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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor alec marsh”
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  • Adrienne Rich’s Later Poetry

    Raya Dunayevskaya and Marxist-Humanism

    by Professor Alec Marsh ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich's later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender.From 1983 onward, after she visited revolutionary Nicaragua until the end of her life, Rich's political vision can best be described as Marxist-Humanist. Until ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • John Kasper and Ezra Pound

    Saving the Republic

    by Professor Alec Marsh ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first book to comprehensively explore the extensive correspondence - lasting over a decade and numbering ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light

    by Professor Alec Marsh ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activist ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Ezra Pound

    by Alec Marsh ...
    Series Book 37 - Critical Lives
    Poet, peace activist, Confucian, fascist, traitor – love him or loathe him, Ezra Pound is impossible to ignore as one of the most influential and controversial poets of modern times. This book raises provocative issues and questions for anyone interested in the politics, art, society and poetry of the 20th century.No author of Pound’s stature promoted so many artistic acquaintances who would go on ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Violence

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Soul of America

    The Battle for Our Better Angels

    by Jon Meacham ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.“Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”—NewsdayONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • A BEST BOOK OF THE ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The American Experiment

    The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series series The American Experiment
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abolish the Family

    A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

    by Sophie Lewis ...
    What if we could do better than the family?We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be filled with love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to abuse and violence. Nobody is more likely to harm you than your family.Even in so-called happy families, the unpaid, unacknowledged work that it takes to raise children and care for ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Renegade History of the United States

    by Thaddeus Russell ...
    In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the taboo and made America the land of the free.In vivid portraits of renegades and their “respectable” ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • To Save and to Destroy

    Writing as an Other

    by Viet Thanh Nguyen ...
    Series Book 40 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

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  • Songs of America

    Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation

    by Jon Meacham, Tim McGraw ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and music superstar Tim McGraw“Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw form an irresistible duo—connecting us to music as an unsung force in our nation's history.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinThrough all the years of strife and triumph, America has been shaped not just by ... Read more

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  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    by David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD