Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Joan Acocella
yhteensä 13 hakutulosta
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks
In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is …
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
A uniquely personal record of a great artist
Beware of Pity
Wes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: "I had never heard of Zweig...when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The …
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
Joan Acocella, “one of our finest cultural critics” (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it - its authors, its …
Creating Hysteria
From 1985 to 1995 an estimated 40,000 Americans, most of them women, were told they suffered from multiple personality disorder. Feminists, fundamentalists, and a substantial …
The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
A collection of the New Yorker critic's finest essays, which examine the books that reveal and record our world. Joan Acocella was "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward …
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
A distinguished cultural critic presents an insightful compilation of thirty-one essays in which she reflects on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of Simone de …
Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
Expanding on her absorbing and controversial 1995 New Yorker article, Joan Acocella examines the politics of Willa Cather criticism: how Cather’s work has been seized upon and …
Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
Expanding on her absorbing and controversial 1995 New Yorker article, Joan Acocella examines the politics of Willa Cather criticism: how Cather’s work has been seized upon and …
28 Artists & 2 Saints
Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential …
Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
In this brilliant, impassioned and controversial book, New Yorker critic Joan Acocella argues that twentieth-century literary critics from the Left and Right have misused Willa …