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The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Traditionby C. S. LewisISBN 0192812203 (0-19-281220-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition'Book summary:Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion. Love has not always taken such precedence, however, and it was in fact not until the eleventh century that French poets first began to express the romantic species of passion which English peots were still writing about in the nineteenth century. This book is intended for students of medieval literature from A-level upwards. Anyone interested in the `Courtly Love' tradition. Fans of C.S. Lewis's writings. [via]
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The Art of the Novelby Milan KunderaISBN 0802100112 (0-8021-0011-2)
Hardcover, Grove Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Novel'Book summary:Landmark collection of essays on subject. The first appearance of the title in English. The artistic manifesto of the greatest living "postmodern" novelist. Written with a strong philosophical and aesthetic background, the book's greatest value is as the perfect antidote to the countless, dreary "critical theory" studies churned out by unimaginative and mediocre university professor/hacks. One of the most eloquent books on the novelist's art, it is indispensable to a greater understanding of Milan Kundera's roots, influences and very deeply held beliefs as a novelist as well as to the very possibilities of the novel itself as an art form. Wise, tender, poetic, intelligent and witty, as is to be expected from Kundera's novels, and to be found in these essays, too. The question is no longer whether Kundera deserves to win the Nobel Prize but whether the award is worthy of him. © 2005, ModernRare.com [via]
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeareby Isaac AsimovISBN 1568490348 (1-56849-034-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Biographia Literariaby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nigel LeaskISBN 0460873326 (0-460-87332-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biographia Literaria'Book summary:Coleridge's work stands at the very heart of British Romantic Literature. Presenting a sketch of it's author's troubled life and opinions as the context for a series of virtuoso reflections on contemporary poetry and criticism, the "Biographia" embodies the Romantic quest for the unifying imagination. [via]
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Biographia Literaria: Chapters 1-4, 14-22; Prefaces and Essays on Poetry, 1800-1815by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0460100114 (0-460-10011-4)
Hardcover, J. M. Dent
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinionsby George Watson, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0460871080 (0-460-87108-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions'Book summary:This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. [via]
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The Closing of the American Mindby Allan BloomISBN 0671657151 (0-671-65715-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Closing of the American Mind'Book summary:THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT
In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites.
Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Blooms argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today. [via]
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The Closing of the American Mind/How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Studentsby Allan BloomISBN 0671479903 (0-671-47990-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Closing of the American Mind/How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students'Book summary:THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind , an appraisal of contemporary America that "hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy" ( The New York Times ) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom's argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today. [via]
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Complete Poemsby Dorothy ParkerISBN 0141180226 (0-14-118022-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Critical Terms for Literary Studyby Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlinISBN 0226472027 (0-226-47202-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Critical Terms for Literary Studyby Thomas McLaughlin, Frank LentricchiaISBN 0226472035 (0-226-47203-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Terms for Literary Study'Book summary:Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theorygiving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices.[via]
These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits.
Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.More editions of Critical Terms for Literary Study:
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Culture and Imperialismby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679750541 (0-679-75054-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Imperialism'Book summary:Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times. [via]
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Cultures of United States Imperialismby Amy Kaplan, Donald E. PeaseISBN 0822314134 (0-8223-1413-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultures of United States Imperialism'Book summary:Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States.[via]
Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. The contributors explore how the politics of continental and international expansion, conquest, and resistance have shaped the history of American culture just as much as the cultures of those it has dominated. By uncovering the dialectical relationship between American cultures and international relations, this collection demonstrates the necessity of analyzing imperialism as a political or economic process inseparable from the social relations and cultural representations of gender, race, ethnicity, and class at home.Contributors. Lynda Boose, Mary Yoko Brannen, Bill Brown, William Cain, Eric Cheyfitz, Vicente Diaz, Frederick Errington, Kevin Gaines, Deborah Gewertz, Donna Haraway, Susan Jeffords, Myra Jehlen, Amy Kaplan, Eric Lott, Walter Benn Michaels, Donald E. Pease, Vicente Rafael, Michael Rogin, José David Saldívar, Richard Slotkin, Doris Sommer, Gauri Viswanathan, Priscilla Wald, Kenneth Warren, Christopher P. Wilson
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essaysby M.M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist, Caryl EmersonISBN 029271534X (0-292-71534-X)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays'Book summary:These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevskyas a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology.
Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse." Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.
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The Double Invention of Komoby Jay WrightISBN 0292715277 (0-292-71527-7)
Softcover, University of Texas Press
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The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genreby Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Howard, Robert ScholesISBN 0801491460 (0-8014-9146-0)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western Worldby David DenbyISBN 0684835339 (0-684-83533-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books: My Adventures With Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World'Book summary:At the age of forty-eight, film critic David Denby, dissatisfied with his life within the media bubble, went back to Columbia University and took again the two famous courses in Western classics Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization required of all students--courses he first took in 1961. In recent years, collections of literary and philosophical masterpieces such as those taught in these courses have been reviled by the left as oppressive and exclusionary and adored by the right as bulwarks of patriotism. Denby, the film critic for "New York magazine, wanted to dispel these cliches and to confront the books in their naked power; he wanted to find the self he had lost in a daze of media images. In "Great Books, Denby lives the common adult fantasy of returning to school with some worldly knowledge and experience of life. A gifted storyteller, he leads us on a glorious tour--by turns eloquent, witty, and moving--through the works themselves and through his experiences as a middle-aged man among freshmen. He recounts his failures and triumphs as a reader and student taking an exam led to a hilarious near-breakdown . He celebrates his rediscovery or new appreciation of such authors as Homer, Plato, the biblical writers, Augustine, Boccaccio, Hegel, Austen, Marx, Nietzsche, and Virginia Woolf. He re-creates the atmosphere of the classroom--the strategies used by a remarkable group of teachers and the strengths and weaknesses of media-age students as they grapple with these difficult, sometimes frightening works. And all year long he watches the students grow and his own life and memories break out of hiding. The result is an extraordinarily engaging blend ofcriticism, reporting, autobiography, and cultural commentary, a book about self-discovery. Denby offers a nonprofessor's look at life on campus; he addresses the vexing questions of political correctness and relativism, and he suggests that a larger crisis surrounds the teaching of the humanities. [via]
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The Great Code: The Bible and Literatureby Northrop FryeISBN 0156027801 (0-15-602780-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Code: The Bible and Literature'Book summary:The subject of Northrop Frye's The Great Code is "a huge, sprawling, tactless book inscrutably in the middle of our cultural heritage": the Bible. And though literary critic Frye insists on approaching this monumental book only as a "unified structure of narrative and imagery," he acknowledges that the Bible is somehow "more" than a work of literature. The Great Code tries to track down that sense of "more." The Bible, according to Frye, is at the centre of our mythical universe, establishing "the imaginative framework within which Western Literature has operated down to the eighteenth century and is to a large extent still operating."
Arranged in two parts, the first setting forth critical principles under the headings of "language," "myth," "metaphor" and "typology," and the second focusing primarily on the application of those principles, The Great Code adopts the "double mirror" structure of the Bible's Old and New Testaments. The book grew out of a course Frye taught at the University of Toronto for half a century, and so, he insists, it addresses not the Biblical or even the literary scholar so much as the general reader, including those without much prior knowledge of the Bible or any particular religious faith. With its successor, Words with Power, The Great Code forms perhaps the most ambitious and most personal project of this great literary man's career. Though he was himself ordained in the United Church of Canada in his early 20s, Frye decided to leave the religious for the academic life; what he took with him was a fierce fascination with this sacred text and a deep sense of its literary and cultural importance. It is the one book that, Frye says, "all my critical work has revolved" around. --Russell Prather [via]
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The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394417755 (0-394-41775-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Sexuality: An Introduction'Book summary:The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. [via]
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How Proust Can Change Your Lifeby Alain De BottonISBN 0679779159 (0-679-77915-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Proust Can Change Your Life'Book summary:This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives. [via]
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How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novelby Alain de BottonISBN 0679442758 (0-679-44275-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Proust Can Change Your Life : Not a Novel'Book summary:This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives. [via]
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Linesby Thomas C. FosterISBN 006000942X (0-06-000942-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines'Book summary:What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surfacea symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a characterand there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.
