The Criminal Child: Selected Essays, Paperback - Jean Genet

DescriptionThe Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate ab...

Reducere. Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, lette...

Reducere. Book jacket/back: The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes. Here men from ...

Reducere. Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the ...

Reducere. "One of the greatest achievements of modern literature." -Richard Howard "A major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation i...

'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.'According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essa...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Ol...

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius...

In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written sinc...

Reducere. La collection Connaître une oeuvre vous offre la possibilité de tout savoir de la pièce de théâtre Les Bonnes, de Jean Genet, grâce à une fiche de ...

Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Fa...

Publisher: Ariadne PressAuthor(s): Adolf LoosTranslator: Michael MitchellNumber of pages: 204Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 217 x 140 x 13Cover ...

Reducere. One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our soc...

Reducere. Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century...

A beautiful new edition of Jean Genet's classic work, which includes a new introduction by Jon Savage. 'One of the great writers of our times.' Sun...

Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several different facets of Emily Bronte's...

Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known th...

Reducere. Denise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various poe...

Reducere. "Gehring remains supreme in film comedy scholarship." - ChoiceIn a 1979 Frank Capra letter to the author, the director wrote, in part, " I thorough...

DescriptionH.D's writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collect...

Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This collection of his diverse essays includes appreci...

Reducere. First produced in 1713, Cato: A Tragedy inspired generations toward a pursuit of liberty. Liberty Fund's new edition of Cato: A Tragedy, and Select...

Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts ...

Reducere. Genet has strong claims to be considered the greatest living playwright. His plays constitute a body of work unmatched for poetic and theatrical po...

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters a...

Reducere. A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger's beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desertOccupying a space between traditional natu...

Focuses on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity.

Reducere. First published in France in 1949, The Thief's Journal is Jean Genet's iconic work of autobiographical fiction. This new edition brings his legenda...

First English-language anthology of one of Latin America's pre-eminent Marxist writersPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Adolfo GillyNumber of pages:...

Reducere. A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate.To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sa...

Reducere. Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating ...

'One evening, ' wrote Jean Genet in a prefatory note to The Blacks (1959), 'an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast.Publisher: Fabe...

Daiches aims to define Judaism in relation to philosophy, to explain Kant's philosophy through the superiority of halakhah, defend a biblically bas...

How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd ...

In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collecti...

Reducere. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on ...

Reducere. In this selection of seminal essays, drawn together into a single volume, Keiron Le Grice introduces archetypal cosmology, the academic field cente...

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outc...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Lawrence KramerNumber of pages: 348Collection: Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Serie...

This book comprises interconnected essays which reflect on challenging new issues related to diplomacy, communication, and peace.Publisher: Taylor ...

The essays in this volume examine interreligious relationality, hope and doubt, human labour and mortality, structures of nature, movements of hist...

Reducere. Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, exa...

Reducere. Dupa ce Jean Piaget a identificat diferitele stadii ale dezvoltarii intelectuale a copilului si a indicat regulile carora li se supune aceasta. Nim...

Reducere. This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most fascinating thinkers on the French...

Our Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. A stor...

Reducere. How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important ...

Probleme de psihologie genetica - Jean Piaget

Reducere. Jean Genet was one of the world's greatest contemporary dramatists, and his last play, The Screens, is his crowning achievement. It strikes a power...

Reducere. The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penet...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Widely recognised in his native ...