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Concerto for Sentence: An Exploration of the Musico-Erotic

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Report copyright infringementby Emiliya Dvoryanova (Author), Elitza Kotzeva (Translator)Subtitled "An Exploration of the Musico-Erotic," this novel is an experiment in blurring the boundaries between the syntax of music and that of poetry. The sentences in question are elliptical, resembling a musical score, and tell the story of a violinist embarking upon a potentially dangerous affair with an admirer and fellow musician as their spouses, audiences, teachers, friends, and colleagues listen a...

Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place

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Report copyright infringementby D. J. Waldie (Author)Best-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays. "Reading Waldie's essays about Los Angeles is not unlike listening to someone tell you the stories of their life." --Los Angeles Times Image Magazine Nobody sees Los Angeles with more eloquence than D. J. Waldie.- Susan Brenneman, Los Angeles Times Deputy Op-Ed Editor Becoming Los Angeles, a new collection by th...

Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Sarris (Author)A gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland.For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris--whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jones--presents a book about his own life. In Becoming Story he asks: What does it mean to be truly connected to the place you call home--to walk where innumerable generations of your ancestors have walked? And what does it ...

A New Sublime: Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics

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Report copyright infringementby Piero Boitani (Author), Ann Goldstein (Translator)Boitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. With their emphasis on the mutability and fluidity of identity and matter, their examination of the power and position of women in society, and their enduring trea...

Liberal and Illiberal Arts: Essays (Mostly Jewish)

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Report copyright infringement Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: March 15, 2022

Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil

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Report copyright infringementby Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Ray Furness (Introduction by), Tom Griffith (Editor)Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic life through ill health), he sets out his views in a scintillating and bewildering series of aphorisms which contain the seeds of his later philosophy (e.g. the will t...

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Faliveno (Author), Joey Soloway (Introduction by)A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home.Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is a place beyond definition, whose very boundaries are a question. It's a place of rolling prairies and towering pines, where guns in bar...

To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Eichelberger (Editor)With over 350 complete or excerpted letters, most previously unpublished, To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell forms an epistolary narrative of Welty's writing life and her nearly fifty-year friendship with Frank Lyell, a friend from Jackson, Mississippi. Also included in the text are extensive annotations to explain the letters' myriad, often telegraphic cultural references. Early letters show both corres...

Treenotes: A Year in the Company of Trees

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Report copyright infringementby Nalini Nadkarni (Author)From an esteemed National Geographic explorer and forest ecologist, a charming collection of thought-provoking essays exploring the meaning of trees in our lives. Telephone poles, baseball bats, railroad ties. Peaches, nutmeg, and vanilla. The more you look, the more you realize: Our world depends on products made from trees. In this sweet book, forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni takes you on a worldwide journey to learn more about trees--...

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Report copyright infringementby John Lee Clark (Author)Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life based on physical connection.In a series of paradigm-shifting essays, Clark reports on seismic developments within the DeafBlind community and challenges the limitations of sighted and heari...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Grae (Author)A collection of morbidly funny, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a much-needed rallying cry for those of us still trying to figure it out in our forties. These laugh-out-loud essays cover everything from aging gracefully (with and without botox), what happe...

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Report copyright infringementby Eleanor Spencer-Regan (Author)This book features a collection of essays on some of the key poets of post-war America, written by leading scholars in the field. All the essays have been newly commissioned to take account of the diverse movements in American poetry since 1945, and also to reflect, retrospectively, on some of the major talents that have shaped its development. In the aftermath of the Second World War, American poets took stock of their own tumultu...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca West (Author)Rebecca West's "Henry James" offers a penetrating examination of one of the most significant figures in English literature. This insightful work delves into the life and writings of Henry James, the celebrated American expatriate writer, providing readers with a critical appreciation of his profound impact on 20th-century literary landscape. West's analysis illuminates James's contributions to the novel form and his enduring influence on su...

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Report copyright infringementby Eliza Smith (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important en...

Hints To Young Painters, And The Process Of Portrait-painting: As Practiced By The Late Thomas Sully

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Sully (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important e...

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Report copyright infringementby Jo Ann Beard (Author)A searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who "honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life" (Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner for The Friend). A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the Year When "The Fourth State of Matter," her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at...