In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticismby John UpdikeISBN 0880013982 (0-88001-398-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism'Book summary:Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, Hugging the Shore is an enormously intelligent, witty collection of essays by John Updike. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist sheds keen light on everything from the first kiss to going barefoot to the world's greatest writers. First time in paper. [via]
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Lectures on Literatureby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0156027755 (0-15-602775-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Lectures on Literature: British, French and German Writersby Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, Fredson BowersISBN 0151495971 (0-15-149597-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education
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Literary Theory: A Very Short Introductionby Jonathan CullerISBN 019285383X (0-19-285383-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction'Book summary:What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These questions and more are addressed in Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, a book which steers a clear path through a subject which is often perceived to be complex and impenetrable.
Jonathan Culler, an extremely lucid commentator and much admired in the field of literary theory, offers discerning insights into such theories as the nature of language and meaning, and whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience. Concise yet thorough, Literary Theory also outlines the ideas behind a number of different schools: deconstruction, semiotics, postcolonial theory, and structuralism, among others.
From topics such as literature and social identity to poetry, poetics, and rhetoric, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction is a welcome guide for anyone interested in the importance of literature and the debates surrounding it. [via]More editions of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction:
Lives of the Poetsby Michael SchmidtISBN 0375706046 (0-375-70604-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lives of the Poets'Book summary:Michael Schmidt's Lives of the Poets should engender endless debates. Anytime anyone attempts a project this monumental--nothing less than the entire history of poetry in English, after all!--plenty of people will disagree with how he or she goes about it. Take, for example, the fact that Schmidt crams 500 years of poetry (Richard Rolle of Hampole through Walt Whitman) into the first half of his massive tome, then spreads a mere century and a half (Emily Dickinson to the present) across the rest. And even 900-plus pages isn't enough space to treat every poet equally--indeed, it may be that Schmidt's choices will spark the liveliest disagreements. Then there are his various pronunciamentos on poetry itself--everything from its form to its influences. But no matter what you may think of Schmidt's methods or conclusions, his credentials are above reproach. Editor of PN Review and founder and editorial director of Carcanet Press, he is a man both passionate and knowledgeable about poetry--and poets. While Schmidt does, indeed, provide biographical information about his subjects, it is with their inner lives, their imaginative landscapes, that he is chiefly concerned. Open the book to almost any page or any era, and you'll find detailed analyses of not only the poems themselves but also the times, the culture, and the literary antecedents that affected them. Of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound he writes: "Eliot and Pound rebelled together against what they saw as the misuse of free or unmetered verse." And in discussing Eliot's The Waste Land, he remarks:
In The Waste Land he demanded to be read differently from other poets. He alters our way of reading for good, if we read him properly. The poem does not respond to analysis of its meanings--meanings cannot be detached from the texture of the poetry itself.
In addition to giving the analytical part of the reader's brain a good workout, as he parses everyone from Spenser to Ashbery to Walcott, Schmidt offers up plenty of idiosyncratic opinion that will alternately raise hackles or set heads nodding in vigorous agreement. This may not be the most objective treatment of poetry to come down the pike, but it is an invaluable--and deeply entertaining--reference. --Margaret Prior [via]-
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Readerby Lester BangsISBN 0375713670 (0-375-71367-0)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader'Book summary:Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murrays smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, the first, now classic collection of Bangss work. Here are excerpts from an autobiographical piece Bangs wrote as a teenager, travel essays, and, of course, the music pieces, essays, and criticism covering everything from titans like Miles Davis, Lou Reed, and the Rolling Stones to esoteric musicians like Brian Eno and Captain Beefheart. Singularly entertaining, this book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the history of rock. [via]
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Master of Middle-Earth: The Achievement of J. R. R. Tolkienby Paul H. KocherISBN 0500010951 (0-500-01095-1)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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As is the case with all great works of art, J. R. R. Tolkiens masterpieces generously repay close attention and study. In this thoroughly entertaining and perceptive volume, winner of the prestigious Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award, Professor Kocher examines the sources that Tolkien drew upon in fashioning Middle-earth and its inhabitantsand provides valuable insights into the authors aims and methods. Ranging from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings to The Silmarillion and beyond, Master of Middle-earth opens the door to a deeper and richer appreciation of Tolkiens magnificent achievement. Inside you will discover
" Why Aragorn is the most misunderstood character in The Lord of the Rings . . . and its true hero.
" The origin of Sauronand the nature of evil in Tolkiens universe.
" The opposing forces of destiny and free will in Frodos quest.
" The Cosmology of Middle-earthis it our world at an earlier time, or does it exist in a fantastic Elsewhere?
" How Tolkiens ideas of morality, religion, and social order underlie every aspect of his lifes work.
