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Book SynopsisThis is volume two of 'Gandharan Buddhist Texts', a series that presents editions and studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library's Kharosthi manuscript collection.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Preface Format, Transcription, and Citation System List of Abbreviations 1. British Library Kharosthi Fragments 12 and 14 2. Comparison of the Gandhari, Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese Versions 3. Physical Description of the Manuscript 4. Paleography and Orthography 5. Phonology 6. Morphology 7. Transcribed Text, Reconstruction, and Translation 8. The "Dhona-sutra" 9. The "Budhabayana-sutra" 10. The "Prasana-sutra" Appendix 1. Readings of Unlocated Fragments Appendix 2. The Gandhari Avadana of Puniga Appendix 3. The Pali Parallels to the First and Third Gandhari Sutras References Word Index

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Book SynopsisReveals the extraordinary lives and times of remarkable explorers and scientistsTrade Review"The book is destined to become part of the standard readings for students of modern China." -- Jared M. Phillips * IIAS Newsletter *"Scholarly and multifaceted. Recommended." * Choice *"As a collection of biographies, the authors have included the sort of details, first-person accounts, and photographs that make biography such a wonderful form of historical writing…Specialists and general readers with an interest in China’s borderlands will find this book of value, above all, as a history of Western inquiry and adventure in the region." -- Gregory Rohlf * Asian Highlands Perspectives, Vol. 28 *"….a very valuable contribution that advances our understanding of an unfairly neglected topic in the study of China’s borderlands." -- Fa-Ti Fan * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface, Denise M. Glover Introduction, Stevan Harrell 1. The Eyes of Others, Erik Mueggler 2. At Home in Two Worlds, Denise M. Glover 3. Searching for the "Lolos", Tamara Wyss 4. Classifying Joseph Rock, Alvin Yoshinaga et al. 5. Franc-Catholic Modernizer Paul Vial, Margaret B. Swain 6. David Crockett Graham, Charles F. McKhann and Alan Waxman 7. David Crocket Graham in Chinese Intellectual History, Jeff Kyong-McClain and Geng Jing 8. Science across Borders, Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang Gazetteer References Contributions Index

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Book SynopsisWestern historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American West what it is today. This collection of twelve essays tackles the subject of power and place from several anglesIndians and non-Indians, race and gender, environment and economyto gain insight into major forces at work during two centuries of western history.The essays, related to one another by their concern with how power is exercised in, over, and by western places, cover a wide range of times and topics, from 18th-century Spanish New Mexico to 19th-century British Columbia to 20th-century Sun Valley and Los Angeles. They encompass analyses of the concept and rhetoric of race, theoretical speculations on gender and powerlessness, and insights on the causes of current environmental crises.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART 1: INDIANS AND NON-INDIANS Coboway's Tale: A Story of Power and Place Along the Columbia Violence, Justice, and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands, 1780-1880 Making "Indians" in British Columbia: Power, Race, and the Importance of Place PART 2: RACE IN THE URBAN WEST Federal Power and Racial Politics in Los Angeles During World War II Race, Rhetoric, and Regional Identity: Boosting Los Angeles, 1880-1930 Recasting Identities: American-born Chinese and Nisei in the Era of the Pacific War PART 3: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY Tourism as Colonial Economy: Power and Place in Western Tourism Creating Wealth by Consuming Place: Timber Management on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest "Politics Is at the Bottom of the Whole Thing": Spatial Relations of Power in Oregon Salmon Management Natures Industries: The Rhetoric of Industrialism in the Oregon Country PART 4: GENDER IN THE URBAN WEST Lighting Out for the Territory: Women, Mobility and Western Place Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs comes his Basement Tapes: the complete Real Life Rock Top 10 columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called Real Life Rock Top Ten. It has been a laboratory where he has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements. Taken together, his musings, reflections, and sallies amount to a subtle and implicit theory of how cultural objects fall through time and circumstance and often deliver unintended consequences, both in the present and in the future. Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance.

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Book SynopsisFrom one of today's keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the two Adam Kirsch is one of today's finest literary critics. This collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion, and the intersections between them, with a particular focus on Jewish literature. He explores the definition of Jewish literature, the relationship between poetry and politics, and the future of literary reputation in the age of the internet. Several essays look at the way Jewish writers such as Stefan Zweig and Isaac Deutscher, who coined the phrase the non-Jewish Jew, have dealt with politics. Kirsch also examines questions of spirituality and morality in the writings of contemporary poets, including Christian Wiman, Kay Ryan, and Seamus Heaney. He closes by asking why so many American Jewish writers have resisted that category, inviting us to consider Is there such a thing as Jewish literature?Trade Review“From one of our most distinguished public intellectuals and an indispensable voice on matters literary and spiritual, Adam Kirsch’s collection of essays on poetry and religion shows him at his very best.”—David Mikics, author of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age

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Book SynopsisA new and expansive collection of essays from one of the world’s best‑known popular philosophersTrade Review“Would Montaigne have approved of the current vogue for “personal essay-writing”?...Assuredly he would have, for the French philosopher was the original blogger par excellence...He would also surely have approved of the English philosopher Simon Critchley, whose direct style, wisdom and wit, is on show in his latest book Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts.”—Alastair Benn, Reaction“If Critchley's aim is to inflame readers' philosophical eros through persuasive rhetoric, then this excellent collection is certainly a success.”—Sky C. Cleary, Times Literary Supplement"Simon Critchley is an international treasure—that rare and real philosopher who embraces Rousseau’s ‘feeling of existence,’ David Bowie’s vision of love, and Philip K. Dick’s genius with genuine wrestling and a soulful smile! He enacts the truth in skepticism and the power of compassion without paralysis or illusion.’’—Cornel West, Harvard University“What is philosophy? An endless succession of puzzles and parables? An attempt to understand ourselves, our language, the world around us? Simon Critchley shows us that the answer is all of the above. Indeed, we might think of philosophy as the inexorable study of unanswerable questions. Bald offers an incredibly enjoyable and endlessly fascinating excursion. It’s turtles all the way down.”—Errol Morris“Wise and funny; Critchley covers a remarkable range of topics from Plato to football, Hamlet to religion, Dostoevsky to God. A book to immerse yourself in, or dip in and savour.”—David Edmonds, author of The Murder of Professor Schlick“Mixing profundity with irony and sometimes hilarity, these essays are invariably well written and intelligently observed; bald and bold.”—Richard Kearney, Boston College

