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The Americanby Henry JamesISBN 0678028028 (0-678-02802-8)
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Apostolic Fathers: I Clement, II Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Didache, BarnabasISBN 0674990277 (0-674-99027-7)
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Apostolic Fathers: Shepherd of Hermas, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Epistle to DiogentusISBN 0674990285 (0-674-99028-5)
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Appetiteby Nigel SlaterISBN 0679312129 (0-679-31212-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Appetite'Book summary:What is there to say about a new Nigel Slater book? Especially one called Appetite. It is exactly what it should be. This is the book he has been heading for all along. It is about food, to be sure, but it is also a statement of his personal philosophy, which seems to amount to this: that our appetites are founded in pleasure; and that we must interrogate those pleasures, and take them very seriously indeed, if we are to eat as well as we can. To eat well means to eat, and cook, pleasurably. So in Appetite Slater takes food, and cooking, back to where he believes it belongs, back to the realm of sensuous pleasure and comfort. Back to the sheer bliss, as he might say, of putting something warm, soft and sticky in your mouth.
Very cleverly, he has built his book not around detailed recipes as such--that would be too specific for his purposes--but around the sort of thing that might pop into your head as something you would really like to eat. No one says "I fancy Shallow Fried Herring Milt with Sherry Vinegar, Parsley and Butter Sauce tonight"; but they might well think of a Creamy, Calming Pasta Dish, or a Big Fish Pie, or Bangers and Mash. They might like to know, too, some of the endless variations they can play on these platonic essences. These are the kinds of food this generous and handsome book celebrates; foods that have a genuine part to play in people's lives. This is quintessential Nigel Slater, laid-back, not claiming any special privilege as a chef ("If I can do it, so can you" he remarks); and all wrapped up in that wonderful, lived-in, squashy prose that hits the spot every time. A feast of a book, from a man with no tricks or gimmicks, who is happily in touch with his own appetites and wants to put us in touch with ours.--Robin Davidson [via]
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Apuleiusby Apuleius, J. Arthur HansonISBN 0674994981 (0-674-99498-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apuleius'Book summary:In the Metamorphoses of ApuleiusThe Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic.
The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, 'Erant in quadam civitate rex et regina'). Some of the stories are as indecent as they are witty, and two in the ninth book were deemed by Boccaccio worthy of inclusion in the Decameron. At last the goddess Isis takes pity on Lucius. In a surprising denouement, he is restored to human shape and, now spiritually regenerated, is initiated into her mysteries. The author's baroque Latin style nicely matches his fantastic narrative and is guaranteed to hold a reader's attention from beginning to end.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Apuleius is in two volumes.
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Apuleius Metamorphosesby Apuleius, J. Arthur HansonISBN 0674990498 (0-674-99049-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apuleius Metamorphoses'Book summary:In the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic. The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He knows he can revert to his own body by eating rose-petals, but these prove singularly elusive; and the bulk of the work describes his adventures as an animal. He also retails many stories that he overheard, the most charming being that of Cupid and Psyche (beginning, in true fairy-tale fashion, ' Erant in quadam civitate rex et regina '). Some of the stories are as indecent as they are witty, and two in the ninth book were deemed by Boccaccio worthy of inclusion in the Decameron. At last the goddess Isis takes pity on Lucius. In a surprising denouement, he is restored to human shape and, now spiritually regenerated, is initiated into her mysteries. The author's baroque Latin style nicely matches his fantastic narrative and is guaranteed to hold a reader's attention from beginning to end. J. Arthur Hanson was at the time of his death in 1985 Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. His publications include Roman Theater-Temples. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Apuleius is in two volumes. [via]
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Aristotle Art of Rhetoricby Aristotle, J.H. FreeseISBN 0674992121 (0-674-99212-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle Art of Rhetoric'Book summary:Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 3432 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.
Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics; Great Ethics (Magna Moralia); Eudemian Ethics; Politics; Economics (on the good of the family); On Virtues and Vices. II Logical: Categories; Analytics (Prior and Posterior); Interpretation; Refutations used by Sophists; Topica. III Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV Metaphysics: on being as being. V Art: Rhetoric and Poetics. VI Other works including the Constitution of Athens; more works also of doubtful authorship. VII Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature; and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.
