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Voltaire Foundation Œuvres complètes de Voltaire Complete Works of
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 51A Recueil des
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McGill-Queen's University Press Art Education and Cultural Renewal
Book SynopsisWhat good is art? What is the point of a university education? Can philosophers contribute anything to social liberation? Such questions, both ancient and urgent, are the pulse of reformational philosophy. Inspired by the vision of the Dutch religious and political leader Abraham Kuyper, reformational philosophy pursues social transformation for the common good. In this companion volume to Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a socially engaged philosophy of the arts and higher education. Interacting with the ideas of leading Kuyperian thinkers such as Calvin Seerveld and Nicholas Wolterstorff, Zuidervaart shows why renewal in the arts needs to coincide with political and economic transformation. He also calls for education and research that serve the common good. Deeply rooted in reformational philosophy, his book brings a fresh and inspiring voice to current discussions of religious aesthetics and Christian scholarship. Art, Education, and CulturalTrade Review" Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal will appeal to a wide range of readers - beyond those versed in Reformational philosophy - to include general Christian audiences interested in how art and education can contribute to the common good. The author' s personal commitment to this vision resonates through the entire book." Thomas Reynolds, University of Toronto
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University of British Columbia Press Dispatches from Disabled Country
Book SynopsisDisability is not our worst-case scenario our worst-case scenario would be its annihilation. This is the starting point for this powerful collection of writing by and about Catherine Frazee, disability activist, Officer of the Order of Canada, and poetic scholar of justice. For Frazee, disability is not something to be dreaded or overcome but a force to be reckoned with a prism of insight and experience that refracts new light upon our fundamental ideals of justice, beauty, and community.Catherine Frazee has been a central figure in the disability rights landscape in Canada for decades. Her reasoned and passionate insights are topical and often ahead of their time. Always bold, always progressive, and frequently provocative, Frazee's work presents an unwavering, fierce commitment to engage in public debate from a position that centres the lives of disabled people. Taken together, these writings chronicle the rising consciousness of a social movement of disableTable of ContentsForeword / Kathryn Church and Melanie PanitchPreface: About Disabled Country / Catherine FrazeeIntroduction / Christine Kelly and Michael OrsiniRefusing ExtinctionIntroduction / Harvey ChochinovDeath in Disabled Country: Declaring Ourselves in the MAiD DebateUnder the Microscope: Dissecting Law and Medicine in the Disability Rights LaboratoryDisability and Law: Rethinking ParadigmsVigils for Tracy LatimerVulnerability and Inducement: Locating the Cart and the HorseDisability Studies: The Genetic Counsellor’s Unexpected GuestLamb AffidavitDisrupting CultureIntroduction / Eliza ChandlerArt with AttitudeBecause We Are: Anthem for Disabled CountryKicking the Applecart, Upsetting CultureAbsent Presence: Disability in (and out of) the MuseumStelco’s Cabin, a ResponseContributing to CultureOut from Under: Two BeginningsUnmaking VulnerabilityIntroduction / Laverne JacobsViolence, Disability, and RememberingCourageous StatesDisability in a Dangerous TimeVenom without Malice: On First Meeting a RattlesnakeSeparate but Equal, Isn’tActivism WorksWhy Monsters Matter: Portrait of the Activist as a Young MonsterConclusion: An Interview with Catherine Frazee / Michael Orsini and Christine KellyNotes; References; Index
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Cornell University Press The Soul of Socrates
Book SynopsisThis text traces Plato's struggle to simultaneously understand and convey the erotic presence of Socrates. Most commentators have supposed Plato assumed an ironic distance from Socrates. Ranasinghe claims the dialogues reflect Plato's awe and frustration before the enigmatic figure.
