Category: Essays

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Liebeserklärung an eine Landschaft: Ein Stückchen Waldeinsamkeit in der Mark Brandenburg wird für Günter de Bruyn zum beglückenden Lebensort, dem er in ›Abseits‹ ein liebevolles literarisches Denkmal setzt. Die Vorzüge seiner neuen Wahlheimat sieht er dabei vor allem in dem, used to be ihr fehlt, in dem »Mangel an Menschen, Reizen und Geräuschen«.

My form of Heroes was once first released through country residence Press in 1995 as a set of 4 chosen speeches via Elmer Kelton. This revised moment version, or Signature variation, comprises 3 of these items plus new ones. The 5 essays are: "My form of Heroes," "Real Cowboys," "Oil increase Days in West Texas," "The fact of Fiction," and "Politically right or traditionally Correct?" The signature at the entrance conceal is Elmer Kelton's. As an writer, he has regularly been beneficiant approximately autographing books for his millions of enthusiasts. This time we requested him to place his signature correct up entrance. in lots of methods, those speeches, essays, or tales are his signature assertion approximately a number of the issues he believes concerning the West, approximately writing, approximately historical past. Kelton fanatics, previous and new, will cherish this souvenir edition.

those essays are forays into what Wordsworth known as the “hiding places”of the artistic impulse. occasionally in aphoristic shape, this option of meditations at the arts of poetry and instructing capabilities as an oblique self-portrait and probes the poet’s Irish history. For Brownlow, there's a fruitful pressure among scholarship and poetry; too frequently divorced, those actions are usually not for him together particular. This publication asserts the autonomy of the literary mind's eye. His goal is to be, as in Whitman’s nice line, “aplomb in the middle of irrational things.”

Goya no fue sólo uno de los artistas más importantes de su tiempo. Fue también un hombre comprometido con su época y un observador lúcido de lo que de grande y de depressing tiene l. a. condición humana. Hijo de l. a. Ilustración, Goya fue el testimonio privilegiado de acontecimientos históricos de primer orden, como los angeles entrada en los angeles Península de los ejércitos de Napoleón, que iban a traer a España, como pensaban muchos, el progreso y las principles de las luces. Sin embargo, ante lo ocurrido, a Goya se le plantearon muchas preguntas: ¿Puede imponerse el bien por l. a. fuerza? ¿Es posible controlar l. a. violencia con los angeles razón? ¿Qué vía queda abierta cuando todas las promesas han sido traicionadas? Preguntas que hoy siguen planteándose y a las que Goya rationaleó dar respuesta a través de su pintura. Todorov analiza en este libro al Goya pensador, al indagador de las potencias oscuras que, en paralelo a l. a. voluntad y a l. a. razón, dominan l. a. vida de los hombres. Y nos descubre una forma radicalmente nueva de ver l. a. figura y los angeles obra de Goya hasta situarlo como uno de los pensadores más profundos, no menos que su contemporáneo Goethe o que Dostoyevski cincuenta años más tarde.

Se ha repetido con demasiada insistencia que los poetas del 27 formaban una genera­ción esteticista, que no les interesaba los angeles polí­tica y que su gran preocupación period el arte y los angeles poesía. Este volumen ofrece un conjunto de estudios que contribuirá a apreciar l. a. complejidad, riqueza y plena vitalidad de los angeles obra de esta generación, que no sólo es experimental, lúdica y esteticista, sino que también es comprometida y brilliant a su rea­lidad histórica. Sus escritos aparecen fuer­temente ligados a los acontecimientos políticos y a las convulsiones sociales de aquellas décadas como demuestran tantos poemas y textos con frecuencia olvidados.

Politisches Denken und radikales Sprechen – Kathrin Rögglas Essays und Theaterstücke.
Unsere Realität gleicht einem Katastrophenfilm, einem worst-case-Szenario, einem Shakespeare’schen Königsdrama: Wirtschaftskrisen, Medien-Hysterie, deepest Paranoia. Kathrin Röggla setzt ihre kritische Phantasie und ihre kluge Sprachkunst dagegen. Sie analysiert und seziert den Zustand unserer Zeit: fiktive Alarmierungen, reale Ängste und falsche Sehnsüchte. Lustvoll und konsequent, geistreich und spielerisch durchleuchten ihre Essays und Theaterstücke unsere Gegenwart.

Textos y comentarios sobre estudios de l. a. obra de Góngora -propios y ajenos- que se publicaron en España. Escritos varios de cultura y ciencia europeas, notas periodísticas diversas acerca de asuntos que van de los angeles historia, los angeles filología y los angeles literatura a los angeles ciencia.

during this richly assorted selection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his studies of youth in Russia and exile in the US. With spectacular erudition, he explores topics as diverse because the dynamic of poetry, the character of heritage and the plight of the émigré author. there's additionally the funny story of a disastrous journey to Brazil, suggestion to scholars, a homage to Marcus Aurelius and experiences of Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Horace and others. the second one quantity of essays following Less Than One, this assortment contains Brodsky's 1987 Nobel Lecture, 'Uncommon Visage'.

Zubin Mehta: A Musical trip strains the approximately six-decade lengthy, wealthy and uniquely various profession of the maestro. the one musician ever to concurrently direct significant orchestras in North the United States, Mehta has labored with the main distinctive artistes of the final century. His notable trip from Mumbai to a couple of the main prestigious podiums of the song global is a saga of genius and commitment. This meticulously researched approved biography explores his lifestyles, musical legacy and organization with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Engagingly written, it bargains an insightful window into the lifetime of one of many 20th century’s maximum conductors.

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