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Aristotle Poetics/Longinus on the Sublime/Demetrius on Styleby Aristotle, Donald Russell, Demetrius, Longinus, Stephen Halliwell, Dorren C. Innes, W. H. FyfeISBN 0674995635 (0-674-99563-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle Poetics/Longinus on the Sublime/Demetrius on Style'Book summary:This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature. Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, naturne, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen Halliwell makes this seminal work newly accessible with a reliable text and a translation that is both accurate and readable. His authoritative introduction traces the work's debt to earlier theorists (especially Plato), its distinctive argument, and the reasons behind its enduring relevance.
The essay On the Sublime, usually attributed to "Longinus" (identity uncertain), was probably composed in the first century CE; its subject is the appreciation of greatness ("the sublime") in writing, with analysis of illustrative passages ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato. In this edition, Donald Russell has revised and newly annotated the text and translation by W. Hamilton Fyfe, and supplied a new introduction.
The treatise On Style, ascribed to an (again unidentifiable) Demetrius, was perhaps composed during the secod century BCE. It is notable particularly for its theory and analysis of four distinct styles (grand, elegant, plain, and forceful). Doreen Innes' fresh rendering of the work is based on the earlier Loeb translation by W. Rhys Roberts. Her new introduction and notes represent the latest scholarship.
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The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Helen VendlerISBN 0674637127 (0-674-63712-7)
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Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyrightby Mark RoseISBN 0674053095 (0-674-05309-5)
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby Lew Wallace, Harold KingISBN 0679203923 (0-679-20392-3)
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The Bhagavad Gitaby Franklin EdgertonISBN 0674069250 (0-674-06925-0)
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Mr. Edgerton is the author of many books and articles in the fields of Egyptology and Oriental languages and literature. He is an editor of the American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature.
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The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Grahamby Helen VendlerISBN 0674081218 (0-674-08121-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham'Book summary:Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds of break in poetic style, Vendler clarifies the essential connection between style and substance in poetry. Opening fresh perspectives on the work of three very different poets, her masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work.
Gerard Manley Hopkins' invention of sprung rhythm marks a dramatic break with his early style. Rhythm, Vendler shows us, is at the heart of Hopkins' aesthetic, and sprung rhythm is his symbol for danger, difference, and the shock of the beautiful. In Seamus Heaney's work, she identifies clear shifts in grammatical "atmosphere" from one poem to the next--from "nounness" to the "betweenness" of an adverbial style--shifts whose moral and political implications come under scrutiny here. And finally Vendler looks at Jorie Graham's departure from short lines to numbered lines to squared long lines of sentences, marking a move from deliberation to cinematic "freeze-framing" to coverage, each with its own meaning in this poet's career.
Throughout, Vendler reminds us that what distinguishes successful poetry is a mastery of language at all levels--including the rhythmic, the grammatical, and the graphic. A fine study of three poets and a superb exposition of the craft of poetry, The Breaking of Style revives our lapsed sense of what style means.
Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course.
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The Challenge of Comparative Literatureby Claudio Guillen, Cola FranzenISBN 0674106881 (0-674-10688-1)
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Classical Mythologyby Robert J. Lenardon, Mark P. O. MorfordISBN 0679303367 (0-679-30336-7)
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 0679309454 (0-679-30945-4)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'Book summary:The hero of Charles Frazier's beautifully written and deeply-imagined first novel is Inman, a disillusioned Confederate soldier who has failed to die as expected after being seriously wounded in battle during the last days of the Civil War. Rather than waiting to be redeployed to the front, the soul-sick Inman deserts, and embarks on a dangerous and lonely odyssey through the devastated South, heading home to North Carolina, and seeking only to be reunited with his beloved, Ada, who has herself been struggling to maintain the family farm she inherited. Cold Mountain is an unforgettable addition to the literature of one of the most important and transformational periods in American history. [via]
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Coming of Age As a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plathby Helen Hennessy VendlerISBN 0674013832 (0-674-01383-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming of Age As a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath'Book summary:To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem--a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that style--is to come of age as a poet. By looking at the precedents, circumstances, and artistry of the first perfect poems composed by John Milton, John Keats, T. S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath, Coming of Age as a Poet offers rare insight into this mysterious process, and into the indispensable period of learning and experimentation that precedes such poetic achievement.
Milton's L'Allegro, Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Plath's The Colossus are the poems that Helen Vendler considers, exploring each as an accession to poetic confidence, mastery, and maturity. In meticulous and sympathetic readings of the poems, and with reference to earlier youthful compositions, she delineates the context and the terms of each poet's self-discovery--and illuminates the private, intense, and ultimately heroic effort and endurance that precede the creation of any memorable poem.
