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Blank Forms Ticking Stripe
Book SynopsisA collection of writings by the mathematician and composer linking notions of continuity and construction across math, minimalist music and contemporary artNoted mathematician and composer Spencer Gerhardt presents Ticking Stripe, a groundbreaking collection of essays linking notions of continuity and construction across the boundaries of math, art, music and philosophy. Gerhardt offers new, deeply informed analysis of the 1960s New York avant-garde, viewed through the lens of trailblazing artists such as La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Catherine Christer Hennix, Henry Flynt and Tony Conrad. Ticking Stripe pairs the spirit of L.E.J. Brouwer?a mathematician who sought to reconstruct the continuum in his own philosophical terms called intuitionism?with the ambitions of pioneering minimalists who combined continued constructions, idealized processes of introspection and conceptual world-building with a host of philosophical, scientific and spiritual concerns. Informed by his own work as a mathematician and composer, Gerhardt explores the depths of these disparate traditions, finding unlikely areas of commonality.Spencer Gerhardt is a composer and musician, and teaches mathematics at the University of Southern California.
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Gallaudet University Press Photographic Memories – Selected Essays,
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Woodhall Press Fast Fallen Women: 75 Essays of Flash NonFiction
Book SynopsisFast Fallen Women includes 75 previously unpublished pieces on the topic of the ways in which women fall— whether they reach the boundaries of their lives and take flight, whether they stumble, or are pushed over the edge. Holding a compact mirror up to life, given that all the essays are under 750 words, the book bears witness to women's resilience, creativity, and wit as women write about rising up against all odds. With new and original works by Amy Tan, Jane Smiley, Bobbie Ann Mason, Caroline Leavitt, Darien Hsu Gee, Honor Moore, and Lynn Peril, as well as a dazzling range of emerging authors writing from diverse perspectives, ages 20-92,Fast Fallen Women gives whispered conversations a full voice.Table of Contents1. Maggie Mitchell— Party Girl 2. Caroline Leavitt— Lousy Dancer 3. Amy Tan— Fallen Woman 4. Marna Deitch— Woman on the Motorcycle, Riding Alone 5. Ebony Murphy-Root— Feeling 39 6. Deboarh Hochman Turvey— Planned Parenthood 7. Honor Moore— Good Calcium and a Red Sky 8. Pamela Katz— Breaking Ground 9. Jane Smiley— Looking Up 10. Kelly Andrews Babcock— Bruce Whore 11. Darien Hsu Gee— Platitudes 12. Gina Barreca— The Other Woman 13. Jianna Heuer— That Girl 14. Heidi Rockefeller— Stability 15. Ilene Beckerman— Good Girls 16. Rosie Gonzalez— Leveling the Playing Feild 17. Katherine Jimenez— Rubbers 18. Emily Heiden— Uncharted 19. Anne Bagamery— Feminism and Mom 20. Nicole Catarino— Rituals 21. Michelle Carter— Hystorechtomy Hysteria5 22. Louisa Ballhaus— I Can Keep aSsecret 23. Claire Lasher— Gingerbread Woman 24. Pia Bertucci— Baba’ s Mirror 25. Pat Myers— Burnice Kotkin 26. Lynn Peril— Summer 1976 27. Jennifer Rizzo— On Some Days 28. Lisa Douglas— Paper Robes and Good Panties 29. Madiha Shafqat— Roti-making dreams 30. Greta Scheibel— Beware of the which bites 31. Emily Toth— When Your Friends Say “ OOH LA LA” 32. Jennifer Scharf— First Kiss 33. Kylie Ramia— Sweet Tooth 34. Meredith Tibbetts— Hope and Pain 35. Sarite Konier— POP Star 36. Jessie Lubka— The Toxic Friend 37. Melissa Llarena— Imagine a Better Way 38. Laura Pope— Aspiring Mother 39. Joyce Saltman— Virgins and Sluts: Then and Now 40. Amy Hartle Sherman— Taking Off 41. Kelsey Tynik— When Will Enough Be Enough? 42. Bobbie Ann Mason— Bobbycoddle 43. Sydney Melocowsky— How to Scramble an Egg 44. Joan Seigler Sidney— How I Escaped Mom’ s Voice 45. Angela Bonavoglia— Close Encounters of the Episcopal Kind 46. Krysia Carmel— Nelson Life Alert 47. Monique Heller— Green Beans 48. Erica Buehler— Worth my Salt 49. Cindy Eastman— Moving Out; Moving In 50. Dana Starr— Put out to Pasture 51. Angel Johnstone— Taking It Off 52. Cristina Caruk— Falling for the Baby 53. Pat Pannell— Lost and Found 54. Susan Cossette— Letter to My 18-Year-Old Self 55. Melissa Johnson— Old Friends 56. Kim Hanson— The Iron and the Belt 57. Bonnie Jean Feldkamp— Depths of the Damned 58. Julie Danis— Hostage for a Prayer 59. Kathleen Jones— Virtue Signaling 60. Brenda Murphy— Salem Witches 61. Barbara Cooley— A Singel Woman 62. Jane Cook— Scar 63. Erin Brochu— Good as Nude 64. Jennifer Forrest— Getting up 65. Cara E. Kilgallen— Rituals & Resurgence: 66. Carol Gieg— Swept Off My Feet 6 67. Misty Knight— A Calculated Fall 68. Cecilia Gigliotti— Psycho Killer, Twelve Years Old 69. Heidi Woods— Falling in Love While Falling Apart 70. Amy Mullis— Rebel Pants 71. Tammy Rose— In Clover 72. Emily Raymond— The Couch Story 73. Mia Yanosy— The Gift 74. Joan Muller— Nursery Rhymes 75. Emma Corby— Emerald Shoes
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Open Letter A Muzzle for Witches
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Hatje Cantz Niklas Maak: Server Manifesto: Data Center
Book SynopsisIf data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible? Niklas Maak, architectural critic and Professor for Architecture at Städelschule Frankfurt, explores this question in his new publication and envisions radical solutions for the future.
