In Different Ways The Four Essays Set Fourth One Theme- The Moral Use To Which Intelligence Might Be Put, In Rendering Our Admiration's And Our Loyalties At Once More Sensible And More Noble.

In Different Ways The Four Essays Set Fourth One Theme- The Moral Use To Which Intelligence Might Be Put, In Rendering Our Admiration's And Our Loyalties At Once More Sensible And More Noble.

In Different Ways The Four Essays Set Fourth One Theme- The Moral Use To Which Intelligence Might Be Put, In Rendering Our Admiration's And Our Loyalties At Once More Sensible And More Noble.

Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature's sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a strenuous thinker who was proud to think "too much." As an intellectual he did not spare his own kind, and though he did not consider himself a rationalist, he was grounded in the worl...(展开全部)

Bringing together the thoughts of one of American literature's sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a strenuous thinker who was proud to think "too much." As an intellectual he did not spare his own kind, and though he did not consider himself a rationalist, he was grounded in the worl...(展开全部)

How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo -- minimal diaries -- after the manazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parady." These essays are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains...(展开全部)

How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo -- minimal diaries -- after the manazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parady." These essays are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains...(展开全部)

Women, Art, and Power-seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history-brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.

In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations--on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate vie...(展开全部)

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between di...(展开全部)