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De la barbarie de la imaginación
by Rafael Humberto Moreno DuranUn ensayo imprescindible sobre la evolución de la novela en América Latina y España. Para R.H. Moreno-Durán, la novela latinoamericana expresa la secuencia de factores, tendencias y modas que primaron en el panorama cultural del continente, y la imaginación es el único elemento que esta tiene para revelarse en medio del debate entre "civilización" y "barbarie", implícito en la problemática cultural latinoamericana. La crítica ha dicho "De la barbarie a la imaginación es una libre interpretación de las letras hispanoamericanas desde las perspectivas de un escritor presente". Ángel Rama, Novísimos narradores hispanoamericanos "El don del analista consiste en acertar con los conceptos esenciales, con aquellos que de manera explícita se juegan las partidas. Solo cuando tales conceptos se han aclarado, y Moreno-Durán lo consigue excepcionalmente, empieza el ejercicio de mirar cómo se mueven# El libro de Moreno-Durán es como Pascal decía que es el universo: una esfera cuyo centro se encuentra en cualquier parte". J. M. Carandell, Tele/Expres "El libro de Moreno-Durán no es solo un estudio de la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea, sino también un intento audaz de interpretación global de toda la cultura de América Latina". Journal of Spanish Studies
De la estupidez a la locura: Crónicas para el futuro que nos espera
by Umberto EcoLa obra póstuma de Umberto Eco, que el autor entregó a imprenta pocos días antes de morir, es una selección de artículos inéditos en España, seleccionados por él mismo. Una sucesión de pequeños placeres intelectuales. «Cuando yo era joven, había una diferencia importante entre ser famosos y estar en boca de todos. La mayoría querían ser famosos por ser el mejor deportista o la mejor bailarina, pero a nadie le gustaba estar en boca de todos por ser el cornudo del pueblo o una puta de poca monta# en el futuro esta diferencia ya no existirá: con tal de que alguien nos mire y hable de nosotros, estaremos dispuestos a todo.» Estas palabras son un buen ejemplo de lo que nos ofrece De la estupidez a la locura, una serie de artículos que Umberto Eco publicó en prensa a lo largo de quince años y seleccionó personalmente poco antes de dejarnos. Por estas piezas se pasean hombres y mujeres de relevancia internacional, pero también algunos de los personajes de ficción más amados por Eco, como James Bond o los protagonistas de algunos de sus cómics favoritos. Y vuelve, como siempre, la nostalgia por el pasado perdido, la reflexión irónica sobre el poder y sus instrumentos, y la crítica a un consumismo que nos deja llenos de objetos y vacíos de ideas. Genio, sabiduría y sentido del humor: de todo hay en este libro, una despedida digna de un gran maestro.
De la finitud
by Günter GrassDe la finitud es el libro póstumo, la despedida del Premio Nobel de Literatura y Premio Príncipe de Asturias, Günter Grass. «Günter Grass nos ha dejado un conmovedor regalo de despedida. Creo que una vez más consiguió algo grande. Ha creado con su última obra de arte un impresionante juego de poesía, prosa e ilustración.»Gerhard Steidl (editor de Günter Grass) Entre diario, ensayo y poesía, y profusamente ilustrado por él mismo, De la finitud es el libro que Günter Grass escribió durante sus últimos años. En él hallamos la lúcida mirada, alejada de toda melancolía, de un hombre que se enfrenta a la muerte con ironía, en poemas como «Autorretrato» o «Adiós a la carne», al tiempo que sigue analizando el mundo que le rodea. Desfilan bajo su pluma llena de sabiduría, lirismo y humor los hechos y personajes más diversos, desde la crisis griega («La luz al final del túnel») ala canciller Angela Merkel («Mamá»). Un delicado regalo de despedida, un libro imprescindible. Reseñas:«Es un libro para la reflexión serena y el placer por las cosas profundas y bien hechas [...]