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Persecution and the Art of Writing, published in 1952 by the Free Press, is a book of collected articles written by Leo Strauss. [1] The book contains five previously published essays, many of which were significantly altered by Strauss from their original publication: The general theme of the book is the relationship between politics and ...
Notes on Nationalism. 'Notes on Nationalism ' is an essay completed in May 1945 by George Orwell and published in the first issue of the British magazine Polemic in October 1945. [1] Political theorist Gregory Claeys has described it as a key source for understanding Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four . In the essay, Orwell uses the term ...
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision. " When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision, " originally published in College English in the fall of 1972, [1] is an essay by American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer Adrienne Rich (1929–2012). It discusses several concepts needed by women writers to enable them to overcome the conditioning of a ...
Plot summary. The Golden Notebook is the story of writer Anna Wulf, the four notebooks in which she records her life, and her attempt to tie them together in a fifth, gold-coloured notebook. The book intersperses segments of an ostensibly realistic narrative of the lives of Anna and her friend Molly Jacobs as well as their children, ex-husbands ...
e. The Prison Notebooks ( Italian: Quaderni del carcere [kwaˈdɛrni del ˈkartʃere]) [ 1] are a series of essays written by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci was imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926. The notebooks were written between 1929 and 1935, when Gramsci was released from prison to a medical center on grounds of ...
ISBN. 978-0-415-28019-8. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures is a 1989 non-fiction book on postcolonialism, penned by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. [ 1] The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of postcolonial texts and their relationship with bigger ...
It was the day after crossing the "Place de l'Hotel de Ville" where an executioner was greasing the guillotine in anticipation of a scheduled execution that Hugo began writing The Last Day of a Condemned Man. He finished very quickly. [1] The book was published in February 1829 by Charles Gosselin without the author's name.
Notes from Underground. Notes from Underground ( pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapíski iz podpólʹya; also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) [ a] is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky first published in the journal Epoch ...