A Critic's Journey

A Critic's Journey
Author: Geoffrey H. Hartman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780300080438

This book - a collection of Hartman's essays from throughout his career - sheds new light on the past four turbulent decades of criticism."--BOOK JACKET.

Journey of the Universe

Journey of the Universe
Author: Brian Thomas Swimme
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2011-06-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0300171900

The authors tell the epic story of the universe from an inspired new perspective, weaving the findings of modern science together with enduring wisdom found in the humanistic traditions of the West, China, India, and indigenous peoples. This book is part of a larger project that includes a documentary film, educational DVD series, and Web site.

A Critic's Journey

A Critic's Journey
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0472033824

Ilan Stavans has been a lightning rod for cultural discussion and criticism his entire career. In A Critic's Journey, he takes on his own Jewish and Hispanic upbringing with an autobiographical focus and his typical flair with words, exploring the relationship between the two cultures from his own and also from others' experiences. Stavans has been hailed as a voice for Latino culture thanks to his Hispanic upbringing, but as a Jew and a Caucasian, he's also an outsider to that culture-something that's sharpened his perspective (and some of his critics' swords). In this book of essays, he looks at the creative process from that point of view, exploring everything from the translation of Don Quixote to Hispanic anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in Latin America. Book jacket.

An Experiment in Criticism

An Experiment in Criticism
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1961
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

C. S. Lewis's classic analysis of the experience of reading.

The Greater Journey

The Greater Journey
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1416576894

The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”

The Immense Journey

The Immense Journey
Author: Loren Eiseley
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-07-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0307801934

Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.

Enrique's Journey

Enrique's Journey
Author: Sonia Nazario
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0385743270

The true story of a boy who sets out with absolutely nothing to find his mother who went to the US from Honduras to look for work.

A Journey Around My Room

A Journey Around My Room
Author: Xavier de Maistre
Publisher: Hersperus Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

What do you do when you find yourself imprisoned in your room for 6 weeks? Xavier de Maistre, a 27-year-old Frenchman found himself in this uneasy situation when he was arrested in Turin after a duel, in the Spring of 1790. But with only a butler and a dog for company, Xavier de Maistre managed to fill his time by embarking on a journey around his bedroom, later writing an account of what he had seen. Whether venturing from his bed to his sofa, or even to his mirror, he wears his "traveling outfit”--his favorite pink and blue pajamas. Out of his forced reclusion comes a captivating fantasy--a novel take on travel literature that would inspire many later writers, including Marcel Proust. This edition also contains de Maistre’s A Nocturnal Expedition around My Room. Xavier de Maistre was a military man, who supplemented his army career with short works of fiction.

A Stranger's Journey

A Stranger's Journey
Author: David Mura
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 082035368X

Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger's Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature. Mura argues for a more inclusive and expansive definition of craft, particularly in relationship to race, even as he elucidates timeless rules of narrative construction in fiction and memoir. His essays offer technique-focused readings of writers such as James Baldwin, ZZ Packer, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Karr, and Garrett Hongo, while making compelling connections to Mura's own life and work as a Japanese American writer. In A Stranger's Journey, Mura poses two central questions. The first involves identity: How is writing an exploration of who one is and one's place in the world? Mura examines how the myriad identities in our changing contemporary canon have led to new challenges regarding both craft and pedagogy. Here, like Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark or Jeff Chang's Who We Be, A Stranger's Journey breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between the issues of race, literature, and culture. The book's second central question involves structure: How does one tell a story? Mura provides clear, insightful narrative tools that any writer may use, taking in techniques from fiction, screenplays, playwriting, and myth. Through this process, Mura candidly explores the newly evolved aesthetic principles of memoir and how questions of identity occupy a central place in contemporary memoir.