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the
Book SynopsisHe traces the development and transmission of the Cyclic poems in ancient Greek culture, comparing them to later Homeric poems and finding that they were far more influential than has previously been thought.Trade ReviewA lively and venturesome study of the relationship between the Homeric epics and the largely lost Cyclic poems... A very interesting and accessible book. -- S. Douglas Olson Religious Studies Review This is a bracingly skeptical treatment of some important issues... A fresh, engaging exercise in heterodox scholarship. Greece and Rome [Jonathan Burgess] has firmly established the case that the Cyclic epics should be regarded as more authoritative representatives of Greek tradition about the Trojan War than the poems of Homer... Essential reading for everyone seriously interested in Homer and Greek epic tradition. -- Margalit Finkelberg Bryn Mawr Classical Review The Iliad and the Odyssey continue to be translated anew, and noticed when they are. Less widely noticed [is] other poetry about the Trojan War... The range and argument of the book make it valuable to any with an interest in what we call Homeric, and indeed, in ancient traditions generally. Virginia Quarterly Review Both the author's remarkable knowledge of previous scholarship on the topic and his eminently moderate and well-balanced approach make this volume a most valuable resource for approaching this complex field, and it immediately becomes indispensable for the study of Homeric and early non-Homeric epic. -- Mark W. Edwards Phoenix Anyone who has a serious interest in Homer and the Greek epic tradition should find this a valuable and thought-provoking book. -- Mike Chappell Journal of Classics Teaching 2005 A well argued book that packs a great deal of scholarship and insight into less than two-hundred pages. It deserves careful and repeated reading. -- D.M. Carter Polis 2010Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote to ReaderList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Part I: The Epic Cycle and the Tradition of the Trojan WarChapter 1. Origins of the Cycle PoemsChapter 2. The Manufacture of the Epic CycleChapter 3. The "Cyclic" Tradition of the Trojan WarChapter 4. "Cyclic" Trojan War ImagesChapter 5. Later ManifestationsPart II: Homer and the Tradition of the Trojan WarChapter 6. "Cyclic" Myth in the Homeric PoemsChapter 7. The Date of the Homeric PoemsChapter 8. Iliadic ImagesChapter 9. Cyclops: Image and FolktaleChapter 10. Homeric PassagesPart III: The Epic Cycle and HomerChapter 11. Cropping Around the Homeric PoemsChapter 12. Extent of the Cycle PoemsChapter 13. Homeric Influence on the Epic Cycle?Chapter 14. Non-Homeric Aspects of the Epic CycleConclusionAppendix A: Photos and ProclusAppendix B: Schematization of R. Cook's TablesAppendix C: Trojan War Images to 600 B.C.E.Appendix D: Blinding and Escape ImagesAppendix E: Select Epic Passages Featuring LeavesNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Fiction of Narrative Essays on History
Book SynopsisThe Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies.Trade ReviewThe book will interest scholars from an array of disciplines... Recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsEditor's NotePrefaceEditor's IntroductionAcknowledgments1. Collingwood and Toynbee: Transitions in English Historical Thought2. Religion, Culture, and Western Civilization in Christopher Dawson's Idea of History3. The Abiding Relevance of Croce's Idea of History4. Romanticism, Historicism, and Realism: Toward a Period Concept for Early Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History5. The Tasks of Intellectual History6. The Culture of Criticism: Gombrich, Auerbach, Popper7. The Structure of Historical Narrative8. What Is a Historical System?9. The Politics of Contemporary Philosophy of History10. The Problem of Change in Literary History11. The Problem of Style in Realistic Representation: Marx and Flaubert12. The Discourse of History13. Vico and Structuralist/Poststructuralist Thought14. The Interpretation of Texts15. Historical Pluralism and Pantextualism16. The "Nineteenth Century" as Chronotope17. Ideology and Counterideology in Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism18. Writing in the Middle Voice19. Northrop Frye's Place in Contemporary Cultural Studies20. Storytelling: Historical and Ideological21. The Suppression of Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century22. Postmodernism and Textual Anxieties23. Guilty of History? The longue durée of Paul RicoeurNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press All a Novelist Needs Colm Tibn on Henry James
Book SynopsisToibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.Trade ReviewThe book does not disappoint. The essays may be incidental-reviews, introductions, lectures-but each conveys a sense of Toibin's deep engagement with his subject and his writer's way with words. Irish Times 2010 Anyone interested in Toibin's process of transforming the life of James into a novel of immense subtlety should look carefully at a recent volume of essays. -- Jay Parini Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Susan M. GriffinChapter 1. Henry James in Ireland: A FootnoteChapter 2. The Haunting of Lamb HouseChapter 3. A More Elaborate Web: Becoming Henry JamesChapter 4. Pure Evil: "The Turn of the Screw"Chapter 5. The Lessons of the MasterChapter 6. Henry James's New YorkChapter 7. A Death, a Book, an Apartment: The Portrait of a LadyChapter 8. Reflective BiographyChapter 9. A Bundle of LettersChapter 10. All a Novelist NeedsChapter 11. The Later JamesesAfterword: SilenceIndex
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University of Toronto Press The Jesuit Series Part Four LP
Book SynopsisThis bibliography encompasses all extant books of emblems, and books dealing with the theory and practice of emblematics written by members of The Society of Jesus. Translations and adaptations of Jesuit works in all languages are also included.
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University of Toronto Press A Brefe Dialoge bitwene a Christen Father and his
Book SynopsisA new critical edition of the first Protestant catechism to be published in English. The editors' introduction establishes the historical, religious, social and cultural contexts out of which the work was born.
