The Oxford English Prize Essays
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Page : 350 pages
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Release : 1830
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Page : 350 pages
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Author : Oxford univ, prize essays
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 1836
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Author : University of Oxford
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 30,40 MB
Release : 1830
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Author : Wendy Scase
Publisher : New Medieval Literatures
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198187387
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
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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.
Author : Thomas Karshan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019870786X
Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various incarnations of the form, offers new accounts of major essayists in English, and traces a wide range of significant themes.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199556555
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.
Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199216819
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory.This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whoseworks have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.
Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195132458
"A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry. . . . Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--"USA Today."
Author : Mark Storey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019264498X
This is a book about two empires—America and Rome—and the forms of time we create when we think about them together. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the present day, through novels, journalism, film, and photography, Time and Antiquity in American Empire reconfigures our understanding of how cultural and political life has generated an analogy between Roman antiquity and the imperial US state—both to justify and perpetuate it, and to resist and critique it. The book takes in a wide scope, from theories of historical time and imperial culture, through the twin political pillars of American empire—republicanism and slavery—to the popular genres that have reimagined America's and Rome's sometimes strange orbit: Christian fiction, travel writing, and science fiction. Through this conjunction of literary history, classical reception studies, and the philosophy of history, however, Time and Antiquity in American Empire builds a more fundamental inquiry: about how we imagine both our politics and ourselves within historical time. It outlines a new relationship between text and context, and between history and culture; one built on the oscillating, dialectical logic of the analogy, and on a spatialising of historical temporality through the metaphors of constellations and networks. Offering a fresh reckoning with the historicist protocols of literary study, this book suggests that recognizing the shape of history we step into when we analogize with the past is also a way of thinking about how we have read—and how we might yet read.