With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps us to appreciate anew the conception and the practice of poetry, and to observe at first hand the living organism that breathes through the words of a great poem.
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"Coming to Writing" and Other Essaysby Helene CixousISBN 0674144376 (0-674-14437-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: '"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays'Book summary:Of Helene Cixous's many and diverse writings, few have been translated into English. This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. Cixous is known for her work on sexual difference and its relations to literary text. Here she explores the problematics of a "feminine" mode of writing, basing her method on the premise that differences between the sexes - viewed as a paragdigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning - manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts. "Tancredi Continues" and "The Last Painting or the Portrait of God" question the enigma of sexual difference and the origins of writing through artistic practices analogous to writing (music and painting). The title essay explores Cixous's decision to become an author and the problems raised by a woman's writing herself into history and into a particular literary and cultural tradition. The remaining essays examine another aspect of her work: her ongoing dialogue with the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. "By the light of an Apple" and "Clarice Lispector: The Approach" are celebrations of Cixous's Brazilian contemporary. In "The Author in Truth" Cixous quotes passages from Lispector and discusses them in detail, providing a sense of why Lispector has assumed such importance in her life. This volume aims to be of interest not only to scholars who are engaged in the task of understanding Cixous as writer and theorist but to all readers seeking a unique and exciting voice. [via]
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The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918by Stephen KernISBN 067402169X (0-674-02169-X)
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Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800by Anthony GraftonISBN 0674195450 (0-674-19545-0)
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Dictionary of American Regional English: A-Cby Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Joan Houston HallISBN 0674205111 (0-674-20511-1)
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Dictionary of American Regional English: P-Skby Joan Houston Hall, Frederic Gomes CassidyISBN 0674008847 (0-674-00884-7)
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrasesby Bartlett Jere WhitingISBN 0674219813 (0-674-21981-3)
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Eminent Victoriansby Lytton StracheyISBN 0676591477 (0-676-59147-7)
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Escape to the American Desertby David Lansing, Catherine Karnow, Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. StaffISBN 0679007997 (0-679-00799-7)
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophyby Bernard WilliamsISBN 067426858X (0-674-26858-X)
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The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinitionby Helen VendlerISBN 067435432X (0-674-35432-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Harvard University Press: A Historyby Max HallISBN 0674380819 (0-674-38081-9)
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A History of English Literatureby Alastair FowlerISBN 0674396642 (0-674-39664-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of English Literature'Book summary:This delightful introduction to English literature, engaging, readable, and wise, is enlivened by the opinions and pleasures of a fine scholar-critic. Historically, it ranges from the Middle Ages to the present, concentrating on British writing but glancing also at selected American and Commonwealth authors, and lingering over the works of key figures such as Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, and Dickens. [via]
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A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Modeby David PerkinsISBN 0674399455 (0-674-39945-5)
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History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and Afterby David PerkinsISBN 0674399471 (0-674-39947-1)
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A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greeceby George SartonISBN 0674400518 (0-674-40051-8)
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A History of the Arab Peoplesby Albert HouraniISBN 0674010175 (0-674-01017-5)
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A History of the World in the Twentieth Centuryby J. A. S. GrenvilleISBN 0674399609 (0-674-39960-9)
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Horace Odes and Epodesby Horace, Niall RuddISBN 0674996097 (0-674-99609-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Horace Odes and Epodes'Book summary:The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text.
Horace took pride in being the first Roman to write a body of lyric poetry. For models he turned to Greek lyric, especially to the poetry of Alcaeus, Sappho, and Pindar; but his poems are set in a Roman context. His four books of odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. Some are public poems, upholding the traditional values of courage, loyalty, and piety; and there are hymns to the gods. But most of the odes are on private themes: chiding or advising friends; speaking about love and amorous situations, often amusingly. Horace's seventeen epodes, which he called iambi, were also an innovation for Roman literature. Like the odes they were inspired by a Greek model: the seventh-century iambic poetry of Archilochus. Love and political concerns are frequent themes; here the tone is generally that of satirical lampoons. "In his language he is triumphantly adventurous," Quintilian said of Horace; this new translation reflects his different voices.
