Last Essays

Last Essays
Author: Georges Bernanos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1955
Genre: French essays
ISBN:

The World's Last Night and Other Essays

The World's Last Night and Other Essays
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The World's Last Night and Other Essays" by C. S. Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson

A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson
Author: Nicholas Hudson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317323432

Johnson rose from obscure origins to become a major literary figure of the eighteenth century. Through a detailed survey of his major works and political journalism, Hudson constructs a complex picture of Johnson as a moralist forced to accept the realistic nature of politics during an era of revolutionary transition.

Last Watch of the Night

Last Watch of the Night
Author: Paul Monette
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1995
Genre: AIDS (Disease)
ISBN: 9780349106373

Winner of the National Book Award for Becoming a Man, his candid and passionate account of growing up gay in a time of ignorance and bigotry, this third volume of Paul Monette's autobiographical writing brings together an eclectic collection of essays written under the shadow of AIDS. Meditative, philosophical, sometimes blisteringly angry, Paul Monette presents a simultaneously personal and universal vision of the struggle for freedom faced by gay and lesbian people in 1990s American, counteracting reference to his own illness with a unique perspective on literature, politics and religion. Varied yet focused, damning yet tender, Last Watch of the Night shines like a beacon of hope in a fog of intolerance - offering solace to those who think they're alone, raining down shame on those who would have them stay that way.

Leonora's Last Act

Leonora's Last Act
Author: Roger Parker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997-11-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780691015576

In a collection of essays, Oxford Fellow Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism. The book serves as a model of research and critical thinking about opera, while nevertheless retaining a deep respect for opera's continuing power to touch generations of listeners. 4 photos. 46 music examples.

Last Letter to a Reader

Last Letter to a Reader
Author: Gerald Murnane
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 192581890X

Final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as ‘a genius on the level of Beckett’. A book which will appeal equally to Murnane’s legion of fans, and to those new to his work, attracted by his reputation as a truly original Australian writer. In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane began a project which would round off his career as a writer – he would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary archives, the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive, which is devoted to everything he has written. But as the reports grew, they themselves took on the form of a book, Last Letter to a Reader. The essays on each of his works travel through the capacious territory Murnane refers to as his mind: they dwell on the circumstances which gave rise to the writing, images, associations, reflections on the theory of fiction, and memories of a deeply personal kind. The final essay is on Last Letter to a Reader itself: it considers the elation and exhilaration which accompany the act of writing, and offers a moving ending to what must surely be his last work as death approaches. ‘Help me, dear one, to endure patiently my going back to my own sort of heaven.’ ‘No living Australian writer, not even Les Murray, has higher claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction’ — Sydney Morning Herald ‘The emotional conviction...is so intense, the somber lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiseled sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief.’ — J.M. Coetzee

Shakespeare's Last Plays

Shakespeare's Last Plays
Author: Stephen W. Smith
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780739103616

What were Shakespeare's final thoughts on history, tragedy, and comedy? Shakespeare's Last Plays focuses much needed scholarly attention on Shakespeare's "Late Romances." The work--a collection of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars of classical political philosophy and literature--offers careful textual analysis of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The essays reveal how Shakespeare's thought in these final works compliments, challenges, fulfills, or transforms previously held conceptions of the playwright and his political-philosophical views.