Ashenden
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ASHENDEN
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, W. Somerset Maugham, ya para entonces un dramaturgo y autor establecido, fue reclutado para ser un agente de inteligencia británico. Estas historias reflejan sus experiencias en tiempos de guerra en la recopilación de inteligencia. Aunque ficticios, lograron retener suficientes elementos auténticos para que Winston Churchill aconsejara a Maugham que su publicación podría ser una violación de la Ley de Secretos Oficiales, lo que resultó en que el autor quemara 14 historias adicionales. Ambientadas en varios lugares de todo el continente, estas historias restantes de Ashenden son un precursor de las novelas de espías de la jet set de las décadas de 1950 y 1960. Maugham es conocido como un maestro escritor de cuentos cortos y estas historias no son una excepción, combinando ingenio y realismo para crear personajes memorables en un retrato único y altamente crítico del espionaje en tiempos de guerra. Inicialmente lanzado a una recepción mixta, con una revisión temprana de D. H. Lawrence siendo especialmente mordaz, Ashenden ha sido acreditado como una inspiración para numerosos autores, incluidos John Le Carré, Graham Greene y Raymond Chandler. Este último en particular quedó especialmente impresionado, escribiendo en 1950: "No hay otras grandes historias de espías, ninguna en absoluto. He estado buscando y lo sé".
New York Magazine
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
A New Philosophy of Discourse
Author: Joshua Kates
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2020-11-12
What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit-words, meanings, signs-were jettisoned? How would a work written in a purportedly dead language, like The Iliad, or penned in a foreign tongue be approached if deemed legible without structures such as meaning-bearing signs or grammatical rules? A New Philosophy of Discourse charts a novel course in response to these questions, coining an original concept of discourse, or talk!, that Joshua Kates presents as more fundamental than language. In Kates' conception of discourse, writing and speech take shape entirely as events, situated within histories, contexts, and traditions themselves always in the making. Combining literary theory, literary criticism, and philosophy, to reveal a new perspective on discourse, Kates focuses on literary criticism, literary texts by Charles Bernstein and Stanley Elkin, and the philosophical writings of Stanley Cavell, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Donald Davidson and Martin Heidegger. This ground-breaking study bridges the analytical/continental divide, by working through concrete problems using novel and extended interpretations with wide-ranging implications for the humanities.
