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Broken Dimanche Press Sanding Down Gravestones
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Spector Books Listen to Lists: DNA #2
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Spector Books Artificial Music: DNA #13
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Spector Books DNA #18: Channel Power
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Spector Books Ceremony: Burial of an Undead World
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£28.90
Spector Books Christopher Dell: Dialogue Concerts: Conceptual
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£27.20
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El mito de Sísifo / The Myth of Sisyphus
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£11.07
Nybrogade Press The Clearing: How We Live And Die With Trees
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£22.09
Skira Chiara Dynys
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£75.00
Skira Last Days of the Opera
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£28.00
Skira We Do Not Dream Alone: Asia Society Triennial
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£32.00
Skira Others: Polimoda
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£21.25
Pari Publishing Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us
Book Synopsis"Literature, Moderns, Monsters, Popsters and Us" is a selection from more than one hundred articles, reviews and essays written by George Stade and first published in journals such as "Partisan Review", "Hudson Review", "Paris Review", "Harper's", "The Nation", "The New Republic" and "The New York Times Book Review". Stade challenges with his controversial contention that "womanism" has triumphed over "manism" and his wit flies with a rip-roaring excursion into "snot, navel-fluff and toe-jam" in an examination of James Joyce's "Ulysses". The collection includes: Psychoanalysis and the horror genre; Popular fiction; Poetry, including e.e. cummings and Sylvia Plath; Frisch and Durrenmatt; McCarthyism; and Modern British fiction.Trade Review"Start with a high-octane intelligence, add large handfuls of irreverent wit, a capacious literary curiosity, a visceral dislike of the bogus and a lean prose that skewers at the same time it illuminates, and you have the recipe for the kind of marvelous criticism George Stade has been producing for over thirty years. Whether writing about popular fiction or the great modernists, ethology or the joys of football, Stade is never less than entertaining and provocative. It is a treat to have these essays at last collected in a single volume." - Michael Rosenthal, the Roberta and William Campbell Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. "Stade's essays are amusing and insightful. His criticism extracts golden nuggets from the text while it informs and delights the reader, who feels privileged to be a part of the process of discovery and who wishes Stade's best essays, like a good novel, would never end. It shows his endearing love of, and commitment to literature. The fact that these essays and reviews will enlighten and absorb their readers in the pleasure of the text is why I urge readers to read the book; they will be reminded why they love literature." - Norman Loftis, poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and filmmaker. "George Stade is a book-lover's book-lover. He is maverick and modest, opinionated and generous, and, above all, passionate about literature. In this collection of essays and reviews, he brings the works of Poe, Joyce, and Plath, of Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett and Stephen King, to life under his eagle and erudite eye. Only a handful of critics achieve this: to transmit to their readers, through the power of their own prose, some of the life-force of the orginal work. This is criticism at its vigorous best." - Alison MacLeod, Author of The Wave Theory of Angels and Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction. "In a tour de force of wit, critical insight, and blissfully first-rate prose, Stade takes on a wide range of subjects, from Joyce and Gaddis to Stephen King and Dracula (no one has ever written better about Bram Stoker's masterpiece), often finding the high in the low and vice-versa. He illuminates them all, the darker the better, catching the varied crafts by which the human leaves its imprint in art. Literature helps us get by, Stade says, and so does he." - Ann Douglas, Author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and The Feminization of American Culture.