Plus a fascinating look at such lesser-known works of Tolkiens as Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and many others! [via]More editions of Master of Middle-Earth: The Achievement of J. R. R. Tolkien:
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Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkienby Paul H. KocherISBN 0345306368 (0-345-30636-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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As is the case with all great works of art, J. R. R. Tolkiens masterpieces generously repay close attention and study. In this thoroughly entertaining and perceptive volume, winner of the prestigious Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award, Professor Kocher examines the sources that Tolkien drew upon in fashioning Middle-earth and its inhabitantsand provides valuable insights into the authors aims and methods. Ranging from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings to The Silmarillion and beyond, Master of Middle-earth opens the door to a deeper and richer appreciation of Tolkiens magnificent achievement. Inside you will discover
" Why Aragorn is the most misunderstood character in The Lord of the Rings . . . and its true hero.
" The origin of Sauronand the nature of evil in Tolkiens universe.
" The opposing forces of destiny and free will in Frodos quest.
" The Cosmology of Middle-earthis it our world at an earlier time, or does it exist in a fantastic Elsewhere?
" How Tolkiens ideas of morality, religion, and social order underlie every aspect of his lifes work.
Plus a fascinating look at such lesser-known works of Tolkiens as Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major, and many others! [via]More editions of Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien:
Master of Middle-Earth; The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkienby Paul H. KocherISBN 0395140978 (0-395-14097-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulyssesby Harry BlamiresISBN 0415138582 (0-415-13858-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses'Book summary:Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve.
The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible, indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time.
To ensure that Blamires' classic work will remain useful to new readers, this third edition contains the page numbering and references to three commonly read editions of Ulysses: the Oxford University Press 'World Classics' (1993), the Penguin 'Twentieth-Century Classics' (1992), and the Gabler 'Corrected Text' (1986) editions.
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Northrop Frye on Shakespeareby Northrop FryeISBN 0300042086 (0-300-04208-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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On Moral Fictionby John GardnerISBN 0465052266 (0-465-05226-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Pooh Perplex, a Freshman Casebook.by Frederick C. CrewsISBN 0226120589 (0-226-12058-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Portable Dorothy Parkerby Dorothy Parker, Marion MeadeISBN 0143039539 (0-14-303953-9)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Problems of Dostoevsky's Poeticsby Mikhail BakhtinISBN 0816612285 (0-8166-1228-5)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated,Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angelby Roz KaveneyISBN 186064984X (1-86064-984-X)
Softcover, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated,Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel'Book summary:The first edition of Reading the Vampire Slayer was highly praised in both the fan magazine SFX and the Times Literary Supplement. This second edition is hugely revised and expanded to cover the sixth and seventh seasons of Buffy and the third and fourth seasons of Angel. It contains chapters on the relationship between Buffy and the lovelorn vampire Spike and on the thematic structure of Angel, as well as interviews on the writing of Buffy with scriptwriters Jane Espenson and Steven DeKnight. Individual chapters have been updated and the useful episode guide is expanded to cover all seven seasons of Buffy and the four seasons of Angel, as is Roz Kaveney's general introduction to the scenes and structures of each season.[via]More editions of Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated,Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel:
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Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angelby Roz KaveneyISBN 1860647626 (1-86064-762-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel'Book summary:Reading the Vampire Slayer is a very accessible collection of essays, edited by Amazon.co.uk contributor and respected SF and Fantasy reviewer Roz Kaveney, which analyses the first five seasons of the TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the first two seasons of "Angel". Kaveney's opening article sketches out the territory, providing an insightful introduction to the themes and structures of the two shows. The essays that follow consider a wide range of issues, but a common theme is the complexity and inventiveness of the shows, with their deconstruction of patriarchal authority and highlighting of the ambiguous nature of evil. Variously, the authors consider how Buffy subverts the "male gaze", the ways in which the shows challenge such concepts as established authority and traditional ways of learning and knowing, the use of humour, how the landscape of Southern California plays its part, and how fans have become actively involved in the writing of slash-fan fiction (which pairs characters such as Xander/Spike in sexual relationships). It's an eclectic mix, with some essays more obviously academic than others, but on the whole the style, which includes bibliographies for further reading, means this book should interest both students of cultural and media studies and more general readers. And it's a lot of fun to read, providing many thoughtful insights into two shows that have proved popular television can be both thought provoking and deeply moving. --Elizabeth Sourbut [via]
