Poet and essayist John Haines has forged, in his long career, a body of work noted both for its austere lyric beauty, anchored in the solitude and spaciousness of his early years as a homesteader in the Alaskan wilderness, and for its penetrating responsiveness to the human condition. The generous selection of poems in For the Century�s End conveys, in form and substance, the singular and exhilarating power of Haines�s poet ...
Gifted travel writer, poet, professor of English, and insightful observer of human nature, Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. In Over the Lip of the World she depicts with equal verve the various storytelling traditions of the island and her own adventures in trying to find and record them.McElroy�s tale of an African American woman� ...
Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptation and frustration, �the women on the island� are prisoners of the power of the place, the power of the past, the power of desire and constraint. Yet like the jungle of jackfruit trees and bamboo itself, desire is a force that cannot be subdued.This novel illuminates the plight o ...
В коллективном труде представлены статьи, воспоминания и архивные материалы о личности и творчестве выдающегося литературоведа, основателя Донецкой филологической школы, профессора М. М. Гиршмана, широко известного своими работами о Михаиле Бахтине и теории диалога. Для научных сотрудников, специалистов-филологов, аспирантов и студентов филологических факультетов, преподавателей-словесников. ...
