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Occasional Desire: Essays
Occasional Desire: Essays
by David Lazar
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In his new collection of essays, Occasional Desire, David Lazar meditates on random violence and vanished phone booths, on the excessive relationship to jewelry that links Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Taylor, on Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, and M. F. K. Fisher.... (read more)

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The Woman Reader
The Woman Reader
by Belinda Jack
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“Jacks excellent history begins from a position of anxiety, which she argues is caused by womens access to the written word. What do women read and what happens to them, and the world, when they do?”—Lesley McDowell, Independent on... (read more)

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A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work (Muse Books: Iowa Series in Creativity and Writing)
A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work (Muse Books: Iowa Series in Creativity and Writing)
by Dan Beachy-quick
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The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from scholars who seek to understand him and poets who seek to emulate him. Bridging these impulses, A Brighter... (read more)

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Lake Methodism (Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Studies)
Lake Methodism (Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Studies)
by Jasper Cragwall
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Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830, reveals the traffic between Romanticism’s rhetorics of privilege and the most socially toxic religious forms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The “Lake... (read more)

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Library of America #246: Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s
Library of America #246: Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s
by Susan Sontag
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With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. “What is important now,” she wrote, “is to recover our senses . . . .... (read more)

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The Culture of Yellow: Or, the Visual Politics of Late Modernity
The Culture of Yellow: Or, the Visual Politics of Late Modernity
by Sabine Doran
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This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow... (read more)

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Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World
Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World
by Ferenc Morton Szasz
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The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of atomic power. Atomic Comics examines how comic books, comic strips, and other cartoon media represented the... (read more)

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Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson
Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson
by Alex Capus
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When Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 he planned to stay no more than a few days. But before long he set about building an opulent villa and lived out the rest of his days on the island in splendor. What had happened? Had Stevenson not... (read more)

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Lessons in Secular Criticism (Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society)
Lessons in Secular Criticism (Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society)
by Stathis Gourgouris
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Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name... (read more)

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What W. H. Auden Can Do for You (Writers on Writers)
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You (Writers on Writers)
by Alexander Mccall Smith
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"Alexander McCall Smith's voice in this splendid book is instantly recognizable as the calm, sympathetic, psychologically shrewd, and morally generous one that narrates his novels. This is not only a convincing account of W. H. Auden's poetry and life... (read more)

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The Viewing Room (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
The Viewing Room (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
by Jacquelin Gorman
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In The Viewing Room, two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles. But this room is also a character, linking stories together and bearing... (read more)

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The Story about the Story Vol. II
The Story about the Story Vol. II
by J C Hallman
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In the second volume of The Story about the Story, editor J. C. Hallman continues to argue for an alternative to the staid five-paragraph-essay writing that has inoculated so many against the effects of good books. Writers have long approached writing... (read more)

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The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
by Ella Berthoud
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Publisher's Weekly "Delightful... elegant prose and discussions that span the history of 2,000 years of literature." A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or... (read more)

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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry
by Howard Rambsy, Ii
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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movements poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn... (read more)

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Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines
Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines
by Manuel Portela
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In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature and finds a self-conscious play with the dynamics of reading and writing. Portela... (read more)

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The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World
The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World
by Rosalind H. Williams
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In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek “the knowledge... (read more)

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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference)
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by M. C. Howatson
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The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales... (read more)

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The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry
by Deborah Ager
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With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes.This anthology brings together poets whose writings offer fascinating... (read more)

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The Culture of Yellow: Or, the Visual Politics of Late Modernity
The Culture of Yellow: Or, the Visual Politics of Late Modernity
by Sabine Doran
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This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow... (read more)

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Secrets of Inferno: In the Footsteps of Dante and Dan Brown
Secrets of Inferno: In the Footsteps of Dante and Dan Brown
by Dan (edt) Burstein
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SECRETS OF INFERNO is a reader's guide to the journey Dan Brown took us all on in INFERNO. The book gives readers the “back story” on particular plot points, Dante references, symbols, historical events, philosophy, art, music, and... (read more)

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