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetryby Walter PaterISBN 1596054840 (1-59605-484-0)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry'Book summary:Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. The book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as possible. His cry of "art for art's sake" became the manifesto of the Aesthetic Movement, and his assessments of Renaissance art have influenced generations of readers.[via]More editions of The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry:
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetryby Adam Phillips, Walter PaterISBN 019281737X (0-19-281737-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetryby Walter Horatio PaterISBN 140432836X (1-4043-2836-X)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Renaissance; Studies in Art and Poetry: London, Macmillan, 1910by Walter PaterISBN 0384450814 (0-384-45081-4)
Hardcover, B. Blackwell
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Rise of the Novelby I. WattISBN 0520013182 (0-520-01318-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rise of the Novel'Book summary:The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.[via]
In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary studies: his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.More editions of Rise of the Novel:
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fieldingby Ian WattISBN 0520230698 (0-520-23069-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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S/Zby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521670 (0-374-52167-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S/Z'Book summary:S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthes's system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which Balzac's novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically to uncover layers of hidden meaning. [via]
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Selected Non-Fictionsby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0140290117 (0-14-029011-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Non-Fictions'Book summary:Jorge Luis Borges was our century's greatest miniaturist, perpetually cramming entire universes onto the head of a pin. Yet his splendid economy, along the wafer-thin proportions of such classic volumes as Ficciones and Labyrinths, has given readers the impression that Borges was miserly with his prose. In fact, he was something of a verbal spendthrift. His collected stories alone run to nearly 1,000 pages. And his nonfiction output was even more staggering: the young Borges cranked out hundreds of essays, book notes, cultural polemics, and movie reviews, and even after he lost his sight in 1955, he continued to dictate short pieces by the dozens. Eliot Weinberger has assembled just a fraction of this outpouring in Selected Non-Fictions, and the result is a 559-page Borgesian blowout, in which the Argentinean fabulist takes on being and nothingness, James Joyce and Lana Turner, and (surprisingly) racial hatred and the rise of Nazism. So much for our image of the mandarin bookworm! The very engagé author of this book seems more like a subequatorial Camus, with a dash of Siskel and Ebert on the side.
Selected Non-Fictions demonstrates just how quickly Borges began wrestling with such brainteasers as identity, time, and infinity. Indeed, the very first piece in the collection, "The Nothingness of Personality" (1922), already finds him fiddling with the self: "I, as I write this, am only a certainty that seeks out the words that are most apt to compel your attention. That proposition and a few muscular sensations, and the sight of the limpid branches that the trees place outside my window, constitute my current I." There are many such meditations here, including "A History of Eternity" (in which Borges maps out his own, disarmingly empty version of the eternal, "without a God or even a co-proprietor, and entirely devoid of archetypes"). But it's more fun--and more revelatory--to see the author venturing beyond his metaphysical stomping grounds. Borges on King Kong is a hoot, and a cornball masterpiece such as The Petrified Forest elicits this terrific nugget: "Death works in this film like hypnosis or alcohol: it brings the recesses of the soul into the light of day." His capsule biographies are a delight, his critiques of Nazi propaganda are memorably stringent, and nobody should miss him on the tango. True, the sheer variety and mind-boggling erudition of Selected Non-Fictions can be a little forbidding. But, taken as a whole, the collection surely meets the specifications that Borges laid out in a 1927 essay on literary pleasure: "If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning as in the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world." Oh, but it does. --James Marcus [via]
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Shakespeare After Allby Marjorie GarberISBN 0385722141 (0-385-72214-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare After All'Book summary:A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the countrys foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeares life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time. [via]
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Shakespeare's Languageby Frank KermodeISBN 0374527741 (0-374-52774-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Language'Book summary:Among our greatest contemporary critics, Sir Frank Kermode is the author of such classics as The Sense of an Ending, and his recent memoir, Not Entitled, vividly captured a life in letters. It's no surprise, then, that Shakespeare's Language is a deeply significant publication. Reflecting many decades of writing and thinking about the Bard, it meets and often exceeds the reader's expectations.