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Horace: The Odes and Epodesby Horace, C.E. BennettISBN 0674990374 (0-674-99037-4)
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Horace (b. 65 B.C.) claims the lyric poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus as models for his celebrated odes. His four books cover a wide range of moods and topics: friendship is the dominant theme of about a third of the poems; a great many deal with love and amorous situations, often amusingly; others deal with patriotic and political themes. The seventeen epodes, which Horace called iambi, were also inspired by a Greek model: the seventh century iambic poetry of Archilochus. As in the odes, love and politics are frequent themes; some of the epodes also display mockery and ridicule, of a harsher variety than we find in Horace's satires.
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I Six Non Lecturesby E. E. CummingsISBN 0674440102 (0-674-44010-2)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herselfby Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 067444745X (0-674-44745-X)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: Written by Herselfby L.Maria Child, Harriet A. Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin, Lydia Maria Francis ChildISBN 0674447468 (0-674-44746-8)
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Is There a Text in This Class?by Stanley FishISBN 0674467264 (0-674-46726-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is There a Text in This Class?'Book summary:Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers a stunning proposal for a new way of thinking about the way we read.
Fish begins by examining the relation between a reader and a text, arguing against the formalist belief that the text alone is the basic, knowable, neutral, and unchanging component of literary experience. But in arguing for the right of the reader to interpret and in effect create the literary work, he skillfully avoids the old trap of subjectivity. To claim that each reader essentially participates in the making of a poem or novel is not, he shows, an invitation to unchecked subjectivity and to the endless proliferation of competing interpretations. For each reader approaches a literary work not as an isolated individual but as part of a community of readers. 'Indeed," he writes, "it is interpretive communities, rather than either the text or reader, that produce meanings."
The book is developmental, not static. Fish at all times reveals the evolutionary aspect of his work--the manner in which he has assumed new positions, altered them, and then moved on. Previously published essays are introduced by headnotes which relate them to the central notion of interpretive communities as it emerges in the final chapters. In the course of refining his theory, Fish includes rather than excludes the thinking of other critics and shows how often they agree with him, even when he and they may appear to be most dramatically at odds. Engaging, lucid, provocative, this book will immediately find its place among the seminal works of modern literary criticism.
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Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communitiesby Stanley Eugene FishISBN 0674467256 (0-674-46725-6)
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Julian the Apostateby Glen Warren BowersockISBN 0674488822 (0-674-48882-2)
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Learned Lady: Letters from Robert Browning to Mrs. Thomas Fitzgerald, 1876-1889ISBN 0674519000 (0-674-51900-0)
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 0674539001 (0-674-53900-1)
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Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journalsby Leslie A. MarchandISBN 067453915X (0-674-53915-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals'Book summary:Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron's known letters supersedes Prothero's incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of many that were bowdlerized by former editors for a variety of reasons. Prothero's edition included 1,198 letters. This edition will have more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts.
Byron's epistolary saga continues con brio in this volume. At the start of 1818 he sends off the last canto of Childe Harold and abandons himself to the debaucheries of the Carnival in Venice. At the close of 1819 he resolves to return to England but instead follows Teresa Guiccioli to Ravenna. In the meantime he writes three long poems and two cantos of Don Juan, whose bowdlerization he violently protests; he breaks off with Marianna Segati, copes with his amorous "tigress" Margarita Cogni, then falls passionately in love with the young Countess Guiccioli; he thinks seriously of emigrating to South America; he takes custody of his little daughter Allegra and becomes increasingly fond of the child. The Shelleys visit him, as does Thomas Moore, to whom he entrusts his memoirs (burned after his death). The letters to friends are a marvelous outpouring of funny anecdotes, practical talk, discussions of his poems, statements of his beliefs. The love letters are in a class by themselves.
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Making of Late Antiquityby Peter BrownISBN 0674543211 (0-674-54321-1)
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, Frank Justus MillerISBN 0674990463 (0-674-99046-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.
Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.
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Milly-Molly-Mandy Storiesby Joyce Lankester BrisleyISBN 0679203869 (0-679-20386-9)
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Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayingsby Bartlett J. WhitingISBN 0674580532 (0-674-58053-2)
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Monkey Beachby Eden RobinsonISBN 0676973221 (0-676-97322-1)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slaveby Frederick DouglassISBN 0674601017 (0-674-60101-7)
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Notes on the Synthesis of Formby Christopher W. AlexanderISBN 0674627512 (0-674-62751-2)
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In the first part of the book, Mr. Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once. It is for this reason that forms from traditional unselfconscious cultures, molded not by designers but by the slow pattern of changes within tradition, are so beautifully organized and adapted. When the designer, in our own self-conscious culture, is called on to create a form that is adapted to its context he is unsuccessful, because the preconceived categories out of which he builds his picture of the problem do not correspond to the inherent components of the problem, and therefore lead only to the arbitrariness, willfulness, and lack of understanding which plague the design of modern buildings and modern cities.
