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Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's: An Anthology of British Poetry and Proseby BecksonISBN 0897330447 (0-89733-044-7)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledgeby Paul K. FeyerabendISBN 0902308912 (0-902308-91-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge'Book summary:Beyond Popper and Kuhn to an anarchist philosophy of science.
Paul Feyerabends globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can only be understood in a historical context. He looks at the way the philosophy of science has consistently overemphasized practice over method, and considers the possibility that anarchism could replace rationalism in the theory of knowledge.
This updated edition of the classic text includes a new introduction by Ian Hacking, one of the most important contemporary philosophers of science. Hacking reflects on both Feyerabends life and personality as well as the broader significance of the book for current discussions. [via]More editions of Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge:
Be a People Personby John C. MaxwellISBN 0896937151 (0-89693-715-1)
Hardcover, David C Cook
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Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Valuesby Robert AdamsISBN 0893813680 (0-89381-368-0)
Softcover, Aperture Foundation, Incorporated
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Best of the Realistby Paul KrassnerISBN 089471287X (0-89471-287-X)
Softcover, Running Press
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The Best of the Realist: The 60's Most Outrageously Irreverent Magazineby Paul KrassnerISBN 0894712896 (0-89471-289-6)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diariesby Thomas MallonISBN 0899192424 (0-89919-242-4)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries'Book summary:Strangely enough, this exploration of one of the most private of writing endeavors is likely to send readers off in a zillion different directions. Thomas Mallon's survey of diarists throughout the ages introduces us to the most personal writings of more than 100 diarists, including Samuel Pepys, Leonardo da Vinci, Virginia Woolf, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Mallon divides the diarists into seven categories--chroniclers, travelers, pilgrims, creators, apologists, confessors, and prisoners--that he uses as a basis for his inquiries into the nature of these apparently private writings. (From the start Mallon admits that "I still don't believe that one can write to oneself for many words more than get used in a note tacked to the refrigerator saying 'Buy bread.' ") Glimpsing the many, vastly different lives that have been thrown together on these pages is fascinating in and of itself, but Mallon's thoughts about the whys and wherefores of diary-keeping are what make his dense prose so worth reading. [via]
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0899664237 (0-89966-423-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'Book summary:"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. [via]
Breaking Breadby Bell HooksISBN 0896084140 (0-89608-414-0)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Lifeby bell hooks, Cornel WestISBN 0896084159 (0-89608-415-9)
Hardcover, Pluto Press
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C.S. Lewisby Thomas HowardISBN 0898703050 (0-89870-305-0)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Chance or the Dance: A Critique of Modern Secularismby Thomas HowardISBN 0898702291 (0-89870-229-1)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalismby Walter BenjaminISBN 0902308645 (0-902308-64-5)
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The Children's Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, E. Nesbit, Rolf KlepISBN 089733485X (0-89733-485-X)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children's Shakespeare'Book summary:In her touching introduction to this collection, Britain's beloved children's author E. Nesbit shares with us her very personal inspiration for The Children's Shakespeare. As a writer, she understood that the stories are the least part of Shakespeare, but as a mother she also understood the need for simplicity. Her daughters were far too young to handle such complex language, yet certainly they must be capable of appreciating, indeed enjoying, the stories hidden within.
Envisioning this simplified introduction to works such as The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew-eleven plays in all-E. Nesbit set out to make them more accessible to young readers without sacrificing any essential elements. For if the stories were stripped of their wit and humor, of their emotion, the children would be no more entertained by them than by the indecipherable originals.