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University of Toronto Press Literary Essays and Reviews
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University of Nebraska Press The Summer Game
Book SynopsisThe Summer Game, Roger Angell’s first book on the sport, changed baseball writing forever. Thoughtful, funny, appreciative of the elegance of the game and the passions invested by players and fans, it goes beyond the usual sports reporter’s beat to examine baseball’s complex place in the American psyche.Trade Review“This collection of essays takes you into the heart of baseball as it was in the 1960s, conveyed with humor and insight. . . . The key here is that Roger Angell is a stunning writer. He is also in many ways a highly cerebral one and yet utterly down to earth—a writer who can translate the nuances of the game with perfect clarity.”—Tim McCarver, The Wall Street Journal“Page for page, The Summer Game contains not only the classiest but also the most resourceful baseball writing I have ever read.”—New York Times Book Review“Only Angell’s love of language surpasses his passion for baseball. . . . A splendid book.”—Newsweek“A decade’s worth of meditations and observations . . . searching for the Higher Game, the cosmology behind each pitch, each swing, each ‘shared joy and ridiculous hope’ of summer’s long adventure.”—New York Review of Books"Fans know that Angell, fiction editor for The New Yorker, is one of the heavy hitters of baseball writing. Dating back to 1977 and 1972, respectively, these are two of his finest collections. Essential for public and academic libraries."—Library Journal
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University of Nebraska Press Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books
Book SynopsisProvides both a litany of writers' fears and a dismissal of the alibis offered to excuse them. The author aims to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company.Trade Review"A mercurially playful paradox of confessional literature, authorial awakening, and creative endeavor."—Kirkus Reviews
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University of Nebraska Press Not Under Forty
Book SynopsisContains the author's essays that are personal on the surface, and stresses upon what impresses her in really good literature.
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University of Nebraska Press Speaking to the Rose
Book SynopsisAfter a wandering, precarious life during which he produced poems, essays, stories, and novels, Robert Walser (1878-1956) entered an insane asylum, saying, 'I am not here to write, but to be mad'. This work features a collection of fifty translations of short prose pieces that cover the middle to later years of the writer's oeuvre.Trade Review“Middleton translates to perfection both the text and the spirit. . . . Walser’s central themes of self-effacement, the primacy of the imagination, the liberating aim of creative play are richly displayed in the new volume. You’ll find both the Walser deadpan . . . and his pratfall. . . . . Walser’s lightness is lighter than light, buoyant up to and beyond belief, terrifyingly light. At times, he seems closer to writers like the French poet Francis Ponge than to his 'weightier' peers such as Musil, Broch, or Mann. Both Ponge and Walser, through an almost phenomenological parsing and shedding of received notions, reveal the uniqueness of insignificant things. In his insignificance, Walser was among the sovereign.”—Bookforum“Journals (and the contemporary malady of journalishness) are full of solitude and feigned humility, as small as personal; Walser's microtexts are the opposite. Or, small script = large human. Smallness makes text liquid, lose-able, ubiquitous. Walser is a scale explosion.”—Trisha Donnelly, Artforum International“Splendidly translated by the inestimable Christopher Middleton, a poet and champion of Walser’s. . . . They remind us of the pleasure of his keen eye, his alert imagination, and his lyric voice.”—Joseph Dewey, Review of Contemporary Fiction“A little gem. . . . Christopher Middleton has translated and introduced a selection of Walser’s strange scribbles, including many from his pre-asylum period. . . . What a find.”—George Fetherling, New Brunswick ReaderTable of ContentsA Note on Van Gogh's L'Arlesienne; Brentano; Writing Geschwister Tanner; The Back; Alley; The Story of the Prodigal Son; The Cave Man; Dreaming; Hercules; Odysseus; Theseus; Olga's Story; Something about Goethe; The Robber; The One and Only; Finally she condescended; The Fairytale Town; The Blind Man; And now he was playing, alas, the piano; An Essay on Lion Taming; These little services; Ramses II; Spanish Wine; Wall; It can so happen that; Brentano (III); From the Life of a Writer; Letter of a European; O how in this not large; Apparently not a cloud; The White Lady; The Red Thread; I would like to be standing; Loud expressions of opinion; Letter to a patient Lady; The stage space might have measured; Looking out into the landscape; It's still not so long ago; Cabaret Scene; The idea was a delicate one; Execution Story; To a Poet; She addresses me; Prose Piece; Me Endeavors; I was Reading Two Stories; A Propos the Kissing of a Hand; The Avenue; Heroic Landscape; The Gifted Person; The Lake; Epilogue
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University of Nebraska Press Thinking Continental Writing the Planet One
