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Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History
Book SynopsisHeretical Essays is Patocka''s final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patocka begins with prehistory, approached through the natural world as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger.According to Patocka, nature is as an alien construct, and history, which began as a quest for higher meaning, ends with life as self-sustaining consumption. Patocka explains how Europe declined from its Greek heritage to seek power rather than truth, splintering into ethnic subdivisions, and then how the Enlightenment moved Europe from an ethical to a material orientation.This book includes a translation of the Preface to the French Edition by Paul Ricoeur.
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Ohio State University Press The Real Life of the Parthenon
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Ohio State University Press Loves Long Line
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Sleeping with One Eye Open Women Writers and the
Book SynopsisHow do women writers cope with changes and juggle the demands in their already full lives to make time for their lives as artists? In this anthology, noted female novelists, journalists, essayists, poets, and nonfiction writers address the old and new challenges of ‘doing it all’ that face women writers as the twenty-first century approaches.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Black is the Body
Book SynopsisA New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021''Everybody should read [this]'' StylistBlackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.In twelve intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race, family and relationships, and much more. She observes the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in America''s New England today.Ultimately, she shows us that it is in our shared experience of humanity that we find connection, happiness and hope.What readers are saying:''Perspective changing essays'' *****''A page-turner - full of empathy, love, and insight'' *****''I raced through this'' *****''I loved it'' *****''Exquisitely crafted'' *****''Essential reading'' *****''I couldn''t put it down'' *****''Beautifully written. A must read for all races'' *****''I loved everything about this book'' *****Trade ReviewContemplative and compassionate ... Bernard's voice is personable yet incisive in exploring the lived reality of race ... [Her] wisdom and compassion radiate throughout this collection. * Publishers Weekly *Conceived while the author was hospitalized after being stabbed by a white man, these 13 formidable, destined-to-be-studied essays mark the emergence of an extraordinary voice on race in America. * Oprah Magazine *Emily Bernard is a master storyteller. She writes with an honesty and vulnerability that is uncommon. These stories are about what it means to be human-to love, to hurt, to heal. They will make you think, re-think, feel, and grow. * Nana-Ama Danquah, author of Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey through Depression *My very favorite book that I have read so far this year...It's really life changing. If you get no other book this year, get Black Is the Body by Emily Bernard. * Ann Patchett *Of the 12 essays here, there's not one that even comes close to being forgettable. Bernard's language is fresh, poetically compact, and often witty ... Bernard proves herself to be a revelatory storyteller of race in America who can hold her own with some of those great writers she teaches. * Maureen Corrigan *
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Bauhan (William L.),U.S. Essays from Essex
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated memoir about life in Essex, Connecticut.
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Ara Pacis Publishers Poetry in the Age of Impurity
Book SynopsisFew, if any, modern poets have stood up against the wave of decay and mediocrity that has inculcated modern culture. For Sanfilip, poetry''s lack of importance to modern culture is indicative of a deeper trauma at work. In Poetry in the Age Impurity, he spells out the end game of our culture''s long refusal to face true existence and exposes the false mirror modern society has created for itself. In Sanfilip''s view, the death of poetic consciousness is emblematic of the crisis at hand. At the same time, he points a way both outward and inward to the perilous, metaphysical path necessary to find true being beyond the vacuity he sees swallowing up the West in ennui, cynicism and self-hatred. He challenges the warped values of our time, while at the same time laying out a psychic road map back to authenticity. Not since Shelley''s A Defence of Poetry or the Surrealists manifestoes of the 1920''s has a living poet been willing to stand up against the tide of decay eating away at the heart
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Rogue Press Limited Essays From The Hermits Lodge
Book SynopsisEssays From The Hermit's Lodge is a collection of irreverent writing, scribbled from the forlorn hand of author Ali Kinteh.
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Michael Walmer The Sins of Society and other essays
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Legare Street Press Selections From Papers of the Twining Family a
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LEGARE STREET PR Promenade From Dieppe to the Mountains of
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Collected Works of C.G. Jung Alchemical Studies Volume 13
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Zofingia Lectures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd General Bibliography of C.G. Jungs Writings
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Development of Personality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Civilization in Transition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psychology of the Unconscious A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Freud and Psychoanalysis Vol. 4
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Symbolic Life
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Taylor & Francis Ltd THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG Mysterium Coniunctionis Volume 14
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Taylor & Francis Ltd General Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Spirit of Man in Art and Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease
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Headline Publishing Group Romaine Wasnt Built in a Day
Book SynopsisPerfect for readers of Susie Dent and Mark Forsyth, and fans of QI. All food has a story, reaching as far back into history as language itself. As languages followed and reflected the tides of civilizations, food language came to represent some of the highs and lows of how humans communicate: from the highbrow ''Chateauneuf du Pape: (the Pope''s new castle)'' to the ''nun''s farts'' of Jamaica (also known as ''beignets'').Chock full of food puns, linguistic did-you-knows and delectable trivia, Romaine Wasn''t Built in A Day is your go-to gift for your trivia nerds, your history buffs, your crossword fiends, and your Scrabble diehards. This is the surprising and hilarious history of food, told through the lens of the fascinating evolution of language.
