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The PenitentThe Penitent tells the story of Jospeh Shapiro, his rapid climb to prosperity, his quick plunge into promiscuity, and his subsequent flight to Israel in order to find salvation.Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublished: 11/26/2007Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...
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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and LiteratureExtraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones. Through her incisive readings...
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American Originality: Essays on PoetryWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gl ck is...
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Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert LowellRobert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that you ha ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend. The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,...
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My Antonia: Introduction by Lucy Hughes-HallettOf Ántonia, the passionate and majestic central character in Willa Cather's greatest novel, the narrator, Jim Burden, says that she left "images in the mind that did not fade-that grew stronger with time." The same is true of the book in which Cather enshrines...
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Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of CultureGloria Anzaldua Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2009 In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida,...
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Why Translation MattersFrom the celebrated translator of Cervantes and Garci M rquez, a testament to the power of the translator's art Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed...
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From Shakespeare to Existentialism: Essays on Shakespeare and Goethe; Hegel and Kierkegaard; Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud; Jaspers, Heidegger, and ToynA classic book by one of the twentieth century's most innovative and adventurous thinkers First published in 1959, From Shakespeare to Existentialism offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the greatest minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature. Few scholars can match Kaufmann's...
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The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading"This . . . is a brilliant work." --Choice"[Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which he understands and interprets the strategies of the biblical narratives. . . . a superb overview ....
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Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.The 1963 publication of Thomas Pynchon's V. changed the landscape of American fiction. Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V. offers a detailed examination of the dramatic transformations that took place as Pynchon's foundational novel went from typescript to published work. Luc Herman and John...
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Dreaming by the BookDreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint,...
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Twelfth Night: Or, What You WillTwelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as a man in order to enter the service of Orsino, duke of...
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Theories of MythologyTheories of Mythology provides students with both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth, the most elementary form of narrative. Both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth. Introduces the...
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Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary ClassicThe Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be...
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The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected WritingsThe Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy unfolds in the letters Werther writes to his friend about Charlotte's charms, even after he realizes his love will...
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The Portable North American Indian ReaderThe Portable North American Indian Reader compiles myths, tales, poetry, and oratory from the Iroquois, Cherokee, Winnebago, Sioux, Blackfeet, Hopi, and many other tribes. In addition, Frederick Turner includes a number of "culture contact" selections--explorers' accounts, captives' narratives, and Indian autobiographies--as well as a...
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The Hound of the BaskervillesThe Hound of the Baskervilles is one of master mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most accomplished stories. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson confront one of their most difficult cases ever: is there truly a curse on the old Baskerville estate? Is...
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The Chomsky ReaderThe Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading dissident intellectual--"arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times). At the center of practically every major debate over America's role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky's...
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NecropolisNecropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of our time." In each of the book's nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia's literary Silver Age, and in the process writes an...
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Meetings with Remarkable Men: All and Everything, 2nd SeriesMeetings with Remarkable Men, G. I. Gurdjieff's autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive "read" in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff's unique perspective on...
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