. No todo el mundo sabe irse de la vida sin amargura, dejando a sus congéneres, a modo de propina literaria, un obsequio como este De la finitud.»Fernando Aramburu, El Mundo «Günter Grass escribió un último libro poético y conmovedor, íntimo y político, necesario. Uno de sus mejores libros.»Patricio Pron, Babelia «Un texto póstumo a modo de despedida preparado con mimo por el autor hasta sus últimos detalles... La constatación de la decadencia física se da la mano con una fuerte dosis de humor negro.»Elena Hevia, El Periódico de Catalunya «De la finitud es la última expresión viva de uno de los magos de un idioma mágico, el alemán.»Luis Meana, ABC Cultural «De la finitud es el mejor libro de Grass en años. Su muerte deja una obra distinta a todas las demás.»Jens Dirksen, Hamburger Abendblatt «Es una obra conmovedora y por momentos encantadora.»Heinrich Detering, Presidente de la Academia Alemana de Lengua y Literatura «De la finitud es una sólida obra póstuma de poesía, prosa y dibujos. Melancólico pero nunca sentimental. La franqueza de Günter Grass es admirable.»Friedmar Apel, Frankfurter Allgemeine «Una despedida llena de humor. El libro como una obra de arte, el libro como un libro, el último de Grass. Se ve el rastro de un hombre viejo que ha luchado ya sus batallas.»Volker Weidermann, Spiegel «Su último libro es francamente conciliador. De la finitud no es moralizador, es inusualmente autocrítico.»Burkhard Müller, Süddeutsche Zeitung «De la finitud es íntimo, melancólico, fanfarrón y alegre.»Matthias Hoening, Stern «Una obra de arte. De la finitud está lleno de una sensibilidad inusual y de una sana dosis de ironía y humor.»Jochen Kürten, DW. com
De los espejos y otros ensayos (Palabra En El Tiempo Ser.)
by Umberto EcoUna muestra brillante y sugestiva de la inagotable curiosidad intelectual de Umberto Eco. El volumen que presentamos agrupa, en torno a cinco grandes núcleos temáticos, artículos y ensayos de muy diversa procedencia. Dedicado al análisis de problemas de estética, a la interpretación de fenómenos de la cultura de masas, a la lectura crítica de textos literarios y al comentario de problemas filosóficos y semióticos de interés en nuestro tiempo, este libro es una muestra brillante y sugestiva de la inagotable curiosidad intelectual de Umberto Eco. Reseña:«Umberto Eco es un cultísimo ensayista que trabaja desde una ciencia tan plural como la semiótica, y un novelista que de algún modo plantea en cada título lo que pudiéramos decir una "novela-ensayo".»Luis Antonio de Villena
De los libros al poder
by Gabriel ZaidNueva edición, corregida y aumentada, de De los libros al poder, de Gabriel Zaid. En 1932, Alfonso Reyes veía en el mundo "un paulatino advenimiento al poder de las clases universitarias". Y así fue en México, donde la oligarquía revolucionaria cedió voluntariamente el poder a una nueva oligarquía universitaria. Para 1987, según el Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, de los 1,156 funcionarios más altos del poder ejecutivo, el 98% tenía licenciaturas (más de la mitad en la UNAM) y el 48% postgrados (más de la mitad en el extranjero). El 70% tenía experiencia académica (docencia, investigación) y el 30% había publicado libros. "Veblen intuyó que las diferencias económicas eran mucho menos radicales que las establecidas con base en la educación. Y en nuestro tiempo han sido Bourdieu y Sennett, Illich y Zaid quienes han argumentado que la teórica accesibilidad de todos al saber y la cultura tendía más a reforzar las diferencias de origen y de clase que a compensarlas."Xavier Rubert de Ventós,El laberinto de la hispanidad. Del material de este libro (corregido y aumentado para esta nueva edición) se han publicado glosas, reproducciones, traducciones, comentarios, réplicas y referencias en un centenar de libros y varios centenares de artículos publicados en Berlín, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Londres, Los Ángeles, Madrid, México, Milán, Nueva York, París, Roma, Sâo Paulo, Washington y otras partes.