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative selection of the writings of one of the most important early American writersTrade Review“With its magisterial grasp of previous Mather scholarship and its mastery of Mather’s published and unpublished writings (a huge feat in itself), this reader marks the culmination of Mather’s intellectual and academic rehabilitation.”—Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame“A Cotton Mather Reader is a remarkable achievement. In 300 pages, the editors capture this most prolific author whole, offering a complete and rounded portrait of a man too often depicted as two-dimensional, the caricatured ‘witch hunter’ of Salem. Instead, we see Mather as the sophisticated intellectual, preacher, public figure, and family man that he was, engaged in every aspect of a complex and changing colonial world—politics, economics, race relations, medicine, science, international relations, and biblical interpretation. Mather’s life embodied the contradictions and tensions of the society he lived in and helped to shape, as any reader of this marvelous collection will see.”—Mark Petersen, author of The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865“A brilliant collection that reveals the extraordinary range of Cotton Mather’s interests and contributions—by far the best introduction to the mind of the Puritan divine.”—Francis J. Bremer, author of Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism“For most of American history, Cotton Mather has been more despised than studied, more ridiculed than read. Although he was, as the editors of this outstanding volume write, ‘the foremost scholar and innovative thinker of his generation in New England,’ many Americans only remember Mather as an intolerant and self-righteous Puritan who participated in the Salem witchcraft trials. But there was much more to Mather. He was ahead of his time in many ways, and was involved in virtually every movement and issue of his time. The thousands of pages he wrote spanned a wide range of topics, from religion and politics to slavery, medicine, and economics. With selections from Mather’s writings and illuminating introductions to Mather, his most important works, and his time, this book is a reader into Mather’s world, making his life and thought accessible like never before.”—James P. Byrd, Vanderbilt Divinity School“This anthology situates Mather as a cosmopolitan writer and effective pastor, bringing us much closer to the real person.”—David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School “For too long Cotton Mather has languished in the shadow of his fellow colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards. Now, thanks to this prodigious volume, that scholarly imbalance has been definitively addressed. This meticulously researched and documented collection of Mather’s major writings provides a comprehensive overview of early America’s most prolific author. These selections reveal a linguistic genius fluent in seven languages and remarkably informed over a variety of subjects spanning theology, witchcraft, foreign missions, medicine, slavery, and Native American ethnography. This volume offers an indispensable tool for unlocking the full spectrum of early American thought and practice and represents an essential addition to any early American library.”—Harry Stout, Yale University

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Book SynopsisEssays from a "great poet-critic-intellectual" (Daily Beast).Trade Review"It is fashionable today to mourn the paucity of public intellectuals in America. Meet Adam Kirsch, one of the very best literary/cultural critics writing today-a critic in the grand tradition of Edmund Wilson or Lionel Trilling. Rocket and Lightship is a delight to read." -- Marjorie Perloff "Adam Kirsch is one of the best of our cultural and literary critics. Whether he is dispatching the repellent ideology of Slavoj Zizek or reappraising the literary legacy of E. M. Forster, he writes with stunning force and beautiful lucidity." -- Janet Malcolm "[Kirsch's] rare literary authority is on full display...It's a pleasure to be convoyed through Western literature by Kirsch, whose self-assuredness feels more like intellectual comfort than it does coercion." -- Alice Gregory

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Book Synopsis[E]vocative and lyrical. . . . Masumoto writes with a keen sense of indebtedness and gratitude to the many individuals who make up the entity he calls his family.-Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Book SynopsisNamed One of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books Written by the New York Times Magazine, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times Editors' Choice.Trade Review"Unquestionably art, a breathtaking piece of writing." -- Charles Bock - New York Times Book Review"Exquisite…This is what, at its best, contemporary narrative nonfiction aspires to, a story that, like the novel, operates on many levels at once. And in About a Mountain D’Agata has found a nearly perfect nexus to investigate our post-millennial concerns." -- David L. Ulin - Los Angeles Times"Transcendant…This is an empathetic and virtuosic performance that invites us to live more bravely with, and to think about, our uncertainties." -- Time Out New York"What started as a book about a mountain changes into a book about Las Vegas and suicide and signs and language and death, and it reads like a wonderful and free-flowing improvisation…Our writer has a nearly inhuman depth of perception, and readers can take hope from how, in the face of his uncertainty, D’Agata puts his fine improvisational mind to work, where meaning dissolves into nothingness, where low ceilings are protection from God, where suicides occur by the dozen, where cakes are the size of football fields, and where language is as porous and corrosive as that damn mountain." -- Kevin Evers - The Rumpus"Here is the literary essay raised to the highest form of art." -- Ben Marcus"About a Mountain is about language, catastrophe, communication, impending destruction, and death, but like most great books, these aspects add up to something much larger. Despite its subtle surface, the book has a sensibility and style that emit their own radiation. D’Agata tells his story with such poise and precision that it not only reveals the fragility of words and human life—it possesses the power to pull us in and change the way we think." -- Blake Butler - Bookforum"The book’s connections dawn on you like a reverberating rhyme in a poem." -- Boston Globe"About a Mountain is as fact-laden as any John McPhee book, but where McPhee works to clarify domains of fact generally understood only by experts, D’Agata focuses on the insufficiency of facts as vehicles for understanding contemporary reality. He draws our attention to the conflicts and gaps in expert opinion and to the terminal slipperiness of facts…and the end result is one of the most convincing metaphors for contemporary American reality that I have come across in any recent piece of writing." -- Mark Lane - Quarterly Conversation"A beautiful embodiment of what is a central principle of great nonfiction: it’s not remotely about what it purports to be about." -- David Shields - The Millions"Utterly amazing." -- Nick Flynn

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Book SynopsisThe best of short literary memoirs, essays and reflections, many of which were written expressly for this collection.Trade Review"These are encounters you'll want to have, ones that transform you, the way all great writing does, by language plain and brilliant, seductive and honest, only these do it more quickly-usually with a single turn of the page. The book is a revolution in reading, one you will be happy to join, and the writers are all ones you want to see more of." -- Robert Shapard, editor of Sudden Fiction and Flash Fiction

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Book SynopsisExtraordinary stories of crime, passion and adventure from The Atavist Magazine, the trailblazing leader in longform narrative writing.Trade Review"The Atavist is to digital long-form journalism what the first season of 'Serial' was to podcasting: a pioneering force for compelling, in-depth storytelling in an age of sound bites, hot takes and clickbait." -- Laura Pearson - Chicago Tribune "The images awaiting you in the stories here, thanks to The Atavist, are the kind that hurl you out of your reading chair and into another realm." -- Susan Orlean, from the introduction "A mesmerizing collection, as lush and moving and full of astonishments as any I've read. It reflects the now-vital place of The Atavist in our literary firmament, a digital enterprise populated by some of the very best writers today, obsessed with the written word and new ways of telling stories. This is longform at its best, nonfiction mini-novellas that grip and cajole; rollick and surprise; illuminate and carry you on a journey to where truth and emotion are supersaturated, to where the gems glow in plain sight, there for the taking." -- Michael Paterniti "Love and Ruin is tightly packed with the kind of stories that stay in your mind for a long time-stories that come alive in the kind of hard, clean sentences I remembering marveling at as a teenager devouring the stories of Truman Capote and Lillian Ross for the first time." -- Nancy Jo Sales

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Book SynopsisThe rhythm, ritual and pleasure of knitting are celebrated in this new collection for lovers of both knitting and literature.Trade Review"This collection (patterns included!) helps explain why knitting is so often the life sport of the literary set... [It] includes a top-flight list of contributors including Maile Meloy, Dani Shapiro, Diana Gabaldon, Jane Hamilton and fiber 'rock star' Jared Flood." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Book SynopsisA deliciously diverse anthology of essays, stories, poems and graphic memoirs, exploring the deeply human act of kissing.Trade Review"The Kiss contains material by some excellent and well-known writers, many of them poets, including Nick Flynn, Mark Doty, Terrance Hayes, Téa Obreht and Andre Dubus III." -- Kristen Roupenian - Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisOne of the most influential chef-restaurateurs reflects on a career defined by surprising, delicious food.Trade Review"Lately I’ve been dipping into chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s new book, JGV: A Life in 12 Recipes. Part memoir, it recalls the moments that have defined his life in food: he was born in Alsace, but has cooked in America all his life, and I’ve always loved eating at his restaurants." -- The Sunday Telegraph