Book SynopsisIn response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about “thinking continental”—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.Trade Review"Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place as a Time is an anthology of poetry, personal narratives, and critical essays that responds holistically to the unprecedented pressures on the environment today."—Greg Brown, World Literature Today"With its novel conjunction of scientists and artists, this collection is not only a groundbreaking but also a wave-making model of collaborative mapping."—John Shoptaw, Western American Literature"In this diverse and varied anthology, editors Thomas Lynch, Susan Naramore Maher, Drucilla Wall, and O. Alan Weltzien bring together different perspectives, bridging the gap between the local and planetary scales most commonly seen in environmental writing."—Cory Willard, Goose“This is exactly the kind of book that helps us to understand where and who we are, what it means to be ‘emplaced’ on this planet.”—Scott Slovic, coeditor of Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment “With the help of literature, these essays and poems lead us from personal particulars to our shared planet, and in so doing, they nourish our filamentary imaginations.”—SueEllen Campbell, author of The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science, and Culture “Time and again I found articles, essays, and poems working together like facets of a prism, a succeeding work illuminating the one before it and setting up resonances with the one to follow.”—Robert Root, author of Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and PlaceTable of ContentsIntroduction: An Alignment of Stones Part 1. Ground Truths A World of Islands Elizabeth Dodd Three Stations along the Ring of Fire O. Alan Weltzien The Deepest Layer Harmon Maher Deep Mapping Communities in the West of Ireland Nessa Cronin Where Narratives Met: Microplace and Macrospace in Early Fascist Primary School Textbooks and the Case of Eugenio Cirese’s Gente buona (1925) Fabiana Dimpflmeier Imagining the Memory of the Earth: Geo-Site and the Aesthetic of the Anthropocene Andrea Benassi Cacophonous Silence (The Sound of Falling Wildly): A Transnational Experiment in Ecological Performance Poiesis Jess Allen and Bronwyn Preece Poetry 1: Ground Truths Meadows and Fireflies Aliki Barnstone Sonora Desert: Winter Afternoon Singing Itself Alberto Ríos Too Easy Greg Delanty Communion Twyla Hansen Strata Songs: Galway and Arizona Susan Millar DuMars Sutra, in Umber Kimberly Blaeser After Taiwan Kimberly Blaeser Birth of a Nation Colm Tóibín Encounter Tess Gallagher Matters of Geneva Dawn Dupler The Course of the Peculiar Michael Heffernan Tsé Bit’a’í Christine Casson Konza Prairie O. Alan Weltzien Glaciers, Mountains, Falls David Brannan Part 2. Watershed Ways Braided Channels of Watershed Consciousness: Loren Eiseley’s “The Flow of the River” and the Platte Basin Timelapse Project Tom Lynch Plovers, Great Blues, Horned Owl: A Poet’s Ecotone Brendan Galvin Superior: Reimagining the Interior of a Continent Susan Naramore Maher Pathways of the Yellowstone Bernard Quetchenbach The Proximity of Far Away: Climate Change Comes to the Alligator Rick Van Noy What You Take from the Sea Mary Swander Recontinentalizing Europe: Terrestrial Conversion and Symbolic Exchanges at Europe’s Mediterranean Frontier Emilio Cocco Poetry 2: Watershed Ways With a Hurricane, She Climbs Mountains while She Dreams Pam Uschuk The Mighty Mississippi Twyla Hansen Mississippi Delta Lay Down Ann Fisher-Wirth Links Brendan Galvin By the Sea David Lloyd Aubade William Logan River Dolphins Michael S. Begnal Sruth Fada Con Barry Johnston Wanting Choughs Tony Curtis Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park Major Jackson Portage Alice Azure Part 3. Planetary Currents The Lariat and the GPS: Cowboys, Cattle Ranching, and Global Agricultural Practices Nancy S. Cook Life on the Western Edge of It All: Conceptions of Place in Tess Gallagher’s Lough Arrow Poems Drucilla Wall Return to Finland, Robert Creeley, Continental Drift Eamonn Wall Excerpts from COSMOGRAPHY: Re-Minding Our Place in the Universe Joel Weishaus Poetry 3: Planetary Currents Asking Why Marge Saiser The Dark Sky Reserve Heid E. Erdrich Ornithological Perspectives Walter Bargen Spiritus Mundi Greg Delanty Strange Aliki Barnstone Killer Butterfly Walter Bargen When the Body Linda Hogan What I Keep Linda Hogan War Memorial Katherine Soniat Bulk Daniel Tobin All Hallows’ Eve, County Mayo Joan McBreen As the Diamond Tess Gallagher The Burden of Theology Kelly Cherry A Line from Dogen Walter Bargen Contributors
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Memoir and the Memoirist Reading and Writing
Book SynopsisThe memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative.Trade Review“Larson applies his methods to some of the finest examples of the form, with exhilarating analyses of works by writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt, Mary Karr, Mark Doty, Dave Eggers, Andrew Hudgins, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Rick Bragg. The result is a book that deserves the attention of literary scholars and anyone attempting to add his or her own contribution to the genre.” * Ploughshares *“Indispensable…arguably one of the two or three best references for those who teach and write nonfiction.” * Brevity *“Larson shines as a reader. His always lucid style, wide-ranging and perceptively analyzed examples, and thorough bibliography of memoirs make the book a valuable reference source as well as a good read.” * Biography *“I’ve never met Thomas Larson, but from reading The Memoir and the Memoirist, I’ve concluded that I’d love to talk to him.... He draws on long experience as a reader, writer, and teacher to describe and embrace the modern memoir before it becomes fussed over and codified by academics.” * Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction *“An invaluable aid for the would-be memoirist, the book is highly recommended.” * The Midwest Book Review *“An established memoirist in his own right, Larson delves into nitty-gritty analyses of memoirs and those who write them.