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Malcolm Cowley

    24 de agosto de 1898 – 27 de marzo de 1989

    Malcolm Cowley fue un historiador y crítico literario estadounidense fundamental, cuya obra capturó el espíritu de la época y moldeó nuestra comprensión de la literatura estadounidense. Sus escritos se distinguen por una profunda perspicacia en los artistas a los que defendió, impulsando significativamente las carreras de muchos. Los ensayos y relatos históricos de Cowley ofrecieron perspectivas esenciales sobre los movimientos y generaciones literarias que definieron las letras estadounidenses modernas. Su dedicación de por vida a la literatura dejó una marca imborrable en el discurso crítico e histórico sobre la prosa y la poesía estadounidenses.

    Exile's Return
    Jack's Book
    The Portable Faulkner
    The Portable Emerson - New Edition - Edited by Carl Bode in Collaboration with Malcolm Cowley
    Leaves of Grass
    And I Worked at the Writer's Trade
    • “I am large, I contain multitudes” A Penguin Classic When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but many critics believe that the book that matters most is the 1855 original. Penguin Classics proudly presents that text in its original and complete form, with an introductory essay by the writer and poet Malcolm Cowley. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

      Leaves of Grass1986
      5,0
    • This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” and “The Poet”; Emerson’s first book, Nature , in its entirety; twenty-two poems, including “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” and “Give All to Love”; orations, including “The American Scholar,” “The Fugitive Slave Law,” and “John Brown”; English Traits , complete; and biographical essays on Plato, Napoleon, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, and others.

      The Portable Emerson - New Edition - Edited by Carl Bode in Collaboration with Malcolm Cowley1981
      4,3
    • And I Worked at the Writer's Trade

      Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978

      • 276 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards. Dust jacket is sunned at the spine and has light wear to extremities.

      And I Worked at the Writer's Trade1978
      5,0
    • Jack's Book

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Here, in what has become a classic of its kind since its publication in 1978, is the fascinating story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats" and American literary legend, recorded through the voices of his friends and lovers. Authors Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee retraced Kerouac's life at home and on the road and talked with the prophets, musicians, poets, socialites, and working people who knew Jack Kerouac. Some are famous like Allen Ginsberg, Gore Vidal, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, among others; and some are not like Jack's boyhood buddies, his lovers, and his barroom companions. All, however, have contributed to a remarkably vibrant, riveting portrait of a life. We see Jack at Columbia University and on the scene of Greenwich Village; speeding across the tarmac of America with Neal Cassidy ("Dan Moriarty" in Kerouac's classic novel, On the Road); at home with his possessive mother; in California, drinking wine and talking Buddhism; and finally, in Florida, where his life ends tragically at forty-seven years old. Jack's Book, like Kerouac's novels, makes a unique contribution to our understanding of a man and a generation that shaped the dreams and visions of those who followed.

      Jack's Book1978
      4,1
    • Collects stories that capture the emotional undercurrents hidden beneath ordinary events.

      Winesburg, Ohio1976
      3,9
    • "Exile's Return (1934) is one of the volumes that cinched Cowley's reputation as the Boswell of the "Lost Generation" of writers and artists who flocked to Paris following World War I. More than just another catalog of anecdotes on the expatriate games of Stein, Hemingway, Joyce, etc., this documents the transition of American literature and culture during one of its greatest periods of change." From Library Journal.

      Exile's Return1967
      4,0
    • The Portable Faulkner

      • 768 páginas
      • 27 horas de lectura

      Covers a 130-year period in the history of Yoknapatawpha county and its citizens as revealed by the author who was one of them

      The Portable Faulkner1967
      4,2