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Vitra Design Museum Plastic: Remaking Our World: Remaking Our World
Book SynopsisPlastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress, even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is everywhere, yet most conspicuous as waste and as a key factor in the global environmental crisis. This book examines the success story of plastic in the twentieth century and at the same time presents the different discourses on how we should manage the waste the material produces and also find solutions that take into account its entire life cycle in the future. Mark Miodownik, Susan Freinkel, and Nanjala Nyabola each contribute an essay that sheds light on the history of plastics from 1850 to today. A material-rich visual chronology illustrates how consumers’ perception of plastics has changed over the decades. Brief descriptions of a selection of 50 objects examine the importance of plastics for material culture. Reprints of fundamental texts about the history of plastics—for example by Alexander Parkes and Roland Barthes—provide a context from the history of ideas. The book reflects the current discourse and state of research on plastic with numerous individual interviews and panel discussions that were held with designers, representatives from industry, researchers, and environmental activists. Underpinning these conversations are comprehensive data visualizations on plastic production and consumption, recycling.
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Art on the Frontline: Mandate for a People's
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Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany The Everyday and Everydayness: Two Works Series
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Twisted Spoon Press Dreamverse
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Nybrogade Press Natural Artefacts: Nature, Repair, Responsibility
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Skira Die letzten Tage der Oper (German edition)
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Double 9 Books Evelina, Or, The History Of A Young Lady's
Book SynopsisFanny Burney is an English author of novels and plays. Her book Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is one of her works. The narrative follows Evelina, the main heroine, as she negotiates the difficulties and social complexity of affluent society in 18th-century England. The work, which is written in the style of Evelina's journal, gives a thorough and personal description of her experiences when she first joins society. A young woman named Evelina, who is unrecognized and orphaned, is brought to London's aristocratic society. She comes across a variety of personalities, each of whom represents distinct socioeconomic strata and moral perspectives. Burney examines topics like love, courting, class, etiquette, and the place of women in society via Evelina's interactions. Evelina by Fanny Burney had a big impact on manners books and coming-of-age stories that came after it.