… This is a valuable book for anyone who contemplates writing a memoir, or who simply enjoys reading them.” * American Society of Journalists & Authors *“A particularly enlightening book for memoir writers and teachers. Larson has a readable style, writes intelligently and openly about what makes an authentic piece of life writing. He includes an invaluable number of memoirs worth reading as well as references to books on memoir. Highly recommended.”“Written with clarity, Larson’s contribution to the analysis of both what drives writers to deliver to a hungry audience the intimate details of their lives, and his opinions about the reason why we keep reading, makes for an enlightening book.”“This thoughtfully reasoned and lucidly written book delves further into the dynamics of the new memoir than anything I know of, and is sure to spark discussion, help guide would-be practitioners, and bring much–needed illumination to a vexed subject.” * author of The Art of the Personal Essay *“What makes the book particularly valuable is Larson’s obvious familiarity with and discussion of some of the biggest titles in the field.” * Bookslut *“Thomas Larson’s The Memoir and the Memoirist is much more than another how–to book. With great depth and clarity, Larson examines that which drives writers to cast their lot with truth and celebrates the myriad ways writers ’reassemble’ themselves while seeking and shaping their stories.” * author of Fault Line and Between Revolutions: An American Romance with Russia *“Absorbing and eclectic.”“In this provocative guide to the art of memoir writing, Larson examines the complex nature of the self in search of itself and demonstrates how the subtle art of remembering gives birth to that anomaly we call the memoirist. The Memoir and the Memoirist is a must read for every writer and reader of this dynamic literary genre.” * author of Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory *“Thomas Larson thoroughly explores the genre from a place of love and critical thinking. He dives headfirst into a sea of human stories, explaining and comparing, bringing readers a better understanding of the uniqueness of the niche.… An enlightening book.”
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Ohio University Press The Memoir and the Memoirist Reading and Writing
Book SynopsisThe memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative.Trade Review“Larson applies his methods to some of the finest examples of the form, with exhilarating analyses of works by writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt, Mary Karr, Mark Doty, Dave Eggers, Andrew Hudgins, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Rick Bragg. The result is a book that deserves the attention of literary scholars and anyone attempting to add his or her own contribution to the genre.” * Ploughshares *“Indispensable…arguably one of the two or three best references for those who teach and write nonfiction.” * Brevity *“Larson shines as a reader. His always lucid style, wide-ranging and perceptively analyzed examples, and thorough bibliography of memoirs make the book a valuable reference source as well as a good read.” * Biography *“I’ve never met Thomas Larson, but from reading The Memoir and the Memoirist, I’ve concluded that I’d love to talk to him.... He draws on long experience as a reader, writer, and teacher to describe and embrace the modern memoir before it becomes fussed over and codified by academics.” * Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction *“An invaluable aid for the would-be memoirist, the book is highly recommended.” * The Midwest Book Review *“An established memoirist in his own right, Larson delves into nitty-gritty analyses of memoirs and those who write them.… This is a valuable book for anyone who contemplates writing a memoir, or who simply enjoys reading them.” * American Society of Journalists & Authors *“A particularly enlightening book for memoir writers and teachers. Larson has a readable style, writes intelligently and openly about what makes an authentic piece of life writing. He includes an invaluable number of memoirs worth reading as well as references to books on memoir. Highly recommended.”“Written with clarity, Larson’s contribution to the analysis of both what drives writers to deliver to a hungry audience the intimate details of their lives, and his opinions about the reason why we keep reading, makes for an enlightening book.”“This thoughtfully reasoned and lucidly written book delves further into the dynamics of the new memoir than anything I know of, and is sure to spark discussion, help guide would-be practitioners, and bring much–needed illumination to a vexed subject.” * author of The Art of the Personal Essay *“What makes the book particularly valuable is Larson’s obvious familiarity with and discussion of some of the biggest titles in the field.” * Bookslut *“Thomas Larson’s The Memoir and the Memoirist is much more than another how–to book. With great depth and clarity, Larson examines that which drives writers to cast their lot with truth and celebrates the myriad ways writers ’reassemble’ themselves while seeking and shaping their stories.” * author of Fault Line and Between Revolutions: An American Romance with Russia *“Absorbing and eclectic.”“In this provocative guide to the art of memoir writing, Larson examines the complex nature of the self in search of itself and demonstrates how the subtle art of remembering gives birth to that anomaly we call the memoirist. The Memoir and the Memoirist is a must read for every writer and reader of this dynamic literary genre.” * author of Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory *“Thomas Larson thoroughly explores the genre from a place of love and critical thinking. He dives headfirst into a sea of human stories, explaining and comparing, bringing readers a better understanding of the uniqueness of the niche.… An enlightening book.”