In the end, under E. Nesbit's gifted pen, these stories emerged with all the charm and grace of the very best fairy tales. Written in thoroughly modern English and each no more than ten pages in length, the eleven plays featured in this volume afford children the opportunity to discover for themselves the magic of Shakespeare. [via]
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Autobiographyby G. K. ChestertonISBN 089870197X (0-89870-197-X)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News'Book summary:Volume XVI of The Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton is Chesterton s autobiography. One of modern Catholicism s most famousand prolific authors, Chesterton was a great defender of the commonman, the family, and the Catholic faith. He wrote on many importantsubjects religion, politics, history, literature, art, economics,philosophy, and sociology. This book includes 37 rare photos ofChesterton. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton Format: 341 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898701999 [via]
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Softcover, Ignatius Pr - Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1923-1925, Vol 33: ISBN 0898702747 (0-89870-274-7)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr - The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1926-1928: ISBN 0898702941 (0-89870-294-1)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr - Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: The Autobiography: ISBN 0898702003 (0-89870-200-3)
Hardcover, Ignatius Press - Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1917-1919: ISBN 0898702321 (0-89870-232-1)
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Chesterton on Dickensby Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Alzina Stone DaleISBN 0898702585 (0-89870-258-5)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Plays and Chesterton on Shawby Gilbert Keith ChestertonISBN 0898702372 (0-89870-237-2)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Robert Louis Stevenson, Chaucer, Leo Tolstoy and Thomas CarlyleISBN 0898703743 (0-89870-374-3)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
Find This BookBook summary:In The Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. XVIII, Chesterton exhibits his perception of character and motive through literary criticism and biography. Chesterton s warm affection for Stevenson and Chaucer is evident in his volumes on them. He was heavily influenced by the manliness, courage, and hope in Stevenson s romances. Polemical literary criticism flourishes in Chesterton s Chaucer, a tribute to medieval England and Chaucer s literature. His monographs on Tolstoy and Carlyle reveal keen insights into two very different writers, thus providing four unique studies that teach the distinctions between normality and abnormality in literature and life. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: Robert Louis Stevenson, Chaucer, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Carlyle Format: 450 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898703740 [via]
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: What I Saw in America, the Resurrection of Rome and Side LightsISBN 0898702720 (0-89870-272-0)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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The Consolation of Philosophyby BoethiusISBN 089526885X (0-89526-885-X)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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Cosmic Critiques: How and Why Ten Science Fiction Stories Workby Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry GreenbergISBN 0898793947 (0-89879-394-7)
Softcover, F & W Pubns Inc
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoyevskyISBN 0899663974 (0-89966-397-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Crisis of the Real: Writings on Photography Since 1974by Andy GrundbergISBN 0893818542 (0-89381-854-2)
Hardcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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The Darkling: A Treatise on Slavic Vampirismby Jan L. PerkowskiISBN 0893572004 (0-89357-200-4)
Softcover, Slavica Pub
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Das Kapitalby Karl MarxISBN 0895269317 (0-89526-931-7)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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Discovering H.P. Lovecraftby Darrell SchweitzerISBN 0893709751 (0-89370-975-1)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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E.E. "Doc" Smithby Joe SandersISBN 0893709514 (0-89370-951-4)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Exploring Fantasy Worlds: Essays on Fantastic Literatureby Darrell Schweitzer, Michael MoorcockISBN 0893702625 (0-89370-262-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Farthest Shores of Ursula K Leguinby George E. SlusserISBN 089370105X (0-89370-105-X)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Feminist in the Dark: Reviewing the Moviesby Kathi MaioISBN 0895943220 (0-89594-322-0)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony MotteuxISBN 0900406984 (0-900406-98-4)
Hardcover, Fraser Press
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G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Senseby Dale AhlquistISBN 0898708575 (0-89870-857-5)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Churchby Michael S. RoseISBN 0895261448 (0-89526-144-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 0894715399 (0-89471-539-9)
Softcover, Running Press
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H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticismby William H. NolteISBN 089526790X (0-89526-790-X)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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Harlan Ellison: Unrepentant Harlequinby George Edgar SlusserISBN 0893702099 (0-89370-209-9)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literatureby David H. RichterISBN 0896724158 (0-89672-415-8)
Hardcover, Texas Tech Univ Pr
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The Illustrated London News, 1917-1919by G. K. Chesterton, George J. Marlin, Lawrence J. ClipperISBN 0898702380 (0-89870-238-0)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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A Lifetime's Readingby Philip WardISBN 0900891734 (0-900891-73-4)
