The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science
by Robert K Merton


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"Curiosity, wonder, openness--these cohabit, comfortably, in that marvelous coinage of Walpole, serendipity. And they mark as well Merton and Barber's ebullient journey in search of all the meanings of the word. A romp of minds at play!"--Roald Hoffmann,... (read more)

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Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior
by Brooke Allen


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Brooke Allen's sparkling new collection of essays considers the dysfunctional and apparently destructive nature of great talent. Her brief but pungent profiles help enrich our understanding of the writers' works.... (read more)

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Through the Poet's Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky
by Bozena Madra-Shallcross


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Though best known as poets, Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), and Adam Zagajewski (b. 1945) also wrote some of the most original prose of this century. It is this prose -- remarkable for its cross-cultural complexity and... (read more)

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Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me
by Craig Seligman


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In this witty, erudite, and stylish study of two of the twentieth century's most influential cultural critics, Craig Seligman penned the sleeper success of last year. Not a dry ponderous think piece, but a lively, highly readable examination of the work... (read more)

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Aesthetics and Literature (Continuum Aesthetics)
by David Davies


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Aesthetics and Literature places philosophical aesthetics at the heart of thinking about literature. The book takes concrete examples from the traditional and contemporary literary arts and uses them to introduce all the central philosophical issues in... (read more)

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Modernity and Progress: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell
by Ronald Berman


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This study breaks new critical ground by exploring philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures. “An original, detailed examination of a central concern of modernism (the nature of progress) as... (read more)

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Phrase and Subject: Studies in Music and Literature
by Robert Samuels


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The confluence between music and literature, long hymned as sister arts, is a newly burgeoning field of critical inquiry. This innovative collection of interdisciplinary essays provides a valuable introduction to the field, mapping the contours of recent... (read more)

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Unexpected Affinities: Reading Across Cultures
by Longxi Zhang


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Drawing from Alexander lectures delivered at the U. of Toronto in 2005, Zhang (comparative literature and translation, City U. of Hong Kong) emphasizes similarities rather than differences between the East and West, primarily in their literary... (read more)

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Cavalier History of Surrealism
by Francois Dupuis


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A down-and-dirty survey of the surrealist movement written by leading situationist theorist Raoul Vaneigem. Vaneigem's sketch bars no holds, blistering on surrealism's artistic and political aporias, and packed with telling quotations, it gives respect... (read more)

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Naked Angels: The Lives & Literature of the Beat Generation
by John Tytell


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Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs their emergence in the late 1950s as the leading figures of the Beat movement marked one of the most spectacular developments in post World War II American literature. John Tytell's classic study... (read more)

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Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns
by Offill Jenny


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The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships. Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting... (read more)

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Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship
by Marjorie Stone


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This collection challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the rich diversity of collaborations from the early modern to the postmodern period. Literary Couplings explores some of the best-known literary partnerships—from the... (read more)

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Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
by Michael Denning


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Michael Denning, a leading cultural historian, analyses the historical role of culture during the period that the first, second and third world rose, and then merged into one. This is a major study by a respected cultural historian.... (read more)

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Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture'
by Philip Connell


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The Romantic age in Britain formed one of the most celebrated--and heterogeneous--moments in literary history, but it also witnessed the rise of "political economy" as the pre-eminent nineteenth-century science of society. Romanticism, Economics and the... (read more)

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Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003
by Richard Howard


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Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects-... (read more)

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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by Oxford


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Based on the vastly popular Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer, this indispensable volume offers over five thousand alphabetically arranged entries on individual novels, plays, songs,... (read more)

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Paradoxy of Modernism
by Robert Scholes


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In this lively, personal book, Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945. While critics of and apologists for modernism have defined modern art and literature in terms... (read more)

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Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita
by Elisabeth Ladenson


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How it is, asks Ladenson (French and comparative literature, Columbia U.), that so many literary works once designated as obscene have ended up on required reading lists. She looks at nine works that were banned or prosecuted, or both, when they first... (read more)

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