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Indy Pub BUDDY AND PAPAYI The True Story Of An Indie Pup
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cultures of London
Book SynopsisFrom its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital's cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters and curators. Subjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul's, while others explore less well-known subjects, like the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer and man-of-letters.It is not only London's cultures which are diverse, migration is also plural. This book engages with the very many huTrade ReviewThis pathbreaking and extensive volume brings together a wide range of authors from academia and beyond to investigate the role and lives of migrants throughout the history and geographical extent of London. * Panikos Panayi, Professor of European History, De Montfort University, UK *Table of ContentsFrontmatter Author Biographies Introduction, Charlotte Grant and Alistair Robinson CENTRAL 1. St. Erkenwald and the Hidden Histories of St Paul’s Cathedral, Alastair Bennett 2. Ignatius Sancho: Musician, Man of Letters, Grocer, Markman Ellis 3. The ‘Black-birds’ of St. Giles: Community and Place in Eighteenth-century London, Nicole N. Aljoe and Savita Maharaj 4. Styling the Other: Hazlitt’s ‘The Indian Jugglers’, Uttara Natarajan 5. Begging Places: Poverty, Race, and Visibility on Ludgate Hill, c. 1815, David Hitchcock 6. 13 Red-Lion Square: The Mendicity Society, 1818–76, Oskar Cox Jensen 7. The Chinese Aesthetics of the Admonitions Scroll at the British Museum, Kent Su 8. ‘A terrain on its own’: Elizabeth Bowen and Regent’s Park, Heather Ingman INFRASTRUCTURE: WATER 9. London’s Water: City Comedy, Migration and Middletons, Susan J. Wiseman EAST 10. Shakespeare in Shoreditch, Daniel Swift 11. Hostile Environments: Disinterring a Lascar Barracks in Nineteenth-Century Shadwell, Eliza Cubitt 12. 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields: A Case Study in the Architecture of Migration and Diversity, Dan Cruikshank 13. The Slot-Meter and the East End Avant-Garde, Alex Grafen INFRASTRUCTURE: WASTE 14. Blockage and Recuperation: Sewer-Hunters in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor, Naomi Hinds SOUTH 15. Culture and Horticulture in Lambeth from ‘Tradescant’s Ark’ to Vauxhall Gardens, Charlotte Grant 16. The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Sydenham, and St Petersburg, Catherine Brown 17. 87 Hackford Road: The London of Vincent Van Gogh, Livia Wang 18. Writing London: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Ruvani Ranasinha INFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT I 19. Existing Triply: Race, Space and the London Transport Network, 1950s–70s, Rob Waters WEST 20. Scotch Hornpipes and African Elephants: The May Fair in 1700, Alistair Robinson 21. Feathered People in Enlightenment London: Queen of the Bluestockings meets Cherokee King, Elizabeth Eger 22. Prince Eugen in Kensington: Anglo-Scandinavian Artistic, Networks and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, Eva-Charlotta Mebius 23. ‘What a relief to be back in London’: The Silences of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Edmund de Waal 24. Tricksters of the Water: Sam Selvon's West London and the Migrant Experience, Peter Maber and Karishma Patel 25. Arabian Nights on the Edgware Road: Hanan al-Shaykh’s Only in London, Susie Thomas 26. The Grand Prince of Kyiv in Holland Park: The Statue of Saint Volodymyr, Sasha Dovzhyk 27. ‘Is real mas outside’: Community, Resistance and Notting Hill Carnival, Leighan Renaud 28. ‘Where the City Dissolves’: Suburban Diasporas, Psychosis and Reparative Writing, Martin Dines INFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT II 29. A Bus for Everyone: The Role of the London Omnibus in Enabling Access to the City, Joe Kerr NORTH 30. Moorgate, Enfield, Edmonton and Hampstead: The Cross-City Migrations of John Keats, Flora Lisica 31. The Battle for an African Space in London: WASU Hostel and Aggrey House, William Whitworth 32. Northview: A Snapshot of Multiracial London during the Second World War, Oliver Ayers 33. Exiles of NW3: The ‘Free German League of Culture’ in Upper Park Road, David Anderson Select Bibliography Index
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Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfields Women
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense
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Rowman & Littlefield Folklife and Museums
Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a third editor, for this book which includes updates to the still-relevant and classic essays and articles from the earlier text and features new pioneering pieces by some of today's most outstanding scholars and practitioners, to provide a more current overview of the field and addressing contemporary issues. Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectivesis a brand new collection of cutting-edge essaysthat combine theoretical insights, practical applications, topical case studies (focusing on particular subject matter areas and specific cultural groups), accompanied by up-to-date resources and suggested readings sections.Each essay is preceded by an explanatory headnote contextualizing the essay and includes illustrative photographs.Trade ReviewFolklorists have been pioneers in museums for over half a century, moving the field toward more richly collaborative work, closer engagement with communities, and radically inclusive practices. This volume explores, from multiple angles, the significant and under-appreciated relationship between folklife and museums. -- William S. Walker, Associate Professor of History, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY OneontaFolklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives is for everyone—regardless of discipline—who is in any way responsible, or is seeking to become responsible, for content, interpretation, programming, and community engagement in any museum dealing in any way with culture. An impressive array of experts explore how the field of folklore, the role of museums, changing technology, and the expectations of people and communities today intersect both to demand and to provide new approaches to advancing knowledge and understanding of human activity and relationships. The result is a fresh look and a must read. -- G. Rollie Adams, President and CEO Emeritus, Strong MuseumBridging theory and practice, this collection continues the fruitful dialogue between folkloristics and museology with important thought-pieces and case studies. As the relationship between museums and their publics is being redefined, these essays remind us that folklore’s commitment to ethnographic practice, participatory ethos, and community voices continues to complicate and enrich to all aspects of museum practice. -- Michael Atwood Mason, Director, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing Remaking Literary History
Book SynopsisHistory is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. (George Santayana)Enquiries into the relationship between literature and history continue to stir up intense critical and scholarly debate.Trade Review"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten." (George Santayana)"
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University of Nebraska Press A Harp in the Stars