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Ohio University Press Praising It New
Book SynopsisMarked by a rigorously close textual reading, detached frombiographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was thedominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. Since thattime, schools of literary criticism have arisen in support of or in opposition tothe approach advocated by the New Critics.Trade Review“Given our long-term disregard of the New Criticism, Davis‘s compendium is especially welcome.... Davis provides richly informative, well-argued, and elegantly styled introductions, head-notes, and annotations, as well as discriminating suggestions for further reading.” * Virginia Quarterly Review *“In Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism, Garrick Davis offers poets and students an exceptionally well chosen selection from the theoretical essays of the New Criticism in hopes that it will remain an available influence. They are far more interesting than such essays generally tend to be—a strength of the best of the New Critics and one that will continue to serve them well with both an academic and a general audience.” * Eclectica Magazine *“This anthology is both important and necessary. No other collection gives us such an excellent opportunity to go back to the New Criticism and see it again, as if for the first time.” * Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing *“Just how seriously the New Critics took poetry, and how much subtlety and conviction they brought to reading it, can be seen on every page of Praising It New, an excellent new anthology of the New Criticism edited by Garrick Davis.” * The New York Sun *“It is clear from reading the lapidary works in Praising It New that the New Critics were not stern moralists upholding rigid orthodoxies, as their opponents imply. Like other critics of the period -- not least Trilling and Wilson -- they saw poems and novels opening out into life in all its variety, nuance and incompleteness.” * The Wall Street Journal *“The essays in Praising It New still carry a potent charge for anyone interested in what makes the best poems tick. Davis has performed a service to readers (often in the face of recalcitrant publishers unwilling to make works available for reprint at reasonable rates), and the book will be of particular interest to poets and students of poetry. Whether or not teachers will have the good sense to assign it remains to be seen.”“Davis’s notes are excellent: how charming to be told that, as a young instructor, Jarrell coached the tennis team at Kenyon.” * ZYZZYVASPEAKS blog *
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Ohio University Press Spirituality and the Writer
Book SynopsisIn a book-length essay on the evolving, improvisatory world of spiritual literature, Thomas Larson surveys authors old and new who have shaped religious autobiography and spiritual memoir. He shows just how the writer’s craft must prevail to capture the fleeting and personal truths of the spirit in an important addition to nonfiction craft studies.Trade Review"(S)uperb…. (Spirituality and the Writer’s) erudite analysis of texts and expansive concern for the human condition is both inspiring and reassuring, creating a kinship between the writers Larson discusses and the reader.“ * Rain Taxi *“In Spirituality and the Writer, Thomas Larson offers an astute examination of the craft and artistry needed to successfully render faith, doubt, and transcendent experience onto the page. From Thomas Merton to Annie Dillard, Cheryl Strayed to Mother Teresa, Larson defines the genre of spiritual memoir broadly, creating a powerful resource for writers, teachers, students, and anyone with an interest in spirit-seeking literature. Larson’s captivating book is both a toolbox and an inspiration.”“Thomas Larson is a first-rate scholar and writer. Spirituality and the Writer is a book for anyone interested in spiritual writing, as well as for anyone wishing to live a well-considered life.”“Reading Spirituality and the Writer is like dream-walking in the tracks of a master guide to the sublime. Larson’s inquiry into the realm of authentic spiritual writing creates a tableau of the erudite, the creative, and the spiritual. Not only will I return to this book but to every work that Larson plumbs through his expansive lens of the spiritual writer and the unmoored soul.”Praise for The Memoir and the Memoirist: “This thoughtfully reasoned and lucidly written book delves further into the dynamics of the new memoir than anything I know of, and is sure to spark discussion, help guide would-be practitioners, and bring much–needed illumination to a vexed subject.”Praise for The Memoir and the Memoirist: “Indispensable … arguably one of the two or three best references for those who teach and write nonfiction.” * Brevity *
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Stanford University Press The Complete Essays of Montaigne
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Stanford University Press The Beach of Falesa
Book SynopsisA Stanford University Press classic.
