Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical

Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical
Title Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical PDF eBook
Author Nathan Drake
Publisher
Pages 528
Release 1810
Genre Adventurer
ISBN

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The Intimate Critique

The Intimate Critique
Title The Intimate Critique PDF eBook
Author Diane P. Freedman
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 324
Release 1993
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780822312925

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For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts--above all, "objectivity"--seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life. Grounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume--including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim--respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, Middlemarch to The Woman Warrior, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result--which has been referred to as "personal writing," "experimental critical writing," or "intellectual autobiography"--maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism. Contributors. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar

Essays in Biography

Essays in Biography
Title Essays in Biography PDF eBook
Author Joseph Epstein
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9781604190687

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Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. How easy it is today to forget the simple delight of reading for no intended purpose. Each of the 39 pieces in this book is a pure pleasure to read.

Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian

Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian
Title Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian PDF eBook
Author Nathan Drake
Publisher
Pages 420
Release 1805
Genre English literature
ISBN

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Bernini's Biographies

Bernini's Biographies
Title Bernini's Biographies PDF eBook
Author Maarten Delbeke
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 440
Release 2006
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0271029013

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Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject of two monographic biographies published shortly after his death in 1680: one by the Florentine connoisseur and writer Filippo Baldinucci (1682), and the second by Bernini's son, Domenico (1713). This interdisciplinary collection of essays by historians of art and literature marks the first sustained examination of the two biographies, first and foremost as texts. A substantial introductory essay considers each biography's author, genesis, and foundational role in the study of Bernini. Nine essays combining art-historical research with insights from philology, literary history, and art and literary theory offer major new insights into the multifarious connections between biography, art history, and aesthetics, inviting readers to rethink Bernini's life, art, and milieu. Contributors are Eraldo Bellini, Heiko Damm, John D. Lyons, Sarah McPhee, Tomaso Montanari, Rudolf Preimesberger, Robert Williams, and the editors.Maarten Delbeke is Assistant Professor of architectural history and theory at the universities of Ghent and Leiden. Formerly the Scott Opler Fellow in Architectural History at Worcester College (Oxford), he is the author of several articles and a forthcoming book on Seicento art and theory.Evonne Levy is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Toronto. She is also the author of Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque (2004).

Essays: Biographical and critical

Essays: Biographical and critical
Title Essays: Biographical and critical PDF eBook
Author Henry Rogers
Publisher
Pages 542
Release 1850
Genre English essays
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Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian
Title Patrick O'Brian PDF eBook
Author Arthur E. Cunningham
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 194
Release 1994
Genre
ISBN 9780393036268

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"Originally published in Great Britain under the title Patrick O'Brian: Critical appreciations and a bibliography"--T.p. verso.