The author begins by lamenting the fact that general readers have not "been well served by modern critics, who on the whole seem to have little time for [Shakespeare's] language." However, rather than launching into a diatribe against current literary fashions, he proceeds to offer an elegant and detailed account of how his subject transformed him into "a different kind of poet." For Kermode, the rich complexities of Hamlet or "The Phoenix and the Turtle" (an allegorical poem in which Shakespeare juggles love and Thomistic jargon like rhetorical ninepins) mark a whole new level of accomplishment. How to define the change? Kermode notes "the pace of the speech, its sudden turns, its backtrackings, its metaphors flashing before us and disappearing before we can consider them. This is new: the representation of excited, anxious thought; the weighing of confused possibilities and dubious motives."
This before-and-after scenario breaks the book into two parts. In the first, Kermode deals with the plays up to 1600, controversially putting the kibosh on such warhorses as As You Like It. The second part offers 15 detailed chapters on the tragedies, problem plays, and romances. This is classic criticism, written in the mold of Johnson and Colderidge. And while Kermode never pays short shrift to the difficulties of Shakespeare's language, he's even more attuned to its prodigal, inexhaustible pleasures. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Six Memos for the Next Milleniumby Italo CalvinoISBN 0674810406 (0-674-81040-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Six Memos for the Next Millenium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86by Italo Calvino, Patrick CreaghISBN 0679742379 (0-679-74237-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Memos for the Next Millenium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86'Book summary:Italo Calvino cast his lofty thoughts toward the pending millennium long before the rest of us. Now that the zeitgeist has caught up with him, it seems a good time to revisit his Six Memos for the Next Millennium, an investigation into the literary values that he wished to bequeath to future generations. Calvino, the author of Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, and other postmodern fictional works, was to deliver these five "memos" (there was to be a sixth) as Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1985-86, but he died before doing so. These lectures are dense, rigorous, and seemingly full of contradiction. The first is a paean to lightness (though "light like a bird," as Paul Valéry wrote, "and not like a feather"). Lightness is followed by quickness (without "presum[ing] to deny the pleasures of lingering"), exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity. The perfect antidote to writerly laziness. [via]
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woodsby Umberto EcoISBN 0674810511 (0-674-81051-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Walks in the Fictional Woods'Book summary:In this exhilarating book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales and Flaubert, Poe and Mickey Spillane, Eco draws us in by means of a novelist's techniques, making us his collaborators in the creation of his text and in the investigation of some of fiction's most basic mechanisms.
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wakeby Joseph CampbellISBN 0140046631 (0-14-004663-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetryby Cleanth BrooksISBN 0156957051 (0-15-695705-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Why Orwell Mattersby Christopher HitchensISBN 0465030505 (0-465-03050-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why Orwell Matters'Book summary:Hitchens on Orwell:This is not a biography, but I sometimes feel as if George Orwell requires extricating from a pile of saccharine tablets and moist hankies; an object of sickly veneration and sentimental overpraise, employed to stultify schoolchildren with his insufferable rightness and purity. This kind of tribute is often of the Rochefoucauldian type; suggestive of the payoff made by vice to virtue, and also of the tricks played by an uneasy conscience.What [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that "views" do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think, and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.Others on Hitchens:"I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delphino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens."-Gore Vidal"Christopher Hitchens's writing has sweep and flair. He is accurate where others are merely dutiful, unpredictable where the tendency is to go for the cliché. In short, brilliant."-Edward W. Said"May his targets cower." -Susan Sontag[via]
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L'art Du Roman: Essaiby Milan KunderaISBN 2070708152 (2-07-070815-2)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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Introduction a La Litterature Fantastiqueby Tzvetan TodorovISBN 2020043742 (2-02-004374-2)
Hardcover, Editions Du Seuil
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Lezioni Americane: Sei Proposte per Il Prossimo Millennioby Italo CalvinoISBN 881159815X (88-11-59815-X)
Hardcover, Garzanti
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El Arte De La Novela / The Art of the Novelby Milan KunderaISBN 8472230996 (84-7223-099-6)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Arte De La Novela / The Art of the Novel'Book summary:"La obra de cada novelista contiene una vision implicita de la historia de la novela, una idea de lo que es la novela; es esta idea de la novela, inherente a mis novelas, la ue he procurado dejar hablar." en estos siete textos relaativamente independientes, pero vinculados en un unico ensayo, Milan Kundera expone su concepcion personal de la novela europea. Uno de los textos esta dedicado a Hermann Broch, otro a Franz Kafka. [via]
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