poems--while working full-time as a customs inspector for more than half of those years. What sustained Melville during that final period of ill health and near-poverty, says Dillingham, was his "circle," not of close friends but of works by a number of writers that he read with appreciative, yet discriminating, affinity, including Matthew Arnold, James Thomson, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Honore de Balzac. Dillingham relates these readings to Melville's own poetry and prose and to a rich variety of largely underappreciated topics relevant to Melville's later life, from Buddhism, the School of Pessimism, and New York intellectual life to Melville's job at the ever-corrupt customs house, his fear of disgrace and increased self-absorption, and his engagement with both the picturesque and the metaphorical power of roses in art and literature. This portrait of the great writer's final years is at once a biography, an intellectual history, and a discerning reading of his mature work. By showing that Melville's isolation was a conscious intellectual decision rather than a psychological quirk, Melville and His Circle reveals much that is new and challenging about Melville himself and about our notions of age and the persistence of imagination and creativity.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature--arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville in his later years, this is a remarkable and unprecedented account of the aged author giving himself over to a life of the mind. Focusing exclusively on a period usually associated with the waning of Melville's literary powers, William B. Dillingham shows that he was actually concentrating and intensifying his thoughts on art and creativity to a greater degree than ever before. Biographers have written little about Melville's deceptively "quiet" years after the publication of the long poem Clarel in 1876 and before his death in 1891. It was a time when he saw few friends or acquaintances, answered most of his letters as briefly as possible, and declined most social invitations. But for Melville, as for Emily Dickinson, such outward appearances belied an intense, engaged inner life. If for no other reason, Dillingham reminds us, this period merits more discerning attention because it was then that Melville produced Billy Budd as well as an impressive number of new and revised poems--while working full-time as a customs inspector for more than half of those years. What sustained Melville during that final period of ill health and near-poverty, says Dillingham, was his "circle," not of close friends but of works by a number of writers that he read with appreciative, yet discriminating, affinity, including Matthew Arnold, James Thomson, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Honore de Balzac. Dillingham relates these readings to Melville's own poetry and prose and to a rich variety of largely underappreciated topics relevant to Melville's later life, from Buddhism, the School of Pessimism, and New York intellectual life to Melville's job at the ever-corrupt customs house, his fear of disgrace and increased self-absorption, and his engagement with both the picturesque and the metaphorical power of roses in art and literature. This portrait of the great writer's final years is at once a biography, an intellectual history, and a discerning reading of his mature work. By showing that Melville's isolation was a conscious intellectual decision rather than a psychological quirk, Melville and His Circle reveals much that is new and challenging about Melville himself and about our notions of age and the persistence of imagination and creativity.
The "A. L. A." Index
Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Owls and Other Fantasies
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807068756
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A perfect introduction to Mary Oliver’s poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winner’s life. Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never before been collected. She adds two beautifully crafted essays, “Owls,” selected for the Best American Essays series, and “Bird,” a new essay that will surely take its place among the classics of the genre. In the words of the poet Stanley Kunitz, “Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations.” For anyone who values poetry and essays, for anyone who cares about birds, Owls and Other Fantasies will be a treasured gift; for those who love both, it will be essential reading. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807068756
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A perfect introduction to Mary Oliver’s poetry, this stunning collection features 26 nature poems and prose writings about the birds that played such an important role in the Pulitzer Prize winner’s life. Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including ten poems that have never before been collected. She adds two beautifully crafted essays, “Owls,” selected for the Best American Essays series, and “Bird,” a new essay that will surely take its place among the classics of the genre. In the words of the poet Stanley Kunitz, “Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations.” For anyone who values poetry and essays, for anyone who cares about birds, Owls and Other Fantasies will be a treasured gift; for those who love both, it will be essential reading. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the available covers.
The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery
Author: William David Schaefer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520333632
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520333632
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Selected Essays of De Quincey
Author: Thomas De Quincey
Publisher: London : W. Scott Pub.
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: London : W. Scott Pub.
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Most Important Books Available for Free Circulation Among Subscribers to 'The Times'
Author: The Times, London. Book club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: and other writings on Sexuality and Gender
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Livraria Press
ISBN: 3989888854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A new translation from the original German manuscript of Freud's famous 1905 Three Treatises on Sexual Theory (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie) and related wrings on the sexuality and gender formation. Here, Feuerbach's influence on Freud shines through as his Epicureanism meets Hume's English Empiricism combined with Materialism. This collection combines 10 major works on the scientific nature of sexuality, gender and psycho-sexual formation into a single volume. His other works on Sexual Ethics and MetaPsychological concepts are printed in a different volume. This edition contains the following works: In German: 1905 Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie 1925 Einige psychische Folgen des anatomischen Geschlechtsunterschieds 1923 Die infantile Genitalorganisation 1927 Fetischismus 1908 Hysterical fantasies and their relation to bisexuality In English: 1905 Three Treatises on Sexual Theory 1925 Some psychological consequences of the anatomical sex difference 1923 The infantile genital organization 1927 Fetishism 1924 The Economic Problem of Masochism This edition includes an introduction by the translator on the philosophic differences between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, a glossary of Freudian Psychological terminology and a timeline of Freud’s life & works. This is Volume XIII in the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud by NL Press. This new translation of Freud's collected systematic works laid out across 14 volumes contains essays which have never been translated into until now.
Publisher: Livraria Press
ISBN: 3989888854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A new translation from the original German manuscript of Freud's famous 1905 Three Treatises on Sexual Theory (Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie) and related wrings on the sexuality and gender formation. Here, Feuerbach's influence on Freud shines through as his Epicureanism meets Hume's English Empiricism combined with Materialism. This collection combines 10 major works on the scientific nature of sexuality, gender and psycho-sexual formation into a single volume. His other works on Sexual Ethics and MetaPsychological concepts are printed in a different volume. This edition contains the following works: In German: 1905 Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie 1925 Einige psychische Folgen des anatomischen Geschlechtsunterschieds 1923 Die infantile Genitalorganisation 1927 Fetischismus 1908 Hysterical fantasies and their relation to bisexuality In English: 1905 Three Treatises on Sexual Theory 1925 Some psychological consequences of the anatomical sex difference 1923 The infantile genital organization 1927 Fetishism 1924 The Economic Problem of Masochism This edition includes an introduction by the translator on the philosophic differences between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, a glossary of Freudian Psychological terminology and a timeline of Freud’s life & works. This is Volume XIII in the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud by NL Press. This new translation of Freud's collected systematic works laid out across 14 volumes contains essays which have never been translated into until now.
The Laureate of Pessimism
Author: Bertram Dobell
Publisher: Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher: Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description