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Double 9 Books Sesame And Lilies
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Berggruen Press Sloterdijk P Midwife of the Intellect
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Berggruen Press For a Sovereign Europe
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Closer Reading
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Pm Press All We Have is the Story
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Hanuman Editions THE LIE OF THE TRUTH
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Little, Brown Book Group Kants Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why
Book Synopsis''An uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing'' Susie Boyt, Financial Times''A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live'' Garth GreenwellIn twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Claire Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston''s Museum of Fine Arts. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again ''an absolute master storyteller'' (Rebecca Carroll, Trade ReviewIn this moving and evocative essay collection, novelist Messud reflects on family, art, and why she writes . . . These intimate, contemplative and probing essays reveal Messud's rich inner life and generosity of spirit * Publishers Weekly (Starred review) *Powerful and inspirational: Messud is as fine a critic as she is a novelist * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *All writing is autobiographical, but almost never in the ways we presume. This is a profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live. Claire Messud, with her lapidary intelligence and dizzying sense of history, is among the most luminous writers at work today -- Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to YouClaire Messud's essays are generous visions of the world, informed by her razor-sharp intellect and uncompromising honesty -- Maaza Mengiste * Observer (Best books of 2020) *Claire Messud's collection of essays and reviews from the past 20 years - titled Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write - is an uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing . . . The family section is rendered vividly, in sentences beautifully formed and built to last. Some of the scenes Messud conjures feel unforgettable . . . The strength and delicacy of these chapters leave you trusting Messud's taste and judgment before you sample her criticism, which doesn't disappoint -- Susie Boyt * Financial Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group Opinions
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger comes a stunning retrospective of essays and writings from the last decade covering politics, race and identity, feminism, popular culture, and more.Trade ReviewOpinions is a phenomenal collection of [Gay's] writing over the last decade, and she covers it all, from politics, the cult of celebrity, to civil rights and feminism, and her incisive analysis shines in every piece * Glamour UK *Essays, op-eds, and pop-culture pieces from the acclaimed novelist and memoirist . . . [Gay] has a gift for clean, well-ordered prose, and strong feelings on matters of race, gender, and sexuality. Most important, she possesses a fearlessness essential to doing the job right; though she can observe an issue from various angles, she never wrings her hands or delivers milquetoast commentaries . . . she comes to her opinions more out of empathy than ideology . . . Fierce and informed riffs on current events and enduring challenges * Kirkus Reviews *Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's eyes and, by the end, you see the world differently -- Arwa Mahdawi * Guardian *This is a must-read for not only fans of Gay's work, but for everyone interested in reading intellectual, accessible, and important takes on timely topics * Booklist (Starred Review) *
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Broadview Press Ltd The Victorian Art of Fiction: Nineteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThe Victorian Art of Fiction presents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; questions of form, such as characterization, plot construction, and narration; and questions about the morality of fiction. The editor discusses where Victorian writing on the novel has been placed in accounts of the history of criticism and then suggests some reasons for reconsidering this conventional evaluation. Among the featured essayists and critics are John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, George Henry Lewes, Leslie Stephen, Anthony Trollope, and Robert Louis Stevenson; the classic essays include George Eliot’s “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” and Henry James’s “The Art of Fiction.”Trade Review“The aura of the magnificent novels of the Victorians sometimes obscures the analytic thinking about the genre that one knows had to accompany all the imaginative glory. Too often it is only the amusing obtuse contemporary review that gets remembered. From the year of Vanity Fair (1848) until Henry James’s proto-modern “Art of Fiction” of 1884, Rohan Maitzen’s important new anthology drawn from Victorian periodicals gives us the critical work that accompanied and shaped mid-Victorian fiction. A clear introduction and concise and accurate notes contextualize and enhance the criticism, and make this a book that should be useful for years to come.” — David Latané, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextsIntroduction Anonymous, Review of Jane EyreChristian Remembrancer (1848) David Masson, Thackeray and DickensNorth British Review (1851) George Henry Lewes, The Lady NovelistsWestminster Review (1852) Anonymous, The Progress of Fiction as an ArtWestminster Review (1853) Theodore Martin, Thackeray’s WorksWestminster Review (1853) C.W. Russell, Novel-Morality: The Novels of 1853Dublin Review (1853) Margaret Oliphant, Modern Novelists—Great and SmallBlackwood’s Magazine (1855) Marian Evans [George Eliot], The Natural History of German LifeWestminster Review (1856) Marian Evans [George Eliot], Silly Novels by Lady NovelistsWestminster Review (1856) W.R. Greg, False Morality of Lady NovelistsNational Review (1859) David Masson, fromBritish Novelists and Their Styles (1859) Walter Bagehot, The Novels of George EliotNational Review (1860) Henry Mansel, Sensation NovelsQuarterly Review (1863) Justin McCarthy, Modern Novelists: Charles DickensWestminster Review (1864) George Henry Lewes, Criticism in Relation to NovelsFortnightly Review (1866) R.H. Hutton, The Empire of NovelsThe Spectator (1869) Edward Dowden, George EliotContemporary Review (1872) Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library: Charlotte BrontëCornhill Magazine (1877) Anthony Trollope, Novel-ReadingThe Nineteenth Century (1879) John Ruskin, Fiction—Fair and FoulThe Nineteenth Century (1880) Robert Louis Stevenson, A Humble RemonstranceLongman’s Magazine (1884) Henry James, The Art of FictionLongman’s Magazine (1884) Biographical NotesWorks Cited and Further ReadingSourcesAuthor Index
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Otago University Press Landfall 243
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Otago University Press Landfall 244
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Basic Books Goodbye to All That (Revised Edition): Writers on
Book SynopsisIn the revised edition of this classic collection, thirty writers share their own stories of loving and leaving New York, capturing the mesmerizing allure the city has always had for writers, poets, and wandering spirits. Their essays often begin as love stories do, with the passion of something newly discovered-the crush of subway crowds, the streets filled with manic energy, and the sudden, unblinking certainty that this is the only place on Earth where one can become exactly who she is meant to be.They also share the grief that comes like a gut-punch, when the grand metropolis loses its magic and the pressures of New York's frenetic life wear thin for even the most dedicated dwellers. As friends move away, rents soar, and love -- still -- remains just out of reach, each writer's goodbye is singular and universal, just like New York itself.
