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Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater
Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater
by Seth Lerer
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“This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs.” Thats how Edmund Gosse opened Father and Son, the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerers Prosperos Son... (read more)

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Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry
Open the Door: How to Excite Young People about Poetry
by Dorothea (edt) Lasky
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This one-of-a-kind mixture of essays, interviews, and lesson plans gathers the best thinking about how we can impart the value and joy of poetry to kids. The essays in the first section—from Matthea Harvey, Ron Padgett, William Stafford, Eileen... (read more)

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Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game
Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
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Experience the thrill of reading Ender's Game all over again Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Cards classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA authors, military strategists, including: Ender prequel series coauthor Aaron... (read more)

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Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #4: Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers
Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #4: Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers
by R. Kent Rasmussen
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"Dear Mark Twain leaves the reader with little doubt as to the singular and powerful chord that this author struck in the hearts of the American public."--Ron Powers, from the Foreword "Kent Rasmussen has done valuable work researching for the nuggets in... (read more)

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Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina: A Guidebook
Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina: A Guidebook
by Georgann Eubanks
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This concluding volume of the Literary Trails of North Carolina trilogy takes readers into an ancient land of pale sand and dense forests, of deep rivers and expansive bays, through towns older than our country and into wilderness as yet unspoiled... (read more)

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Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002
Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002
by Clive James
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Six years after the much-heralded publication of Cultural Amnesia, Clive James presents his “prequel”—forty-nine essays that he has selected as the best of his half-century career. Originally appearing as As of This Writing, Cultural... (read more)

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Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces
Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces
by Cory Maclauchlin
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The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb’s suggested... (read more)

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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
by Jonathan Gottschall
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“A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.”—New York Times Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies... (read more)

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Thoughtings: Puzzles, Problems and Paradoxes in Poetry to Think with
Thoughtings: Puzzles, Problems and Paradoxes in Poetry to Think with
by Peter Worley
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Thoughtings..... is a poetry collection with a difference. The name Thoughtings was inspired by a five-year old who, when asked to explain what thinking is without using the word "think" said, "It's when youre thoughting." Children love pondering big... (read more)

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Lu Xun's Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence
Lu Xun's Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence
by Gloria Davies
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Widely recognized as modern China's preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881-1936) is revered as the voice of a nation's conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare and Tolstoy in stature and influence. Gloria Davies's portrait now gives readers a... (read more)

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The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance
The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance
by Drew Daniel
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This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English... (read more)

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Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist
Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist
by Jay A. Gertzman
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“The first deeply researched and sustained biographical treatment of a man who has become recognized as a significant figure in American publishing, transatlantic modernism, and the development of obscenity law. Gertzman’s wide-ranging... (read more)

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International Library of Cultural Studies #24: Orientalism Versus Occidentalism: Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution
International Library of Cultural Studies #24: Orientalism Versus Occidentalism: Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution
by Laetitia Nanquette
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At a time when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear program, and when France is portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and imperialist country, this book highlights the role of cultural representations... (read more)

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The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens
The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens
by Stephen Apkon
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An urgent, erudite, and practical book that redefines literacy to embrace how we think and communicate now We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution... (read more)

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City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
by Carl Smith
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A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas, an embodiment of the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people... (read more)

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Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer" (Icons of America)
Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer" (Icons of America)
by Frederick Turner
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Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer is far more than a work that tested American censorship laws. In this riveting book, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary... (read more)

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The Letters of William Gaddis (American Literature)
The Letters of William Gaddis (American Literature)
by Steven (edt) Moore
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Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922-98), author of The Recognitions and J R, shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation: an intimate look at one of the... (read more)

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Manuscript and Print in London C.1475-1530
Manuscript and Print in London C.1475-1530
by Julia Boffey
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What perceptions did people have of printed material after its introduction into England? How did these perceptions determine their own practices in dealing with books and documents—both as producers and consumers? In Manuscript and Print in London... (read more)

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Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Signs of Race)
Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Signs of Race)
by Paul Outka
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Winner of the 2009 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Prize for 'Best Book of Ecocriticism,' Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance examines a neglected but centrally important issue in... (read more)

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Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry
Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry
by George (edt) Brosi
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Featuring the work of twenty-five fiction writers and poets, this anthology is a captivating introduction to the finest of contemporary Appalachian literature. Here are short stories and poems by some of the region’s most dynamic and best-loved... (read more)

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