Author: Jorge Luis BorgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consciousness
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Poems, stories, and sketches by an Argentinian writer and librarian, director of the National Library of Argentina.
Author: Sergei Vasil'evich Medvedev
Author: Miguel Enguídanos
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Author: Michael K. Slayton
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Author: Miguel EnguídanosThe Texas Book Two
Author: David DettmerPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292749848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
In every corner of the sprawling enterprise that is the University of Texas at Austin, you will find teaching, research, artistic creation, and sports achievement that are among the best in the world. Mandated by the Texas constitution to be “a university of the first class,” UT Austin strives for excellence across the curriculum, from the most traditional of liberal arts disciplines to the cutting edge of science and technology. For Texans interested in progress, whether students of the university or members of the public, there are few pleasures greater than uncovering the intellectual treasures that can be found by exploring the university’s “Forty Acres” and all that they contain. The Texas Book, edited by Richard A. Holland and published in 2006, offered the first in-depth exploration of UT’s history and traditions through a collection of profiles, histories, and reminiscences. Now The Texas Book Two continues the story, with a variety of contributors recalling particular events and personalities that have helped shape the university and the people whose lives it has touched. Twenty-one essays present personalities such as John A. Lomax, Anna Hiss, J. R. Parten, Harvey Penick, John W. Hargis, and Jorge Luis Borges; accounts of legislative battles and debates over campus architecture; histories of crown jewels such as the McDonald Observatory and Austin City Limits; and the reminiscences of Barbara Smith Conrad, Sam Hurt, and Cat Osterman, among others.
Dream Tigers
Author: Annalisa SaphoraPublisher:
ISBN: 9781839453526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Dream Tigers is an interconnected set of short stories exploring themes of gender identity. The characters are gender fluid rather than transsexual, transcending the binary restrictions of their birth gender to explore the possibilities of femininity. Each story is an invention exploring situations where its protagonist is coming to terms with feelings of alienation. This alienation emanates from the the psychological disruption caused when the barriers of gender conformity are breached. The stories are set in different time zones stretching from the ice age into the near future but most of them take place during the second half of the twentieth century, a period spanning the life time of the author. some of the events and locations are loosely autobiographical. At the center of the book is the mysterious figure of Cybele. She is half human, half goddess and her presence intertwines with the experiences of the characters who appear in the stories. She is the Earth Mother who exists to protect the sacredness of femininity and its role in preserving the sentience that sustains it. She appears in throughout the book as avenging angel.
The World Is a Book, Indeed
Author: Peter LaSallePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174246
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The World Is a Book, Indeed chronicles in eleven rich personal essays the ongoing quest of award-winning writer Peter LaSalle to embark on offbeat, often startlingly revelatory literary travel. LaSalle spends a summer roaming the lesser-known quarters of Paris, haunted by the writing of the French surrealists. In Hanoi, he meets for beers with the editors—two military men—of the Army Literature and Arts Magazine while investigating Vietnam’s acknowledged great modern novel, Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War. Other pieces find LaSalle on a strange nighttime drive through the streets of sprawling São Paulo in search of landmarks associated with Brazilian modernist poetry, bouncing around Africa to interview writers there when very young, exploring Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges's memorable stay in Texas, and traveling to Istanbul, Lisbon, Tunis, and elsewhere, as he considers major writers amid the settings that produced their works. Deeply felt and replete with insight into literature and life itself, even capable of evoking valid mind leaps in its innovative approaches, this is a collection for readers who love books and want to learn more about the places they originated, presented by a well-traveled guide with an intimate voice and a gift for the essay form.
