My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Phillip Lopate’s selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating, tantalizing, and beguiling—and sometimes disappointing or frustrating—through his keen eyes.
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Included are all seven of Max Beerbohm's major early essays. Though these essays were justly acclaimed in their time, their magnificence is such that they also demand the highest accolades in ours, replete as they are with undiminished colour and spectacle, humour and barbed excellence.--From back cover.
This collection features seventeen parodies by Max Beerbohm, showcasing his wit and keen observational humor. As an English caricaturist and essayist, Beerbohm cleverly satirizes various subjects, weaving together a tapestry of comedic reflections that highlight his unique style and perspective. Each piece offers a playful take on literary and cultural themes, making it a delightful read for fans of parody and sharp commentary.
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In 1909, ten years had elapsed since Max Beerbohm's last volume of essays. In the time which had passed, his style had evolved to become a little more elegiac, a little less over-consciously clever. Yet Again gave full voice to his new mode, moulded by constant journalism into a superb clear flow. Still present are trenchantly funny criticism of banality, gorgeous erudition, countered expectations and, most of all, delicious irony. In Seeing People Off we are asked to examine the terrible truth behind awkward goodbyes; in A Club in Ruins the strange and lugubrious magnetism of dying buildings is surveyed; in Ichabod the author shamefacedly asks himself why he should mind that all the labels have been cleaned from his luggage; in The House of Commons Manner he bemoans the surprising lack of skill in speaking of the august members of that house; and in Dulcedo Judiciorum a full account is rendered of the superiority of the entertainment provided by the law courts over that of the theatre. Alongside seventeen other brilliant essays, there is here also a special section of nine imaginative depictions inspired by famous artworks.
Facsimile of colour illustrated 1918 ed. of The Happy Hypocrite.
Max Beerbohm presents in More a collection of twenty brilliantly amusing essays. In a wide-ranging tour through both the inspiring and the ridiculous in English fin de siecle society, Beerbohm casts a veiled critical drubbing here, and a wistful though sprightly appreciation there, thoroughly entertaining us and accurately spearing his victims. Some of his most noted work appeared in this second little volume when it was first published in 1899. In "Punch" he asks us if the magazine's terrible dullness is not our own fau
This record captures a year in the life of a writer, weaving together reflections on movies, art, music, friendship, travel, and family. The essay, often seen as the most versatile and engaging literary form, sifts through the everyday and historical to reshape it creatively. It thrives on surprise, often disregarding conventional style and respectability. In 2016, Philip Lopate, a seasoned essayist, shifted his focus to blogging, a medium already saturated with content. He committed to writing a weekly blog, embracing the challenge of a faster pace that risked inconsistency. The result is a collection of forty-seven essays, forming a cohesive piece that showcases the essay's expansive nature. Lopate's explorations include family dynamics, reflections on James Baldwin, a trip to China, insights on Agnes Martin and Abbas Kiarostami, commentary on the rise of Donald Trump, and the complexities of life and death. The outcome is a self-portrait, a reflection of contemporary society, and a fresh interpretation of the essay's potential.
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The story follows George, a deceitful socialite whose life takes a turn after being struck by cupid's arrow. Faced with rejection due to his immoral behavior, he embarks on a journey of transformation, adopting a charade to win back his love. Max Beerbohm's humorous fiction explores themes of identity and self-deception as George navigates the complexities of romance and personal integrity.
"The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic writing"-- Provided by publisher
One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present
"Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." --Rivka Galchen A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith. The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values. Even in those that don't, one can detect a subtext about being American. The Founding Fathers and early American writers self-consciously struggle to establish a recognizable national culture. The shining stars of the mid-nineteenth-century American Renaissance no longer lack confidence but face new reckonings with the oppression of blacks and women. The New World tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups in all periods use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net intentionally wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, humorous, literary, polemical, and autobiographical essays, and making room for sermons, letters, speeches, and columns dealing with a wide variety of subjects. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is an extensive overview of the endless riches of the American essay.
"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." -Amazon
Auf die Diagnose kommt es an, sie bestimmt Therapieentscheidung und Behandlungserfolg. Und die Diagnose in der Chinesischen Medizin stellt hohe Anforderungen an den Therapeuten, zumal sie auf unser westliches Medizinverständnis abzustimmen ist. Dieses Buch hilft, die richtige Bedeutung von Symptomen und Zeichen zu verstehen und richtig zuzuordnen. Es ist auf die Verwendung in der täglichen Praxis zugeschnitten und lässt keine Fragen offen. Besonders wertvoll ist es für Therapeuten, die über eine Akupunkturausbildung den Zugang zur Chinesischen Medizin gefunden haben und ein umfassendes Handbuch zur Syndromdiagnostik suchen. Die verschiedenen Zugänge zur richtigen Diagnose sind so detailliert ausgeführt wie bisher wohl noch in keinem anderen Fachbuch zur Chinesischen Medizin. Dabei wird immer vom Standpunkt des aus dem westlichen Kulturkreis stammenden Patienten ausgegangen. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele aus der Praxis des Autors und ein umfangreicher Anhang mit Glossar, Index und Farbtafelteil ergänzen das Konzept. Dieses Werk führt Studenten wie bereits ausgebildete Therapeuten über die Grundlagen zu fortgeschrittenen Bereichen der Diagnostik.
Background information accompanies caricatures of Rosetti, Swinburne, Browning, Tennyson, Wilde, Whistler, Ruskin, and Millais
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