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A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison-fiction, non-fiction, and other- drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison's intellectual growth as an artist. číst celé

Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition);

"The life of the author, Maya Angelou, delivers an engaging and thorough retelling of the life and work of the celebrated and accomplished writer, director, and essaysit. The book offers readers an engrossing retelling of Maya Angelou's entire life, from her time as a child in the segregated town of Stamps, Arkansas, to her death in 2014 in Winston-Salem"--Page 4 of cover

Walt Whitman: A Literary Life highlights two major influences on Whitman's poetry and life: the American Civil War and his economic condition. In addition to establishing Whitman's attention to the Civil War through journalism and memoirs, the book takes the approach of following Whitman's life through his poems.

"A wide-ranging critical and biographical reading of Maya Angelou's life and work, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) to His Day Is Done, A Nelson Mandela Tribute (2014). Now fully revised and updated and featuring two new chapters covering Angelou's final years"-- Provided by publisher

Lost Europe, zatím nejrozsáhlejší publikace vydaná 400 ASA, obsahuje bezmála 150 černobílých dokumentárních fotografií tří autorů z Ukrajiny z období od počátku devadesátých let až do současnosti. Fotografie Karla Cudlína, Jana Dobrovského a Martina Wágnera doplňuje text novinářky Petry Procházkové. Knihu graficky a výtvarně zpracovala Zuzana Lednická ze Studia Najbrt. Fotografové zachycují zemi s dramatickou historií jako místo připomínající poetiku života, který nenávratně mizí. Jako připomínku samozřejmosti starých časů před globalizací. Jako dokument života ze dne na den, který sami autoři komentují: „Fotografie v této knize zachytily mizející svět. Vlastně jeho konec, který není ani tragický, ale ani se nepodobá happy endu. Je to procházka do minulosti, zachycení opravdovosti, po které se nám stýská, ale už bychom ji neuměli, ani nechtěli žít.“

How does literature evoke reality? This book takes cues from the history of scientific observation to provide a new approach to this longstanding question of literary studies. It reconstructs a narrative technique of ‘literary’ observation in which reality appears by mimicking processes of visual perception, and it traces the functioning of this technique through a wide range of European fiction from the early 18th to the late 19th centuries.

This book aims to both describe and analyze the way Steinbeck learned the writing craft. It begins with his immersion in the short story, some years after he stopped attending Stanford University. Aside from a weak first novel, his professional writing career began with the publication in 1932 of The Pastures of Heaven, stories set in the Salinas Valley and dedicated to his parents. From that book he wrote truly commanding stories such as The Red Pony. Intermixed with Steinbeck’s journalism about California’s labor difficulties, his writing skill led to his 1930 masterpieces, Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, and The Grapes of Wrath. The latter novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940, led eventually to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He continued producing such wide-ranging works as The Pearl, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, and Travels with Charley up to just a few months before his death in 1968.

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Chapter One: Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928 -- Chapter Two: Ambivalence Is Not So Easy -- Chapter Three: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Chapter Four: Gather Together in My Name -- Chapter Five: Music, poetry, and being alive -- Chapter Six: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas -- Chapter Seven: The Heart of a Woman -- Chapter Eight: Africa -- Chapter Nine: A Song Flung Up to Heaven -- Chapter Ten: Poems and the Public Spotlight -- Chapter Eleven: From Autobiography to the Essay -- Chapter Twelve: Maya Angelou as Spirit Leader

Der Berliner Stadtbaurat Martin Wagner gründete 1931 die Arbeitsgemeinschaft für ein wachsendes Haus, der u. a. Walter Gropius, Leberecht Migge, Hans Poelzig, Hans Scharoun sowie Bruno und Max Taut angehörten. Als architektonische Antwort auf die Weltwirtschaftskrise und den Zusammenbruch der Bauindustrie entwarfen sie seriell gefertigte Kleinsthäuser, die durch etappenweisen Weiterbau auf familiäre und finanzielle Veränderungen der Auftraggeber reagieren konnten. Ihre Entwürfe für ein wandelfähiges neues Bauen wurden 1932 in der Publikation „Das wachsende Haus. Ein Beitrag zur Lösung der städtischen Wohnungsfrage“ dokumentiert. Das seit langem vergriffene Buch stellt das politische und architektonische Anliegen eines anpassungsfähigen Wohnungsbaus vor. Seine kommentierte Wiederveröffentlichung bildet den Auftakt einer Publikationsreihe als Teil des Ausstellungsprogramms Wohnungsfrage am Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, vom 22. Oktober bis 14. Dezember 2015.