In the second part, Mr. Alexander presents a method by which the designer may bring his full creative imagination into play, and yet avoid the traps of irrelevant preconception. He shows that, whenever a problem is stated, it is possible to ignore existing concepts and to create new concepts, out of the structure of the problem itself, which do correspond correctly to what he calls the subsystems of the adaptive process. By treating each of these subsystems as a separate subproblem, the designer can translate the new concepts into form. The form, because of the process, will be well-adapted to its context, non-arbitrary, and correct.
The mathematics underlying this method, based mainly on set theory, is fully developed in a long appendix. Another appendix demonstrates the application of the method to the design of an Indian village.
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On Human Natureby Edward O. WilsonISBN 0674016386 (0-674-01638-6)
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Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary Englandby T.M. LuhrmannISBN 0674663241 (0-674-66324-1)
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Poems: Including Varient Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscriptsby Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. JohnsonISBN 0674676009 (0-674-67600-9)
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The Poems of Emily Dickinsonby Emily DickinsonISBN 0674676017 (0-674-67601-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems of Emily Dickinson'Book summary:Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time but in universals--an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world.
Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk--an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day.
Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem--usually the latest version of the entire poem--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.
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The Poems Of Emily Dickinson: Reading Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 0674018249 (0-674-01824-9)
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Editionby Emily Dickinson, R.W. FranklinISBN 067467622X (0-674-67622-X)
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Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer--an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Her family sought publication of Dickinson's poetry over the years, selecting verses, often altering her words or her punctuation, until, in 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas H. Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Now, after many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, a new comprehensive edition is available. This three-volume work contains 1,789 poems, the largest number ever assembled. The poems, arranged chronologically, based on new dating, are drawn from a range of archives, most frequently from holographs, but also from various secondary sources representing lost manuscripts. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity of standard type, Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Franklin gives Dickinson's alternative readings for the poems, her revisions, and the line and page, or column, divisions in the source. Each entry identifies Franklin's editorial emendations and records the publication history, including variants. Fourteen appendices of tables and lists give additional information, including poems attributed to Emily Dickinson. The poems are indexed by numbers from the Johnson edition, as well as by first lines.
Franklin has provided an introduction that serves as a guide to this edition and surveys the history of the editing of Dickinson's poems. His account of how Dickinson conducted her workshop is a reconstruction of a remarkable poetic life.
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victoriansby Gertrude HimmelfarbISBN 0679401199 (0-679-40119-9)
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The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physicianby Zhisui LiISBN 0679400354 (0-679-40035-4)
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The Return of Martin Guerreby Natalie DavisISBN 0674766911 (0-674-76691-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of Martin Guerre'Book summary:The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago.
Now a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honorable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode.
Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. Here we see men and women trying to fashion their identities within a world of traditional ideas about property and family and of changing ideas about religion. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the ancien régime, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines.
Deftly written to please both the general public and specialists, The Return of Martin Guerre will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is also a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.
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Sanskirt Reader: Text and Vocabularyby Charles R. LawmanISBN 0674789008 (0-674-78900-8)
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Sanskrit Grammarby William D. WhitneyISBN 0674788109 (0-674-78810-9)
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Selected Letters of John Keats: Based on the Texts of Hyder Edward Rollinsby John KeatsISBN 0674018419 (0-674-01841-9)
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Six Memos for the Next Milleniumby Italo CalvinoISBN 0674810406 (0-674-81040-6)
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woodsby Umberto EcoISBN 0674810511 (0-674-81051-1)
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Snow Falling on Cedarsby David GutersonISBN 0676576109 (0-676-57610-9)
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The Spoils of Poyntonby Henry JamesISBN 0678028109 (0-678-02810-9)
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Strategies of Commitment: And Other Essaysby Thomas C. SchellingISBN 0674019296 (0-674-01929-6)
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A Theory Of Justice: Original Editionby John RawlsISBN 0674017722 (0-674-01772-2)
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What Maisie Knewby Henry JamesISBN 0678028117 (0-678-02811-7)
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The Wings of the Doveby Henry JamesISBN 0678028206 (0-678-02820-6)
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