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Selected Essays of William Carlos WilliamsThroughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary magazines, wrote prefaces and introductions, and lectured at many universities. This selection represents his finest work in criticism. Much of it concerns...
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Literary Essays of Ezra PoundFor this definitive collection of Pound's Literary Essays, his friend (and English editor) T. S. Eliot chose material from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations (1920), How to Read (1931), Make It New (1934), and Polite Essays (1937). 33 pieces are arranged...
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A Stein ReaderThis important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity. Ulla E. Dydo's textual scholarship demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of convention, and A Stein Reader changes the balance of work in print, concentrating on Stein's experimental work and including many...
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With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American WomenOwoman, woman upon you I call; for upon your exertions almost entirely depends whether the rising generation shall be any thing more than we have been or not. Owoman, woman your example is powerful, your influence great.--Maria W. Stewart, An Address Delivered Before the...
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German Existentialism"On the day of German Labor, on the day of the Community of the People, the Rector of Freiburg University, Dr. Marin Heidegger, made his official entry into the National Socialist Party." And so begins one of the most controversial philosophical texts available today....
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The Tale of the HeikeThe Tale of the Heike is one of the masterworks of Japanese literature, ranking with The Tal of Genji in quality and prestige. This new translation is not only far more readable than earlier ones, it is also much more faithful to the content...
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The Selected Prose of Fernando PessoaThe Washington Post Book World has written that Fernando Pessoa was Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century [thoughAuthor: Fernando PessoaPublisher: Grove PressPublished: 07/19/2002Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.54w x 0.94dISBN: 9780802139146
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Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and PowerIn this illuminating study, Marilyn Randall takes on the question of why some cases of literary repetition become great art, while others are relegated to the ignominy of plagiarism. Her discussion reveals that plagiarism is not the objective textual fact it is often taken...
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Novalis: Philosophical WritingsNovalis: Philosophical Writings is the first extensive scholarly translation in English from the philosophical work of the late eighteenth-century German Romantic writer Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg). His original and innovative thought explores many questions that are current today, such as truth and objectivity, reason...
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Ugaritic Narrative PoetryAuthor: Simon B. ParkerPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.38w x 0.70dISBN: 9780788503375This title is not returnable
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The Modern Weird TaleThis is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from...
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What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and FantasyAs any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading--about all kinds of older...
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Stephen King's the Dark Tower: A Concordance, Volume IIThe Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba A Concordance, Volume II is the definitive guide to the many worlds, argots, characters, and cross-references-- within Stephen King's bestselling epic Dark Tower series and among the rest of...
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Sweet Wolverine: a CollectionA collection of vivid examinations of the gristle & marrow of sweet truth and bitter honesty. Authored by the extraordinary talents of such poets. Robert Zenz, Caits Meissner, Jay Nelson, William James, Daniel Patterson, Khari Waits, Christopher Mohar, Sam Sax, Matt Matriaciano, Benjamin Biesek,...
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The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory CorsoThirteen interviews with Beat Generation poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001) that span the most productive years of his career: from 1955, when his first collection of poems was published, to 1982, the year following the publication of his last book of all new poetry. Foreword...
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary JournalismLearn how to be the best journalist you can be with what "could be the world's most readable textbook" (Time Out New York). The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, and Orwell, and...
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Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002For all their permeability, the borders snaking across the world have never been of greater importance. This is the dance of history in our age: slow, slow, quick, quick, slow, back and forth and from side to side, we step across these fixed and...
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A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIVA new annotated edition of Yeats's indispensable, lifelong work of philosophy--a meditation on the connections between the imagination, history, and the metaphysical--this volume reveals the poet's greatest thoughts on the occult. First published in 1925, and then substantially revised by the author in 1937,...
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Of Love and Dust"A serious, powerful novel... Gaines] is a writer of terrific energy."--The Nation This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he...
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Where Angels Fear to Tread"Let her go to Italy " he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand Look at this letter The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow. He's a bounder, but he's not an English...
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