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Any book about editing is, necessarily, a book about writing. For the casual scribbler or earnest author, "Red Line/Blue Line" is a collection of 36 essays - informative, occasionally digressive, and frequently irreverent - on writing, editing, and the essential interplay between the two. Every...

Poetry, literature, fiction, all are the various gifts of the same genre, that is arts. The book covers some of the areas of arts, literature and poetry, reflecting on different figures of American literature, poetry, like Conrad Aiken, Susan Howe, Beduwin Arab Women poetry and Bankim Anandamath....

Hans Keilsons Essays und Reden verbinden die Reflexion mit der Poesie, das Nachdenken mit dem Erzählen. Bereits als Schüler in den zwanziger Jahren hat Hans Keilson kurze Texte geschrieben, er blieb der Form des Essays treu bis heute. Thematisch bewegen sich seine Texte vom Porträt bis zur Landschaftserkundung,...

Written between 1916 and 1931 and available in English for the first time, Yakubinsky’s seminal essays afford us an unprecedented view of the history of modern literary and cultural theory. Addressing central questions of poetics and (socio)linguistics – such as what distinguishes poetry and...

Some thoughts and literary observations/essays pertaining to modern life including those of a more historical digression. Please do not read if easily offended or if you happen to have recently escaped from a nunnery, or if in anyway one is prone to intolerance and one-eyed views of the world.

Know-why statt Know-how! In Roger Willemsens großen Essays stehen Beobachtungen zur Veränderung des Erotischen neben Gedanken zum Recht auf den eigenen Tod, Satiren zum europäischen Patriotismus oder zum neuen Voyeurismus neben Reisebildern und Polemiken.Selbst wenn Willemsen nur über Schokolade...

Dieses eBook: "Gedankenwelt von Franziska Gräfin zu Reventlow: Essays, Briefe, Autobiografischer Roman" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Fanny Gräfin zu Reventlow (1871-1918) war eine deutsche Schriftstellerin,...

Dieser Band beinhaltet alle nichtfiktionalen Texte Thomas Manns von den Beiträgen zur Schülerzeitung ›Frühlingssturm‹ 1893 bis zum Kriegsausbruch 1914. Die Essays beeindrucken durch die Vielfalt der Themen und Positionen und zeigen den jungen Thomas Mann als Literaturkritiker, Experimentator,...

Peering Through a Frosted Window is a collection of essays and poems written by authors Virginia Monti and Andrea Monti Riffe some of which are memoir and others are merely ideas and insights from their imagination. It includes pictures of long ago and also original ones. By reading the essays...

Politisches Denken und radikales Sprechen – Kathrin Rögglas Essays und Theaterstücke.Unsere Realität gleicht einem Katastrophenfilm, einem worst-case-Szenario, einem Shakespeare'schen Königsdrama: Wirtschaftskrisen, Medien-Hysterie, private Paranoia. Kathrin Röggla setzt ihre kritische Phantasie...

What do seashells, obesity, graffiti, and the American ghetto have in common? Nude hot springs and the Japanese theater? Atheists and family-values conservatives? Why do atheists go on religious pilgrimages? How have schools infantilized our understanding of Shakespeare, and the textbook industry...

A moving and wide-ranging collection of essays by the author of Letter to a Future Lover The idea of connection permeates I Will Take the Answer, Ander Monson’s fourth book of utterly original and intelligent essays. How is our present connected to our past and future? How do neural connections...

Multiple academic and university-level essays, as well as a step-by-step guide for how to write a formal essay

Applying to college can be one of the most stressful times in a student's life. This book teaches you how to write effective applications and essays for college admissions and scholarships, helping shoulder some of the weight of applying. It provides you with the tools you need to complete your application and write a winning essay.