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Stanford University Press Alexander Pushkin
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Stanford University Press Charles W. Chesnutt Essays and Speeches
Book SynopsisCharles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) has been considered by many the major African-American fiction writer before the Harlem Renaissance. This book collects essays he wrote from 1899 through 1931, the majority of which concern white racism, and political and literary addresses he made to both white and black audiences from 1881 through 1931.Trade Review"The present volume is an invaluable addition to the growing body of work concerning this African-American literary pioneer. . . . Until now these pieces were almost completely inaccessible."—Choice"A highly enlightening and impressive collection. . . . The present volume is an indepensable contribution to Charles Chesnutt and African-American historical and literary scholarship."—American Studies"This volume is a welcome and much appreciated contribution to African American literature and the scholarship that has grown up around it."—American Literary Realism"This first-rate edition represents a signal achievement in the restoration of Chesnutt's oeuvre and in the editing of major African American writers. It reinforces and extends the outstanding reputation of it editors as leading Chesnutt scholars."—American Literary RealismTable of ContentsPreface; Notes; Introduction; Essays and speeches.
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Stanford University Press On Ethics and History
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection of Zhang Xuecheng's essays and letters translated into English, offering a rare example of his work on ethical philosophy from the Qing dynasty.Trade Review"[T]hanks to Philip Ivanhoe's painstaking translations, English readers can now have a glimpse of Zhang's expansive and at times also enigmatic writings." -- Q. Edward Wang * Dao *"In this first English translation of the philosophical works of Zhang Xuecheng, normally treated as an intellectual historian, Ivanhoe has exhibited an unusually good judgment in selection. The rich notes provided, in addition to the general introduction, are extremely helpful to readers. The translation is highly readable and accurate." -- Yong Huang * Kutztown University *"The publication of this book is the event of the year in the study of Chinese philosophy in the English-speaking world. Ivanhoe's meticulous translation, as well as his extremely perceptive introduction and tremendously helpful notes, show us that Zhang Xuecheng, who died six years before Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit was published in Europe, has given us the first philosophical system that reconciles truth with history. Thanks to Ivanhoe's tour de force translation and commentary, we can now finally engage fully with Zhang's invigorating ideas." -- Yang Xiao, Associate Professor of Philosophy * Kenyon College *"The greatest value of On Ethics and History is that is gives English language historians an opportunity to gain direct insight into Zhang's philosophy of history. Unknown and overlooked in his own day, Zhang is now viewed by scholars in both China and the West as the most original, innovative historians of the Qing period." -- Jie Gao * Canadian Journal of History *"Philip J. Ivanhoe's elegant translations of some the most philosophically percipient and coherent essays by Zhang Xuecheng fill a gaping hole in the existing literature by drawing attention to the extra-historicist aspects of the Qing savant's richly textured thought, especially its ethical iterations and dimensions." -- On-cho Ng * The Pennsylvania State University *
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Louisiana State University Press Ill Take My Stand The South and the Agrarian
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve southerners defended individualism against the trend of baseless conformity in an increasingly mechanised and dehumanised society.
£999.99
Louisiana State University Press LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and
Book SynopsisIn this first monograph to consider Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe's entire body of work, Kirstin Squint expands contemporary scholarship on Howe by examining her nuanced portrayal of Choctaw history and culture as modes of expression.
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Louisiana State University Press The Tacky South
Book SynopsisAs a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ‘tackies’ who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South.
£69.30
Louisiana State University Press Terra Cognita
Book SynopsisTwenty-seven years in the making, Terra Cognita chronicles the author’s continual travels - and problematic (if still, at times, ecstatic) encounters - in the ‘bel paese’. Across nine richly evocative essays, Chad Davidson investigates the seemingly never-ending fascination that travellers have with Italy.
£20.85
Louisiana State University Press The Tacky South
Book SynopsisAs a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ‘tackies’ who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South.
