Author : Andr Aciman
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0358359910
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780395691830
Continuing the celebrated tradition, The Best American Essays 1995 dazzles and surprises with its inventive, colorful cornucopia of essays drawn from periodicals across the country. Showcased here are the preeminent pieces from the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and others, written by some of today's finest prose stylists.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2004
Category : American essays
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780395717578
Selection of twenty-two essays by contemporary American prose writers, including biographical notes on each author, and a list of additional notable essays of 1995.
Author : Richard Howard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 1995-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1439106169
The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise, and he has gleaned the most inventive and searching writing from a wide variety of literary journals. The themes and imagery here are indisputably "American," as our best poets continue to mine personal as well as communal experience for their work. Now in its eighth year, this series has established itself as a rich and vibrant source of new poetry -- celebrated in bookstores and on college campuses. Welcome, once again, the memorable voices and unique pleasures of Best American Poetry. Featuring: Margaret Atwood Sally Ball Catherine Bowman Stephanie Brown Lewis Buzbee Cathleen Calbert Rafael Campo William Carpenter Nicholas Christopher Jane Cooper James Cummins Olena Kalytiak Davis Lynn Emanuel Elaine Equi Irving Feldman Donald Finkel Aaron Fogel Richard Frost Allen Ginsberg Peter Gizzi Jody Gladding Elton Glaser Albert Goldbarth Beckian Fritz Goldberg Laurence Goldstein Barbara Guest Marilyn Hacker Judith Hall Anthony Hecht Edward Hirsch Janet Holmes Andrew Hudgins T.R. Hummer Brigit Pegeen Kelly Karl Kirchwey Carolyn Kizer Wayne Koestenbaum John Koethe Yusef Komunyakaa Maxine Kumin Lisa Lewis Rachel Loden Robert Hill Long James Longenbach Gail Mazur J. D. McClatchy Heather McHugh Susan Musgrave Charles North Geoffrey O'Brien Jacqueline Osherow Molly Peacock Carl Phillips Marie Ponsot Bin Ramke Katrina Roberts Michael J. Rosen Kay Ryan Mary Jo Salter Tony Sanders Stephen Sandy Grace Schulman Robyn Selman Alan Shapiro Reginald Shepherd Anglea Sorby Laurel Trivelpiece Paul Violi Arthur Vogelsang David Wagoner Charles H. Webb Ed Webster David Wojahn Jay Wright Stephen Yenser
Author : Martin J. Medhurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1000150046
This volume traces the historical evolution of American academic thought concerning public address -- what it is, how it ought to be studied, and what can be learned by engaging rhetorical texts in an analytical fashion. To begin, one must distinguish among three separate but interrelated uses of the term "public address" -- as practice, theory, and criticism. The essays in this volume represent landmarks in the literal sense of that term -- they are marks on the intellectual landscape that indicate where scholars and ideas have passed, and in that passing left a mark for future generations. It is appropriate to revisit the landmarks that have set public address off as a field of study and it allows readers to remember the struggles that have led to the current situation. Most of the authors of the following chapters are deceased, but their ideas live on -- transformed, adapted, modified, rejected, and reborn. The scholarly dialectic continues. What constitutes a study in public address, how best to approach rhetorical texts, which analytical tools are required for the job, how best to balance text with context and what role ought theory to play in the conduct or outcome of critical inquiry -- these questions live on. To answer them at all is to engender debate and that is how it should be if the intellectual vitality of public address is to be maintained. The papers are a prolegomenon to such studies, for they mark where scholars have been and point the way to where they still must go.
Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2007
Category : American essays
ISBN : 9780618709267
Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., -
Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780618042975
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2000 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 2000-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1466828838
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