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Seal Press Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's
Book SynopsisIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen, including Black Lives Matter, transgender rights, and the activism of young undocumented students. Social media has also changed how feminism reaches young women of color, generating connections in all corners of the country. And yet we remain a country divided by race and gender.Now, a new generation of outspoken women of color offer a much-needed fresh dimension to the shape of feminism of the future. In Colonize This!, Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman have collected a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to the strength of community and the influence of color, to borders and divisions, and to the critical issues that need to be addressed to finally reach an era of racial freedom. With prescient and intimate writing, Colonize This! will reach the hearts and minds of readers who care about the experience of being a woman of color, and about establishing a culture that fosters freedom and agency for women of all races.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Jewish Wisdom
Book SynopsisWhen, if ever, should lying be permitted? If you''ve damaged a person''s reputation unfairly, can the damage be undone?Is a person who sells weapons responsible for how those weapons are used?if the fetus is not a life, what is it? How, as an adult, can one carry out the command to honor one''s parents when they make unreasonable demands?What are the nine biblical challenges a good person must meet?What do the great Jewish writings of the last 3,500 years tell us about these and all other vital questions about our lives? Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has devoted his life to the search for answers within the teachings of Judaism. In Jewish Wisdom, Rabbi Telushkin, the author of the highly acclaimed Jewish Literacy, weaves together a tapestry of stories from the Bible and Talmud, and the insights of Jewish commentators and writers from Maimonides, Rashi, and Hillel to Einstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Elie Wiesel. A richer source of crucial lif
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Autonomedia The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in
Book SynopsisA poet and post-punk heroine writes on subjects ranging from Björk to Robert Smithson, from traveling in Iceland to walking in Thoreau''s footsteps on Cape CodPoet and post-punk heroine Eileen Myles has always operated in the art, writing, and queer performance scenes as a kind of observant flaneur. Like Baudelaire''s gentleman stroller, Myles travels the city—wandering on garbage-strewn New York streets in the heat of summer, drifting though the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and riding in the van with Sister Spit—seeing it with a poet''s eye for detail and with the consciousness that writing about art and culture has always been a social gesture. Culled by the poet from twenty years of art writing, the essays in The Importance of Being Iceland make a lush document of her—and our—lives in these contemporary crowds. Framed by Myles''s account of her travels in Iceland, these essays posit inbetweenness as the most vital position from which to perceive culture as a whole, and a fluidity in national identity as the best model for writing and thinking about art and culture. The essays include fresh takes on Thoreau''s Cape Cod walk, working class speech, James Schulyer and Björk, queer Russia and Robert Smithson; how-tos on writing an avant-garde poem and driving a battered Japanese car that resembles a menopausal body; and opinions on such widely ranging subjects as filmmaker Sadie Benning, actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Ted Berrigan''s Sonnets, and flossing.
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Autonomedia Communal Nude: Collected Essays
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Astra Publishing House Moonlight Rests in My Left Palm: Poems and Essays
Book SynopsisStarting with the viral poem "Crossing Half of China to Fuck You," Yu Xiuhua's raw collection chronicles her life as a disabled, divorced, single mother in rural China. Yu Xiuhua was born with cerebral palsy in Hengdian Village in the Hunan Province, in Southern China. Unable to attend college, travel, or work the land with her parents, Yu remained home where she could help with housework. Eventually she was forced into an arranged marriage that became abusive. She divorced her husband and moved back in with her parents, taking her son with her. In defiance of the stigma attached to her disability, her status as a divorced single mother, and as a peasant in rural China, Yu found her voice in poetry. Starting in the late 90's, her writing became a vehicle with which to explore and share her reflections on homesickness, family and ancestry, the reality of disability in the context of a body's urges and desires. Then, Yu's poem "Crossing Half of China to Fuck You" blew open the doors on the patriarchal and traditionalist world of contemporary Chinese poetry. She became an internet sensation, finding a devoted following among young readers who enthusiastically welcomed her fresh, bold, confessional voice into the literary canon. Thematically organized, Yu's essays and poems are in conversation with each other around subjects that include love, nostalgia, mortality, the natural world and writing itself.Trade Review"Yu finds the numinous in the very dust and air of Hengdian....Sze-Lorrain’s translation successfully evokes Yu’s transcendental connection to the world around her, from the grass at her feet to the sky above her."