Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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c1937., Collier & Son Call No: 824 E421ee Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harvard classics
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2002, c1996., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 824 O795es Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Everyman's library Volume: no. 242.
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1938., P.F. Collier Call No: 824 E421e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harvard classics
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By Smith, Zadie2018., General, Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada Call No: BLK 824.9 S663f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: How much joy can a person tolerate? How many kinds of boredom make up a life? Who owns the story of black America? Should Justin Bieber be more like Socrates? And why is there a dead art collector floating in the swimming pool? Zadie Smith is back with a second collection of essays. From German Old Masters to the new masters of East Coast rap, from social networks opening lines of communication to national referenda closing doors, she reaches out in all directions and draws back a rich feast of ideas. Here pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate all get the Zadie Smith treatment: dissected with razor-sharp intellect, set brilliantly against the context of the utterly contemporary, and considered with a deep humanity and compassion. With the easy intimacy of a local and the piercing clarity of an outsider, she casts a sharp critical eye over the creative luminaries that have shaped our world: from J. G. Ballard to Karl Ove Knausgaard, Orson Welles to Charlie Kaufman, Joni Mitchell to Beyonce, and far beyond. And it considers the points of contact where the author herself meets this world, where the political meets the personal and critique meets memoir. Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. Zadie Smith is a professor of fiction at New York University.
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By Verduyn, Christl, 1953- Wiseman, Adele Laurence, Margaret Rule, Jane Waddington, Miriam Webb, Phyllis, 1927- Page, P.K Atwood, Margaret Marlatt, Daphne Scott, Gail Tostevin, Lola Lemire Mouré, Erin, 1955- Warland, Betsy, 1946- Brandt, Di, 1952- Maracle, Lee Van Herk, Aritha, 1954- Gunnars, Kristjana, 1948- Bannerji, Himani Philip, M. NourbeSe Brand, Dionne, 1953- Elliott, Al2023., Guernica Editions Call No: NEW QWF 814.009 V487h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential essays series Volume: 81.Summary Note: Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form. It looks at this substantial body of writing with a primary focus on collections of essays, and on those published since the 1960s. In all, it considers over 40 collections, offering an overview and appreciation of this generally overlooked work and its contributions to cultural and intellectual thinking in Canada.
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By Homel, David2023., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: NEW QWF Bio H Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Award-winning author David Homel mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in these meditations on his youth in Chicago, his education, and the influences that led to his career as a writer.
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1991., Granta Books ; In association with Penguin Books Call No: 814 R953 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Amis, Martin2017., Jonathan Cape Call No: 824.9 A516r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous collection, 'Amis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist, but these essays all manifest an unusual extra quality, one that is not unlike friendship. He makes an effort; he makes readers feel that they are the only person there.' The essays in The Rub of Time range from superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the pornography industry. The collection includes his essay on Princess Diana and a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens, but at the centre of the book, perhaps inevitably, are essays on politics, and in particular the American election campaigns of 2012 and 2016. One of the very few consolations of Donald Trump's rise to power is that Martin Amis is there to write about him"--
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c2009., AK Press Call No: BLK 824.52 A935y Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "You Donœt Play With Revolution collects seven never-before-published lectures by Marxist cultural critic C.L.R. James, delivered during his stay in Montréal in 1967-1968. Ranging in topic from Marx and Lenin to Shakespeare and Rousseau to Caribbean history and the Haitian Revolution, these lectures demonstrate the staggering breadth and clarity of Jamesœ knowledge and interest. Little information exists in print on the critical period James spent working with West Indian intellectuals and students in Canada in the late 1960s; this collection highlights the themes we have come to associate with Jamesœ critical project and situates them in a new light. Readers just beginning to delve into Jamesœ work will find this collection accessible and engaging, an ideal introduction to a complex and multi-faceted body of scholarship. Editor David Austin has also included two seminal interviews produced with James during his stay in Canada, and a series of letters James exchanged with the West Indian university students who made these lectures possible.You Donœt Play With Revolution also includes an introduction by Robert A. Hill, co-founder of the C.L.R. James Study Circle and historical advisor to the new James archive at Columbia University." -Amazon.ca.