De l’autre côté du Jourdain (Traduction littéraire)
by Margaret LaurenceGhana, 1956. Nous sommes à la veille de l’indépendance. Nathaniel Amegbe est professeur dans une école ghanéenne plutôt médiocre. Johnnie Kestoe est comptable dans une firme textile britannique à Accra. Les deux hommes s’affronteront autour de la question de l’« africanisation », cette politique de passation des responsabilités entre Britanniques et Ghanéens. De l’autre côté du Jourdain est le premier roman de Margaret Laurence, cette matriarche de la littérature. Cette traduction est une invitation à découvrir une facette méconnue de l’œuvre d’une grande écrivaine qui, pendant son séjour en Afrique de 1950 à 1956, a su capter tout l’espoir et les bouleversements imposés par les indépendances africaines à l’ordre du monde. Mais avant tout, il s’agit d’une invitation à découvrir une Afrique fébrile, des personnages attachants, le tout écrit avec un talent incontestable, dans une pluralité de voix à couper le souffle. Réflexion sur l’indépendance, tant intérieure que politique, De l’autre côté du Jourdain annonçait déjà les grands romans emblématiques de Laurence, dont, L’ange de pierre et Les devins. Publié en français
De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period: The Authors of the Commentaries
by Matteo VallerianiThis open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the then recently founded University of Paris. It soon became a mandatory text all over Europe. As a result, a tradition of commentaries to the text was soon established and flourished until the second half of the 17th century. Here, readers will find an informative overview of these commentaries complete with a rich context. The essays explore the educational and social backgrounds of the writers. They also detail how their careers developed after the publication of their commentaries, the institutions and patrons they were affiliated with, what their agenda was, and whether and how they actually accomplished it. The editor of this collection considers these scientific commentaries as genuine scientific works. The contributors investigate them here not only in reference to the work on which it comments but also, and especially, as independent scientific contributions that are socially, institutionally, and intellectually contextualized around their authors.
De viaje por Europa del Este
by Gabriel García MárquezPor primera vez en España, en un volumen exclusivo, la crónica de los viajes de un joven Gabriel García Márquez por los países socialistas. Un reportaje periodístico tan extraordinario como Relato de un náufrago. De viaje por Europa del Este es la crónica testimonial del viaje que realizó un joven Gabriel García Márquez por los países socialistas en los años cincuenta. En sus páginas el lector encontrará, junto a las observaciones de sus compañeros de viaje, un análisis perspicaz y no exento de ironía de los acontecimientos sociales y políticos de una época. Su viaje por el enclave comunista arranca en la Alemania Oriental y prosigue por Checoslovaquia, Polonia, Hungría y la antigua Unión Soviética. Allí intentará desvelar la verdadera cara del comunismo ideado por Lenin: un régimen kafkiano apenas cuestionado por un pueblo asustado que parece resignarse a su destino. Escrito y publicado por entregas en la misma época que el legendario Relato de un náufrago, este reportaje es otro ejemplo impagable de arduo trabajo de investigación, rigor histórico y fidelidad a los hechos narrados, pilares todos del periodismo de calidad. Con su indiscutible maestría literaria, Gabriel García Márquez demuestra una vez más su vocación profunda: el placer de contar una buena historia. «Yo no quería conocer una Unión Soviética peinada para recibir una visita.A los países, como a las mujeres, hay que conocerlos acabados de levantar.»Gabriel García Márquez
De viva voz: Conferencias y alocuciones
by Federico García LorcaLa totalidad de los textos escritos por Federico García Lorca para ser leídos en voz alta: conferencias, alocuciones e intervenciones públicas. Federico García Lorca es uno de los poetas y dramaturgos más célebres de nuestra literatura, y su amplia obra ha sido representada, leída, editada y estudiada desde que el poeta fue asesinado en 1936. Sin embargo, son poco conocidas sus conferencias y presentaciones en público, un conjunto que se ha publicado de forma muy dispersa. Este volumen presenta por primera vez la totalidad de esas charlas y alocuciones, e incluye algunos textos inéditos de su madurez. Escritos para ser léidos en voz alta, todos tienen la particularidad de mostrarnos las preocupaciones estéticas y sociales del gran autor granadino, acercándonos a su pensamiento de un modo fresco y directo. La edición está a cargo de Jesús Ortega y Víctor Fernández, quien ha editado de 2017 en adelante la biblioteca Lorca en Debolsillo, con una mirada renovadora de obras que parecían ya muy conocidas.