£9.99
Bloomsbury India Work, Word and the World: Essays on Habitat,
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£80.75
Bloomsbury India Negotiating Culture: Writings from Mizoram
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£80.75
Bloomsbury India Attention and Drift
£80.75
Bloomsbury India India in Translation, Translation in India
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Diversified Publishing Dead and Alive
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Daredevil Born Again
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Closer Reading
Book SynopsisGarrett Stewart is the James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa, USA, having previously held teaching appointments at Boston University, University of California at Santa Barbara, Stanford University, Princeton University, and the Universities of London (Queen Mary), Konstanz, and Fribourg (Switzerland). He is the author of nearly 20 books, including Novel Violence (2009), which was awarded the Perkins Prize for the best book on narrative (International Society for the Study of Narrative), and Between Film and Screen (1999), which was a short-listed finalist for the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award. In 2010 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.David LaRocca is the author, editor, or coeditor of nearly 20 books, including Bandwidths: Reading Across Media with Garrett Stewart (Bloomsbury 2025), Attention Spans: Garrett Stewart, a Reader (Bloomsbury 2024), The Geschlecht Complex (Bloomsbury 2022), and Inheriting Stanley Cavell (Bloomsbury 2020). He has taught philosophy and cinema and held visiting research or teaching positions in the United States at Binghamton University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Ithaca College, the School of Visual Arts, the State University of New York College at Cortland, and Vanderbilt University.
£57.00
Pm Press All We Have is the Story
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Oxford University Press English Episcopal Acta 28 Canterbury 10701136
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£60.00
The University of Chicago Press White Slaves African Masters An Anthology of
Book SynopsisA selection of 19th-century Barbary Coast captivity narratives. The accounts range from 1798 to 1904 and tell the stories of enslaved white Americans, whose plight became fodder for pro- and anti-slavery writers.
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Is the Rectum a Grave
Book SynopsisCharts the connections that the author has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. This book considers the author's ideas alongside Freud's and helps in gaining a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another.Trade Review"In this fascinating and disturbing book, two writers with prose styles and intellectual styles that are at once famously identifiable and intimately personal celebrate the possibility of relationships that defy identity and undo personality." - Stephen Greenblatt "This is a beautifully crafted book, one that underscores how the social life of the psyche is a matter of risk, wager, suspense, excitation, bodies, talk, and all manner of things both dangerous and sustaining." - Judith Butler"
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press My Way Speeches and Poems
Book SynopsisExploring the place of poetry in American culture and in the university, this text addresses issues such as: the role of the public intellectual; the poetics of scholarly prose; vernacular modernism; idiosyncratic postmodernism; identity politics; aesthetics; and poetry as a performance art.
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The University of Chicago Press Two Jews on a Train Stories from the Old Country
Book SynopsisSo two Jews were on a train. "All Eastern European Jewish jokes start this way, or almost" says Adam Biro, who has assembled this rich volume of such stories, tales in which we hear the voices of generations using humour to teach about the delicacy, anguish, and unpredictability of life itself.Trade Review"In applying an Old World sensibility to the present, the author underscores the nature of the divide between them, and the increasingly despairing punchline of each joke seems to become: Why did You abandon us?" - The New Yorker "A sort of whimsical Jewish Arabian Nights that takes you to Baghdad and New York, Paris and Brussels. If its spirit could be summed up in one sentence, it might be the one from the book describing a 100-year-old patriarch, who 'loved life in spite of his infinite despair about human beings and their condition." - Elaine Kalman Naves, Montreal Gazette "Somewhere between Isaac Bashevis Singer and Morey Amsterdam." - Kirkus Reviews "You have to read Adam Biro... for the little details between the lines, which are awe inspiring!" - La liberte, on the French edition "There are tales of schnorrers, matchmakers, gossips, immigrants, a golf-playing rabbi.... Between the lines are tales of the fragility of love, friendship and of life itself, and the possibilities of redemption. The strength of these stories is Biro's skill as a story-teller and his apparent love of the material. He has a light touch and the tales are short, but packed full of imagery and emotion." - Sandee Brawarsky, Jewish Week
£17.66
The University of Chicago Press The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta
Book SynopsisA milestone in feminist literature, this marvelous European romance, narrated by a woman, is considered the first psychological novel in a modern language and a precursor of stream-of-consciousness fiction. Written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1343 and 1345, The Elegy has never before been available in a complete or accurate English translation. Lady Fiammetta, the first-person narrator and protagonist, recounts how, although a married woman, she falls in love with a handsome young foreigner named Panfilo and, driven by irresistible passion, becomes his lover. Panfilo subsequently abandons Fiammetta and returns to his native land, where his elderly father is said to be dying. When he fails to keep his promise to return, Fiammetta, in what is the heart of the narrative, describes her longings, her anguish, and her despair. A host of contradictory sentiments drive her to desperation and to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. After a time, Fiammetta resumes her futile wait for Panfilo. She
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The University of Chicago Press Kurt Wolff
Book SynopsisKurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. This title deals with his works.Trade Review"Pure oxygen and nutrition for exhausted and demoralized editors and publishers. One of the prophetic publishers of the century---Kurt Wolff instances in these modest reminiscences and correspondence with authors (Kafka, Werfel, Kraus, Rilke, Mann, Pasternak, Grass, et al.) the vision and devotion that bound them to him and that made him-the secret of his calling-'synonymous with his work.'" (Nation) "The invaluable correspondence, intoxicating recollections, and, best of all, engaging voice of perhaps this century's most discriminating publisher." (New York Times Book Review)"
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The University of Chicago Press On Self and Social Organization
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The University of Chicago Press On Civilization Power and Knowledge Selected
Book SynopsisNorbert Elias has been described as among the great sociologists of the 20th century. A collection of his most important writings, this book sets out Elias' thinking during the course of his long career, with a discussion of how his work relates to that of other sociologists.
