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The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W. G. Sebald

10 best books like The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W. G. Sebald (Lynne Sharon Schwartz): From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, Shakespeare and Modern Culture, Moondogs, Unrecounted, The Genizah at the House of Shepher, Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, Nature Stories

From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
AuthorRichard Ruland
ISBN0140144358
From Modernist/Postmodernist perspective, leading critics Richard Ruland (American) and Malcolm Bradbury (British) address questions of literary and cultural nationalism. They demonstrate that since the seventeenth century, American writing has reflected the political and historical...
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
AuthorHelen Vendler
ISBN0674048679
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's...
The Awdrey-Gore Legacy
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0396065988
Miss D. Awdrey-Gore, renowned 97-year-old writer of detective stories, is found murdered; then a mysterious hidden packet is discovered. Addressed to her publisher, it contains what appear to be notes and drawings related to a literary work in progress. The contents "in their entirety--though...
Shakespeare and Modern Culture
AuthorMarjorie Garber
ISBN0307377679
From one of the world’s premier Shakespeare scholars, author of Shakespeare After All (“the indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer” –Newsweek): a magisterial new study whose premise is that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare.

Shakespeare...
Moondogs
AuthorAlexander Yates
ISBN0385533780
A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him.

Mourning the recent loss of his...
Unrecounted
AuthorW.G. Sebald
ISBN0141018380
Unrecounted is a book of poems and images from one of the most admired European writers, W.G. Sebald, and his friend and collaborator, the German artist Jan Peter Tripp.

For a number of years until Sebald's death in 2001, the two exchanged poems and lithographs. Unrecounted is the startlingly...
The Genizah at the House of Shepher
AuthorTamar Yellin
ISBN1592640850
If I were to pick one word to describe this book, it would be confusing. You start a new chapter and it begins with pronouns; I kept wondering, who are we talking about?! After a page you know, but that is too long for my tastes. He did this and felt that and she responded in this manner…..but who, who, who...
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree
AuthorGérard Genette
ISBN0803270291
By definition, a palimpsest is “a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible.” Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of Gérard Genette’s most important works, examines...
The Book of Beginnings and Endings
AuthorJenny Boully
ISBN1932511555
“Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch.”—John D’Agata

“Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without ‘complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.’ Jenny Boully has done it.”—Mary...
Nature Stories
AuthorJules Renard
ISBN1590173643
The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters such as the weasel,...
Reporting at Wit's End: Tales from the New Yorker
AuthorSt. Clair McKelway
"Why does A. J. Liebling remain a vibrant role model for writers while the superb, prolific St. Clair McKelway has been sorely forgotten?" James Wolcott asked this question in a recent review of the Complete New Yorker on DVD. Anyone who has read a single paragraph of McKelway's work would struggle to...
The Western Lit Survival Kit: An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner
AuthorSandra Newman
ISBN1592406947
A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists. To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we bluffed our way through in college, the dusty Everyman's Library editions that look classy on the...
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays of Lionel Trilling
AuthorLionel Trilling
ISBN0374527997
With this re-publication of Lionel Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many generations, a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The exhilarating essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces - on Mansfield Park and on "Why We Read Jane Austen"; on Twain,...
O bibliotece
AuthorUmberto Eco
ISBN8324706828
Odczyt wygłoszony w 1981 roku z okazji 25-lecia Biblioteki Miejskiej w Mediolanie.

Słynny włoski profesor, wielki miłośnik wygodnych bibliotek i tropiciel bibliotecznych absurdów utrudniających życie uczonemu, opowiada o swoich ulubionych księgozbiorach i z humorem przedstawia...
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
ISBN0670038652
A new collection of essays and literary criticism from Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplished fiction writers in the world, J. M. Coetzee is also a literary critic of the highest caliber. As Derek Attridge observes in his illuminating introduction,...
Un été avec Montaigne
AuthorAntoine Compagnon
ISBN2849902446
Les gens seraient étendus sur la plage ou bien, sirotant un apéritif, ils s’apprêteraient à déjeuner, et ils entendraient causer de Montaigne sur le poste. Quand Philippe Val m’a demandé de parler des Essais sur France Inter durant l’été, quelques minutes chaque jour de la semaine,...
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