—Anne Henochowicz, Los Angeles Review of Books“...a lyrical translation by Fiona Sze-Lorrain...The ruminative essays, rendered in elegant but somewhat mannered prose, offer context and insight on her life and poetry, [...] The poems, which compress her thoughts into daring and disconcerting forms, are another matter. [...] The multiplicity, therefore, becomes essential, as the poems are rarely frozen in a single feeling. Yu renders her life in a way that is irreducible.” — Chris Littlewood, The Washington Post“Yu Xiuhua’s writing is steeped in the imagination [...] Many of the poems included in this work are moving precisely because of how they register the limits of the imagination, rather than its transformative capacities. [...] Rejecting the poetics of metaphor, lines like [Yu’s] call on us to look closely, listen carefully, and notice the world around us.”—Rebecca Ruth Gould, Harriet Books, the Poetry Foundation"Yu Xiuhua’s Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, grows out of highly personal terrain. This farmer-poet says in an essay (Moonlight is sectioned by eight lyrical essays): 'We have man-handled so many words that I only dream of using them anew.' Yu says exactly what she means; and Sze-Lorrain honors the feeling and music in intimate translation. Thus, the poet’s language rises out of the natural, tinged by elemental soil and light."—Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth “‘Truth once spoken tends to be false,’ writes Yu Xiuhua in her incredible debut of essays and poems. I am smitten with Yu’s powerful writing, erotic poetry, and reflections on disability in daily life. One poem reads, ‘So risky, so heavy / O this love.’ I want nothing but risk in poetry and I feel proud to be a disabled poet in Yu’s company.”—The Cyborg Jillian Weise, author of Common Cyborg “I love reading these poems and essays by Yu Xiuhua. I feel befriended by them, by her. Courage, honesty, a love of words, and a wry sense of humor run through the pages of Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm, translated with grace and simplicity by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. When Yu writes in an essay, ‘There is no better ode to life than a weed that grows ruthlessly and arches out of the ground, despite its trauma,’ we know she is telling us her own story. And yet, in a poem called ‘Wheat Has Ripened,’ she says, ‘I am pleased to have landed here / like a sparrow skirting through the sky-blue.’ How can we be anything but grateful to a poet who ends a poem of love lost: ‘I still hope / to err over and over’?”—Mary Helen Stefaniak, author of The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia “I couldn’t stop underlining phrases, sentences, whole passages that I wanted to quote, and think about! Yu Xiuhua’s marvelous collection, a hybrid of poetry and poetical essays, each reflecting back on the other, is a transport into the soul, heart, and sensibility of a unique and exquisite mind. Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s translation, generous with silence, space, and pitch-perfect transparency, is a triumph in its own right. This is the sort of book that you’ll want to share immediately with your most thoughtful friend.”—Minna Zallman Proctor, author of Landslide: True Stories, editor of The Literary Review, and translator of Natalia Ginzburg and Fleur Jaeggy
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The Westbourne Press London's Overthrow
Book SynopsisLondon's Overthrow is a potent polemic describing the capital in a time of austerity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Award-winning author and essayist China Mieville cuts through the hyperbole of our politicians to present a view from ordinary London - of the inequality, oppression and indignity and the hidden, subversive sentiment pervading throughout our streets.Trade Review'Mieville gives us a vision of a pre-apocalyptic London, where the chasm between rich and poor has reached catastrophic levels and anger is the only reasonable response.' Hari Kunzru 'China Mieville does more than reveal the skull beneath the London's scabby, piebald skin; he offers effervescent nourishment for the downpressed souls that stalk the streets of his divided city. Anybody who wants to know what has happened here - in the ground zero of a failed neoliberal experiment - must start with his unsettling panorama.' Paul Gilroy
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GINGKO Essays of the Sadat Era
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McNally Editions Constant Reader
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University of California Press Living Genres in Late Modernity
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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University of California Press Musical Lives and Times Examined
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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Harvard University Press Walter Benjamin Selected Writings V 2 Part 2