Book SynopsisRandon Billings Noble has collected a range of lyric essays in a variety of forms that showcase the essay’s openness to experimentation, reliance on authentic voice, and potential to explore complex subject matter. Trade Review"This anthology is a treasure chest of daring ways to take one's voice to the page."—Celia Jeffries, Brevity"Whether a product of the limbic system of the brain, where emotions and memories are processed, or of a conscious response to formal constraints, the lyric essay is highly attuned and deeply suited to making sense of things. A Harp in the Stars helps the reader make sense of things. Its neon flashes: You are not alone."—Alison Powell, Colorado Review"The contributions represent a range of experiences and each essay brings a different perception of the form of a lyric essay. . . . I highly recommend A Harp in the Stars edited by Randon Billings Noble for those interested in writing and reading lyric essays."—Alexa Josaphouitch, Hippocampus Magazine“I’ve been searching for a book like this for over twenty years. Its remarkable dazzle—a sharp, eclectic anthology combined with whip-smart craft essays—carves out a fascinating look into the bright heart of what the lyric essay can be.”—Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders“Perhaps the best way to define the lyric essay—a notoriously borderless, slippery literary form—is to gather several dozen finely written examples that invite the reader to engage in acts of mapping and naming themselves. This anthology does just that, with the added bonuses of thought-provoking craft pieces with decidedly lyric bents and a special attention to intersections of the lyric and the personal. I can easily imagine assigning this book in any forward-thinking class, graduate or undergraduate, that involves writing or analyzing expressive prose.”—Elena Passarello, author of Let Me Clear My Throat: Essays“Randon Billings Noble has assembled a stellar collection of lyric essays that truly highlights the best these forms have to offer. This book will be pulled from my shelf again and again—for my own reading and as a resource for my students.”—Brenda Miller, author of An Earlier LifeTable of ContentsIntroduction Randon Billings Noble Gyre Diane Seuss Immortal Wound Jericho Parms Vide Sarah Minor Satellite Sarah Perry Woven Lidia Yuknavitch Re: Sometime after 5:00 p.m. on a Wednesday in the Middle of Autumn Daniel Garcia Searching for Gwen Laurie Easter This Is the Room Where Nels P. Highberg The Boys of New Delhi: An Essay in Four Hurts Sayantani Dasgupta The Wait(ress) Amy Roost Beasts of the Fields Aimée Baker In My Brother’s Shadow Talea Anderson Mash-Up: A Family Album Sarah Viren Nevermore Katie Manning Classified Susanna Donato Prophecy Eric Tran Scars, Silence, and Dian Fossey Angie Chuang Nausea Layla Benitez-James Manual Amy Bowers Elementary Primer Michael Dowdy The Punch Christopher Linforth Intersectional Landscapes Kristina Gaddy My Mother’s Mother Davon Loeb Apocalypse Logic Elissa Washuta The Sound of Things Breaking Ru Freeman Self-Portrait in Apologies Sarah Einstein Fragment: Strength Casandra López Body Wash: Instructions on Surviving Homelessness Dorothy Bendel Informed Consent Elizabeth K. Brown Thanks, but No Emily Brisse Frida’s Circle Dinty W. Moore A Catalog of Faith Kelsey Inouye Practical Magic: A Beginner’s Grimoire Rowan McCandless Depends on Who You Ask Sandra Beasley Against Fidelity Leslie Jill Patterson Loss Collection Lia Purpura I’m No Sidney Poitier Curtis Smith Why I Let Him Touch My Hair Tyrese L. Coleman Thanatophobia Christen Noel Kauffman Of a Confession, Sketched from Ten Vignettes LaTanya McQueen The Heart as a Torn Muscle Randon Billings Noble On Beauty Interrupted Marsha McGregor Late Bloom Caitlin Myer The Last Cricket Steve Edwards Craft Essays Success in Circuit: Lyric Essay as Labyrinth Heidi Czerwiec Finding Your Voice Marina Blitshteyn Lying in the Lyric Chelsey Clammer Chance Operations Maya Sonenberg On the EEO Genre Sheet Jenny Boully What’s Missing Here Julie Marie Wade Meditations Source Acknowledgments Contributors
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Lexington Books The Green Thread
Book SynopsisThe Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence. The leading metaphor of the bookthe green thread, echoing poet Dylan Thomas' phrase the green fusecarries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, the green thread is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue. On another level, the green thread links creative and historical productions to the materiality of the vegetala reality reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short, The Green Thread refers to the converTrade Review“Over fifty years ago Rachel Carson wrote in Silent Spring that our “attitude toward plants is a singularly narrow one.” This book offers readers in the humanities and sciences a more broadly conceived and sophisticated interdisciplinary conversation about plants. More significantly, the book reinvigorates a human dialogue with plants that has been displaced by modern cultural attitudes toward the vegetal world.” -- Mark C. Long, Keene State CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction. Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano and John C. Ryan Section I. Disseminating Plants Chapter 1. What’s Planted in the Event? On the Secret Life of a Philosophical Concept, Michael Marder Chapter 2. Seeing Green: The Re-discovery of Plants and Nature’s Wisdom, Monica Gagliano Chapter 3. Tolkien’s Sonic Trees and Perfumed Herbs: Plant Intelligence in Middle-earth, John Charles Ryan Chapter 4. What’s Talking? On the Nostalgic Epistemology of Plant Communication, Stefan Rieger Chapter 5. “Wild Memory” as an Anthropocene Heuristic: Cultivating Ethical Paradigms for Galleries, Museums, and Seed Banks, Tom Bristow Section II. Politicizing Plants Chapter 6. Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson’s “A Dying Race”, Jennifer Schell Chapter 7. Laws of the Jungle: The Politics of Contestation in Cinema about the Amazon, Patrícia Vieira Chapter 8. Monstrous Flora: Dangerous Cinematic Plants of the Cold War Era, Andrew Howe Chapter 9. Once Upon a Time in Ombrosa: Italo Calvino and the Fabulist Pastoral, Gioia Woods Chapter 10. Vital Plants and Despicable Weeds in Ray Lawrence’s Lantana, Guinevere Narraway and Hannah Stark Section III. Performing Plants Chapter 11. Plant-Thinking with Film: Reed, Branch, Flower, Graig Uhlin Chapter 12. Shrubs and the City: Urban Nature in Rear Window, Pansy Duncan Chapter 13. The Art of Human to Plant Interaction, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, and Florian Weil Chapter 14. The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance, Abandoned Practices and Endangered Uses, Alan Read Contributors
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Ambition
Book SynopsisWe describe people who are consumed or devoured by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidationas when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel Trade ReviewGoebel's book is an eloquent study of a chatoyant term and a timeless phenomenon. A brilliantly written essay that argues historically while teaching readers to turn to their own striving in a truly enlightened manner. * Andreas Beyer, Professor for the History of Art, Universität Basel, Switzerland *Eckart Goebel’s Ambition is a tour de force, tracking the complex and circuitous history of the concept through a series of profound analyses and offering inspired and provocative reflections of what has driven, haunted, and debilitated individuals and societies across the millennia. * John T. Hamilton, Harvard University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Semantics of Ambition II. Eris - Agon - Ambition III. Ambition in Modernity 1. A New Era of Ambition (Jacob Burckhardt) 2. The Ambition of Equals (Alexis de Tocqueville) 3. Critique of Success (Gustav Ichheiser) 4. Critique of Contemplation (Karl Mannheim) 5. The Ambitious Spoilsport (Roger Caillois) 6. Hesiod’s Return in the Achieving Society (David McClelland) 7. Burning Ambition (Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler) The Ambition to Reject Ambition: An Afterword with a View to Montaigne Index
