Tag: Essays

Free Download Richard Brilliant, "Portraiture (Essays in Art and Culture)"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0948462191 | PDF | pages: 194 | 16.6 mb
This is the first general and theoretical study devoted entirely to portraiture. Drawing on a broad range of images from Antiquity to the twentieth century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, Richard Brilliant investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society.

Free Download Self and Sensibility: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind
Udo Thiel, Dieter Hüning
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3111387135 | 480 Pages | PDF | 3.38 MB

Free Download Nobody Cares: Essays by Anne T. Donahue
English | September 18, 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07DWD5V52 | 202 pages | PDF | 1.47 Mb
Witty and painfully honest essays about perfection vs. reality: "Hilarious…[an] incredibly distinctive voice." -Emma Gannon, bestselling author ofOlive

Free Download My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews by Phillip Lopate
English | July 2, 2024 | ISBN: 0231216408, 0231216394 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 1.97 MB
Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist, his infatuation deepened into a lifelong passion. My Affair with Art House Cinema presents 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.

Free Download Interpreting R. G. Collingwood: Critical Essays
by David Collins and Christopher Williams
English | 2025 | ISBN: 100933705X | 315 Pages | PDF | 3.12 MB

Free Download Georg Simmel, "Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 022662109X | 2020 | 392 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential writings on money, modernity, and the metropolis continue to provoke debate today.

Free Download Discovering Dune: Essays on Frank Herbert’s Epic Saga
by Dominic J. Nardi, N. Trevor Brierly
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1476682011 | 284 Pages | True ePUB | 1.77 MB

Free Download A Mollusk Without a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers
by Julie Brooks Barbour and Mary Biddinger
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1629222798 | 102 Pages | PDF | 1.21 MB

Free Download Lynnette Porter, "Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations"
English | ISBN: 0786499079 | 2016 | 224 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective’s identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why and how his identity has been formed in a specific way.

Free Download Martyn Colebrook, "The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders"
English | ISBN: 0786442255 | 2013 | 208 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This collection of 12 new essays brings together prominent literary experts to explore the importance of Scottish writer Iain (M.) Banks, both his mainstream and science fiction work. It considers Banks as a habitual border crosser who makes things fresh and new by subversive and transgressive strategies. The essays are divided into four thematic areas-the Scottish context, the geographies of his writing, the impact of genre and a combined focus on gender, games and play-and will be of particular interest to scholars of contemporary literature, Scottish literature and science fiction.