Literary Criticism
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The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings by Edgar Allan Poe, with Appreciations
by Edgar Allan Poe  Publisher Comments An indispensable anthology of brilliant, hard-to-find writings by Poe on poetry, the imagination, humor, and the sublime, which adds a new dimension to his stature as a speculative thinker and philosopher. Essays (in translation) by Charles Baudelaire...
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San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets
by David Meltzer Publisher Comments "San Francisco Beat" is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America-somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s-was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and...
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The Burroughs File
by William S Burroughs Publisher Comments Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications...
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Always Astonished
by Fernando Pessoa Publisher Comments "After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his heteronyms-...
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Delirium: An Interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud
by Jeremy Reed Publisher Comments "Delirium," an intuitive and original interpretation of the poet Arthur Rimbaud's life and genius, brings into close focus the crucial period of 1873, when Rimbaud left school and the provinces and lived his "season in hell." Jeremy Reed brings his own...
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Fantasies of the Master Race : Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians, Expanded ((Rev)98 Edition)
by Ward Churchill Publisher Comments Chosen an "Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights in the United States"by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. In this volume of incisive essays, Ward Churchill looks at representations of American Indians in literature and...
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Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City
by Bill Morgan Publisher Comments Set off on the eternal trail of the Beat experience in the city that inspired many of Jack Kerouac's best-loved novels including On the Road, Vanity of Duluoz, The Town and the City, and Desolation Angels. This is the ultimate guide to Kerouac's New York,...
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Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays 1982-1998
by Ammiel Alcalay Publisher Comments Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice. "An outstanding anthology of essays surveying the complexities of Mediterranean cultures; the diverse, changing space of the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa-areas of diasporas...
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The Monstrous and the Marvelous
by Rikki Ducornet Publisher Comments With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and...
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The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
by Guillerm Gomez Pena
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The Impossible
by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a...
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Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology
by Max Blechman Publisher Comments Revolutionary Romanticism draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and...
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The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour
by Bill Morgan Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221) and index....
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The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960
by C Sawyer Laucanno Publisher Comments Between 1944 and 1960, a second wave of expatriate American writers took up residence in Paris, some seeking the exiting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris has offered earlier generations, some escaping from racist and materialistic aspects...
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Postcards from the Underground: Portraits from the Beat Generation
by Larry Keenan Publisher Comments In 1965, Larry Keenan spent over a year photographing the Beats-in their homes and with their families and friends. His portraits constitute a unique chronology and reportage of this era, and many of these photos have since become iconic images that...
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Critical Condition: Women on the Edge of Violence
by Amy Scholder Publisher Comments While Aileen Wuornos, the alleged "female serial killer" who insists she killed in self-defense, sits on death row, Hollywood filmmakers appropriate her story. Meanwhile, in our perverse justice system the sexual assaults and murders of forty-five women...
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