The Signet Book Of American Essays

Author : M. Jerry Weiss
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451530219
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Signet Book of American Essays written by M. Jerry Weiss and published by Signet. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring Essays by Benjamin Franklin • Ralph Waldo Emerson • W.E.B. Du Bois • Albert Einstein • Gloria Steinem • Henry David Thoreau • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Mark Twain • Erma Bombeck • Abraham Lincoln • John F. Kennedy • and More... These are Americans who had something important to say—and said it in powerful, convincing ways. A compendium of commentary, criticism, and oratory excellence from throughout the nation’s history, The Signet Book of American Essays is a perfect resource for those searching for the most timeless essays ever conceived by America’s notable scientists, philosophers, politicians, and writers. From the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin to the outspoken empowerment of Gloria Steinem, from the biting satire of Mark Twain to the grave seriousness of Franklin D. Roosevelt, this collection offers the opportunity to learn the subtle arts of persuasion and rational argument as exemplified in these great American dissertations crafted by some of the country’s most brilliant and intriguing citizens.

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays of the Century written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty five unforgettable essays by the finest American writers of the twentieth century.

Author : Brander Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Essays written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Bunsen Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Essays written by Charles Bunsen Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170991
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacagawea's Nickname written by Larry McMurtry and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these 11 essays, all originally published in "The New York Review of Books," McMurtry brings his unique narrative gift and dry humor to a variety of western topics.

Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593312813
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of the American Essay written by Phillip Lopate and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form—from Normal Mailer to James Baldwin to Joan Didion—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America—racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, and environmental degradation among them—proved fruitful topics for America's best minds. In The Golden Age of the American Essay, Phillip Lopate assembles a dazzling array of famous writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists. Here are writers like James Agee, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Randall Jarrell, and Mary McCarthy, pivoting from the comic indignities of daily life to world peace, consumerism, and restaurants in Paris. Here is Norman Mailer on Jackie Kennedy, Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." Here are Gore Vidal, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Joan Didion, and many more, in a treasury of brilliant writing that has stood the test of time.

Author : Andr Aciman
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0358359910
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2020 written by Andr Aciman and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.

Author : Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395691830
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays, 1995 written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the celebrated tradition, The Best American Essays 1995 dazzles and surprises with its inventive, colorful cornucopia of essays drawn from periodicals across the country. Showcased here are the preeminent pieces from the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and others, written by some of today's finest prose stylists.

Author : Robert Atwan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547479778
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best American Essays 2011 written by Robert Atwan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors have compiled a collection of the year's best essays, as published in periodicals.

Author : Regina Barreca
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814321362
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untamed and Unabashed written by Regina Barreca and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. She analyzes the ways that each writer uses comedic devices, especially those involving language itself, and discusses the gendered basis of their humor, providing a provocative feminist perspective on gender and comedy. Each of the essays argues that conservative critics have misread and misunderstood the importance of humor in the works of these women authors, and that women's humor serves to explode conventions oppressive to women and to offer women readers a critique of, and an alternative perspective on, the dominant cultural ideologies that contain and oppress them. The book concludes that these authors strategically deployed humor, coded in forms that women readers-but not men readers-would recognize and understand, as a means of educating and empowering those women readers. Barreca asserts that much of women's comic play has to do with power and its systematic misappropriation, allowing women to gain perspective by ridiculing the implicit insanities of a patriarchal culture. Using detailed persuasive new readings of various works of each of her chosen authors, she shows how the straightjacket of conventional femininity is challenged, confronted, and finally, thrown off. This volume demonstrates that comedy can effectively channel anger and rebellion by first making them appear to be acceptable and temporary phenomena, and then by harnessing the released energies, rather than dispersing them. This kind of comedy, which is at the heart of Untamed and Unabashed, terrifies those who hold order dear. It should.