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After the Last Skyby Edward W. SaidISBN 0099916304 (0-09-991630-4)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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After the Last Sky: Palestinian Livesby Edward W. Said , Jean MohrISBN 0231114494 (0-231-11449-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives'Book summary:A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.
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Beginnings: Intention and Methodby Edward W. Said , Jean MohrISBN 023105937X (0-231-05937-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beginnings: Intention and Method'Book summary:A "beginning," especially as embodied in much modern thought, is its own method, Edward Said argues in this classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism. Distinguishing between "origin," which is divine, mythical, and privileged, and "beginning," which is secular and humanly produced, Said traces the ramifications and diverse understandings of the concept of beginning through history. A beginning is a first step in the intentional production of meaning and the production of difference from preexisting traditions. It authorizes subsequent texts -- it both enables them and limits what is acceptable.
Drawing on the insights of Vico, Valery, Nietzsche, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Husserl, and Foucault, Said recognizes the novel as the major attempt in Western literary culture to give beginnings an authorizing function in experience, art, and knowledge. Scholarship should see itself as a beginning -- as a uniting of theory and practice. Said's insistence on a criticism that is humane and socially responsible is what makes Beginnings a book about much more than writing: it is about imagination and action as well as the constraints on freedom and invention that come from human intention and the method of its fulfillment.
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Edward Said: Continuing The Conversationby Homi K. Bhabha, W. J. T. Mitchell, Edward W. SaidISBN 0226532011 (0-226-53201-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edward Said: Continuing The Conversation'Book summary:In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they had left off following his death in the fall of 2003.[via]
The essays, imagining and recalling the cadences of Said's conversation, take various forms, including elaborations on his ideas, applications of his thought to new problems, and recollections of the indescribable electricity that made conversation with him intense and memorable. This lively, personal tone is a direct result of editors Homi Bhabha and W. J. T. Mitchell urging contributors to write in the spirit of a conversation interrupted, a call on hold, a letter waiting for a reply, a question hanging in the air. This is a work of immense imaginative and intellectual force and compelling candor, honoring Said's legacy as an activist intellectual.
This collection includes essays by Lila Abu-Lughod, Daniel Barenboim, Akeel Bilgrami, Paul Bové, Timothy Brennan, Noam Chomsky, Ranajit Guha, Harry Harootunian, Saree Makdisi, Aamir Mufti, Roger Owen, Gyan Prakash, Dan Rabinowitz, Jacqueline Rose, and Gayatri Spivak.More editions of Edward Said: Continuing The Conversation:
Edward Said: Continuing The Conversationby W. J. T. Mitchell, Edward W. Said , William J. MitchellISBN 0226532038 (0-226-53203-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Humanism and Democratic Criticismby Edward W. SaidISBN 0231122640 (0-231-12264-0)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Kimby Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. SaidISBN 0140183523 (0-14-018352-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Music at the Limitsby Edward W. SaidISBN 0231139365 (0-231-13936-5)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music at the Limits'Book summary:Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera.
Music at the Limits offers both a fresh perspective on canonical pieces and a celebration of neglected works by contemporary composers. Said faults the Metropolitan Opera in New York for being too conservative and laments the way in which opera superstars like Pavarotti have "reduced opera performance to a minimum of intelligence and a maximum of overproduced noise." He also reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the worrisome trend of proliferating music festivals; an opera based on the life of Malcolm X; the relationship between music and feminism; the pianist Glenn Gould; and the works of Mozart, Bach, Richard Strauss, and others.
Said wrote his incisive critiques as both an insider and an authority. He saw music as a reflection of his ideas on literature and history and paid close attention to its composition and creative possibilities. Eloquent and surprising, Music at the Limits preserves an important dimension of Said's brilliant intellectual work and cements his reputation as one of the most influential and groundbreaking scholars of the twentieth century.
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Musical Elaborationsby Edward W. SaidISBN 0231073194 (0-231-07319-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Musical Elaborations'Book summary:Filling a significant gap in contemporary cultural studies, Musical Elaborations examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. Incorporating the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man into his work, noted critic Edward W. Said discusses performers such as Glenn Gould, Arturo Toscanini, and Alfred Brendel and such composers as Beethoven, Wagner, and Strauss.
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The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East, 1680-1880by Edward W. SaidISBN 023104139X (0-231-04139-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Orientalism: Western Concepts of the Orientby Edward W. SaidISBN 0140238670 (0-14-023867-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient'Book summary:For generations now, Edward W. Said's "Orientalism" has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this "Penguin Modern Classics" edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient. Drawing on his own experiences as an Arab Palestinian living in the West, Said examines how these ideas can be a reflection of European imperialism and racism. Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian-American cultural critic and author, born in Jerusalem and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include "The Question of Palestine", "Culture and Imperialism" and "Out of Place: A Memoir". If you enjoyed "Orientalism", you might like Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth", also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious". ("Observer"). "Beautifully patterned and passionately argued". ("New Statesman"). "Very exciting ...his case is not merely persuasive, but conclusive". (John Leonard, "New York Times"). "Magisterial". (Terry Eagleton). [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Orientalism: Western Concepts of the Orient: ISBN 0140137254 (0-14-013725-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient: ISBN 0140238670 (0-14-023867-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
- Orientalism: Western Concepts of the Orient: ISBN 0140551980 (0-14-055198-0)
Peace and Its Discontents : Gaza-Jericho, 1993-1995by Edward W. SaidISBN 0099594811 (0-09-959481-1)
Softcover, Random House
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Question of Palestineby Edward W. SaidISBN 0099967804 (0-09-996780-4)
Softcover, Random House
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Selected Subaltern Studiesby Edward W. SaidISBN 0195052897 (0-19-505289-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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World, the Text and the Criticby Edward W. SaidISBN 0099916207 (0-09-991620-7)
Softcover, Random House
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