Author: Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: era, present, classical, anthology, personal, essay, art
Number of Pages: 777
Published: 1995-01-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 038542339X
ISBN-13: 9780385423397

Bringing together many great reflections on the human condition and the peculiarities of daily life, a unique collection of more than seventy-five essays ranges from classical predecessors of the genre up to today’s finest writers. Reprint. NYT.

Author: Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: essays, personal, vivre, joie
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0803222734
ISBN-13: 9780803222731

“Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live,” begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false sentimentalization of children and the elderly to a sardonic look at the social rite of the dinner party, on to a moving personal testament to the “hungry soul.”  Lopate’s special gift is his ability to give us not only sophisticated cultural commentary in a dazzling collection of essays but also to bring to his subjects an engaging h

Author: Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: writers, sontag, notes
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-03-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0691135703
ISBN-13: 9780691135700

Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the "foremost interpreters of . . . our recent contemporary moment." Adopting Sontag’s favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle around a topic from different perspectives, renowned essayist Phillip Lopate considers the achievements and limitations of his tantalizing, daunting subject through what is fundamentally a conversation between two writers. Reactions to Sontag tend to be polarized, but Lopate’s account of Sontag’s significance to him and to

Author: Phillip Lopate
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: anthology, literary, york, new, writing
Number of Pages: 1056
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0671042351
ISBN-13: 9780671042356

New York is simply too big -- too lush, too rich with history, too integral to the texture of human life during the past two centuries -- for any one writer to tell its story. A proper literary portrait of the storied city demands nothing less than a multiplicity of voices. For this ambitious purpose, Phillip Lopate has selected a stunningly expansive and deeply illuminating collection of the best writing about the world’s greatest city. As seen through the eyes of more than one hundred writers -- from Washington Irving, the first New York author to establish an international reputati

Authors:Kent Jones, Phillip Lopate, Andrew Sarris, Martin Sco
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: god, hidden
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0870703498
ISBN-13: 9780870703492

The sense of God has often been touched on in the movies. European directors like Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini and many others have dealt directly with the theme throughout their careers, and Hollywood too has told stories based on the Bible, the lives of the saints and the martyrdoms of ordinary people. The Hidden God, which accompanies a film series of the same name organized by The Museum of Modern Art and screening in October and November of 2003, explores the ways in which a sense of God ma

Authors:Phillip, Jr. Bell, Phillip Staines, Joel Michell,
Publisher: New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd
Keywords: writing, psychology, reasoning, explanation, psych, logical
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2000-10
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0868405930
ISBN-13: 9780868405933

An indispensable guide to skills of reasoning, explanation and writing. This book takes common problems in Psychology & relevant public controversies showing many arguments around the same problem. It also provides guidelines for writing good reports and essays.

Authors:Frederick Saunders, Phillip Thurmond Smith, Phillip
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
Keywords: memories, mafeking
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 1995-12
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0838636357
ISBN-13: 9780838636350