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Book SynopsisA career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.Trade Review"I once read that a blue whale’s arteries are so large that an adult human could swim through them. That’s what entering these essays feels like — to flow along with the pulses of Rich’s intelligence, to be enveloped by her capacious heart and mind." -- International New York Times"Rich urges us to stand up, look around and question outdated politics in a startlingly modern flourish. These essays are aptly named; they are indeed essential." -- The Irish Times

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Book SynopsisThe latest book of critical prose from renowned poet and scholar of Jewish literature Norman Finkelstein. Through a rigorous examination of contemporary poetry, poetics, and poets like Helen Adam, Nathaniel Mackey, Donald Revel, and more, the text exhibits a poetic fascination with transcendence and radical delight at language.Trade Review“For decades, Norman Finkelstein has mined the deep interiority of fellow poets for whom writing extends beyond creative expression and cultural commentary into the realm of the spirit. In To Go into the Words, he continues his groundbreaking work by exploring the visionary poetics of writers as varied as Helen Adam, Michael Palmer, and Nathaniel Mackey. What makes this book—and Finkelstein’s work as a whole—stand out is that in chapter after chapter we see the Philosopher’s Stone being polished by someone who knows that the most engaging criticism is, in fact, a form of celebration.”—Derek Pollard, Founder of Constellar Creative“Finkelstein, one of our most perceptive poet-critics, gives us masterful readings of important contemporary poets in essays that integrate his decades-long conversation with their work. The last sections examine the gnostic impulse in poetry and commentary of secular Jewish poets, including Finkelstein himself, that leads them, through language, to ‘circle around some. . . absent center which still has compelling power.’”—Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. is a poet, translator, and corporate consultant. Her most recent book of poetry is Salient (New Directions 2020).“We approach truth, said Gershom Scholem, not by systems but by commentary. In these essays on an array of poets ranging from William Bronk to Nathaniel Mackey, Norman Finkelstein provides commentary informed by a host of systems—deconstruction, the New Criticism, Freudian psychoanalysis, Marxian materialism, and more. Standing above them all is the idea of gnosis, the quest for insight into who we are and who we might become. And, in Finkelstein’s comments on midrash, we find the best commentary yet on Finkelstein’s own poetry. Open this book and open the world.”—Robert Archambau, author of Poetry and Uselessness from Coleridge to Ashbery and Alice B. Toklas is MissingTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction William Bronk Helen Adam Ronald Johnson Michael Palmer Nathaniel Mackey Paul Bray Lawrence Joseph Total Midrash Secular Jewish Culture and Its Radical Poetic Discontents The Master of Turning

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Book SynopsisExamines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This“engaged” poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the increasing corporatization of US culture.Trade Review“A refreshing guide for those trying to understand 21st century poetry—where it has come [and] how it has grappled with recent history in away that seems quite different from past responses to traumatic history.This will be a significant contribution to critical studies of contemporarypoetry.” - Susan McCabe, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisExamines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This“engaged” poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the increasing corporatization of US culture.Trade Review“A refreshing guide for those trying to understand 21st century poetry—where it has come [and] how it has grappled with recent history in away that seems quite different from past responses to traumatic history.This will be a significant contribution to critical studies of contemporarypoetry.” - Susan McCabe, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisOffers a friendly, personal, and smart guide to the writing life. The book also offers clear and original instruction on craft elements at the forefront of today's emerging forms in creative nonfiction: from the short-short, to the braided form, to the hermit crab essay.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface by Jay Parini Section One First Words Fan Hand, Writing Durable Goods On Thermostats The Case Against Metaphor: An Apologia Section Two A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay “Brenda Miller Has a Cold,” or: How a Lyric Essay Happens A Case Against Courage in Creative Nonfiction Writing Inside the Web: Creative Nonfiction in the Age of Connection The Fine Art of Containment in Creative Nonfiction The Shared Space Between Reader and Writer: A Case Study Section Three In Memoriam On the Power of Your Word On Friendship, Assignments, Detail, and Trust Cables, Chains, and Lariats: Form as Process The Shape of Emptiness Epilogue Collaboration in the Time of Covid-19 Sources

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Book SynopsisThe two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this biography, based on a re-examination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, the author offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievements.Trade Review"A splendidly written book. . . . Richardson's critical discussions of the journals, Walden, Cape Cod, and the other works are invariably illuminating and cast a new light on Thoreau's sometimes cross-grained but fascinating personality. . . . The arc of Thoreau's progress is more absorbing than any thriller .... This is a splendidly written book, handsomely designed and illustrated by Barry Moser and worthy of a place on the bookshelf near Walden." * Boston Globe *""Absorbing and sparklingly fresh biography." * Publishers Weekly *"A prose style graceful and lucid enough to survive side by side comparison with Thoreau's own epigrammatic brilliance." * Booklist *"One of the most significant contributions of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind is its rich, erudite exploration of how Thoreau's reading -considered in, and interwoven with, the vividly portrayed contexts of his times, life, and writing-influenced and informed his intellectual and creative development." * New England Quarterly *"The Thoreau represented here both feels and thinks, complains and exalts, loves and loses—in short, we have an engrossing picture of both the inner and the outer man. . . . Written for the general reader as well as the student and scholar, this book will have no trouble assuming its place among the most noteworthy, useful, and read- able studies yet provided on Thoreau." * Journal of American History *"Richardson's exhaustively researched biography of Thoreau presents a comprehensive, thorough, deeply human, and philosophically insightful investigation of this increasingly significant author in light of the social, political, economic, scientific, intellectual, and spiritual climate of America and Europe of that day." * Journal of Forest History *"Richardson's book is the best introduction and guide to Thoreau's thought that we are likely to obtain. It leads us to re-read Thoreau [and] to recognize that we are hearing a unique, and perhaps essential, American voice." * Wilson Quarterly *"While this is not an environmental history, Richardson places his subject appropriately within the context of the landscape of Concord as it was in the 1840s and 1850s. Even more perceptively, he reveals Thoreau's environmental ideas as evolving within the ecosystem of his other intellectual interests." * Environmental Review *"Richardson, like Thoreau, writes on the level of most significant detail; his account of Thoreau's development from his return to Concord from Harvard in 1837 to his death in 1862 is neither diffusively tedious nor glibly generalizing. He is particularly original in delineating the major foreign influences on Thoreau, especially the German (Goethe), the classical (Cato), and the British (Gilpin, Darwin, and Ruskin). The style is graceful and clear, and the author's admiration for his subject does not lapse into adulation or preachiness. Both a fine introduction and a major scholarly contribution." * Library Journal *"One of the great achievements in contemporary American literary studies. . . . Aside from his learning, which is prodigious, Richardson writes a wonderfully fluent, agile prose; he has a poet's sense of nuance and a novelist's grasp of dramatic rhythm; he also displays a positive genius for apt quotation." -- John Banville, * New York Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisA guide to one of the most riveting periods of contemporary culture. It explores the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power.Table of ContentsPreface Craig Owens: "The Indignity of Speaking for Others" by Simon Watney PART I • TOWARD A THEORY OF POSTMODERNISM Einstein on the Beach: The Primacy of Metaphor Photography en abyme Detachment: from the parergon Earthwords The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, Part 2 Representation, Appropriation, and Power Sherrie Levine at A&M Artworks Allan McCollum: Repetition and Difference From Work to Frame, or, Is There Life After "The Death of the Author"? PART II • SEXUALITY/POWER Honor, Power, and the Love of Women William Wegman's Psychoanalytic Vaudeville The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism The Medusa Effect, or, The Specular Ruse Posing Outlaws: Gay Men in Feminism PART III • CULTURES Politics of Coppelia Sects and Language The Critic as Realist "The Indignity of Spe'aking for Others": An Imaginary Interview The Problem with Puerilism Analysis Logical and Ideological Improper Names Interview with Craig Owens by Anders Stephanson The Yen for Art Global Issues PART IV • PEDAGOGY Postmodern Art 1971-1986 Bibliography: Contemporary Art and Art Criticism Seminar in Theory and Criticism Bibliography: The Political Economy of Culture Visualizing AIDS Course Bibliography on Visual AIDS Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of the essays of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, which explores his thoughts on individual contemporary artists, their work, events and ethics in the art world and new, creative directions.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction, by Robert Storr The Hydrogen Jukebox: Terror, Narcissism, and Art Rothko and Belief Edvard Munch: The Missing Master I Missed Punk A Book by Larry Rivers Warhol and Class Content Dubuffet, 1980 First Voice Column Clement Greenberg Exxon Exhibition at the Guggenheim Julian Schnabel and Susan Rothenberg Arshile Gorky L.A. Demystified! Art and Life in the Eternal Present Affairs of the Heat Disney Animators Realism Again H. C. Westermann Only Connect: Bruce Nauman "Les Drippings" in Paris: The Jackson Pollock Retrospective Cindy Sherman David Salle Why New French Art Is Lousy Willem de Kooning Robert Smithson's Writings Documenta 7 Howard Finster Clemente to Marden to Kiefer Leon Golub Decade of Wonders The Grant Wood Revival On Art and Artists: Peter Schjeldahl Edouard Manet Balthus In Defense of Artistic Fashion Minimalism Philip Guston Eric Fischl Ed Ruscha: Traffic and Laughter To Pico The Daemon and Sigmar Polke Adrian Saxe and the Smart Pot The Immigrant Strain Welcome to Helgaland A Visit to the Salon of Autumn 1986 Our Kiefer Hopperesque Mike Kelley Paintings by Aborigines Jeff Koons Courbet De K.ooning Alone Treason of Clerks Velazquez Baselitz and Kippenberger Bibliography of Peter Schjeldahl's Writings on Art Index

