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Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic AgeThis book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth. The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural...
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David PeaceAs a Northern Ballard and the father of 'Yorkshire noir', David Peace offers the twenty-first-century reader unique novelized histories of events we think we know well. This new study provides a comprehensive introduction to the author and an overview of the debates surrounding his...
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Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject Before KantCreatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see attention as the key to autonomous agency and knowledge. Recovering the philosophical and literary works...
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Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and LifeConversations with Dostoevsky presents a series of fictional conversations taking place between November 2018 and Spring 2019 in the narrator's Glasgow apartment and elsewhere in the city. At the beginning of the conversations, the narrator has been reading Dostoevsky's story A Gentle Spirit, which...
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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and WhiteA groundbreaking inquiry into the life of the audacious Carl Van Vechten, and his singular and singularly controversial contributions to the Harlem Renaissance Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem...
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Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised EditionHighlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movementBlack Power, Jewish Politics charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. It shows how, in...
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An Analysis of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling AloneAmerican political scientist Robert Putnam wasn't the first person to recognize that social capital - the relationships between people that allow communities to function well - is the grease that oils the wheels of society. But by publishing Bowling Alone, he moved the debate...
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All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary InfluenceThe English literary influence on classic American novelists' depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville's,...
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Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique of Victorian ConventionAuthor: Daniel GabelmanPublisher: Winged Lion Press, LLCPublished: 05/04/2024Pages: 290Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65dISBN: 9781935688440This title is not returnable
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Thomas Hardy: Selected WritingsThis volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students a comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy--the first for nearly thirty years. The edition presents the poetry in a new way by using the text of Hardy's individual volumes, as they appeared...
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A MemoirA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan DidionAs an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was...
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The Poetry of George HerbertNo detailed description available for "The Poetry of George Herbert".Author: Helen VendlerPublisher: Harvard University PressPublished: 02/05/1975Pages: 303Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75dISBN: 9780674864641About the AuthorVendler Helen: Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.
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The New AtlantisIn this short novel, Francis Bacon tells of the discovery of a utopian community to the west of the Americas. The inhabitants live a happy life based on the validity of the scientific method. This book will have special interest to those fascinated by...
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The Letters of Charlotte BrontëFirst published in 1913, this volume contains a collection of letters written by the seminal English writer Charlotte Bront . These fascinating letters offer the reader a unique insight into the mind of this celebrated literary figure, and they are highly recommended for those...
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The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's EnglandA groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England. From his first poems in 1922 to the publication of his landmark collection...
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The Crusades: A Reader, Third EditionSince its first appearance in 2004, The Crusades: A Reader has been the go-to sourcebook in the field. It covers the entire crusading movement, from its origins to its modern afterlife, using key primary source documents. Muslim, Jewish, and Byzantine voices are represented here...
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The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold WarAddresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls "the Blue Period." In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest...
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Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James BondThe adventures of James Bond have thrilled readers since Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published in 1953, and when the movie of Dr No was released in 1962, Bond quickly became the world's favourite secret agent. Science and technology have always been central...
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Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse"Spud Johnson and Laughing Horse" is a portrait of the soul of a generation of artists and writers, the story of the men and women who made New Mexico a center of regional American literature, criticism and visual arts in the 1920s and 30s....
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ReckoningThe work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues--political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making. The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and...
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