Norse Mythology: The Gods, Heroes, Monsters and Legends of the Viking Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Finn D. Moore (Author) The Norsemen of old Scandinavia were a tough and hardy people, best known today for their prowess in bloody combat and storytelling. Because they had no writing, the frightening reputation of warriors survives, but Norse mythology -- all storytelling -- is less known. This book documents the Norse myths that were sources of entertainment, comfort and explanations of the universe -- from animals to the seasons to the afterlife. Given that...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Thomas Middleton (Author), John Jowett (Editor)Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave. The play's plot structure is schematically clear, and the poetry of Timon's rage is arresting in its savage intensity. Yet readers have often detected loose ends, and th...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Constantinesco (Author)Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Alice James, as the national culture of pain progressively transformed in the wake of...

National Review's Literary Network: Conservative Circuits

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Schryer (Author)National Review's Literary Network traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review. In the 1950s, the magazine sought to establish itself as a conservative alternative to liberal journals like Partisan Review. To do so, it needed a robust book review section, featuring nationally recognized writers. Between the 1950s and the 1980s, Whittaker Chambers, John Dos Pas...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert A. Kaster (Author)Studies on the Text of Seneca's De beneficiis is a companion volume to Kaster's Oxford Classical Texts critical edition of Seneca's De beneficiis, the first new edition in nearly a century. De beneficiis is the most detailed treatment surviving from antiquity of the proper ways to show favour to others and to express gratitude when one has been favoured. After a survey of the documentary resources (medieval and Renaissance manuscripts a...

India in the Persian World of Letters: &

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Dudney (Author)This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book traces the development of philology (the study of literary language) in the Persian tradition in India, concentrating on its socio-political ramifications. The most influential Indo-Persian philologist of t...

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Report copyright infringementby Kelly Ross (Author)Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction. Attending to the long history of surveillance and policing of African Americans, the book challenges the traditional conception of surveillance as a top-down enterprise, equ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Russell (Editor), Ralph Russell (Translator), Khurshidul Islam (Editor)This book is a fascinating portrait of one of the most popular Urdu and Persian poets, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869) Very little of Ghalib has previously appeared in English, and that little has circulated almost entirely within India and Pakistan. This volume mainly consists of translations from the Memoir written by his friend and younger contemporary Hali not many years af...

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Report copyright infringementby Jen Soriano (Author)"Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and weight to those forgotten women whose suffering has become little more than anecdotal collections of stories, not real people. It's seamless and powerful. Nervous is a masterful personal narrative, beautifully written and captivating. It should- a...

The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Morrison (Author), Tom Robbins (Foreword by)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks.You can also hear Jim Morrison's final poetry recording, now available for the first time, on the CD or digital audio edition of this book, at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles on his twenty-se...

The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Esther G. Belin (Editor), Jeff Berglund (Editor), Connie A. Jacobs (Editor)2022 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award Winner The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is unprecedented. It showcases the breadth, depth, and diversity of Diné creative artists and their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose.This wide-ranging anthology brings together writers who offer perspectives that span generations and perspectives on life and Diné history. Th...

Pirates You Don't Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life: Collected Essays

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Report copyright infringementby John Griswold (Author)For nearly ten years John Griswold has been publishing his essays in Inside Higher Ed, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Brevity, Ninth Letter, and Adjunct Advocate, many under the pen name Oronte Churm. Churm's topics have ranged widely, exploring themes such as the writing life and the utility of creative-writing classes, race issues in a university town, and the beautiful, protective crocodiles that lie patiently waiting in the minds of fa...

The Letters of Christina Rossetti: 1843-1873 Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby Christina Rossetti (Author), Antony H. Harrison (Editor)In recent years Christina Rossetti's star has soared. Rossetti (1830-1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets--not just one of the major women poets--of the Victorian era, eclipsing her famous brother. Leading critics have demonstrated how studies of Rossetti's work, her daily life, her relationships with the Pre-Raphaelites, and her interactions with other women authors of the period can hel...

The Letters of Christina Rossetti: 1843-1873 Volume 1

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The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon

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Report copyright infringementby Christine Flanagan (Editor)"This girl is a real novelist," wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood. "She is already a rare phenomenon: a Catholic novelist with a real dramatic sense, one who relies more on her technique than her piety." This collection of letters and other documents offers the most complete portrait of the relationship between two of the American South's most ac...

Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Patterson Miller (Editor)"Excellent. This is a fine, and unusual, collection of literary Americana."--Atlantic"Fine comic moments of truth."--New York Times Book Review"An invaluable source of literary history."--Publishers Weekly This is the story of one of the most famous literary "sets" of the twentieth century. Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the center of a group including Ernest Hemingway and his wives, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos,...