269 results for '"A. Beck"'

Text: German

This volume makes available in English translation for the first time a series of hugely influential articles about Roman Republican politics which were all originally published in German. They...

The consulate was the focal point of Roman politics. Both the ruling class and the ordinary citizens fixed their gaze on the republic's highest office - to be sure, from different perspectives and...

"On Essays and Criticism" is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize-winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett...

A journey through the beloved graphic cosmos of artist Max Beckmann, filled with surprising new discoveries about him. Around eighty works from each of the artist's creative phases reveal Max...

In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers--one white, one Black--living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood,...

The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading...

The infamous rise in characterizations of white women as Becky(s) is a modern phenomenon, different from past characterizations like the Miss Anne types. But just who embodies the Becky? Why is it...

Sister Wendy Beckett's highly acclaimed insights into the work and psyche of Max Beckmann, one of the major Expressionist painters and graphic artists of the 20th century. The author sheds new light...

This book, first published in 1985, assembles essential facts on Samuel Beckett and makes vital but elusive information available. It contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays,...

Samuel Beckett n'a cessé de lire Dante depuis ses années d'étude à Dublin jusqu'à sa mort, en 1989. Sa lecture n'est pas critique : elle est une source, une énergie qui apparaît, disséminée dans ses...

Five new short plays, including author commentaries, from female and non-binary writers of Irish heritage in response to Samuel Beckett.What does Irish heritage mean to members of the modern-day...

On the conflicting drives of wanderlust and exile in the art of the great German ExpressionistFor German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950), travel was of fundamental existential significance. In the...

Mel Gussow, the longtime drama critic for The New York Times, has put together a revelatory book of conversations with the famously reticent author and his chief collaborators. In this revealing and...

Reckoning with exile: Beckmann as chronicler of the dispossessedAssociated with, but not reducible to, both German Expressionism and New Objectivity, German painter Max Beckmann (1884–1950) developed...

This generously illustrated and comprehensive book focuses on a decisive decade in Max Beckmann's career as one of the leading figurative painters of the twentieth century. This publication will...

Edited by Paul Auster, this four-volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by award-winner Laura Lindgren. Available individually, as well as in a boxed set, the four hardcover volumes have...