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Manchester University Press Deirdre Madden: New Critical Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these works, she weighs up the aftermath of violence and the impact of the shift to a more open but materialist society in the country overall. Memory, trauma, and the abiding but elusive links between the past and the present are central concerns of her fiction. This pioneering set of essays by leading experts in Irish Studies explores the many dimensions of her novels from a wide variety of perspectives. Madden’s skill at interweaving novels of ideas with artist novels that draw out the complex inner predicaments of her characters is highlighted. States of dislocation are concentrated on in her texts, but also the quest for a home in the world and a lasting set of values that allows for personal integrity and authenticity. These multifaceted explorations bear out the compelling and enduring aspects of Madden’s highly regarded novels.Trade Review'The essays gathered in this exemplary and fascinating collection analyse... many... themes woven through Deirdre Madden’s work.'The Irish Times -- .Table of ContentsPreface: Deirdre Madden: a jagged symmetry – Frank McGuinnessIntroduction – Anne Fogarty and Marisol Morales-LadrónPart I: Memory, trauma, and the Troubles1 ‘Images … at the absolute edge of memory’: memory and temporality in Hidden Symptoms, One by One in the Darkness, and Time Present and Time Past – Stefanie Lehner2 ‘The horror of little details’: remembering the Troubles in Hidden Symptoms and One by One in the Darkness – Elisabeth Chase3 Journeying through loss: transcendence and healing in Deirdre Madden’s Hidden Symptoms – Catriona Clutterbuck4 Class and multiplicity in One by One in the Darkness – Brian CliffPart II: Art and objects5 Objects in Deirdre Madden’s artist novels – Sylvie Mikowski6 Ageing and identity in Deirdre Madden’s Authenticity – Heather Ingman7 Sensing one’s way forward: psychological aspects of creativity in Deirdre Madden’s Authenticity – Hedwig Schwall8 ‘What can we do, what does art do?’: ethics and aesthetics in Deirdre Madden’s Hidden Symptoms, One by One in the Darkness and Molly Fox’s Birthday – Teresa Casal9 Looking at animals and objects in Deirdre Madden’s children’s books and some adult fiction – Julie Anne StevensPart III: Home and place10 Nothing is Black: the early Celtic Tiger and Europe – Jerry White11 Imaginaries of home in Deirdre Madden’s fiction – Elke D’hoker12 The architectural uncanny: family secrets and the Gothic in The Birds of the Innocent Wood and Remembering Light and Stone – Anne Fogarty13 Living lives: Deirdre Madden’s Authenticity, Molly Fox’s Birthday, Time Present and Time Past and the Irish Celtic Tiger novel – Derek Hand14 In conversation with Deirdre Madden – Marisol Morales-LadrónIndex
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Fordham University Press Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and
Book SynopsisAlbion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a dozen novels and a volume of short stories, as well as nonfiction works of history, law, and politics. This volume is the first collection focused on Tourgée’s literary work and intends to establish his reputation as one of the great writers of fiction about the Reconstruction era arguably the greatest for the wide historical and geographical sweep of his novels and his ability to work with multiple points of view. As a white novelist interested in the rights of African Americans, Tourgée was committed to developing not a single Black perspective but multiple Black perspectives, sometimes even in conflict. The challenge was to do justice to those perspectives in the larger context of the story he wanted to tell about a multiracial America. The seventeen essays in this volume are grouped around three large topics: race, citizenship, and nation. The volume also includes a Preface, Introduction, Afterword, Bibliography, and Chronology providing an overview of his career. This collection changes the way that we view Tourgée by highlighting his contributions as a writer and editor and as a supporter of African American writers. Exploring the full spectrum of his literary works and cultural engagements, Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée reveals a new Tourgée for our moment of renewed interest in the literature and politics of Reconstruction.Table of ContentsForeword Carolyn L. Karcher | xi Introduction: Literary Tourgée Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert S. Levine | 1 Part I: Race 1 Gothic Reconstruction: Hawthorne’s House in Tourgée’s Toinette and A Royal Gentleman Robert S. Levine | 19 2 Tourgée’s A Fool’s Errand and the Limits of White Radicalism John Ernest | 32 3 “Queer Synecdoche”: Tourgée’s Bricks without Straw and Black Kinship Nancy Bentley | 44 4 Reparations and Passing in Tourgée’s Pactolus Prime DeLisa D. Hawkes | 57 5 The True Friendship of Charles W. Chesnutt and Albion W. Tourgée Tess Chakkalakal | 70 6 “Their Position Must Be Mined”: Tourgée in Charles Chesnutt’s Career-Long Engagement with White Readers Jennifer Rae Greeson | 84 Part II: Citizenship 7 Reimagining the Republic: Tourgée on Citizenship Sandra M. Gustafson | 97 8 Tourgée, Democracy, Romance, and the Art of Fiction Kenneth W. Warren | 110 9 Exodian Allegories of Incomplete Emancipation in Bricks without Straw Christine Holbo | 124 10 The Business of Marriage, Pluralized: Mormonism and Money in Button’s Inn Molly Ball | 138 11 Tourgée’s New Realism: Disciplinary Reparation and the Quest for Racial Justice Almas Khan | 151 12 With Gauge and Swallow, Attorneys: Tourgée’s Legal Romance Brook Thomas | 165 Part III: Nation 13 “I Don’t Care a Rag for the Union as It Was”: Amputation, the Past, and the Work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Bricks without Straw Sarah E. Chinn | 181 14 Tracking Redress in the West: The Railroad in Tourgée’s Figs and Thistles and Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don Annemarie Mott Ewing | 194 15 The Literary Lost Cause of Albion Tourgée: The Project of Our Continent Mary B. Hale | 207 16 Tourgée on the Dangers of Reconciliation: Revenge in the Reconstruction-Era Novels Gregory Laski | 223 17 Thomas Dixon, Albion Tourgée, and the False Balance of the Civil War Alex Zweber Leslie | 236 Afterword Mark Elliott | 251 Albion W. Tourgée: A Chronology | 259 Acknowledgments | 263 Selected Bibliography | 265 List of Contributors | 269 Index | 273
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter
Book SynopsisHome to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today. Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays that explain how and why each poet chose a poem as their “personal best.” The anthology offers a provocative and surprising range of responses in which readers will find poetic context for the life of a poem and revelatory insight into the unique, personal experiences that shape the writing process itself. Including works from a wide variety of voices both new and well-established, Personal Best is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today. The anthology gives readers—both long-time fans of poetry and those just discovering its possibilities—an intimate view of the heart and spirit that make poetry one of our most quintessentially human forms of expression.
