Автор: Lopate, Phillip Название: The Art of the Personal Essay ISBN: 038542339X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385423397 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2115.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the sixteenth century, and a wealth of the finest personal essays from the last four centuries, editor Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its historical grandeur, depth, and diversity.
Автор: Lopate, Phillip Название: Anchor Essay Annual 1997, The ISBN: 0385484135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385484138 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 3384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Anchor Books proudly launches an annual essay series. Acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate has selected the most surprising, important, and exquisite pieces published during the last twelve months. Bringing together materials from both periodicals and books, The Anchor Essay Annual 1997 also includes essays never before published, as well as translations from abroad. The result is as rich and unique as it is cosmopolitan.
In her brilliantly frank "Revelation", Mary Gaitskill recounts the religious epiphany that changed her life. Hilton Als explores the "Negressity" of his soul in "My Pin-Up". In his dazzling "The Laying Off of Desire", Jean Baudrillard sets forth a flamboyant dissection of human sexuality. Hubert Butler ruminates on the stunted life of his handicapped grandchild in "Little K." We relive the glories and disappointments of the Borscht Belt in Vivian Gornick's evocative group portrait, "The Catskills Remembered". And we ride a rollercoaster of cultural insight in Daniel Harris's "A Psychosexual History of the Homosexual Body". A a whole, this superb collection is a heady cocktail indeed.
All of this exciting new work is placed in context with an illuminating introduction from Phillip Lopate, "the house authority on the genre and its greatest practitioner" (Washington Times). With generous selections from over twenty-five writers from around the world, The Anchor Essay Annual 1997 is the first in what is sure to become a series widely anticipated and highly acclaimed, every October, for years to come.
Автор: Lopate, Phillip Название: Portrait Of My Body ISBN: 0385483775 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385483773 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1747.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Phillip Lopate's richest and most ambitious book yet--the final volume of a trilogy that began with Bachelorhood and Against Joie de Vivre--Portrait of My Body is a powerful memoir in the form of interconnected personal essays. One of America's foremost essayists, who helped focus attention on the form in his acclaimed anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, Lopate demonstrates here just how far a writer can go in the direction of honesty and risk taking.
In thirteen essays, Lopate explores the resources and limits of the self, its many disguises, excuses, and unmaskings, with his characteristic wry humor and insight. From the title essay, a hilarious physical self-exam, to the haunting portrait of his ex-colleague Donald Barthelme, to the bittersweet account of his long-delayed surrender to marriage, "On Leaving Bachelorhood," Lopate wrestles with finding the proper balance between detachment and empathy, doubt and conviction.
In other essays, he celebrates his love of film and city life, and reflects on his religious identity as a Jew. A wrenchingly vivid, unforgettable portrait of the author's eccentric, solipsistic, aged father, a self-proclaimed failure, is the centerpiece of a suite of essays about father-figures and resisted mentors. The book ends with the author's own introduction to fatherhood, as witness to the birth of his daughter.
A book that will engage readers with its conversational eloquence, skeptical intelligence, candor, and mischief, Portrait of My Body is a captivating work of literary nonfiction.
Автор: Lopate Mitchell D. Название: The Girl who Made Friends with Dragons ISBN: 1950818055 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781950818051 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3274.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Suzy is a little girl who lives with her parents beside a big mountain. She never talks to anyone because she hears their thoughts in her head--and they can't hear her answering them. Inside the mountain live a group of amazing dragons: they are hiding from humans for hundreds of years. They create huge tunnels by eating rocks to visit their families in other countries.
When a young boy dragon forgot to cover up the exit to the dragon home cave, Suzy and Goldie, a little girl dragon, meet one day by accident. They become friends and stay out late when they learn dragons hear human thoughts But there's trouble when Suzy's father and Goldie's dragon father come looking for their missing children A little human girl and a little dragon girl become heroes who help everyone make up a peaceful way to live and work together. Come join the adventure of their story--and learn about delicious-flavored gemstones (dragons think they are like candy ), a dragon-hosted heated swimming pool, and a dragon/human neighborhood cook-out barbeque
Автор: Lopate Phillip Название: To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction ISBN: 1451696329 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451696325 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2482.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate--celebrated essayist, the director of Columbia University's nonfiction program, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay. Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of t
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