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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
John Updike's sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading "General Considerations," books, poker, cars, and the American libido. The last, informal section of Due Considerations assembles more or less autobiographical pieces--reminiscences, friendly forewords,...
11) Readings
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Readings combines the best of Sven Birkerts's dazzling criticism with vital new essays. Here is Birkerts the literary critic in top form discussing authors ranging from Elizabeth Bishop to Don DeLillo, and topics such as biography and the enigma of poetic inspiration. A brilliant cultural commentator, Birkerts also offers important insights into contemporary nostalgia, our modern sense of time, and the future of the creative spirit.
12) Fall from grace
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Examines the role and theme of the fall from grace archetype in The Crucible, Crime and Punishment, Frankenstein, Things Fall Apart, and Macbeth. It features four analysis papers that consider the fall from grace theme, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme.
13) One true thing
Author
Language
English
Description
A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia. By the author of Object Lessons.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces from the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New York Times Book Review. Oates states in her preface, "In the essay or review, the dynamic of storytelling is hidden but not absent," and indeed,...
16) Colorado review
Publisher
Dept. of English, Colorado State University
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
18) Bless me, Ultima
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him as he discovers himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn, there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world . . . and will nurture...
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
Español
Description
Dejar de leer es la muerte instantánea. Sería como vivir en un mundo sin oxígeno.»
Al acercarnos a algunas de sus lecturas preferidas, Rosa Montero nos sumerge en un mundo literario propio, íntimo y universal al mismo tiempo, formado por grandes historias, héroes valientes, monstruos memorables, jóvenes misteriosos o malvados geniales.
En su original recorrido por grandes títulos de la literatura mundial como Las mil y una noches, La Regenta,...