Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> Letters

In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices? As her work reveals, the relation between old and new communication systems is more complex than allowed in much contemporary media theory.

Although the correspondents of letters, postcards and emails are not, usually, present to one another as they write and read their...

Der Altphilologe Hermann Diels (1848-1922), seit 1881 Mitglied der Preuischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin, Ubersetzer und Herausgeber der "Doxographi Graeci" und der "Fragmente der Vorsokratiker," erwarb sich besondere Verdienste als Wissenschaftsorganisator: so begrundete er u.a. die "Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca" und das "Corpus medicorum antiquorum." Seine Korrespondenz mit dem klassischen Philologen und Religionshistoriker Hermann Usener (1834-1905), dem Herausgeber der "Epicurea," der Schriften des Dionysios von Halikarnassos und Verfasser zahlreicher Schriften zur...

"Eagle Minds" a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century as observed by two highly gifted individuals.

Beginning in 1961 and spanning forty-four years, their conversation embraces not only music but other forms of contemporary art, as well as politics, philosophy, religion, and mysticism. The letters chronicle the deepening of their friendship over the years, and the...

Love wounds the heart and soul . . .

From the editors of the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning comes another collection of terse true tales--this time simple sagas exploring the complexities of the human heart. Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak contains hundreds of personal stories about the pinnacles and pitfalls of romance. Brilliant in their brevity, these insightful slivers of passion, pain, and connection capture every shade of love and loss--six words at a time.

Although T.E. Lawrence was one of the greatest letter writers of our century, at least two thirds of his letters collected here have never been published before. This selection contains his correspondence with Mrs. George Bernard Shaw.

The years 1790 to 1793 marked the beginning of the American republic, a contentious period as the nation struggled to create a functioning government amid increasingly bitter factionalism. On the international stage, the turmoil of the French Revolution raised important questions about the nature of government. As usual, the Adams family found itself in the midst of it all. Vice President John Adams chaired Senate sessions even as he was prevented from participating in any meaningful fashion. Abigail joined him when her health permitted, but even from afar she provided important advice and...

Spanning the mid 1880s through 1910, the letters record the excitement of a young man with a bourgeoning career as a conductor and provide a...