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Book SynopsisPolish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. This title provides us with a collection of Kantor's essays in English, together with the author's analysis of the corpus of Kantor's work, both written and staged.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE PART I FURTHER ON, NOTHING ... Chronology A. A SELECTION oF TADEUSZ KANTOR'S ESSAYS AND MANIFESTOS My Work-My Journey (Excerpts) (1988) Credo (1942-44) The Autonomous Theatre (1956/63) The Informel Theatre (1961) The Informel Theatre: Definitions (Undated) The Zero Theatre (1963) Annexed Reality (1963) Emballages (1957-65) Theatre Happening (1967) The Impossible Theatre (1969-73) The Theatre of Death (1975) Reality of the Lowest Rank (1980) The Work of Art and the Process (1976) The Situation of an Artist (1977) Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear? (Cricotage) (1978) New Theatrical S p a c e . Where F i c t i o n Appears (1980) The Room. Maybe a New Phase (1980) The Infamous Transition from the World of the Dead into the World of the Living: Fiction and Reality (1980) Prison (1985) Refiection(1985) Memory (1988) The Real ''I" (1988) To Save from Oblivion (1988) Silent Night (Cricotage) (1990) A Painting (1990) From the Beginning, in My Credo Was ... (1990) B. THE MILANO LESSONS (1986) Foreword Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lessons 8, 9, 10, and 11 Lesson 12 PART 2 THE QUEST FOR THE SELF/ OTHER: A CRITICAL STUDY OF TADEUSZ KANTOR'S THEATRE The Quest for the Self: Thresholds and Transformations The Quest for the Other: Space/Memory Found Reality NOTES WRITINGS BY TADEUSZ KANTOR SELECTED WRITINGS ABOUT TADEUSZ KANTOR, CRICOT 2 THEATRE, AND THEIR PRODUCTIONS INDEX

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Book SynopsisA selection of the author's critical essays on music, which includes an analysis of Beethoven's obsession with the key of C minor, an account of William Byrd as a spokesman for the Elizabethan Catholic minority, and papers on the operas Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Tristan and Isolde.Table of ContentsPreface CRITICISM 1 A Profile for American Musicology 2 How We Got into Analysis, and How to Get Out 3 A Few Canonic Variations 4 Critics and the Classics BYRD, TALLIS, ALFONSO FERRABOSCO 5 William Byrd and Elizabethan Catholicism 6 Byrd, Tallis, and the Art of Imitation 7 "Write All These Down": Notes on a Song by Byrd 8 The Missa Puer natus est by Thomas Tallis 9 An Italian Musician in Elizabethan England BEETHOVEN 10 Tovey's Beethoven 11 An die ferne Geliebte 12 Taking the Fifth 13 Beethoven's Minority OPERA AND CONCERTO 14 Translating The Magic Flute 15 Wagner: Thoughts in Season 16 Verdi's Use of Recurring Themes 17 Two Early Verdi Operas; Two Famous Terzetti 18 Reading Don Giovanni 19 Mozart's Piano Concertos and Their Audience 20 Tristan und Isolde: The Prelude and the Play Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA collection which proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories which offer insights into the filmmaker, Luis Bunuel's life and thought.Trade Review"In this collection, Bunuel eloquently proves to be an intellectual and an ideologue and a jokester as well." -Publishers Weekly; "This book will be treasured by anyone who cares about cinema."-Sunday Tribune (Dublin); "A lovely, startling grab bag of jokes, insights, recollected dreams, superbly grave mini-essays, and general bits and pieces retrieved from Bunuel's life."-Artforum's Bookforum; "Bunuel is a filmmaker I have been stylistically haunted and influenced by for a very long time. After reading this collection of essays, some of which have never been published before, I am even more enthralled by this man. He remains my favorite voice of the surrealists."-Gus Van Sant; "This lively and diverse selection of Bunuel's literary work should provide the American reader with a much greater understanding of the man and his work, and with hours of enjoyment as well."-Julie Jones, University of New Orleans; "Bunuel didn't like to put words on paper, but thankfully he did, revealing the sly, shy, quirky, passionate, unpredictable genius whose superbly subversive films were everything but shy. This trove of reluctant writings is a rare and historical treat."-Charles Champlin, retired arts editor, Los Angeles TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Jean-Claude Carriere Surrealist Writings An Unspeakable Betrayal Orchestration Suburbs: Motifs Unnoticed Tragedies as Themes for a Totally New Theater Why 1 Don't Wear a Watch Theorem Lucille and Her Three Fish Deluge Ramuneta at the Beach Cava/feria rusticana The Pleasant Orders of St. Huesca Letter to Pepin Bello on St. Valero's Day Idea for a Story La Sancta Misa Vaticanae Menage a trois A Decent Story On Love A Giraffe An Andalusian Dog For Myself I Would Like Miraculous Polisher It Seems to Me Neither Good nor Evil Upon Getting into Bed The Rainbow and the Poultice Redemptress Bacchanal Odor of Sanctity Palace of Ice Bird of Anguish Theater Hamlet Guignol On Cinema BUNUEL AS CRITIC A Night at the Studio des Ursulines Metropolis Fred Niblo's Camille Abel Gance's Napoleon Victor Fleming's The Way of All Flesh Buster Keaton's College Variations on Adolphe Menjou's Mustache News from Hollywood Our Poets and the Cinema Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc The Comic in Cinema BUNUEL AS THEORIST The Cinematic Shot Decoupage, or Cinematic Segmentation Cinema as an Instrument of Poetry BUNUEL AS SCRIPTWRITER Goya and the Duchess of Alba Un Chien andalou L'Age d'or Gags Hallucinations about a Dead Hand Illegible, the Son of a Flute Agon (Swansong) Bunuel on Bunuel Land without Bread Viridiana To PECIME Autobiographical Writings Fragments of a Journal from Bufiuel's Youth in Calanda Medieval Memories of Lower Aragon From Bufiuel's Autobiography Pessimism Afterword by Juan Luis Bufiuel and Rafael Bufiuel

