Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Mathematicians --- Biography --- Weierstrass, Karl, --- Anniversaries, etc. --- Friends and associates --- Portraits.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Widely regarded as one of America's finest poets, Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) led a turbulent life. She moved from place to place, struggled with alcoholism, and experienced a series of painful losses, even as she won numerous awards for her precise and brilliant poetry. This book presents over 120 interviews with relatives, friends, colleagues, and students, edited and arranged chronologically to follow her from birth to death. To situate the interviews - many conducted by the late Peter Brazeau - Gary Fountain has added a second stream of narrative, based on extensive research in Bishop's published and unpublished writings. The result is a more complete and detailed portrait of the poet than heretofore available - a volume in which those who knew her best bear witness to her life and work. Of particular importance are the detailed descriptions of Bishop's early years, personal relationships, and the dramatic events that shaped her career. Among the interviewees are numerous prominent intellectual and artistic figures, including John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Robert Duncan, Robert Fitzdale and Arthur Gold, Robert Fitzgerald, Dana Gioia, Robert Giroux, Clement Greenberg, Thom Gunn, John Hollander, Richard Howard, James Laughlin, Mary McCarthy, James Merrill, Howard Moss, Katha Pollitt, Ned Rorem, Lloyd Schwartz, Anne Stevenson, Mark Strand, Rosalyn Tureck, Helen Vendler, and Richard Wilbur. Their recollections provide a telling counterpoint to Bishop's own accounts in her letters and other published works and should lead to a reevaluation of many aspects of her life and to reinterpretations of her poems and prose.

Poets, American --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Bishop, Elizabeth, --- בישופ, אליזבט, --- Friends and associates --- Interviews.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists - and the people upon whom he built his reputation. Bertolt Brecht is regarded by many as the most influential figure in twentieth-century theater; the director Peter Brook has argued that "all theater work today at some point starts with or returns to his achievement." In this first full biography of the Brecht circle, John Fuegi confirms Brecht's rank as a world-class theater director, but also shows why much of the writing can no longer be attributed to Brecht alone." "Brecht's first violent, homoerotic plays, though noisily provocative failures at the box office, brought him praise from adventurous critics. In Berlin in the 1920s, Brecht found someone who would change not only his life but world theater: Elisabeth Hauptmann, who wrote over 80 percent of The Threepenny Opera in exchange for time in Brecht's life and in his bed. Yet her name often disappeared from the printed text, as well as from other plays and poems. Disappointed and disaffected, Hauptmann was supplanted by the passionate, tubercular Margarete Steffin, who contributed crucially to such classics as Mother Courage and The Good Woman of Setzuan. With Steffin's death in 1941, Brecht's career as a playwright virtually ended, though other works, begun with her, were finished with the aid of the uninhibited and politically committed Danish director and author Ruth Berlau." "Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and directing the plays created in his workshop, but ultimately lacking in literary stamina, for which he depended on his lovers. His need for control and fame led him to dominate - and betraynearly everyone who supported and loved him." "The story of Brecht's artistic thefts is told against a backdrop of his equivocal politics through the turbulent times: from the 1932 New Year's party with members of Germany's virulent right wing, to his refusal to acknowledge Stalin's murderous purges, to his shocking break before the House Un-American Activities Committee, to his frequent anti-Semitism, to the privilege and ease he enjoyed in a repressive East Germany." "Brecht and Company will irrevocably change our understanding of one of the world's great writer-directors, even as it presents us with three new artists of enduring stature: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, and Ruth Berlau."--Jacket.

Authors, German --- Ecrivains allemands --- Biography --- Biographies --- Brecht, Bertolt, --- Friends and associates --- Amis et relations --- Friends and associates. --- Authors, German. --- Friendship. --- Écrivains allemands --- Brecht, Bertolt. --- Amis et relations. --- 1900-1999.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Intellectuals --- Journalists --- Intellectuels --- Journalistes --- Biography --- Biographies --- Gaulle, Charles de, --- Friends and associates. --- France --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Authors, German --- Authors, French --- Ecrivains allemands --- Ecrivains français --- Biographies --- Hessel, Helen, --- Roché, Henri Pierre, --- Hessel, Franz, --- Friends and associates. --- Biography --- Exile --- Jules et Jim (Motion picture)