Showing results for "Gilbert" in Literary History & Criticism

Originally published in 1966, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays is a modern classic and includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation", as well as, her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time”. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment.

How did truth become an endangered species? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. In social media and literature, television, academia, and political campaigns, Kakutani identifies the trends - originating on both the right and the left - that have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science and common values. And she returns us to the words of the great critics of authoritarianism, writers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, whose work is newly and eerily relevant.

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique "topsy-turvy" style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The Ballads also reveal Gilbert's cynical and satirical approach to humour. They became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert ...

A poignant biography as told to Olive Gilbert by Isabella Bomefree - a slave who later took the name of Sojourner Truth. She recounts the harshness of life under slavery, and after winner her freedom, became a vociferous abolitionist for which she has been long remembered and revered.

A great collection of short stories based on the theme of love. Stories by famous writers including Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde.

One e-mail. Five lines. 4,000 dead. And it is only just beginning… When a small boy in Iowa forwards a mysterious email from ‘God’ to a small group of friends, he unwittingly releases a trigger that sends blood pouring throughout his farming community. Thousands more are dead across the country in dozens of simultaneous terror attacks and the government blames fundamentalists who want to trigger the Apocalypse. FBI Agent Joe Unes reluctantly teams with reclusive Internet radio host Barney Ison (from Sharon K. Gilbert’s The Armageddon Strain) to expose the plot -- and discovers that ...

Hanapin ang Sagot sa Pinakamahalagang Tanong sa Buhay Mo"Ayon kay Greg Gilbert, kulang ang pagkilala ng maraming tao kay Jesus. Kaya't isinulat niya ang maliit na librong ito upang ipakilala si Jesus. Kung gusto mong lalong makilala si Jesus, inirerekomenda kong basahin mo ang librong ito." -Andy Smith, author, The Majesty of Jesus"Sa pag-employ ng common Filipino language, napanatili ng salin ang nais ng author: ang ilapit si Cristo sa ordinaryong tao na parang nakikipagkuwentuhan lamang ngunit punung-puno ng lalim na naiintindihan at sagana sa heart-stirring thruths patungkol sa kung sino ...

Dragon pee really stinks. With that bit of cautionary advice, master dragonslayer Davian begins his tale. Davian is a Third Level Master of The Order, a group of men who alone have the power to battle the most fearsome creatures on all of Saramond. For thousands of years, the brothers of The Order have protected their world. Now something has upset the balance of power between man and dragon, and Davian must face what appears to be a dragon that cannot be seen. But Davian is losing his grip on reality — and the fate of the world rests with a stable hand, an underfed priest, and a gardener ...

Calling all bookworms! Whether you're looking for book reviews or a one-sided book discussion, this podcast is for you. For each episode, host Neela Gilbert will discuss 2-3 books that have a specific book trope/setting, as well as a comparison of the plot and character development, trope usage, and more! Instagram: @theemidnightbookworm

This is Ruth Gilbert, a philosophy major who is also into poetry.

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What is Glop? Glop is a business and a website. But Glop is also a feeling. It's about picking the right expensive organic eye cream that will make you a tall, thin, wealthy blonde WASP who fits seamlessly into the top tiers of high society and sits next to Bono at a 42-course seitan tasting dinner held in a sex dungeon deep beneath the North Pole.