Book SynopsisCollected here are “Franz Kafka,” “Karl Kraus,” and “The Author as Producer,” the meditation “A Berlin Chronicle,” discussions of photography and the French writer, and previously untranslated pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, Valery, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.Trade Review[Praise for the one-volume hardcover edition]For those who know only the small selection of essays and longer texts previously translated into English, this book may be a revelation. Selected Writings: Volume 2 spanning the period from his abandonment of academia and his emergence as an important literary journalist in 1927 to his near silencing after the Nazis seized power and his exile in 1934, shows the writer at his sparkling best. -- Paul Mattick * New York Times Book Review *[Praise for the one-volume hardcover edition]The period from 1927 to 1934 spanned in this volume was for Walter Benjamin both grievous and fertile...The range of topics and perspectives is immense. It extends from considerations on kitsch and pornography to repeated encounters, personal or indirect, with Gide, Kierkegaard and surrealism. The cultural history of toys fascinates Benjamin as he records his own Berlin childhood. Insights into 'Left-Wing Melancholy' alternate with thoughts on Mickey Mouse, on Chaplin, and on graphology. -- George Steiner * The Observer *This awesome 800-page collection demonstrates that Benjamin was able to pack more thought into the years 1931–34 than most people manage in a lifetime...Altogether indispensable. -- Steven Poole * The Guardian *After the lede comes the body of the essay, where the meat is served up. When a critic as astute as German man of letters Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) writes about a subject as rich as his fellow journalist Karl Kraus (1874-1936), the cut can be rich, marbled and juicy...Topics in other pieces gathered here range from highbrow analysis ('Criticism as the Fundamental Discipline of Literary History') to pop-culture commentary ('Reflections on Radio,' 'Mickey Mouse'). -- Dennis Drabelle * Washington Post Book World *Table of ContentsThe Destructive Character, 1931 In Parallel with My Actual Diary Criticism as the Fundamental Discipline of Literary History Critique of the New Objectivity We Ought to Reexamine the Link between Teaching and Research Hofmannsthal and Aleco Dossena Left-Wing Melancholy Theological Criticism Karl Kraus Literary History and the Study of Literature German Letters May-June 1931 Unpacking My Library Franz Kafka: Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer Diary from August 7, 1931, to the Day of My Death Little History of Photography Paul Valery The Lisbon Earthquake The Destructive Character Reflections on Radio Mickey Mouse In Almost Every Example We Have of Materialist Literary History The Task of the Critic Ibizan Sequence, 1932 Experience On Ships, Mine Shafts, and Crucifixes in Bottles On the Trail of Old Letters A Family Drama in the Epic Theater The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay Privileged Thinking Excavation and Memory Oedipus, or Rational Myth On Proverbs Theater and Radio Ibizan Sequence A Berlin Chronicle Spain, 1932 Light from Obscurantists The Handkerchief In the Sun The Rigorous Study of Art Hashish in Marseilles The Eve of Departure On Astrology "Try to Ensure that Everything in Life Has a Consequence" Notes (IV) Thought Figures, 1933 The Lamp Doctrine of the Similar Short Shadows (II) Kierkegaard Stefan George in Retrospect Agesilaus Santander (First Version) Agesilaus Santander (Second Version) Antitheses Concerning Word and Name On the Mimetic Faculty Thought Figures Little Tricks of the Trade Experience and Poverty The Author's Producer, 1934 Once Is as Good as Never The Newspaper Venal but Unusable The Present Social Situation of the French Writer The Author as Producer Notes from Svendborg, Summer 1934 Hitler's Diminished Masculinity Franz Kafka A Note on the Texts Chronology, 1927-1934 Index
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Princeton University Press Lives of Houses
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Some of the best writing about the home that I’ve ever had the pleasure to read—and, crucially, loads of black-and-white photographs and illustrations. . . . Kennedy and Lee pleasingly assert the freedom to consider not only houses, but also house-related themes."---Kate Bolick, New York Review of Books"The joy of the book lies in the sheer variety of its subjects’ domestic routines. . . . Life-writing of this kind has the power to animate its subjects in ways that Sunday afternoon tours cannot."---Helen Barrett, Financial Times"A rich and eclectic collection of essays about the role houses play in people’s lives and our fascination with the homes of our creative heroes."---P. D. Smith, The Guardian"Crammed with picturesque detail."---Lindsay Duguid, Times Literary Supplement"An enjoyable and at times outstanding gathering of idiosyncratic voices."---Kevin Jackson, Literary Review"[A] thoughtful, meticulously edited collection of essays."---Lara Feigel, The Spectator"A series of interesting essays about the houses of famous writers, composers and politicians."---Martin Chilton, The Independent"Accessible, though with an obvious intellectual bent, Lives of Houses does not try to really answer the question of what houses mean to the people who live in them, but rather, calls readers to consider more broadly why these structures have such a hold—both physically and in how they frame the concept of home."---Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Shelf Awareness"Pilgrimages to the houses of late artists and writers are often destined to disappoint. Many of us go with grand hopes of finding something revelatory—we’re not sure what—that will make us feel closer to the person, perhaps lead us to discover something hidden about their work. Lives of Houses . . . is a collection of essays largely centered on such pilgrimages and what we unexpectedly find."