De-Gendering Gendered Occupations: Analysing Professional Discourse (Routledge Research in Language, Gender, and Sexuality)
by Joanne McDowellDe-Gendering Gendered Occupations brings together contributions from researchers on language and gender studies and workplace discourse to unpack and challenge hegemonic gendered norms encoded in what are traditionally considered female occupations. The volume integrates a range of theoretical frameworks, including conversation analysis, pragmatics, and interactional sociolinguistics, to analyse data from such professions as primary education, healthcare, and speech and language therapy across various geographic contexts. Through this lens, the first part of the book examines men’s linguistic practices with the second part offering a comparative analysis of 'male' and 'female' discourse. The settings discussed here allow readers to gain insights into the ways in which cultural, professional, and gendered identity intersect for practitioners in these professions and in turn, future implications for discourse around gendered professions more generally. This book will be key reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies, cultural studies, and professional discourse.
De-Scribing Empire: Post-Colonialism and Textuality
by Alan Lawson Chris TiffinDe-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies for understanding and neutralising that control, and as such is a major contribution to the field. It will be invaluable for students in post-colonialist criticism.
De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)
by Georgette WangThe rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differentiation. This trend is reflected in the increasing number of communication journals with a national or regional focus. Alongside this proliferation of research output from outside of the mainstream West, there is a growing discontent with communication theories being “Westerncentric”. Compared with earlier works that questioned the need to distinguish between the Western and the non-Western, and to build “Asian” communication theories, there seems to be greater assertiveness and determination in searching for and developing theoretical frameworks and paradigms that take consideration of, and therefore are more relevant to, the cultural context in which research is accomplished. This path-breaking book moves beyond critiquing “Westerncentrism” in media and communication studies by examining where Eurocentrism has come from, how is it reflected in the study of media and communication, what the barriers and solutions to de-centralizing the production of theories are, and what is called for in order to establish Asian communication theories.
De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators
by Lynne BowkerThis textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of translation for students of other disciplines and readers who are not translators. It provides students outside the translation profession with a greater awareness of, and appreciation for, what goes into translation. Providing readers with tools for their own personal translation-related needs, this book encourages an ethical approach to translation and offers an insight into translation as a possible career. This textbook covers foundational concepts; key figures, groups, and events; tools and resources for non-professional translation tasks; and the types of translation that non-translators are liable to encounter. Each chapter includes practical activities, annotated further reading, and summaries of key points suitable for use in classrooms, online teaching, or self-study. There is also a glossary of key terms. De-mystifying Translation: Introducing Translation to Non-translators is the ideal text for any non-specialist taking a course on translation and for anyone interested in learning more about the field of translation and translation studies.
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
by Alice Bolin“[A] deliciously dry, moody essay collection” about America’s obsession with violence against women is “a lyrical meditation” (Carina Chocano, New York Times Book Review).In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and accessible, thoughtful and heartfelt, Bolin investigates the implications of our cultural fixations, and her own role as a consumer and creator.Bolin chronicles her life in Los Angeles, dissects the Noir, revisits her own coming of age, and analyzes stories of witches and werewolves, both appreciating and challenging the narratives we construct and absorb every day. Dead Girls begins by exploring the trope of dead women in fiction, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women – both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate.“Bracing and blazingly smart.” —Megan Abbott, Edgar Award–winning author of You Will Know Me“The cultural criticism serves to help us all think a little bit more about what we’re consuming—and who’s being damaged by it.” —Entertainment Weekly“[A] sharp-eyed book of essays.” —Washington Post“Wise and wonderful.” —Robin Wasserman, author of Girls on Fire“Engrossing . . . eerily enthralling, systematically on point, and quite funny . . . An illuminating study on the role women play in the media and in their own lives.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Smart, thorough, and urgent, Bolin’s essays are a force to be reckoned with.” —Booklist
Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission
by Kevin OhiLiterary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms &“thwarted transmission.&” Such scenes, however, do not so much concede the impossibility of survival as look into what constitutes literary knowledge and whether it can properly be said to be an object to be transmitted, preserved, or lost. Beginning with general questions of transmission—the conveying of knowledge in pedagogy, the transmission and material preservation of texts and forms of knowledge, and even the impalpable communication between text and reader—Dead Letters Sent examines two senses of &“queer transmission.&” First, it studies the transmission of a minority sexual culture, of queer ways of life and the specialized knowledges they foster. Second, it examines the queer potential of literary and cultural transmission, the queerness that is sheltered within tradition itself. By exploring how these two senses are intertwined, it builds a persuasive argument for the relevance of queer criticism to literary study. Its detailed attention to works by Plato, Shakespeare, Swinburne, Pater, Wilde, James, and Faulkner seeks to formulate a practice of reading adequate to the queerness Ohi&’s book uncovers within the literary tradition.Ohi identifies a radical new future for both queer theory and close reading: the possibility that each might exceed itself in merging with the other, creating a queer theory of literary tradition immanent in an immersed practice of reading.