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Autonomedia The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading
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Milkweed Editions Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache
Book SynopsisWinner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayWinner of the 2022 Southern Book PrizeAn Indie Next Selection for September 2021A Book Marks Best Reviewed Essay Collection of 2021A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021A Country Living Best Book of Fall 2021A Garden & Gun Recommended Read for Fall 2021A Book Marks Best Reviewed Book of September 2021For the past four years, Margaret Renkl’s columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this sparkling new collection.“People have often asked me how it feels to be the ‘voice of the South,’” writes Renkl in her introduction. “But I’m not the voice of the South, and no one else is, either.” There are many Souths—red and blue, rural and urban, mountain and coast, Black and white and brown—and no one writer could possibly represent all of them. In Graceland, At Last, Renkl writes instead from her own experience about the complexities of her homeland, demonstrating along the way how much more there is to this tangled region than many people understand.In a patchwork quilt of personal and reported essays, Renkl also highlights some other voices of the South, people who are fighting for a better future for the region. A group of teenagers who organized a youth march for Black Lives Matter. An urban shepherd whose sheep remove invasive vegetation. Church parishioners sheltering the homeless. Throughout, readers will find the generosity of spirit and deep attention to the world, human and nonhuman, that keep readers returning to her columns each Monday morning.From a writer who “makes one of all the world’s beings” (NPR), Graceland, At Last is a book full of gifts for Southerners and non-Southerners alike.Trade ReviewPraise for Graceland, At Last“Margaret Renkl’s weekly essays for the New York Times offer a model for how to move through our world with insight and sensitivity. Graceland, At Last takes in the full scope of her surroundings, and the reader walks away wanting to see as she sees, hear what she hears, smell what she smells. It’s a stellar collection that spans nature writing and cultural criticism, the present and the past, full of explorations of religion, belief, and Southern politics that flex a cordial, probing curiosity. She picks good heroes—John Lewis, John Prine, ‘the lowly Tennessee coneflower’—and she makes sharp judgments without sounding judgmental. At a moment of extreme division, Renkl writes with a generosity of spirit, as a neighbor rather than ideologue.”—PEN America Judges’ Citation, Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay“[Graceland, At Last] is Renkl at her most tender and most fierce. . . . Renkl’s gift, just as it was in her first book Late Migrations, is to make fascinating for others what is closest to her heart. . . . What rises in me after reading her essays is [John] Lewis’ famous urging to get in good trouble to make the world fairer and better. Many people in the South are doing just that—and through her beautiful writing, Renkl is among them.”—NPR“In this luminous collection, Renkl delivers smart, beautifully crafted personal and political observations. . . . I keep this book nearby to revisit the humanity and hope in its pages.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune“Renkl’s perspective feels like a guiding light. . . . No matter where you’re from, column after column, Margaret Renkl will make you feel right at home.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“Amazing and inspiring. [Graceland, At Last] will help you figure out concrete things you can do to save the planet.”—Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House“Graceland, At Last gathers a selection of Renkl’s columns from the past four years, inviting loyal readers and newcomers alike to take in Renkl’s perspective on the world. . . . Whether extolling the wonders of a rattlesnake or lamenting Southern Christians’ support of oppressive policies, Renkl engages with her home region’s beauty and complexity.”—BookPage“Everyone should have a friend like Margaret Renkl: thoughtful, engaged, compassionate and, above all, acutely observant. Since that’s not always possible, the next best thing is to share her company in the diverse and consistently stimulating essay collection Graceland, At Last. . . . Renkl is both unfailingly honest and deeply empathetic in creating the vivid portrait of her home region that emerges organically from these intensely personal and well-informed essays.”—Shelf Awareness“Reading the short essays in this book has strengthened my understanding and love for the South, its people, its land, and its complexities. I especially have enjoyed reading Renkl’s thoughtful reflections on flora and fauna, and I find myself looking to my changing backyard this fall with a new appreciation.”—Garden & Gun, “New Reads for Fall 2021”“[Renkl] doesn’t shy from hard topics but explores them with the careful hand of someone whose heart yearns for healing, growth, and understanding for the region she loves. A must read for those who live and love the South!”—Country Living, “Best Books of Fall 2021”“As the essays collected in Graceland, At Last prove, she’s challenged her readers to rise and confront many of the complex issues facing our Southern communities. . . . Renkl, an Alabama native and lifelong Southerner living in Nashville, does so with such deep respect and understanding, and such powerful, insightful, Southern-accented prose, that even her polemics come off as love letters. . . . We catch glimpses of ourselves in her wise and poignant reflections, and I for one am grateful and grinning.”—Charleston Post and Courier“In her newest book, Graceland, At Last, Renkl invites readers—southerners and non-southerners alike—into her homeland, her city, her yard. . . . What we discover along the way is a place that is both ‘damaged and damaging,’ but also full of people who inspire and landscapes too beautiful for words. Through these warm and heartfelt essays, Renkl shows us how to keep on loving this complicated place, how to look right at its ‘appalling truths’ and gesture, still, toward hope.”—Southern Humanities Review“While [Graceland, At Last] is not a how-to, we come away with how to better ‘belong to one another’ in a time when we desperately need to.”—Arkansas International“From her home in Nashville—‘a blue dot in the red sea of Tennessee’—[Renkl] writes perceptively of the region where she was born and raised (in Alabama), educated (in South Carolina), and settled. . . . Renkl vividly evokes the lush natural beauty of the rivers, old-growth forests, ‘red-dirt pineywoods,’ marshes, and coastal plains that she deeply loves. . . . A wide-ranging look at the realities of the South.”—Kirkus Reviews“If you’ve happened upon the poignant and off-road opinion pieces Renkl writes as a contributor to The New York Times, you already know that the natural world is something she closely observes and uses as a springboard to contemplate other, less tangible subjects. . . . Her life story and her life’s passion intertwine, like a fence post and a trumpet vine.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Graceland, At Last takes us to Renkl’s homeland and shines a light on life in the South, its complexities and its hopes. In these pages, you will find Black Lives Matter organizers, churches sheltering the homeless, and even helpful sheep. Reading Margaret Renkl is like seeing the world in color for the first time.”—Literary Hub, “Most Anticipated Books of 2021”“New York Times columnist Renkl effectively lifts the lid on Southern culture and challenges its stereotypes in this versatile compendium. Renkl’s essays cover the natural world, local politics, Southern-fried art and culture, and social justice issues from a Nashvillian perspective. Her nature writing shows an impressive predilection for botany and ornithology. . . . [Graceland, At Last] serves as a well-written collection for anyone interested in everyday life below the Mason-Dixon Line.”—Publishers Weekly“Like nothing else in the newspaper, [Renkl’s columns] burst with awareness of the things of nature, awareness that our lives are led in that midst, permeated with and part of the natural world. All is written with an open, joyful, yet steady voice of wonder.”