---Elisa Wouk Almino, Literary Hub"An anthology with a concept both interesting in itself and unintentionally topical."---Carol Rumens, The Guardian"Lives of Houses is a collection of 20 or so essays, and several poems, on the houses of an eclectic selection of people—some of them famous, some obscure, ranging in time from the Roman Empire to the present day."---Constance Craig Smith, Daily Mail"The real object of study in Lives of Houses . . . is not the fascination with celebrity relics or the gossip over the scale and provenance of literary real estate, but the actual nature, tone and temperament of our attachment to place and home as dream-habitat and creative source."---Gregory Day, The Australian"Lives of Houses centres human stories first and foremost. . . . Each morsel of information provides a jolt of recognition as we see that many of the common activities of life have not altered."---Charles Pidgeon, Oxford Review of Books"A delight for bibliophiles."---David Luhrssen, ShepardExpress.com"[An] immensely satisfying collection."---Hephzibah Anderson, Observer"[A] favorite book about home and place."---Frances Mayes, Garden & Gun
£14.24
Stanford University Press The Complete Essays of Montaigne
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Stanford University Press The Tale of the Heike
Book SynopsisOffers the masterworks of Japanese literature, ranking with The Tal of Genji in quality and prestige.Trade Review"This version of the Heike is superb and indeed reveals to English-language readers for the first time the full scope, grandeur, and literary richness of the work as a masterpiece of medieval writing."—Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; The tale of the Heike; Translator's note; Principal characters; Contents; text; Maps; Appendices; Glossary.
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Stanford University Press Voiles Cultural Memory in the Present
Book SynopsisThis book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous is an account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia; Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" muses on a host of motifs, including his varied responses to "Savoir."Trade Review“This book is a significant event in contemporary French letters. Although Cixous and Derrida have often signaled publicly their solidarity with each other, this book conjoins their writing at an altogether new level of intensity. It is a stunningly original and moving work.”—Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California“...a pleasure to read, showcasing the creative friendship of two of the world’s most influential writers and thinkers.”—Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsSavoir Helene Cixous; A Silkworm of One's Own Jacques Derrida; Notes.
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Louisiana State University Press Norman Mailer at 100
Book SynopsisBy encouraging a reconsideration of Norman Mailer's career from its beginnings to his final books in the early twenty-first century, this volume forges a new path toward appreciating the author's achievements that underscores the extent to which his work can help us confront the challenges of today.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Postcolonial Literary Studies
Book SynopsisIt not only highlights the development and transformation of postcolonial literary study but also, by mapping out new directions of study, considers its continual significance and expansion.Trade Review"The single best anthology for studying postcolonialism and literature." (Susan Strehle, Binghamton University)"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The First Thirty Years of Postcolonial Literary Scholarship: The Continuing Importance of a DisciplinePart I: ParadigmsChapter 1. The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)Chapter 2. Writing in the Shit: Beckett, Nationalism, and the Colonial SubjectChapter 3. Imperial Triangles: Mark Twain's Foreign AffairsChapter 4. Fiction and the Law: Recent Inscriptions of Gayness in South AfricaChapter 5. Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Postcolonial Women's TextsChapter 6. Re-Membering Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of BonesChapter 7. Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Migritude FictionPart II: Postcolonial AfricaChapter 8. Smoke of the Savannah: Traveling Modernity in Sembène Ousmane's God's Bits of WoodChapter 9. Mourning the Postapartheid State Already? The Poetics of Loss in Zakes Mda's Ways of DyingChapter 10. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Postnation: The Cultural Geographies of Colonial, Neocolonial, and Postnational SpaceChapter 11. Truth, Telling, Questioning: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, and Literature after ApartheidChapter 12. The Pastoral Promise and the Political Imperative: The Plaasroman Tradition in an Era of Land ReformPart III: Postcolonial IndiaChapter 13. Leading History by the Nose: The Turn to the Eighteenth Century in Midnight's ChildrenChapter 14. The Feminist Plot and the Nationalist Allegory: Home and World in Two Indian Women's Novels in EnglishChapter 15. Memory, Identity, Patriarchy: Projecting a Past in the Memoirs of Sara Suleri and Michael OndaatjeChapter 16. Figures of Colonial ResistancePart IV: New DirectionsChapter 17. Introduction: Worldly EnglishChapter 18. Narrative in Prison: Stories from the Palestinian IntifadaChapter 19. Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in The Satanic VersesChapter 20. National Narratives, Postnational NarrationChapter 21. Comic Visions and Revisions in the Work of Lynda Barry and Marjane SatrapiChapter 22. Tenderness: A Mediator of Identity and Gender Construction in PoliticsList of Contributors Index