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The University of Chicago Press Thoughts and Things
Book SynopsisAddresses the problem of formulating ways to consider the undivided mind, drawing on various sources, from Descartes to cosmology, Freud, and Genet and succeeds brilliantly in diagramming new forms as well as radical failures of connectedness. This book is of interest to scholars in philosophy, film, literature, and beyond.Trade Review"Thoughts and Things accomplishes more in its pages than some full bookshelves in my office. This is an original and intellectually consequential book that will become, like multiple past books by Bersani, a classic." (Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Letters and Orations The Other Voice in Early
Book SynopsisBy the end of the 15th century Cassandra Fedele was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. This collection of letters reveals the central, mediating role Cassandra Fedele occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women.
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The University of Chicago Press The Power of Culture Critical Essays in American
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together nine original essays by cultural historians. The works aim to exhibit the promise of a cultural approach to understanding the range of American experiences from the seventeenth century to the present.
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The University of Chicago Press A Roger Fry Reader
Book SynopsisRepresenting 40 years of work with modern French art and formalistic theory, these essays cover a broad spectrum of topics, from Fry's influential promotion of post-Impressionism to art education, museums, architecture, decorative art, literature and dance.
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University of Chicago Press Apology for the Woman Writing Other Works The
Book SynopsisDuring her lifetime Marie de Gournay was celebrated as one of the 70 most famous women of all time. This volume presents translations of four of Gournay's works that address feminist issues. This volume includes previously unpublished work.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Collected Essays and Criticism Volume 1
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£24.00
University of Chicago Press Democracy and the Left Social Policy and
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The University of Chicago Press Ill Tell You Mine Thirty Years of Essays from
Book SynopsisThe University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers' Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting program in this genre in the United States. Over the past three decades the NWP has produced some of the most influential nonfiction writers in the country. I'll Tell You Mine is an extraordinary anthology, a book rooted in Iowa's successful program that goes beyond mere celebration to present some of the best nonfiction writing of the past thirty years. Eighteen pieces produced by Iowa graduates exemplify the development of both the program and the field of nonfiction writing. Each is accompanied by commentary from the author on a challenging issue presented by the story and the writing process, including drafting, workshopping, revising, and listening to (or sometimes ignoring) advice. The essays are put into broader context by a prologue from
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The University of Chicago Press Ill Tell You Mine Thirty Years of Essays from the
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The University of Chicago Press A Dialogue Between a Philosopher a Student of
Book SynopsisAn essay by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, first published posthumously in 1681, in which Hobbes sets forth his mature reflections of the relations between reason and law, and proposes a separation in the functions of government. This edition seeks to provide an accessible and dependable text.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Editor's Note Of the Law of Reason Of Soveraign Power Of Courts Of Crimes Capital Of Heresie Of Proemunire Of Punishments
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University of Chicago Press The Collected Works of Justice Holmes Complete
Book SynopsisSure to be the standard reference for all subsequent scholarship.John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book ReviewA critical contribution to legal literature, and definitely worth having.Peter J. Messitte, TrialTable of ContentsVOLUME ONE Foreword: Editorial Principles Introduction The History of this Edition A Brief Biography of Justice Holmes Holmes's Philosophy and Jurisprudence: Origin and Development of Principal Themes A Critical Assessment Nonjudicial Works Youthful Works Introduction Undergraduate essays, addresses, and poems Civil War Poems, Obituaries The American Law Review 1867-1873 Introduction Digests of Cases Articles, comments, and book notices VOLUME TWO Introduction Holmes's Notes to Kent's Commentaries VOLUME THREE Articles in Preparation for The Common Law The Common Law Later Writings Speeches (1913 edition) Uncollected and Unpublished Addresses