£28.45
LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR X in the Tickseed
Book SynopsisFrom discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco’s X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things.Trade ReviewX in the Tickseed is a gorgeous, riveting meditation on memory, mortality, art-making, and the complications of living. Equal parts lyric, narrative, and philosophical, Ed Falco's poems remind us that the world is beautiful and terrible in equal measures." - Erika Meitner"In its masterful control of language and form, its clarity and layered complexity, this book is itself a work of beauty, one that will last for a long while." - Eric Nelson"Both smart and heartfelt, these poems are meant to be not nibbled but devoured, again and again." - David Kirby
£15.15
Louisiana State University Press Becoming Poetry
Book SynopsisDrawn from more than twenty years of literary criticism, this collection of Jay Rogoff’s essays explore how the staying power of a poet’s work and the likelihood of it enjoying a lasting identification with its creator depend on the skilled manipulation of poetic technique.Trade ReviewJay Rogoff, one of our most consistently interesting poets, shows he is also one of our best critics of poetry. Becoming Poetry features brilliant essays on the differences between poetry and song, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Williams's struggle with Pound in Paterson, and a deft survey of contemporary poets. On poetic accent and metrical form, he is profoundly instructive. Every lover of poetry will want this book." - David Mikics, author of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age"Becoming Poetry earns its title, marking the reciprocities between the poem and the means involved in writing it. Rogoff, a poet, brings a watchmaker's attention to poems' workings in arresting, precisely considered prose. The immersive process of becoming poetry, which Rogoff makes legible, discloses the most enduring symbiosis between language and being." - JoEllen Kwiatek, author of Study for Necessity"Rogoff earns a proud place in the grand tradition of the poet-critic. His experience with poetic craft yields insight, sympathy, and candor in discussing his fellow practitioners." - Terence Diggory, author of William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting
£44.20
Louisiana State University Press Becoming Poetry
Book SynopsisDrawn from more than twenty years of literary criticism, this collection of Jay Rogoff’s essays explore how the staying power of a poet’s work and the likelihood of it enjoying a lasting identification with its creator depend on the skilled manipulation of poetic technique.Trade ReviewJay Rogoff, one of our most consistently interesting poets, shows he is also one of our best critics of poetry. Becoming Poetry features brilliant essays on the differences between poetry and song, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Williams's struggle with Pound in Paterson, and a deft survey of contemporary poets. On poetic accent and metrical form, he is profoundly instructive. Every lover of poetry will want this book." - David Mikics, author of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age"Becoming Poetry earns its title, marking the reciprocities between the poem and the means involved in writing it. Rogoff, a poet, brings a watchmaker's attention to poems' workings in arresting, precisely considered prose. The immersive process of becoming poetry, which Rogoff makes legible, discloses the most enduring symbiosis between language and being." - JoEllen Kwiatek, author of Study for Necessity"Rogoff earns a proud place in the grand tradition of the poet-critic. His experience with poetic craft yields insight, sympathy, and candor in discussing his fellow practitioners." - Terence Diggory, author of William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting
£24.65
LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR Bring Out Your Dead
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£20.85
LSU Press The Elephant of Silence
Book SynopsisA poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it, contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind.Trade ReviewWhat a pleasure to follow poet John Wall Barger's singular, brilliant, unpretentious, generous mind, as he writes in an utterly natural and precise way about subjects notoriously difficult to discuss: poetry, film, writing, marriage, even silence." - Matthew Zapruder, author of Story of a Poem"If you can't go to the movies with Barger, do the next best thing and enjoy these sensitive, playful essays on what he's watched, read, and observed, with a poet's blend of thought and feeling." - Adrienne Su, author of Peach State"Barger's essays are all, in some way, about the creative process itself and the audience's role as a vital participant in that process. An author has defined a set of parameters, yet it is up to us, the viewer, to bring our own lived experience to bear it out. Barger navigates this terrain with the ease and imagination of an expert tour guide, a 'Stalker'—in the spirit of Tarkovsky—who understands our own pivotal involvement in helping to create this world we inhabit." - Bill Morrison, director of Dawson City: Frozen Time
£20.85
LSU Press Breath Lines
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LSU Press Breath Lines
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LSU Press The Odeon
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LSU Press The Odeon
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Resonant Themes Literature History and the Arts in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Europe
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£23.76
Northwestern University Press The Witkiewicz Reader
£27.96
Northwestern University Press The Noise of Time Selected Prose European
Book SynopsisOsip Mandelstam has come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. This volume includes his autobiographical sketches, ""The Noise of Time""; his novella ""The Egyptian Stamp""; ""Fourth Prose""; and his travel memoirs. There are essays by Clarence Brown.Trade ReviewThe most illuminating commentary on Mandelstam in English at the present moment...A work of impeccable scholarship. - Isaiah Berlin, New York Review of Books; ""In this translation, 'Journey to Armenia' takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature."" - Bruce Chatwin
£16.16
Northwestern University Press Novas Selected Writings AvantGarde Modernism
Book SynopsisAn introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work.
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Northwestern University Press The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent Selected
Book SynopsisA landmark reissue of a great teacher's finest work. Lionel Trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to be one of the finest essayists in the English language, the heir of Hazlitt and the peer of Orwell. Since his death in 1974, his work has been discussed and hotly debated, yet today, when writers and critics claim to be for or against his interpretations, they can hardly be well acquainted with them, for his work has been largely out of print for years. With this re-publication of Trilling's finest essays, Leon Wieseltier offers readers of many new generations a rich overview of Trilling's achievement. The essays collected here include justly celebrated masterpieces--on Mansfield Park and on Why We Read Jane Austen; on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Isaac Babel; on Keats, Wordsworth, Eliot, Frost; on Art and Neurosis; and the famous Preface to Trilling's book The Liberal Imagination. This exhilarating work has much to teach readers who may have been encouraged t
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