Dead Letters to the New World: Melville, Emerson, and American Transcendentalism (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Michael McLoughlinThis book contextualises and details Herman Melville's artistic career and outlines the relationship between Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Michael McLoughlin divides Melville's professional career as a novelist into two major phases corresponding to the growth and shift in his art. In the developmental phase, from 1845 to 1850, Melville wrote his five Transcendental novels of the sea, in which he defended self-reliance, attacked conformity, and learned to employ Transcendental symbols of increasing complexity. This phase culminates in Moby-Dick , with its remarkable matching of Transcendental idealism with tragic drama, influenced by Hawthorne. After 1851, Melville endeavoured to find new ways to express himself and to re-envision human experience philosophically. In this period of transition, Melville wrote anti-Transcendental fiction attacking self-reliance as well as conformity and substituting fatalism for Emersonian optimism. According to McLoughlin, Moby-Dick represents an important transitional moment in Herman Melville's art, dramatically altering tendencies inherent in the novels from Typee onward; in contrast to Melville's blithely exciting and largely optimistic first six novels of the sea, Melville's later works - beginning with his pivotal epic Moby-Dick - assume a much darker and increasingly anti-Transcendental philosophical position.
Dead Man Walking (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesDead Man Walking (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Helen Prejean Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysis explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols a review quiz and essay topics Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers.
Dead Men Kill
by L. Ron HubbardBloodcurdling suspense... When several of the city's most respected citizens are inexplicably killed by what appear to be zombies, all Detective Terry Lane has to go on is a blue grey glove, a Haitian pharmacy bill for some very unusual drugs and a death threat from a mysterious stranger. Matters are soon complicated when a beautiful nightclub singer shows up who claims to have information that could solve the case, but whose motives are plainly suspect. Against his better judgment, Terry investigates her lead only to find himself sealed in a coffin en route to the next zombie murder--his own."DEAD MEN KILL is frightful fun from yesteryear."-- Fangoria* An International Book Awards Winner
Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture
by Annie McclanahanDead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture--from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies--has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what makes our economic lives possible. Encompassing both popular entertainment and avant-garde art, the post-crisis productions examined here help to map the landscape of contemporary debt: from foreclosure to credit scoring, student debt to securitized risk, microeconomic theory to anti-eviction activism. A searing critique of the ideology of debt, Dead Pledges dismantles the discourse of moral obligation so often invoked to make us repay. Debt is no longer a source of economic credibility, it contends, but is a system of dispossession that threatens the basic fabric of social life.
