Literature Machine - Essays (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Literature Machine - Essays (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is not only constantly and supremely intelligent; he is constantly and supremely faithful to his narrative imagination'

Collection of Sand - Essays (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

With encyclopedic knowledge, this title writes about such diverse subjects as the imaginative pleasures of maps, bizarre exhibitions and the earliest forms of written language. It provides a glimpse into the mind of a master of the

Changing My Mind - Occasional Essays (Smith Zadie)(Paperback / softback)

Features a collection of essays on literature, cinema, art - and everything in

Narrative of Trajan's Column (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Inner Workings - Literary Essays 2000-2005 (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of the author's literary essays from 2000 to 2005. It discusses writers such as Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai who lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siecle and felt the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and

If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You try to track down the original book you were reading but end up with a different narrative again. This remarkable novel leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a

Hermit in Paris (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays (Messud Claire)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of personal and critical essays on everything from childhood to womanhood, literature to visual arts and the relationship between form and meaning in

Guide to Writing Essays (Headrick Paul)(Paperback)

This outstanding practical guide to writing analytical essays on literature develops interpretive skills through focused exercises and modeled examples. The program is tailored to meet the specific needs of beginning undergraduates. Features unique, detailed guidance on paragraph structure

At the Same Time (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent writers and

Complete Cosmicomics (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all

Into the War (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as the author's own experiences as a teenager. It features such stories as: 'Into the War', 'The Avanguardisti in Menton' and 'UNPA

Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays (McCarthy Tom)(Paperback)

Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters,

Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. She raises questions concerning militarism, education, and social and gender inequality that are relevant to this

Notes to Literature (Adorno Theodor W.)(Paperback)

Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, H lderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the physical qualities

Field of Cultural Production - Essays on Art and Literature (Bourdieu Pierre)(Paperback / softback)

The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieua s most important writings on art, literature and

Italian Folktales (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Contains stories which range geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the

Our Ancestors (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; These three vivid images are the points of departure for Calvino's classic triptych of moral tales, now published in one volume and all displaying the exuberant talent of a master

Mr Palomar (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world

Road to San Giovanni (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Calvino Italo)(Paperback)

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. --from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted,

Signs & Wonders - Essays on Literature and Culture (Warner Marina)(Paperback / softback)

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and making new and provocative

American Originality: Essays on Poetry (Glck Louise)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gl ck is a towering figure in American letters