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Book SynopsisIn this eccentric etiquette guide, aphorisms, suggestions, and cautionary tales culled from Mark Twain's personal letters, speeches, and novels are dispensed on topics such as dress, health, food, childrearing, and safety.Trade Review"This wonderful book illustrates precisely why we can never have enough Twain. His humor is timeless, his wisdom about all things without equal." - Ken Burns; "If you are wrestling with how to advance stimulating dinner conversation, what to do with unwanted magazine subscriptions, how to deal with the 'odious flummery' of fashion, or whether or not to bring your dog to the next funeral, Twain is here to offer his gentle guidance." - John Boyer, Executive Director of The Mark Twain House and Museum; "A delightful display of Mark Twain's wit and humor. This is the perfect gift book for any aficionado of Mark Twain, any connoisseur of the risible, or any stuffed shirt who needs to lighten up." - Gregg Camfield, editor of The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Everyday Etiquette A Letter of Apology About the Effect of Intemperate Language Be Good, Be Good. A Poem An Innovative Dinner Party Signal System About American Manners Breaking It Gently Courtesy to Unexpected Visitors At the Funeral A Telephonic Conversation 2. Modest Proposals and Judicious Complaints A Christmas Wish Proposal Regarding Local Flooding Complaint about Unreliable Service Notice about a Stolen Umbrella An Appeal against Injudicious Swearing An Unwanted Magazine Subscription On Telephones and Swearing About the Proposed Street-Widening Political Economy Notice. To the Next Burglar Suggestion to Persons Entering Heaven 3. The American Table Memories of Food on an American Farm American versus European Food An Inauspicious Meal A Remarkable Dinner Food and Scenery 4. Travel Manners Traveling in Close Quarters Communicating with the Locals A Night Excursion in a Hotel Room 5. Health and Diet Young Sam Clemens and Old-Time Doctoring The "Wake-Up-Jake" A Healthful Cocktail A Miracle Cure Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup Smoking, Diet, and Health at Age Seventy 6. Parenting and the Ethical Child The Late Benjamin Franklin On Theft and Conscience On Training Children A Sampling of Childish Ethics Youthful Misdemeanors Advice to Youth 7. Clothes, Fashion, and Style A Fashion Item The Hand of Fashion That White Suit Clothes and Deception A Sumptuous Robe 8. In Case of Emergency Playing "Bear" An Apparition The Great Earthquake in San Francisco Escape of the Tarantulas Burglary and the Well-Tempered Householder Under a Policeman's Eye About the Texts Works Cited Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisRanging in original publication dates between 1940 and 1985, this title features forty-one titles that reveal a great deal about Duncan's life in poetry - including his impressions of poets whose work he admires, both contemporaries and precursors.Trade Review"Includes some of Duncan's greatest essays ... a great help to all readers." CHOICETable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: 1940s 1. An Embryo for God: Tropic of Capricorn 2. The Homosexual in Society 3. What to Do Now 4. Reviewing View, an Attack 5. Poetics of Music: Stravinsky 6. The Poet and Poetry--A Symposium Part II: 1950s 7. Pages from a Notebook 8. From a Notebook 9. Notes on Poetics regarding Olson's Maximus Part III: 1960s 10. Properties and Our REAL Estate 11. Ideas of the Meaning of Form 12. After For Love 13. Preface: Helen Adam, Ballads 14. Poetry before Language 15. The Lasting Contribution of Ezra Pound 16. The Sweetness and Greatness of Dante's Divine Comedy 17. Introduction: William Everson, Single Source 18. Towards an Open Universe 19. The Truth and Life of Myth: An Essay in Essential Autobiography 20. A Critical Difference of View 21. Man's Fulfillment in Order and Strife 22. Jack Spicer, Poet: 1925--1965 Part IV: 1970s 23. Changing Perspectives in Reading Whitman 24. Notes on Grossinger's Solar Journal: Oecological Sections 25. Iconographical Extensions 26. Of George Herms, His Hermes, and His Hermetic Art 27. From Notes on the Structure of Rime 28. Preface to a Reading of Passages 1--22 29. Kopoltus 30. Introduction: Allen Upward, The Divine Mystery 31. An Art of Wondering 32. A Reading of Thirty Things 33. As Testimony: Reading Zukofsky These Forty Years 34. Wallace Berman: The Fashioning Spirit 35. In Introduction: John Taggart, Dodeka Part V: 1980s 36. Preface: Jack Spicer, One Night Stand & Other Poems 37. The Adventure of Whitman's Line 38. The Self in Postmodern Poetry 39. Statement on Jacobus for Borregaard's Museum 40. Afterword: Beverly Dahlen, The Egyptian Poems 41. The Delirium of Meaning Appendix: List of Uncollected Essays and Other Prose Notes Works Cited in the Essays Acknowledgments of Permissions Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"O’Doherty shifts between active participant and detached speculative mind with a fluidity and stylistic grace that propels you forward, even as it tugs at your sleeve and asks you to stop, reread, and give it more thought. O’Doherty wants us to inhabit what we perceive, to be an acute looker while fully engaging in the conundrums and contradictions that art puts to us. It is not an easy task, but it is one that he has managed admirably these many years." * Art in America *"O’Doherty is a gifted writer whose Irish-honed literary skills are placed at the service of New York’s cosmopolitan visual culture." * artcritical.com *"The present volume of this polymath’s criticism is perhaps most notable for its collection of O’Doherty’s writings on Edward Hopper and Mark Rothko, two painters whom the writer befriended and knew well. It also contains his latest word on the “white cube” (he coined the now-ubiquitous phrase) from 2009, an update to his influential 1976 Inside the White Cube, an early critique of institutional Modernism." * The New Criterion *Table of ContentsPreface: Field Notes from the Crossroads, by Liam Kelly / vii Introduction: A Ship’s Log of / to Modernism, by Anne-Marie Bonnet / 1 On the Nature of Masquerade, by Brian O’Doherty / 7 HOPPER / ROTHKO Hopper’s Look / 13 Word and Image: A Reciprocal Arrangement / 28 Windows and Edward Hopper’s Gaze / 37 Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning / 49 Rothko’s Dark Paintings: Tragedy and Void / 55 The Rothko Chapel / 72 Rothko’s Endgame / 80 Chamber Music in the Next Room / 89 ART-LIKE The Politics and Aesthetics of Heart Transplants / 99 The Microscopic Vision / 107 Highway to Las Vegas / 114 Las Vegas Revisited / 122 Miami and the Iconography of the Pompadour Style / 128 PHOTOGRAPHY / FILM / VIDEO Kane’s Welles: The Phantom of the Opus / 139 Et in Arkadin Ego / 148 Barzyk: Electronic Visionary / 158 The Worlds of Nam June Paik / 168 Hans Richter / 172 FACEtime: Katharina Sieverding and (Maybe) Oscar Wilde / 184 Narcissus in Hades / 190 Development Errors: Michener’s Photographs / 193 James Coleman: What Waiting Can Do, Given Time / 196 Terrible Beauty: On Steve McQueen’s Hunger / 201 Nigel Rolfe: Two Drums / 204 DISPATCHES FROM THE SIXTIES AND BEYOND Stella and Hesse: Dispatches from the Sixties / 211 Segal’s Metropolis / 222 Warhol: The Medium as Cultural Artifact / 233 Taking Duchamp’s Portrait / 241 Morton Feldman: The Burgacue Years / 250 Divesting the Self: A Striptease / 263 Rauschenberg / Counter-Rauschenberg / 274 Wesley’s Hip-Pop / 281 William Scharf: The Long and the Short Eye / 286 Chamberlain: Projective Sculpture / 292 Peter Hutchinson: A Green Thought in a Green Shade / 303 Joseph Cornell: Innocence and Experience / 317 WHITE CUBE / BLACK BOX Boxes, Cubes, Installations, Whiteness and Money / 327 List of Illustrations / 333

