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Nicholas Delbamco

    Nicholas Delbanco je uznávaný autor, jehož díla čerpají z bohaté tapisérie evropských a amerických kulturních vlivů. Jeho próza se často noří do témat exilu, kulturní ambivalence a hledání identity, prozkoumává lidskou zkušenost na pozadí rozmanitých krajin od Provence po Ameriku. Delbancův styl je charakteristický hlubokým vhledem a precizním jazykem, který čtenáře vtáhne do složitých osudů jeho postav. Prostřednictvím svých románů a esejů se Delbanco neúnavně zaměřuje na umění vyprávění a trvalou podstatu literárního života.

    Talking Horse
    The Enormous Room
    Literature
    Group Portrait
    • In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy. Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room, his account of his four-month confinement, reads like a latter-day Pilgrim's Progress, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Cummings's hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his existence: to lose everything is to become free, and so to be saved. 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.

      The Enormous Room2022
      3,5
    • Literature

      Craft and Voice: Fiction

      • 672 stránek
      • 24 hodin čtení

      Better readers make better writers.Today’s students do read—we know that they read a significant amount of email, text messages, web pages, and even magazines. What many do not do is read in a sustained way. Many do not come to college prepared to read long texts, nor do they come with the tools necessary to analyze and synthesize what they read. Nick Delbanco and Alan Cheuse have proven in their own teaching that when you improve students’ ability and interest in reading, you will help them improve their writing.Bringing writers to students, brings students to writing. Craft and Voice is an innovative new Introductory Literature program designed to engage students in the reading of Literature, all with a view to developing their reading, analytical, and written skills. Accompanied by, and integrated with, video interviews of dozens of living authors who are featured in the text, conducted by authors Nick Delbanco and Alan Cheuse specifically for use with their textbook, the book provides a living voice for the literature on the page and creates a link between the student and the authors of great works of literature. The first text of its kind, Craft and Voice offers a more enjoyable and effective reading experience through its fresh, inviting design and accompanying rich video program.

      Literature2009
      3,4
    • Talking Horse

      Bernard Malamud on Life and Work

      • 220 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení

      -- Publisher's Weekly

      Talking Horse1996
    • Group Portrait

      • 224 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení

      Fluentally And Gracefully Written, His Study Offers An Entertaining And Valid Perspective On The History Of English Literature.

      Group Portrait1982
      4,0