Dead White Guys
by Matt BurriesciDead White Guys is a timely defense of the great books, arriving in the middle of a national debate about the fate of these books in high schools and universities around the country. Burriesci shows how the great books can enrich our lives as individuals, as citizens, and in our careers. Extending the argument first made by Anna Quinndlen's on the act of reading itself, How Reading Changed My Life," ("It is like the rubbing of two sticks together to make a fire, the act of reading, an improbable pedestrian task that leads to heat and light,) Burriesci reminds us all of the enormous impact reading has on our lives. After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Burriesci set out to write a book about 26 Great Books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life. As someone who has spent a long and successful career advocating for great literature, Burriesci defends the great books in this series of tender and candid letters, rich in personal experience and full of humor. Matt Burriesci is a national literary leader, serving as Executive Director of both PEN/Faulkner, which bestows the largest peer-juried prize for fiction
Dead White Guys: A Father, His Daughter and the Great Books of the Western World
by Matt BurriesciDead White Guys is a timely defense of the great books, arriving in the middle of a national debate about the fate of these books in high schools and universities around the country. Burriesci shows how the great books can enrich our lives as individuals, as citizens, and in our careers. Extending the argument first made by Anna Quinndlen's on the act of reading itself, How Reading Changed My Life," ("It is like the rubbing of two sticks together to make a fire, the act of reading, an improbable pedestrian task that leads to heat and light,) Burriesci reminds us all of the enormous impact reading has on our lives. After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Burriesci set out to write a book about 26 Great Books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life. As someone who has spent a long and successful career advocating for great literature, Burriesci defends the great books in this series of tender and candid letters, rich in personal experience and full of humor. Matt Burriesci is a national literary leader, serving as Executive Director of both PEN/Faulkner, which bestows the largest peer-juried prize for fiction
Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature
by Brian NormanDead women speak as agents of social justice in work by some of the best-known writers of American literature.Brian Norman uncovers a curious phenomenon in American literature: dead women who nonetheless talk. These characters appear in works by such classic American writers as Poe, Dickinson, and Faulkner as well as in more recent works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and others. These figures are also emerging in contemporary culture, from the film and best-selling novel The Lovely Bones to the hit television drama Desperate Housewives. Dead Women Talking demonstrates that the dead, especially women, have been speaking out in American literature since well before it was fashionable. Norman argues that they voice concerns that a community may wish to consign to the past, raising questions about gender, violence, sexuality, class, racial injustice, and national identity. When these women insert themselves into the story, they do not enter precisely as ghosts but rather as something potentially more disrupting: posthumous citizens. The community must ask itself whether it can or should recognize such a character as one of its own. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death.
Deadline
by James RestonThis book contains the memoirs of the New York Times columnist James Reston in which he expresses his opinion about many world-famous leaders.
Deadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies & Triumphs: More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns
by Jack London H. L. Mencken Carl Hiaasen Molly Ivins Peggy Noonan Murray Kempton Mitch Albom Richard Wright Steve Lopez Pete Hamill Nicholas Kristof Damon Runyon Leonard Pitts Jr. Dorothy Thompson Shirley Povich Mike Ryoko Ruben Salazar Mary McGrory Mike BarnicleAn anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—&“engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise&” (Kirkus Reviews). Deadline Artists: America&’s Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America&’s greatest unsung literary form: the newspaper column. In this new Deadline Artists collection, some of America&’s greatest journalists take on the stories of scandal, tragedy, triumph, and tribute that have defined the spirit of their age. This is history written in the present tense, offering high drama and enduring wisdom. Walk with Jack London in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake or grieve with Walt Whitman over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Watch as Watergate unfolds, sex scandals explode, the Twin Towers collapse, and winning home runs capture the thrill of a comeback capped with a World Series victory. Contributors include: Jack London, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Thompson, Richard Wright, Damon Runyon, Shirley Povich, Murray Kempton, Mike Ryoko, Ruben Salazar, Mary McGrory, Mike Barnicle, Molly Ivins, Pete Hamill, Carl Hiaasen, Nicholas Kristof, Leonard Pitts, Steve Lopez, Peggy Noonan, and Mitch Albom.
Deadly Encounters
by Richard D. AltickIn July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child, blackmail and murder. In the other, a French nobleman was accused of trying to kill his son in order to claim the young man's inheritance. The press covered both cases with thoroughness and enthusiasm, narrating events in a style worthy of a popular novelist, and including lengthy passages of testimony. Not only did they report rumor as well as what seemed to be fact, they speculated about the credibility of witnesses, assessed character, and decided guilt. The public was enthralled.Richard D. Altick demonstrates that these two cases, as they were presented in the British press, set the tone for the Victorian "age of sensation." The fascination with crime, passion, and suspense has a long history, but it was in the 1860s that this fascination became the vogue in England. Altick shows that these crimes provided literary prototypes and authenticated extraordinary passion and incident in fiction with the "shock of actuality." While most sensational melodramas and novels were by lesser writers, authors of the stature of Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, and Wilkie Collins were also influenced by the spirit of the age and incorporated sensational elements in their work.