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship. It features forty-four articles that take stock of the history, evolving literature, and the trajectories of new world history.Trade Review"A valuable, sophisticated, and well-organized selection of papers written by many leading experts in the field... The New World History is a tour de force." World History ConnectedTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Further Reading CHAPTER 1 WORLD HISTORY OVER TIME: THE EVOLUTION OF AN INTELLECTUAL AND PEDAGOGICAL MOVEMENT Introduction The Rise of World History Scholarship * Craig A. Lockard World History * Marnie Hughes-Warrington Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course * Gilbert Allardyce Marshall G. S. Hodgson and the Hemispheric Interregional Approach to World History * Edmund Burke III Further Reading CHAPTER 2 DEFINING WORLD HISTORY: SOME KEY STATEMENTS Introduction Hemispheric Interregional History as an Approach to World History * Marshall G. S. Hodgson The Rise of the West after Twenty-Five Years * William H. McNeill Depth, Span, and Relevance * Philip D. Curtin A Plea for World System History * Andre Gunder Frank Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History * Jerry H. Bentley World History and the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality * Merry Wiesner-Hanks Further Reading CHAPTER 3 REGIONS IN WORLD-HISTORICAL CONTEXT Introduction The Middle East and North Africa in World History * Julia A. Clancy-Smith No Longer Odd Region Out: Repositioning Latin America in World History * Lauren Benton Southeast Asia in World History * Craig A. Lockard American History as if the World Mattered (and Vice Versa) * Carl Guarneri Further Reading CHAPTER 4 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL SPACE Introduction The Architecture of Continents: The Development of the Continental Scheme * Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen Southernization * Lynda Shaffer Oceans of World History: Delineating Aquacentric Notions in the Global Past * Rainer F. Buschmann Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities * Alison Games Further Reading CHAPTER 5 RETHINKING WORLD-HISTORICAL TIME Introduction Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History * Jerry H. Bentley When Does World History Begin? (And Why Should We Care?) * David Northrup History and Science after the Chronometric Revolution * David Christian Worlding History * Daniel A. Segal Further Reading CHAPTER 6 WORLD HISTORY AS COMPARISON Introduction Global and Comparative History * Michael Adas Frameworks for Global Historical Analysis * Patrick Manning How to Write the History of the World * Lauren Benton What Is World History Good For? * Kenneth Pomeranz Further Reading CHAPTER 7 DEBATING THE QUESTION OF WESTERN POWER Introduction Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global Conjuncture * Kenneth Pomeranz The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity * Joseph M. Bryant Capitalist Origins, the Advent of Modernity, and Coherent Explanation: A Response to Joseph M. Bryant * Jack A. Goldstone Comparison in Global History * Prasannan Parthasarathi Further Reading CHAPTER 8 WORLD HISTORY, BIG HISTORY, AND THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT Introduction The Columbian Exchange * Alfred W. Crosby Matter Matters: Towards a More "Substantial" Global History * Frank Uekotter The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature? * Will Steffen, Paul J. Crutzen, and John R. McNeill Big History: The Emergence of a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach * Fred Spier Further Reading CHAPTER 9 GLOBAL HISTORY AND GLOBALIZATION Introduction Global History: Approaches and New Directions * Maxine Berg Comparing Global History to World History * Bruce Mazlish Cycles of Silver: Globalization as Historical Process * Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian's Perspective * Frederick Cooper Further Reading CHAPTER 10 CRITIQUES AND QUESTIONS Introduction Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives * Dominic Sachsenmaier Much Ado about Something: The New Malaise of World History * Vinay Lal Myths, Wagers, and Some Moral Implications of World History * Jerry H. Bentley Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame: Why a Multicentric World History Needs Africa * Joseph C. Miller Women's and Men's World History? Not Yet * Judith P. Zinsser Histories for a Less National Age * Kenneth Pomeranz Further Reading Teaching World History, Further Reading Credits Index