—Philadelphia Inquirer“In 1956, author E.B. White suggested that newspapers cover nature as eagerly as commerce, having columns devoted not only to the flow of business but also the arrival of birds. Renkl . . . seems like a belated answer to White . . . [crafting] graceful sentences that White would surely have enjoyed. A collection of her Times columns would be a welcome thing.”—Wall Street Journal“Renkl is a master prose stylist, her generation’s E.B. White. Whatever she writes about comes alive through carefully crafted sentences in which sound and sense harmonize at the highest levels.”—California Review of Books “Renkl is so likable, as a writer and an individual, with her rich family traditions, her concern for justice, and her observant and unsentimental love of nature, that every paragraph feels like a conversation with a friend.”—Brevity“It’s heartening to see a columnist for a major American newspaper writing regularly about nature with a passion the media’s chattering classes typically reserve only for politics and entertainment. . . . Renkl’s columns deserve to be read again, and for years to come.”—Christian Science Monitor“Renkl’s essays alternate between balm for the soul and outrage at the world with all of its injustices. She makes me think and see things in a different light and for that I’m eternally grateful.”—Indie Next List (September 2021), selected by Jayne Gowsam, Mystery to Me“Readers can easily home in on one of the book’s wide-ranging six sections, sample an essay or two from each, or barrel through from start to finish, as whim dictates. Renkl’s voice is calm, steady, and sometimes surprising. . . . She celebrates a host of new voices in southern writing and sees in their work the light of justice and hope for the South.”—Booklist“Renkl is one of my absolute favorite writers working today. Like Late Migrations before it, Graceland, At Last is a gift—full of sorrow, joy, grief, and yes—hope. I implore you to read her work.”—Alex Brubaker, Midtown Scholar Bookstore“Renkl is my favorite essayist. Every week I look for her column in the opinion pages of the New York Times. In a time when the country has such deep divisions, I can rely on her writing to be all heart, no snark. I’m so proud to have this fellow Nashvillian’s newest collection on my shelf.”—Karen Hayes, Parnassus Books“Renkl wrote a favorite book of mine, Late Migrations, which was published in 2019. In this collection of essays, she expands upon what being a Southerner means to her, and not surprisingly I loved it. She writes about nature, her Christian faith, politics, systemic racism, musicians, and a variety of cultural influencers that are a rich variety of her reflections being raised in Alabama and as an adult living in Nashville. Through it all she searches with compassion and empathy for common ground so that all people can aspire to and live a better life.”—Todd Miller, Arcadia Books“The only thing better than a Margaret Renkl column appearing in my paper in the morning is a book of columns that appears all at once! Margaret’s grace of language, heart-filled societal goals and appreciation for the natural world fill this collection and give readers ideas, poignant facts to think about, and hope.”—Kira Wizner, Merritt Bookstore“It’s one thing to be a good reporter. Another to be a good writer. And finally, and more rare, a good storyteller. Renkl is among our best at all three. To see her full powers on display in this collection is truly a gift. We are in a golden age of nonfiction, I feel, and Renkl is one of the brightest reasons why. I love this book.”—Chris La Tray, Fact & Fiction“With the same profound observation and sensitivity as in her first book, Renkl’s collection of newspaper columns in Graceland, At Last explores even more aspects of the current American South, going beyond stereotypes and caricatures to reveal the real people, plants, and animals that live there, and how they band together during the dark times of the last few years. From social justice to family recipes, these short columns illuminate all manner of hidden things that often go overlooked.”—Ellie Ray, Content Book Store“It’s a punch in the gut and a balm for the soul. Graceland, At Last is Renkl’s collection of essays from the New York Times, and she has assembled a wide range of columns considering everything from birds to country music to social justice. Renkl is a writer who throws her whole self into her observations. . . . Her observations on the American experience are hard to take sometimes. She pulls no punches about American failures in race relations, care of the environment, and political life. Yet, she is also a writer full of the wonder about the world, seeing and helping us to see the hope and possibility in humanity.”—Sarah Young, Raven Book Store“Since 2017, Mondays have been redeemed by the appearance of a new column by Renkl in the Opinion section of the New York Times. By turns humorous, angry, hopeful, or meditative—and always graceful, thought-provoking, and deftly observed—these views of life from Nashville show us our world in ways we may not have thought of it before. Now Renkl has gathered 59 of these bite-sized pieces into a substantial collection. Organized ‘as a kind of patchwork quilt’—in homage to her foremothers—Graceland, At Last challenges the notion of a homogenous New South even as it gives a balanced view of the region through its distinctive natural landscape, political and cultural history, and the specifics of Renkl’s own life and family. What emerges is a wide-ranging portrait of a place as rich in beauty and tradition as it is blighted by racism and bias. Renkl decries the worst of the South’s Red State tendencies while celebrating its effort to face and transcend them with new institutions such as the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. She laments the thoughtless cutting down of trees but finds hope in the sight of purple martins—a bird whose survival depends on human-supplied birdhouses. Other gems include the reminder that a rattlesnake is a gentle, not a malign creature, and her donning of five inherited wedding bands as an amulet against her fears—one that works like a charm.”—Laurie Greer, Politics & Prose“Late Migrations is a staff favorite at our store. Not only do we hand sell it to customers, we have been giving copies as gifts far and wide. The author’s writing is spare, beautiful, thoughtful and wise, and she captures a Southern life in a way no one else does. For those who relish Renkl’s writing in the New York Times, Graceland, At Last provides a wonderful opportunity to reread favorite essays, as well as share her writing with others.”—Lia Lent, Wordsworth Books“Renkl’s weekly New York Times columns about culture in the South call out our many failures while describing in beautiful details what makes our part of America so beautiful. Just when I think there’s no possible way to capture the tension between the terrible and the special, Renkl’s words are there to express what I am feeling.”—Sissy Gardner, Parnassus Books“Renkl is terrific. I loved dipping in and out of these essays.”—Sheryl Cotleur, Copperfield’s BooksPraise for Late MigrationsA TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club PickWinner of 2020 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing AwardFinalist for the Southern Book PrizeNamed a “Best Book of the Year” by New Statesman, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Foreword Reviews, and Washington Independent Review of BooksAn Indie Next Selection, Indies Introduce Selection, and Okra Pick“Beautifully written, masterfully structured, and brimming with insight into the natural world, Late Migrations can claim its place alongside Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and A Death in the Family. It has the makings of an American classic.”—Ann Patchett“[Margaret Renkl] is the most beautiful writer! I love this book. It’s about the South, and growing up there, and about her love of nature and animals and her wonderful family.”—Reese Witherspoon“Reflective and gorgeous . . . I have recommended this book to everybody that I know. It is a beautiful book about love, and [how] . . . to find the beauty in the little things.”—Jenna Bush Hager, the TODAY Show“A perfect book to read in the summer . . . This is the kind of writing that makes me just want to stay put, reread and savor everything about that moment.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“Equal parts Annie Dillard and Anne Lamott with a healthy sprinkle of Tennessee dry rub thrown in.”—New York Times Book Review“A compact glory, crosscutting between consummate family memoir and keenly observed backyard natural history. Margaret Renkl’s deft juxtapositions close up the gap between humans and nonhumans and revive our lost kinship with other living things.”