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| Author | : Shemeela Sasikumar |
| Publisher | : Clever Fox Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
This book is just a collection of essays I had written on different topics connected with my personal life. Besides, I had also written on tours to some local places in Kerala and a return journey that my husband and I took to Singapore. I had always entertained sweet memories of this child hood home which I had left after my Senior Cambridge 'O' level examinations in 1972 at my father's insistence that the whole family should return to India. I had continued on with my studies , having completed M.Tech in Chemical Engineering and procuring a career as a Lecturer and progressing to the status of Professor in the government engineering colleges of Kerala. My siblings too fared well in their studies and got reliable jobs , my sister in the Kerala Treasury Department and my two brothers in Muscat and Dubai respectively. After retirement, I decided to write English essays as reading and writing in that language had been my passion in my schooldays and pre- degree college days. Hence my return to my passion after retirement. An essay and some letters on relevant topics in the Hindu were published . However after that , a sudden stop in publication although I continued to write essays on matter I found interesting. Hence I decided to pay to have my essays published online by such printing publications like the Notion Press and BUUKs. Not so successful but still satisfying my inner soul. The two books that came out of my prolific urge were' Reminiscences' and ' A Critique of Bhima- Lone Warrior ' an English translation of M.T.Vasudevan's Malayalam novel ' Randamoorai , a sympathetic presentation of Bhima, the second son of the Pandava brothers in the great Hindu epic 'Mahabharata'. The two books were released in 2018 and 2020 respectively. Now , after presenting umpteen essays, reviews of both novels and films which enthralled me , and places visited , in Facebook (Shemeela's Page and Newsfeed) I decided to come out with this third publication by Clever Fox Publishers on seventeen essays which I hope to entrance readers.
| Author | : Alexander J. Butrym |
| Publisher | : Athens : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780820311685 |
| Author | : John Updike |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2012-09-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0679645837 |
John Updike’s first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer’s youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and “Talk of the Town” reports, the fruits of Updike’s boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux d’esprit are followed by “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” an immortal account of Ted Williams’s last at-bat in Fenway Park; “The Dogwood Tree,” a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and five autobiographical essays and stories. Rounding out the volume are classic considerations of Nabokov, Salinger, Spark, Beckett, and others, the earliest efforts of the book reviewer who would go on to become, in The New York Times’s estimation, “the pre-eminent critic of his generation.” Updike called this collection “motley but not unshapely.” Some would call it a classic of its kind.
| Author | : Esmé Weijun Wang |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 2019-06-27 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0141991542 |
'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that 'spread like blood', or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain. What happens when your whole conception of yourself is turned upside down? When you're aware of what is occurring to you, but unable to do anything about it? Written with immediacy and unflinching honesty, this visceral and moving book is Wang's story, as she steps both inside and outside of her condition to bring it to light. Following her own diagnosis and the many manifestations of schizophrenia in her life, she ranges over everything from how we label mental illness to her own use of fashion and make-up to present herself as high-functioning, from the failures of the higher education system to how factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease compounded her experiences. Wang's analytical, intelligent eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with haunting personal narrative. The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core and provides unique insight into a condition long misdiagnosed and much misunderstood.
| Author | : Lydia Davis |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2019-11-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0374719241 |
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, “Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive.” Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis’s gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades. In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote’s painting, and from the Shepherd’s Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today.
| Author | : John Berger |
| Publisher | : Pantheon |
| Total Pages | : 616 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Art and society |
| ISBN | : |
On the occasion of his seventy-fith birthday, Pantheon is publishing a gathering of John Berger's most insightful and provocative writings on art over the past forty years. "Selected Essays brings together a comprehensive array of writings from Berger's previous collections: "Toward Reality, "The Moment of Cubism, "The Look of Things," About Looking, "The Sense of Sight, and "Keeping a Rendezvous. From Piero to Pollock, from Kokoschka to La Tour, from mass demonstrations to museums-the ideas in these essays are as fresh and compelling as they were when first published. Polemical, meditative, radical, always original, they display a remarkable continuity of thoughtful inquiry and political engagement.
| Author | : Sarah Ruhl |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2014-09-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0374711976 |
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl. This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life. Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness: "On lice," "On sleeping in the theater," "On motherhood and stools (the furniture kind)," "Greek masks and Bell's palsy."
| Author | : Assistant Professor of Classics and Senior Research Associate of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology Scott J Digiulio |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0197688268 |
"Aulus Gellius and his sole surviving work, the Noctes Atticae (NA), have long stood on the periphery of Classical scholarship. This second century CE compilation, conventionally termed a miscellany, collects vast amounts of otherwise lost ancient literature, and the depictions of scholarly activity throughout the work have led some to see in Gellius a kindred spirit-a Classicist avant la lettre. Yet, the NA is a fascinating work of literature in its own right, depicting the intellectual and literary culture at the height of the Roman Empire and offering invaluable evidence for the evolution of Latin prose as a literary form in the Antonine period. In contrast to previous scholarship that looks past the randomness of the NA, this book argues that the conceit of disorder enabled Gellius to probe the nature of reading in the second century CE. Gellius' central preoccupation is articulating a distinct set of "ways of reading" that may be employed to navigate the web of literature in the Roman Empire. In turn, each of these ways of reading-through material framing devices, focal characters, recurrent citations in dialogue with one another, and allusive references to other near-contemporary works-can be used to examine Gellius' collection and appreciate its literary qualities. Incorporating inter- and intratextual analysis alongside narratology-informed approaches, this book investigates the strategies used by Gellius to innovate within the Latin literary tradition and provides a framework for interpreting his varietas on its own terms"--
| Author | : Alison Armstrong |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2019-01-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1984563823 |
The virtual realities that works of literary and visual art provide us are loosely the concern of these essays. Working methods are touched upon in some, as in my interviews with William Anastasi and Robert Kipniss. The intentionality of the artist, however, is never my concern, nor should it be of interest to the reader; the intentions cannot necessarily be derived from the work (as the New Critics reminded us long ago). Rather, to see and feel how the text or work of visual functions is our pleasant task. So we do not ask why, a dead-end question. How is the question that can lead to infinitely more rewarding discoveries.
| Author | : Jonathan Franzen |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2016-10-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0544812174 |
The National Book Award–winning author compiles a “thought-provoking volume” of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others (Publishers Weekly). As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 “was whether an author had taken a risk.” The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from championing an unpopular opinion to the possibility of ruining a professional career, or irrevocably alienating one’s family. What’s gained are essential insights into aspects of the human condition that would otherwise remain concealed—from questions of queer identity, to the experience of a sibling’s autism and relationships between students and college professors. The Best American Essays 2016 includes entries by Alexander Chee, Paul Crenshaw, Jaquira Diaz, Laura Kipnis, Amitava Kaumar, Sebastian Junger, Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, George Steiner, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and others.