Hardcover, Oleander Press
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Lifetime's Reading: Five Hundred Great Books to Be Enjoyed over 50 Yearsby Philip WardISBN 0900891742 (0-900891-74-2)
Softcover, Oleander Pr
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Lightning from a Clear Sky: Tolkien, the Trilogy, and the Silmarillionby Richard MathewsISBN 0893702218 (0-89370-221-8)
Hardcover, Borgo Press
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Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Feminist Essaysby Joanna RussISBN 0895941635 (0-89594-163-5)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Charles VessISBN 0898657105 (0-89865-710-5)
Softcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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Midsummer Night's Dream Parallel Textby William ShakepeareISBN 0895988739 (0-89598-873-9)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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Murder Inkby Dilys WinnISBN 0894807773 (0-89480-777-3)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Nietzscheby Karl JaspersISBN 0895269716 (0-89526-971-6)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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The Novels of Charles Williamsby Thomas HowardISBN 0898703492 (0-89870-349-2)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0895772582 (0-89577-258-2)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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Ordinary Person's Guide To Empireby Arundhati RoyISBN 0896087271 (0-89608-727-1)
Softcover, South End Pr
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The Origin of German Tragic Dramaby Walter BenjaminISBN 0902308130 (0-902308-13-0)
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Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0899665381 (0-89966-538-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Popcorn and Sexual Politicsby Kathi MaioISBN 0895944685 (0-89594-468-5)
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Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogationsby Douglas Kellner, Steven BestISBN 0898624185 (0-89862-418-5)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations'Book summary:In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today.[via]
Best and Kellner provide:
* An introduction and critique of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Laclau and Mouffe, and Jameson, which assess the varying contributions and limitations of postmodern theory
* A discussion of postmodern feminist theory and the politics of identity
* A systematic study of the origin of the discourse of the postmodern in historical, sociological, cultural, and philosophical studies.
The authors claim that while postmodern theory provides insights into contemporary developments, it lacks adequate methodological and political perspectives to provide a critical social theory and radical politics for the present age.More editions of Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations:
PsiFi: Psychological Theories and Science Fictionsby James M. Ridgway, British Psychological Society, Michele BenjaminISBN 090171562X (0-901715-62-X)
Hardcover, British Psychological Society
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The Rime of the Ancient Marinerby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeISBN 0895986728 (0-89598-672-8)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
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Sister Carrieby Theodore DreiserISBN 0899682073 (0-89968-207-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Carrie'Book summary:Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's revolutionary first novel, was published in 1900--sort of. The story of Carrie Meeber, an 18-year-old country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman, was strong stuff at the turn of the century, and what Dreiser's wary publisher released was a highly expurgated version. Times change, and we now have a restored "author's cut" of Sister Carrie that shows how truly ahead of his time Dreiser was. First and foremost, he has written an astute, nonmoralizing account of a woman and her limited options in late-19th-century America. That's impressive in and of itself, but Dreiser doesn't stop there. Digging deeply into the psychological underpinnings of his characters, he gives us people who are often strangers to themselves, drifting numbly until fate pushes them on a path they can later neither defend nor even remember choosing.
Dreiser's story unfolds in the measured cadences of an earlier era. This sometimes works brilliantly as we follow the choices, small and large, that lead some characters to doom and others to glory. On the other hand, the middle chapters--of which there are many--do drag somewhat, even when one appreciates Dreiser's intentions. If you can make it through the sagging midsection, however, you'll be rewarded by Sister Carrie's last 150 pages, which depict the harrowing downward spiral of one of the book's central characters. Here Dreiser portrays with brutal power how the wrong decision--or lack of decision--can lay waste to a life. --Rebecca Gleason [via]
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Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed: Essaysby Harlan EllisonISBN 0893702706 (0-89370-270-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Sons and Loversby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0899664008 (0-89966-400-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sons and Lovers'Book summary:Sons and Lovers was the first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex. Never was a son more indentured to his mother's love and full of hatred for his father than Paul Morel, D.H. Lawrence's young protagonist. Never, that is, except perhaps Lawrence himself. In his 1913 novel he grappled with the discordant loves that haunted him all his life--for his spiritual childhood sweetheart, here called Miriam, and for his mother, whom he transformed into Mrs. Morel. It is, by Lawrence's own account, a book aimed at depicting this woman's grasp: "as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers--first the eldest, then the second. These sons are urged into life by their reciprocal love of their mother--urged on and on. But when they come to manhood, they can't love, because their mother is the strongest power in their lives."