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Book SynopsisStudios are, at once, material environments and symbolic forms, sites of artistic creation and physical labor, and nodes in networks of resource circulation. They are architectural places that generate virtual spacesworlds built to build worlds. Yet, despite being icons of corporate identity, studios have faded into the background of critical discourse and into the margins of film and media history. In response, In the Studio demonstrates that when we foreground these worlds, we gain new insights into moving-image culture and the dynamics that quietly mark the worlds on our screens. Spanning the twentieth century and moving globally, this unique collection tells new stories about studio iconsPinewood, Cinecittà, Churubusco, and CBSas well as about the experimental workplaces of filmmakers and artists from Aleksandr Medvedkin to Charles and Ray Eames and Hollis Frampton. Trade Review“Consumers in the 1930s understood the importance of the studio; In the Studio argues that contemporary scholars of film and media studies should follow suit. The volume makes an important contribution to these disciplines, helping to advance a new subfield by showing how an emphasis on the material spaces of production expands or nuances our understanding of cinema and television.” * The Moving Image *"It is certain that In the Studio’s holistic methodology will provide a blueprint for the still vital research on the material environments that shape our media." * Screen *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Studio Perspectives Brian R. Jacobson PART ONE. FORMATIONS 1. “The Longed-For Crystal Palace”: Empire, Modernity, and Nikkatsu Mukōjima’s Glass Studio, 1913–1923 Diane Wei Lewis 2. Regulating Light, Interiors, and the National Image: Electrification and Studio Space in 1920s Brazil Rielle Navitski 3. Ephemeral Studios: Exhibiting Televisual Spaces during the Interwar Years Anne-Katrin Weber PART TWO. FOUNDATIONS 4. Estudios Churubusco: A Transnational Studio for a National Industry Laura Isabel Serna 5. Pinewood Studios, the Independent Frame, and Innovation Sarah Street 6. Backlots of the World War: Cinecittà, 1942–1950 Noa Steimatsky PART THREE. ALTERNATIVE ROUTES 7. The Film Train Stops at Mosfilm: Aleksandr Medvedkin and the Operative Film Factory Robert Bird 8. Postindustrial Studio Lifestyle: The Eameses in the Environment of 901 Justus Nieland 9. The Last Qualitative Scientist: Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab Jeff Menne PART FOUR. STUDIO FUTURES 10. Made-for-Broadcast Cities Lynn Spigel 11. The Nature of the Firm and the Nature of the Farm: Lucasfilm, the Campus, and the Contract J. D. Connor 12. “Make It What You Want It to Be”: Logistics, Labor, and Land Financialization via the Globalized Free Zone Studio Kay Dickinson Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLiving Genres in Late Modernityrehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations of works, people, practices, institutions, technologies, money, conventions, forms, ideas, and multisensory experiences. What these genres share is a significant cultural moment: they arrive just after the sixties and are haunted by a sense of belatedness, loss, or doubt, even as they embrace narratives of progress or abundance. These genres give us reasonsand meansto examine our culture's self-understandings. Through close readings and large-scale mappings of cultural and stylistic patterns, the book's five linked studies reveal how genres help construct personal and cultural identities that are both partial and overlapping, that exist in tension with one another, and that we experienTable of ContentsContents List of Musical Examples Note on Musical Examples Introduction: Listening for Genres 1 1 • Unengaging Histories: The Pop Song’s “More” and Melancholy Democracy, 1968–69 2 • Space Issues: The Seventies-Soul Complex 3 • Exchange Theories: Disco, New Wave, and Album-Oriented Rock 4 • Senses: Nocturnes among the Smaller Genres 5 • Forces: The Late-Modern Concerto Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents In Lieu of Dedication: Fine Friends, Presiding Spirits—László Somfai, Lyudmila Kovnatskaya, Richard L. Crocker 1. The Many Dangers of Music LACI RESZE (LACI'S PART) 2. Liszt and Bad Taste 3. Goldmark’s Queen: On Signifiers 4. Why You Cannot Leave Bartók Out 5. Liszt’s Problems, Bartók’s Problems, My Problems 6. Kodály’s Pitiful Lament—and Mine милина часть (MILA'S PART) 7. Russian Responses to Bach 8. So Much More Than a Composer 9. Rimsky-Korsakov Catches Up 10. Prokofieff’s Problems—and Ours 11. Коле посвящается (for Kolya) 12. In from the Cold 13. Flesh and Blood Juke Box 14. Tales of Push and Pull 15. Was Shostakovich a Martyr, or Is That Just Fiction? 16. How to Win a Stalin Prize: Shostakovich and His Quintet PARS RICARDI PRIMI (RICARDUS PRIMUS'S PART) 17. Shooting a White Elephant 18. Is This a Thing? 19. Exoticism and Authenticity 20. Pathos Is Banned 21. Everybody Gotta Be Someplace: On Context 22. Alluring Failure, Exhilarating Defeat 23. Envoi: All Was Foreseen; Nothing Was Foreseen Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisEmmanuel Levinas has been Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and the director of the Ecole Normale Israelite Orientale. Through such works as Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being, he has exerted a profound influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy, providing inspiration for Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot and Irigaray. The Levinas Reader collects, often for the first time in English, essays by Levinas encompassing every aspect of his thought: the early phenomenological studies written under the guidance and inspiration of Husserl and Heidegger; the fully developed ethical critique of such totalizing philosophies; the pioneering texts on the moral dimension to aesthetics; the rich and subtle readings of the Talmud which are an exemplary model of an ethical, transcendental philosophy at work; the admirable meditations on current political issues. Sean Hand''s introduction gives a complete overview of Levinas''s work and situates each chapter within his general contrTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: From Existence to Ethics:. 1. The Phenomenological Theory of Being. 2. There is: Existence without Existents. 3. Time and the Other. 4. Martin Buber and the Theory of Knowledge. 5. Ethics as First Philosophy. 6. Substitution. Part II: Reading Writing, Revolution, or Aesthetics, Religion, Politics, Aesthetics:. 7. Reality and its Shadow. 8. The Transcendence of Words. 9. The Servant and her Master. 10. The Other Proust: Religion. 11. God and Philosophy. 12. Revelation in the Jewish Tradition. 13. The Pact. 14. Prayer without Demand. Politics. 15. Ideology and Idealism. 16. Difficult Freedom. 17. Zionisms. 18. Ethics and Politics. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the six centuries before the Norman Conquest, the Anglo-Saxons set their mark on England: the origins of much that is distinctive in modern English culture may be found in the period, most notably the English language itself. This outstanding book is an introduction to Old English language and literature set within the context of Anglo-Saxon history and society -so arranged that the one constantly illuminates the other. Parts I, II, and V aim to provide the reader with an understanding of, and in particular the ability to read, Old English. Drawing on over four decades of teaching experience, the author proceeds in clear, manageable steps. He stresses the ''Englishness'' of Old English, guides the reader through possible difficulties, and illustrates each point with examples. Part III presents a wide-ranging account of Anglo-Saxon England. A description of the literature is followed by a brief history of the period, made vivid through a series of extracts from the Anglo-STrade Review"An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England is a scholarly yet popular work that introduces us to Old English and its historical and social environment." History of LanguageTable of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgements. Contents. List of Figures. Map of Anglo Saxon England. How To Use This Book. Introduction. Part I: Spelling, Pronunciation, and Pronunciation:. Part II: Other Differences between Old English and Modern English:. Part III: An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England:. Part IV: The Garden of Old English Literature:. Part V: Some Paradigms -For Those Who Would Like Them:. Abbreviations and Symbols. Bibliography. Some Significant Dates. Glossary. Grammatical and Lexical Index. General Index.

