Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time, Hardcover - Vivian Gornick

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's selfPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Vivian GornickNumber of ...

The twentieth anniversary of the insightful Radio 4 exploration of varied intellectual subjects draws from some of the show's best episodes, presen...

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

Reducere. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social...

Reducere. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Vivian GornickNumber of pages: 216Collection: Boston Review BooksPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 184 x 125 x 2...

Reducere. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, AutobiographyA contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spi...

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Reducere. Seminal essays on loneliness, living in New York, friendship, feminism, and writing from nonfiction master Vivian GornickVivian Gornick's Approachi...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Amina YaqinNumber of pages: 294Collection: Anthem Studies in South Asian Literature, Aesthetics and CulturePublic...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

POW Sometimes, don't you just want to let someone have it? Give them a tongue-lashing they'll never forget? Alexa's a Spy and Other Things to Worry...

Reducere. A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from th...

A marriage simply meant to be?Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Fiona McArthurNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 107...

Alternate history is a genre of fiction that, although connected to science fiction, has its own rich history and lineage. With its roots in the wr...

Building on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient ...

Television is entering a unique era, in which women and minorities no longer serve under white captains but take the lead. After briefly tracing ho...

This book explores the adaptations of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel from comics to film, as well as political struggles over these works, to illu...

Reducere. When Toni Morrison died in August 2019, she was widely remembered for her contributions to literature as an African American woman, an identity she...

Reducere. Library of America launches its long-awaited Hemingway edition with a landmark collection of writings from his breakthrough years, in newly edited,...

Reducere. Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious.--The New York Times Hailed as "the greatest ...

This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together for the first time the work of a group of writers well--known in the Marxist--fem...

This exciting collection of documents offers readers access to primary material illustrating the experiences of women in Britain in politics, socie...

Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dyn...

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Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unr...

Reducere. DescriptionOur world is currently undergoing major transformations, from climate change and politics to agriculture and economics. The world we hav...

"This book explores representations of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel in comics and film, as well as political struggles over these works, to illu...

Barbara Taylor's classic book, reissued with a new introduction.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Barbara TaylorNumber of pages: 432Pub...

Reducere. A Vintage Classics edition of the early collection of short fiction that first established Ernest Hemingway's reputation, including several of his ...

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings. As one of the most enduringly popular and controversial novelists of the last century, the 70th an...

Discusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological lifePublisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 8 b&w illus.Number of...

The essays in this landmark volume highlight the achievements of "Shakespeare's sisters, " including Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barre...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

A hilarious argument in favor of taking life a smidge less seriouslyPopular humor writer Anna Lind Thomas had an epiphany after her essay about a h...

Reducere. Eric Hoffer one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer approaches the critical problems of our time with the comm...

A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America's criminal justice system, from those most impacted by itWhen The New Press, ...

The first biography of John Berger since his death in January 2017, reflecting on how the life and work of the great critic reconciled the often re...

DescriptionAcclaimed poet and Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottl...

Reducere. If we want to understand culture wars on the contemporary American scene, we must first come to grips with the American culture wars of the ninetee...

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected...

Reducere. In this inspiring collection, 13 early childhood leaders take action to challenge and change inequitable educational practices in preschools and el...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 22 Halftones, black and whiteCollection: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature...

To Write Like a Woman is a rare example of a feminist tackling science fictuion using postmodern theory, which makes for a much more sophisticated ...

Reducere. Hemingway made his North American literary debut in 1925 with In Our Time, his first collection of short stories and vignettes. Widely praised at t...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Tim (University of Queensland, Australia) DunneIllustration(s): 1 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Table...