Of course, Mrs. Morel takes neither of her two elder sons (the first of whom dies early, which further intensifies her grip on Paul) as a literal lover, but nonetheless her psychological snare is immense. She loathes Paul's Miriam from the start, understanding that the girl's deep love of her son will oust her: "She's not like an ordinary woman, who can leave me my share in him. She wants to absorb him." Meanwhile, Paul plays his part with equal fervor, incapable of committing himself in either direction: "Why did his mother sit at home and suffer?... And why did he hate Miriam, and feel so cruel towards her, at the thought of his mother. If Miriam caused his mother suffering, then he hated her--and he easily hated her." Soon thereafter he even confesses to his mother: "I really don't love her. I talk to her, but I want to come home to you."
The result of all this is that Paul throws Miriam over for a married suffragette, Clara Dawes, who fulfills the sexual component of his ascent to manhood but leaves him, as ever, without a complete relationship to challenge his love for his mother. As Paul voyages from the working-class mining world to the spheres of commerce and art (he has fair success as a painter), he accepts that his own achievements must be equally his mother's. "There was so much to come out of him. Life for her was rich with promise. She was to see herself fulfilled... All his work was hers."
The cycles of Paul's relationships with these three women are terrifying at times, and Lawrence does nothing to dim their intensity. Nor does he shirk in his vivid, sensuous descriptions of the landscape that offers up its blossoms and beasts and "shimmeriness" to Paul's sensitive spirit. Sons and Lovers lays fully bare the souls of men and earth. Few books tell such whole, complicated truths about the permutations of love as resolutely without resolution. It's nothing short of searing to be brushed by humanity in this manner. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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Studies in Critical Philosophyby Herbert MarcuseISBN 090230853X (0-902308-53-X)
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The Taming of the Shrewby William Shakespeare, Beth ObermillerISBN 0895988577 (0-89598-857-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Taming of the Shrew'Book summary:One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writerby Tom DardisISBN 0899193765 (0-89919-376-5)
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Tolkien: A Celebration Collected Writings on a Literary Legacyby Joseph PearceISBN 0898708664 (0-89870-866-4)
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Tolkien: Man and Mythby Joseph PearceISBN 0898708257 (0-89870-825-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tolkien: Man and Myth'Book summary:J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings took first place in a recent nationwide British poll to find the greatest book of the century. He may be the most popular writer of our age, but Tolkien is often misunderstood. This major new study of his life, his character and his work reveals the facts and confronts the myths. It explores the background to the man and the culture in which he wrote.
Tolkien: Man and Myth observes the relationships that the master writer had with his closest literary colleagues. It reveals his unique relationship with C.S. Lewis, the writer of the Narnia books, and the roots of their estrangement. In this original book about a leading literary life, Joseph Pearce enters the world created by Tolkien in the seven books published during his lifetime. He explores the significance of Middle Earth and what it represented in Tolkien's thinking. Myth, to him, was not a leap from reality but a leap into reality. [via]
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Tolkien Scrapbookby Alida Becker, Michael Green, Tim KirkISBN 0894710834 (0-89471-083-4)
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Understanding Brechtby Walter BenjaminISBN 0902308548 (0-902308-54-8)
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Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varoby Janet KaplanISBN 0896597970 (0-89659-797-0)
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Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectivesby James Paradis, Thomas PostlewaitISBN 0897661109 (0-89766-110-9)
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Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviewsby Robert AdamsISBN 0893816035 (0-89381-603-5)
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The Winning Attitudeby John MaxwellISBN 0898403170 (0-89840-317-0)
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Writers on Writingby Jon WinokurISBN 0894714406 (0-89471-440-6)
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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politicsby Bell HooksISBN 0896083853 (0-89608-385-3)
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