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Book SynopsisPresenting an interpretation of England in the 1690s, this book reconstructs the reign of William III through the eyes and in the words of those who lived through it. The author employs a range of sources including popular ballads, correspondence, diaries, pamphlets, sermons, poems, and memoirs.Trade Review"Rose seeks to provide 'a student-friendly general book on the period,' and succeeds admirably...The result is a wealth of illustration from pamphlets, poems, sermons and other contemporary publications." English Historical Review "In Craig Rose the reign of William and Mary has found an able interpreter, one who is equally at home exploring the financial complications of European warfare and the ecclesiastical complications of Protestant disagreement. Providing a balanced survey of ideas and events, Rose has written the most ambitious book about the decade since Henry Horwitz's study of its parliaments... this is a compelling and readable work ... students and teaches of British history and Literature will find it indispensable." H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsList pf Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Note to the Reader. 1. William the Conqueror. 2. King William and his Contemporaries. 3. Parties and Politics. 4. King William's War. 5. The Church of England. 6. Godly Reformation. 7. Scotland and Ireland. 8. A Remembrance of Times Past. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisNineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women''s expression.Trade Review"This anthology offers a fascinating selection of material which ought to enthuse the scholarly and general reader alike." S. M. Grant, University of Newcastle-upon-TyneTable of ContentsSelected Contents by Genre. Selected Contents by Theme. Alphabetical List of Author. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Native American Myths. Sampler Verses. Mary Jemison (Degiwene’s) (Seneca) (1743-1833). “Old Elizabeth” (1766-18??). Eliza Leslie (1787-1858). Catheraine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867). Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865). Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871). Sojourner Thruth (c. 1797-1883)/Frances Dana Gage (1808-1884). Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864). Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880). Betsey Chamberlain (dates Unkown) and The Lowell Offering Writers. Lorenza Stevens Berbineau (c. 1806-1869). Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). Fanny Fern (sara Payton Willis Parton) (1811-1872). Frances Sargent Osgoos (1811-1850). Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). Alice Cary (1820-1871). Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911). Lucy Larcom (1824-1893). Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892). Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Susan Gilbert Dickinson (1830-1913). Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885). Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910). Mary Mapes Dodge (1831?-1905). Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). Maria Amaparo Ruiz De Burton (1832-1895). Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921). Celia Thaxter (1835-1894). Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919). Marietta Holley (“Josiah Allen’s Wife”) (1836-1926). Catherine Owen (Helen Alice Matthews Nitsch) (?-1899). Constance Fenimore Woolson (1844-1911). Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (Paiute) (c. 1844-1891). Mary Jallock Foote (847-1938). Sarah Barnwell Elliott (1848-1928). Emma Lazarus (1849-1887). Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909). Kate Chopin (1851-1904). Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930). Grace King (1852-1932). Lizette Woodorth Reese (1856-1935). Kate Dougls Wiggin (1856-1923). Anna Julia Cooper (c. 1858-1930). Laura Jacobson (Dates unknown). Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman (1860-1935). Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920). E. Pauline Jonson (Tekhionwake) (Mohawk) (1861-1913). Mary Weston Fordham (c. 1862-?). Ida Baker Wells-Barnett (1863-1905). Kate McPhelim Cleary (1863-1905). Sui Sin Far (edith Maud Eaton) (1865-1914). Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934). Sophia Alice Callahan (Creek) (1868-1894). Martha Wolfenstein (1869-1905). Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935). Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton) (1875-1954). Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (Sioux) (1876-1938). Maria Cristina Mena (1893-1965). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career.Trade Review"Every student of English will be thankful to Regan for assembling this Reader. Useful essays frame each section and the collection as a whole serves as a splendid introduction to Eagleton's work. His delightful wit and debunking similes make reading him fun, as well as necessary." Gary Day, Times Higher Education Supplement "As this anthology makes clear, Eagleton's work has been held together for nearly 20 years by a startling proposal for the reform of the academic syllabus." "If the humanities are to be rescued from their current state of over-specialised torpor, then Eagleton's work will be one of the main sources to which the reformers will turn." Morning StarTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Part I: Literary Criticism:. Introduction. 1. The Novels of D. H. Lawrence. 2. Nature and the Fall in Hopkins: A Reading of 'God's Grandeur' (1973). 3. Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure (1974). 4. Wuthering Heights (1975). 5. Shakespeare and the Letter of the Law (1986). 6. Tony Harrison's V (1986). 7. Estrangement and Irony in the Fiction of Milan Kundera (1987). Part II: Cultural Politics/Sexual Politics:. Introduction. 8. The Idea of a Common Culture (1967). 9. Tennyson: Politics and Sexuality in The Princess and In Memoriam (1978). 10. The Rape of Clarissa (1982). 11. The Crisis in Contemporary Culture (1992). 12. Body Work (1993). Part III: Marxism and Critical Theory:. Introduction. 13. Ideology and Literary Form (1976). 14. Walter Benjamin: Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981). 15. Human Rights and Deconstruction (1992). 16. Ideology (1994). 17. Marxist Literary Theory (1995). 18. Marxism without Marxism: Jacques Derrida and Specters of Marx (1995). Part IV: Modernism and Postmodernism:. Introduction. 19. The End of English (1987). 20. Modernism, Myth, and Monopoly Capitalism (1989). 21. Defending the Free World (1990). 22. The Right and the Good: Postmodernism and the Liberal State (1994). Part V: Friends and Philosophers:. Introduction. 23. Resources for a Journey of Hope: Raymond Williams (1989). 24. The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer (1990). 25. My Wittgenstein (1994). Part VI: Ireland's Own:. Introduction. 26. History and Myth in Yeats's 'Easter' 1916 (1971). 27. Nationalism: Irony and Commitment (1988). 28. Saint Oscar (1989). 29. Unionism and Utopia: The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney (1991). 30. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (1995). The Ballad of Marxist Criticism. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis reader provides the student with a comprehensive selection, charting Terry Eagleton's distinctive intellectual development. It includes a chronological arrangement of key materials from Eagleton's major books, including selections from the output of a prolific journalistic career.Trade Review"Every student of English will be thankful to Regan for assembling this Reader. Useful essays frame each section and the collection as a whole serves as a splendid introduction to Eagleton's work. His delightful wit and debunking similes make reading him fun, as well as necessary." Gary Day, Times Higher Education Supplement "As this anthology makes clear, Eagleton's work has been held together for nearly 20 years by a startling proposal for the reform of the academic syllabus." "If the humanities are to be rescued from their current state of over-specialised torpor, then Eagleton's work will be one of the main sources to which the reformers will turn." Morning StarTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Literary Criticism. Introduction. 1. The Novels of D. H. Lawrence. 2. Nature and the Fall in Hopkins: A Reading of 'God's Grandeur' (1973). 3. Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure (1974). 4. Wuthering Heights (1975). 5. Shakespeare and the Letter of the Law (1986). 6. Tony Harrison's V (1986). 7. Estrangement and Irony in the Fiction of Milan Kundera (1987). Part II: Cultural Politics/Sexual Politics. Introduction. 8. The Idea of a Common Culture (1967). 9. Tennyson: Politics and Sexuality in The Princess and In Memoriam (1978). 10. The Rape of Clarissa (1982). 11. The Crisis in Contemporary Culture (1992). 12. Body Work (1993). Part III: Marxism and Critical Theory. Introduction. 13. Ideology and Literary Form (1976). 14. Walter Benjamin: Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981). 15. Human Rights and Deconstruction (1992). 16. Ideology (1994). 17. Marxist Literary Theory (1995). 18. Marxism without Marxism: Jacques Derrida and Specters of Marx (1995). Part IV: Modernism and Postmodernism. Introduction. 19. The End of English (1987). 20. Modernism, Myth, and Monopoly Capitalism (1989). 21. Defending the Free World (1990). 22. The Right and the Good: Postmodernism and the Liberal State (1994). Part V: Friends and Philosophers. Introduction. 23. Resources for a Journey of Hope: Raymond Williams (1989). 24. The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer (1990). 25. My Wittgenstein (1994). Part VI: Ireland's Own. Introduction. 26. History and Myth in Yeats's 'Easter' 1916 (1971). 27. Nationalism: Irony and Commitment (1988). 28. Saint Oscar (1989). 29. Unionism and Utopia: The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney (1991). 30. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (1995). The Ballad of Marxist Criticism. Bibliography. Index.

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