—Richard Powers, author of The Overstory“Magnificent . . . Conjure your favorite place in the natural world: beach, mountain, lake, forest, porch, windowsill rooftop? Precisely there is the best place in which to savor this book.”—NPR.org“Late Migrations has echoes of Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life—with grandparents, sons, dogs and birds sharing the spotlight, it’s a witty, warm and unaccountably soothing all-American story.”—People“[Renkl] guides us through a South lush with bluebirds, pecan orchards, and glasses of whiskey shared at dusk in this collection of prose in poetry-size bits; as it celebrates bounty, it also mourns the profound losses we face every day.” —O, the Oprah Magazine“A lovely collection of essays about life, nature, and family. It will make you laugh, cry—and breathe more deeply.”—Parade“This warm, rich memoir might be the sleeper of the summer. [Renkl] grew up in the South, nursed her aging parents, and never once lost her love for life, light, and the natural world. Beautiful is the word, beautiful all the way through.” —Philadelphia Inquirer“Like the spirituality of Krista Tippett’s On Being meets the brevity of Joe Brainard . . . The miniature essays in Late Migrations approach with modesty, deliver bittersweet epiphanies, and feel like small doses of religion.”—Literary Hub“In her poignant debut, a memoir, Renkl weaves together observations from her current home in Nashville and short vignettes of nature and growing up in the South.”—Garden & Gun“A book that will be treasured.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune“One of the best books I’ve read in a long time . . . [and] one of the most beautiful essay collections that I have ever read. It will give you chills.”—Silas House, author of Southernmost“Renkl holds my attention with essays about plants and caterpillars in a way no other nature writer can.”—Mary Laura Philpott, author of I Miss You When I Blink“This is the story of grief accelerated by beauty and beauty made richer by grief . . . Like Patti Smith in Woolgathering, Renkl aligns natural history with personal history so completely that the one becomes the other. Like Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Renkl makes, of a ring of suburbia, an alchemical exotica.”—The Rumpus“Renkl feels the lives and struggles of each creature that enters her yard as keenly as she feels the paths followed by her mother, grandmother, her people. Learning to accept the sometimes harsh, always lush natural world may crack open a window to acceptance of our own losses. In Late Migrations, we welcome new life, mourn its passing, and honor it along the way.”—Indie Next List (July 2019), Selected by Kat Baird, The Book Bin“[A] stunning collection of essays merging the natural landscapes of Alabama and Tennessee with generations of family history, grief and renewal. Renkl’s voice sounds very close to the reader’s ear: intimate, confiding, candid and alert.”—Shelf Awareness (starred review)“Late Migrations is a gift, and fortunate readers will steal away to a beloved nook or oasis to commune with its riches. Or they will simply dig into it, unprepared, like the mother with no gardening tools who determinedly pulls weeds until the ground blossoms. They might entrust it to fellow seekers they believe can handle its power. Consecrated, they’ll leave initiated into an art of observation lived beautifully in richness, connection, worry, and love.”—The Christian Century“How can any brief description capture this entirely original and deeply satisfying book? . . . I can’t help but compile a list of people I want to gift with Late Migrations. I want them to emerge from it, as I did, ready to apprehend the world freshly, better able to perceive its connections and absorb its lessons.”—Beth Ann Fennelly, Chapter 16“[A] magnificent debut . . . Renkl instructs that even amid life’s most devastating moments, there are reasons for hope and celebration. Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Contemplative yet powerful . . . Renkl is so in touch with the birds and butterflies of her yard that one could mistake her for a trained naturalist.”—Book Page (starred review)“Compelling, rich, satisfying . . . The short, potent essays of Renkl’s Late Migrations are objects as worthy of marvel and study as the birds and other creatures they observe.”—Foreword Reviews (starred review)“Renkl captures the spirit and contemporary culture of the American South better than anyone.”—Book Page, A 2019 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book“[Late Migrations] is shot through with deep wonder and a profound sense of loss. It is a fine feat, this book. Renkl intimately knows that ‘this life thrives on death’ and chooses to sing the glory of being alive all the same.”—Booklist“A series of redolent snapshots and memories that seem to halt time . . . [Renkl’s] narrative metaphor becomes the miraculous order of nature . . . in all its glory and cruelty; she vividly captures ‘the splendor of decay.’”—Kirkus“A captivating, beautifully written story of growing up, love, loss, living, and a close extended family by a talented nature writer and memoirist that will appeal to those who enjoy introspective memoirs and the natural world close to home.”—Library Journal“A beautifully written collection of essays about nature and the author's childhood.”—NYPL.org (Best Book of 2019)“Compact, delicate like a work of poetry, and often gorgeous in detail, this is a refreshing read for readers interested in family as well as nature.”—Chicago Public Library“Late Migrations is such a beautiful book, you’ll want to gift it to someone you love. Meditative and poetic, without being stuffy, Renkl gets at the meanings in life.”—Campus Circle“A close and vigilant witness to loss and gain, Renkl wrenches meaning from the intimate moments that define us. Her work is a chronicle of being. And a challenge to cynicism. Late Migrations is flat-out brilliant and it has arrived right on time.”—John T. Edge, author of The Potlikker Papers“Gracefully written and closely observed, Renkl’s lovely essays are tinged with the longing for family and places now gone while rejoicing in the flutter of birds and life still alive.”—Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams“Here is an extraordinary mind combined with a poet’s soul to register our own old world in a way we have not quite seen before. Late Migrations is the psychological and spiritual portrait of an entire family and place presented in quick takes—snapshots—a soul’s true memoir. The dire dreams and fears of childhood, the mother’s mysterious tears, the imperfect beloved family . . . all are part of a charged and vibrant natural world also filled with rivalry, conflict, the occasional resolution, loss, and delight. Late Migrations is a continual revelation.”—Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls“What a treasure. I was captivated by the astonishing vignettes she created in just a few short sentences; mere fragments conveyed a lifetime.”—Jenny Lyons, Vermont Bookshop (Literary Hub)“In compact, lyrical essays, Renkl captures the fleeting brutal beauty of life. Renkl’s keen observations of suburban nature—birds, butterflies, and brambles—give depth and texture to the narratives she shares about her parents, her daily life, and her child’s clear-eyed curiosity. Like Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, Renkl’s Late Migrations reads as a grief memoir bound up with deeply attentive nature writing.”—Trista Doyle, Left Bank Books“Late Migrations is a gorgeous, somber treasure of a book. Death and its many forms permeate Renkl’s meditative work; from the death of her father to the death of a small bird in the road, grief is a constant companion throughout these pages. But the sorrow never becomes overwhelming; in fact, each passage takes on a unique, bittersweet wisdom that can only be gained by experiencing loss. Renkl’s part memoir, part nature writing, and part essay collection is such a unique reading experience and one I will remember and recommend for many years to come.”—Caleb Masters, BookmarksTable of ContentsIntroductionFlora & FaunaHawk. Lizard. Mole. Human.The Flower That Came Back from the DeadThe Eagles of Reelfoot LakeThe Real Aliens in Our BackyardMake America Graze AgainThe Misunderstood, Maligned RattlesnakeMaking Way for MonarchsThe Call of the American LotusPolitics & ReligionA Monument the Old South Would Like to IgnoreThe Final Battleground in the Fight for SuffrageThe Hits Keep Coming for the Red-State PoorA Slow-Motion Coup in TennesseeWe’re All Addicts HereThere Is a Middle Ground on GunsAn American TragedyThe Passion of Southern ChristiansChristians Need a New Right-to-Life MovementShame and Salvation in the American SouthGoing to Church with Jimmy CarterSocial JusticeWhat Is America to Me?ICE Came to Take Their Neighbor. They Said No.Christmas Isn’t Coming to Death RowAn Act of Mercy in TennesseeAn Open Letter to My Fellow White ChristiansLooking Our Racist History in the EyeMiddle Passage to Mass IncarcerationIn Memphis, Journalism Can Still Bring JusticeAn Open Letter to John LewisReading the New SouthThese Kids Are Done Waiting for ChangeEnvironmentAmerica’s Killer LawnsDangerous WatersMore Trees, Happier PeopleI Have a Cure for the Dog Days of SummerThe Case against Doing NothingThe Fox in the StrollerDeath of a CatA 150,000-Bird Orchestra in the SkyFamily & CommunityWaking Up to HistoryWhy I Wear Five Wedding RingsDemolition BluesThe Gift of Shared GriefRemembrance of Recipes PastAll the Empty Seats at the TableWhat It Means to Be #NashvilleStrongThe Night the Lights Went OutThe Story of the Surly Santa and the Christmas MiracleTrue Love in the Age of CoronavirusArts & CultureKeep America’s Roadside WeirdCountry Music as Melting PotJohn Prine: American OracleSo Long to Music City’s Favorite Soap Opera“Beauty Herself Is Black”The Day the Music DiedAfter War, Three Chords and the TruthProud Graduate of State U.What Is a Southern Writer, Anyway?Graceland, At LastAcknowledgments
