This is the autobiography of Carson McCullers, published more than 30 years after it was written. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation - the author of "The Member of the Wedding", "Reflections in a Golden Eye" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" - died of a stroke at the age of 50 before finishing this, her last manuscript. ......
An attempt to understand the complexity of the vision and contributions of the African-American writer, James Baldwin, without needing to name him as exclusively homosexual, expatriate, black or activist. A group of scholars discuss Baldwin's life, his presence and his political thought and work.
Celebrating poet Robert Creeley's pathbreaking role as an artistic collaborator, this illustrated volume adds substantially to the documented history of contemporary multidisciplinary art. For more than forty years, Creeley has worked on collaborative projects with some of the best-known artists of our time, including Georg Baselitz, Francesco ......
Latino writer Manrique weaves his autobiography with the lives of three other gay Hispanic authors: Manuel Puig; Reinaldo Arenas; and Federico Garcia Lorca. The memoir explores literature, sexuality and Hispanic culture. As one of those writers, Manrique chronicles his own intellectual and emotional journey to becoming an author. Through the ......
A study of the life and work of the lesbian writer, Jane Rule. Incorporating Rule's early work, including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and newspaper columns, as well as fan-mail, the book also draws on interviews and conversations with the author.
A study of the life and work of the lesbian writer, Jane Rule. Incorporating Rule's early work, including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and newspaper columns, as well as fan-mail, the book also draws on interviews and conversations with the author.
The writings of C. S. Lewis often stir in readers a profound sense of spiritual longing, a desire for joy lying beyond the offerings of this world. This special kind of longing, known to the Romantic tradition by the German word Sehnsucht, has been a recurrent theme in some of our most powerful works of literature. Bright Shadow of Reality, first ......
Features a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian emigre with whom Hall fell in love in the summer of 1934. These letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women.
James Joyce never used quotation marks, calling them ""perverted"" and ""unreal"". This book springs from that aversion, presenting an account of citation from the ancient world forward and tracing Joyce's transgressive relation to that history from ""Memorabilia"" to ""Finnegan's Wake"". The author argues Joyce's rejection of the mark signals a ......
