Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke is the largest collection of Burke's book reviews, most of them reprinted here for the first time. In these reviews, as he engages famous works of poetry, fiction, criticism, and social science from the early 20th century, Burke demonstrates the prominent methods and interests of his influential career. ...
There is never a dull phrase in Arthur Saltzman's OBLIGATIO01 General/trade OF THE HARP, his fourth book of essays. The writing in these twenty-five pieces is by turns wry and satirical, sensually descriptive, playfully punning-but always nuanced and illuminating. Reference points range from Kobe Bryant to John Updike, from geology to Jewish ritual. ...
The poems in Jennifer Atkinson’s Canticle of the Night Path, collected in alphabetical order from “Canticle of A” to “Canticle of Zed,” are little songs of five—five lines, five sentences, five couplets, or five paragraphs—canticles to, for, with, and of all sorts of things. There are Canticles to Chipped Plates, to Dust, with Eyelashes, with Macaroons, of Rhymes, Rushes, Slippage, Stone, Shrapnel and Manna. Woven throughout the book, along with ...
Comment allier inspiration, tradition, culture et invention, d’un cote, et grain de jouissance, Reel, rature et manuscrit, de l’autre. La roue de l’ecriture, machine inventee par l’auteur, aide a comprendre les rapports entre ces concepts a partir de l’etude des manuscrits. L’homme, ecrivain ou artiste, reste le centre, mais plus assujetti que sujet, plus ouvert aux decouvertes qu’organisateur. L’ecrivain se sentant, comme l’OEdipe de Bauchau, a ...
Kaufen Sie dieses Buch nicht, wenn alles so bleiben soll und Sie sich in einer Opferrolle wohlfuhlen. Kaufen Sie es nicht, wenn Sie die Schuld fur das, was bei Ihnen schieflauft bei anderen suchen und Sie selbst nichts andern wollen. Durch das Lesen dieses Buches wird sich in Ihrem Leben nur etwas andern, wenn Sie uber die provokanten Impulse nachdenken, die Verantwortung fur Ihr Leben ubernehmen und anfangen, einiges in Ihrem Leben mit einer a ...