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Ronin Publishing Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Book SynopsisThese 11 essays are the writings that galvanized the 60s youth revolution, written when Leary was at the peak of his popularity, influence and visionary intensity. The book opens with "Start Your Own Religion", revealing the true meaning of his immortal slogan "turn on, tune in, drop out", while "Neurological Politics" - the last essay - is a more scientific elaboration of the same theme.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Berlioz: Past, Present, Future
Book SynopsisA collection of essays commemorating Hector Berlioz's life and work on the 200th anniversary of his birth. This far-reaching collection of heretofore unpublished studies ushers in the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hector Berlioz [1803-1869]. The contributors include leading music historians and two prominent historians of culture, Peter Gay and Jacques Barzun. The essays discuss Berlioz's views of the music of the "past," Berlioz's interactions with music and musicians of his "present," and views of Berlioz during the several generations after his death [the "future"]. A long-awaited piece by Richard Macnutt meticulously inventories and investigates more than two hundred letters and documents that are now known to have been forged but that have sometimes been accepted as authentic. Further contributions, from David Charlton, Heather Hadlock, Sylvia L'Ecuyer, Katherine Kolb, Catherine Massip, Kerry Murphy, Jean-Michel Nectoux, Cecile Reynaud, and Lesley Wright, consider specific aspects of Berlioz's creative work and critical reception. The editor, Peter Bloom, is Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Music at Smith College. His scholarly work has focused primarily on the life and workof Berlioz. He is a member of the Panel of Advisors of the New Berlioz Edition and the author of The Life of Berlioz.Trade ReviewAll in all, a wonderful book to mark the birthday anniversary of a composer whose life and works deserve to be celebrated most noisily! * OPERA QUARTERLY *A compendium of first-rate musicological research and reportage that easily lives up to its ambitious title. * CHOICE *New and uncommon perspectives on Berlioz research . . . [including on] Berlioz's political consciousness and contemporary awareness of his political attitudes. . . . [Barzun] reveal[s] misunderstandings and clichéd opinions that still exist today about Berlioz. -- Frank Heidlberger * MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES *Excellent volume. * GRAMOPHONE *Brilliant discussion...extremely pertinent yet diverse analyses....This work, in its very diversity, has the clear advantage of the universality of Berlioz's genius. * AD PARNASSUM *Well-written and impeccably edited. . . . An outstanding Afterword by Jacques Barzun. -- Laurence M. Porter * FRENCH REVIEW *Table of ContentsBerlioz's Berlioz - Peter Gay Catherine Massip, "Berlioz and Early Music" David Charlton, "Learning the Past" Sylvia L'Ecuyer, "Joseph d'Origue's 'Autopsy' of Benvenuto Cellini"Cellini" Katherine Kolb, "Plots and Politics: Berlioz's Tales of Sound and Fury"and Fury" Kerry Murphy, "Berlioz, Meyerbeer, and the Place of Jewishness in Criticism"Criticism" Cecile Reynaud, "Berlioz, Liszt, Virtuosity" Heather Hadlock, "Berlioz, Ophelia, and Feminist Hermeneutics" Jean-Michel Nectoux, "Berlioz in 1900: Between Fervor and Fear" Lesley Wright, "Berlioz in the Fin-de-siècle Press" "Berlioz Forgeries" Richard Macnutt Fourteen Points about Berlioz and the Public,or Why There Is Still a Berlioz Problem - Jacques Barzun
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Autonomedia The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions
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University of Alaska Press Cold Latitudes
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University Press of Mississippi Faulkner and Postmodernism
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Freeman's Animals
Book SynopsisOver a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the great red-pink birds sauntered on, unphased, then 'stretched amazed and singly march into the imaginary.' This encounter - so strange, so typical of flamingos with their fabulous posture - is also still typical of how we interact with animals. Even as our actions threaten their very survival, they are still symbolic, captivating and captive, caught in a drama of our framing.This issue of Freeman's tells the story of that interaction, its costs, its tendernesses, the mythological flex of it. From lovers in a Chiara Barzini story, falling apart as a group of wild boars roams in their Roman neighbourhood, to the soppen emergency birth of a cow on a Wales farm, stunningly described by Cynan Jones, no one has the moral high ground here. Nor is this a piece of mourning. There's wonder, humour, rage and relief, too.Featuring pigeons, calves, stray dogs, mascots, stolen cats, and bears, to the captive, tortured animals who make up our food supply, powerfully described in Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's essay, this wide-ranging issue of Freeman's will stimulate discussion and dreams alike.Trade ReviewThere's an illustrious new literary journal in town . . . [with] fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by new voices and literary heavyweights. * Vogue.com *A terrific anthology . . . Sure to become a classic in years to come. * San Francisco Chronicle *Freeman draws from a global cache of talent . . . An expansive reading experience. * Kirkus Reviews *Freeman's is fresh, provocative, engrossing. * bbc.co.uk *
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The New Press The Miracle of the Black Leg
Book SynopsisBrilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnist?aka the Mad Law Professor?tackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillance, and moreBeginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a centuries-old painting featuring a white man with a Black man?s leg surgically attached (with the expired Black leg-donor in the foreground), contracts law scholar and celebrated journalist Patricia J. Williams uses the lens of the law to take on core questions of identity, ethics, and race.With her trademark elegant prose and critical legal studies wisdom, Williams brings to bear a keen analytic eye and a lawyer?s training to chapters exploring the ways we have legislated the ownership of everything from body parts to gene sequences?and the particular ways in which our laws in these areas isolate nonnormative looks, minority cultures, and out-of-the-box thinkers.At the heart of ?Wrongful Birth? is a lawsuit in which a white couple who use a sperm bank sue when their child ?comes out Black?; ?Bodies in Law? explores the service of genetic ancestry testing companies to answer the question of who owns DNA. And ?Hot Cheeto Girl? examines the way that algorithms give rise to new predictive categories of human assortment, layered with market-inflected cages of assigned destiny.In the spirit of Dorothy Roberts, Rebecca Skloot, and Anne Fadiman,The Miracle of the Black Legoffers a brilliant meditation on the tricky place where law, science, ethics, and cultural slippage collide.
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Ehgbooks Essay of Maxwell Yao:
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