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  • Dismantlings

    Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies

    de Matt Tierney ...
    "For the master's tools," the poet Audre Lorde wrote, "will never dismantle the master's house."Dismantlings is a study of literary, political, and philosophical critiques of the utopian claims about technology in the Long Seventies, the decade and a half before 1980. Following Alice Hilton's 1963 admonition that the coming years would bring humanity to a crossroads—"machines for HUMAN BEINGS or ... Leer más

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  • What Lies Between

    Void Aesthetics and Postwar Post-Politics

    de Matt Tierney ...
    Series series Disruptions
    By what aesthetic practice might post-politics be disrupted? Now is a moment that many believe has become post-racial, post- national, post-queer, and post-feminist. This belief is reaffirmed by recent events in the politics of diminished expectations, especially in the United States.What Lies Between illustrates how today’s discourse repeats the post-politics of an earlier time. In the aftermath ... Leer más

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  • Spartacus

    de Howard Fast ...
    Spartacus, a fictionalization of a slave revolt in ancient Rome in 71 BC, is well known today because of the 1960 movie starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. It was originally published in 1951 by Fast himself, after being turned down by every mainstream publisher of the day because of Fast's blacklisting for his Communist Party sympathies. The story of Spartacus, born a slave, trained as a ... Leer más

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  • Man in Profile

    Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker

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    WINNER OF THE SPERBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer—author of Joe Gould’s Secret and Up in the Old Hotel—and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history’s greatest disappearing acts.Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph ... Leer más

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  • Better Living Through Criticism

    How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

    de A. O. Scott ...
    The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott ... Leer más

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  • T. S. Eliot

    de Craig Raine ...
    Series series Lives and Legacies Series
    The twentieth century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter T.S. Eliot has long been thought to be an obscure and difficult writer-forbiddingly learned maddeningly enigmatic. In this compelling exploration prize-winning poet Craig Raine finds a way to read and make sense of Eliot's full corpus. He illuminates a paradoxical Eliot--an exacting anti-romantic realist skeptical ... Leer más

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  • Louise Erdrich

    Tracks, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Doves

    Edición de Professor Deborah L. Madsen ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    Leading scholars critically explore three leading novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the most important and popular Native American writers working today. ... Leer más

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  • Helen of Troy

    de Andrew Lang ...
    In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen was described as having the face that launched a thousand ships. Helen or Helene is probably derived from the Greek word meaning "torch" or "corposant ... Leer más

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  • The Long Voyage

    Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career. ... Leer más

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  • Responding to Loss

    Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film

    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. ... Leer más

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  • Letters to My Father

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    “I’ve finally pretty much decided what to write next—a novel based on Nat Turner’s rebellion,” twenty-six-year-old William Styron confided to his father in a letter he wrote on May 1, 1952. Styron would not publish his Pulitzer Prize–winning The Confessions of Nat Turner until 1967, but this letter undercuts those critics who later attacked the writer as an opportunist capitalizing on the heated ... Leer más

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  • Realism for the Masses

    Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947

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    Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic actually saturated American culture in the 1930s and 1940s and that the left social movements of the ... Leer más

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