Alexander Cockburn, The Nation's "Beat the Devil" columnist and one of America's best-known radical journalists, was born in Scotland and grew up in Ireland. He graduated from Oxford in 1963 with a degree in English literature and language.
Aubade Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake. My house was on a cliff. The thing could take Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row. Then the long pause and then the bigger shake. It seemed the best thing to be up and go. And far too large for my feet to step by. I hoped that various buildings were brought low. The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
Dani Hvarskoga kazališta, znanstveni skup pokrenut 1974. inicijativom Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, današnjega Književnog kruga Split, Filozofskoga fakulteta u Zadru te grada Hvara, jedinstvena je nacionalna manifestacija...
Die Erfindung des Menschen: Die Autobiographik des frühneuzeitlichen Humanismus von Petrarca bis LipsiusBy Karl A. E. EnenkelPublished by Walter de Gruyter, 2008ISBN 3110193523, 9783110193527
Nearly two hundred years ago, Goethe announced the imminence of a world literature. Here Franco Moretti offers a set of hypotheses for tracking the birth and fate of the novel in the peripheries of Europe, in Latin America, Arab lands, Turkey, China, Japan, West Africa. For the first time, the prospect of a morphology of global letters?