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University Press of Florida The Wilder Heart of Florida: More Writers
Book Synopsis Fall under the spell of Florida's natural environmentIn this captivating collection, Florida's most notable authors, poets, and environmentalists take readers on a journey through the natural wonders of the state. Continuing in the legacy of the beloved classic The Wild Heart of Florida, this book features thirty-four pieces by a new slate of well-known and emerging writers.In these pages, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff describes the beauty of Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park. Environmental writer Cynthia Barnett listens to seashells on Sanibel Island. Legendary journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas records the sights and sounds of the Everglades in the 1920s. Miccosukee elder Buffalo Tiger relates traditional stories of his community's deep relationship with the land. Presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco muses on the shifting vista of the ocean in "Some Days the Sea."These writers and many others recount memories of how their lives have been enriched by the state's varied and brilliant landscapes. Some tell of encounters with alligators, pythons, manatees, turtles, and otters, while others marvel at the unique character of flowing springs and piney scrub. Together, they highlight the need to protect pristine ecosystems and restore ones that have been damaged due to development. The Wilder Heart of Florida will inspire readers to explore and celebrate the Florida wilderness.Table of Contents Foreword Introduction —Jack E. Davis and Leslie K. Poole Part I. Beckonings Seduction in Key West — Susan Lilley The Story under the Story — Lauren Groff Our Land — Buffalo Tiger Soldier's Creek Trail — Terry Ann Thaxton Part II. Revelations Innocence Found — Bill Maxwell The Seine — Jack E. Davis My First Audubon Trip Hasn't Ended Yet . . . — Charles Lee Florida Boy — David McCally The River That Raised Me — Gabbie Buendia The Breathers, St. Mark's Lighthouse — Rick Campbell Part III. Animals Birds and Refuge — Frederick R. Davis The Quiet Song of Sanibel Island — Cynthia Barnett The Habits of Alligators — Loren G. "Totch" Brown Gator! — Lee Irby Feast of Pythons (Homage to Harry Crews) — Isaac Eger One Manatee, Two Nations — Anmari Alvarez-Alemán Woodpeckers and Wildness: The Disney Wilderness Preserve — Leslie K. Poole Sighting by the St. Johns — Russ Kesler Part IV. Water Up the Okalawaha: A Sail into Fairy-Land — Harriet Beecher Stowe Musings — Margaret Ross Tolbert The Pulse of Paynes Prairie — Lars Andersen From Springs Heartland to Wasteland . . . and Back? — Lucinda Faulkner Merritt Wilderness from the Water — Claire Strom The Rhythms of the Lagoon — Clay Henderson Raw Water — Gianna Russo Part V. Terra Firma Excerpts from The Galley — Marjory Stoneman Douglas The Natural Aesthetic of the Naked God — Bruce Stephenson Don't Mourn the Orange — Mark Jerome Walters Seasons of Love — Erika Henderson Biscayne National Monument: Preserving Our Precious Bays — Nathaniel Pryor ReedPart VI. At the Heart Some Day the Sea — Richard Blanco From A Seminole Legend: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper — Betty Mae Tiger Jumper and Patsy West A Plea for Wider Justice — Marjory Stoneman Douglas Florida Is a Pretty Girl —Frances Susanna Nevill Acknowledgments Contributors Credits
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Zone Books Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and
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Manchester University Press Beginning Postcolonialism
Book SynopsisBeginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in postcolonial studies for the first time and has become an established international best-seller in the field. In this fully revised and updated second edition, John McLeod introduces the major areas of concern in a clear, accessible and organised fashion. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface to the second edition Introduction1. From ‘Commonwealth’ to ‘Postcolonial’2. Reading colonial discourses3. Nationalist representations4. The nation in question5. Re-reading and re-writing English literature6. Postcolonialism and feminism7. Diaspora identities8. The limits of postcolonialism?Appendix: ‘The Overland Mail (foot-service to the hills)’ (Rudyard Kipling)Further reading Index
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Oxford University Press The Tain
Book Synopsis"The T 'ain B 'o Cuailnge", centre-piece of the 8th century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. This translation is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, with elements from other versions, and adds a group of related stories which prepare for the T 'ain.Table of ContentsTranslator's Note and Acknowledgements ; Artist's Note ; Introduction ; Maps ; Some Recommended Books ; Pronunciation of Irish Words ; Before the Tain ; The Tain ; Notes on the Text
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Harvard University Press Physics Volume II Books 58 Greek
Book SynopsisNearly all the works Aristotle (384322 BC) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments.
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Harvard University Press Metaphysics Volume I Books 19 Greek
Book SynopsisNearly all the works Aristotle (384–322 BC) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments.
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