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The University of Chicago Press Life Breaks In A Mood Almanack
Book SynopsisSome books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in a world that impinges and infringes on us, but also regularly suffuses us with beauty and joy and wonder. You don't write that book as a linear progression you write it as a living, breathing, richly associative, and, crucially, active, investigation. Or at least you do if you're as smart and inventive as Mary Cappello. What is a mood? How do we think about and understand and describe moods and their endless shadings? What do they do to and for us, and how can we actively generate or alter them? These are all questions Cappello takes up as she explores mood in all its manifestations: we travel with her from mood rooms to art installations to off the beaten path natural history museums, to the more scientific corners of topics like depressio
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The University of Chicago Press Women History and Theory The Essays of Joan
Book SynopsisThese posthumous essays by Joan Kelly, a founder of women's studies, represent a profound synthesis of feminist theory and historical analysis and require a realignment of perspectives on women in society from the Middle Ages to the present.
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The University of Chicago Press The Norman Maclean Reader
Book SynopsisIn his 88 years, Norman Maclean (1902-90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, which won him enduring fame and critical acclaim. This reader offers an introduction Norman Maclean and provides insight into his life and career.Trade Review"It is an enchanted tale.... I have read the story three times now, and each time it seems fuller." - Roger Sale, New York Review of Books "Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling.... As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway." - Alfred Kazin, Chicago Tribune Book World "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made." - Annie Proulx "His description of the conflagration terrifies, but it is his battle with words, his effort to turn the story of the 13 men into tragedy that makes this book a classic." - New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, Best Books of 1992 "Maclean is always with the brave young dead.... They could not have found a storyteller with a better claim to represent their honor.... A great book." - James R. Kincaid, New York Times Book Review"
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The University of Chicago Press Dialogues and Addresses The Other Voice in Early
Book SynopsisBorn Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer, Maintenon founded and directed the celebrated academy for aristocratic women at Saint-Cyr. This volume presents the dialogues and addresses in which Maintenon explains her controversial philosophy of education for women. Denounced by her contemporaries as a political schemer and religious fanatic, Maintenon has long been criticized as an opponent of gender equality. The writings in this volume faithfully reflect Maintenon's respect for social hierarchy and her stoic call for women to accept the duties of their state in life. But the writings also echo Maintenon's more feminist concerns: the need to redefine the virtues in the light of women's experience, the importance of naming the constraints on women's freedom, and the urgent
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The University of Chicago Press Selected Poetry and Prose
Book SynopsisChiara Matraini was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch. She excelled in a number of literary genres - poetry, religious meditation, discourse, and dialogue. This book is a collection of her erotic love poetry and poems on spiritual salvation.Trade Review"The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series allows little-known women's voices to be heard, with translations of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century European texts. The approach is feminist, and each volume is prefaced with a historical account of the systematic oppression and frustration of women." - Maya Slater, Times Literary Supplement"
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University of Chicago Press Georges Cuvier Fossil Bones and Geological
Book SynopsisGeorges Cuvier's research on fossil bones helped in the formation of geology and palaeontology. In this translation, his writings on fossils and catastrophes are accompanied by a narrative and interpretive commentary, placing Cuvier's work in its biographical, scientific and social context.
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