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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetryby Harold BloomISBN 0195112210 (0-19-511221-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry'Book summary:Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence, is a study of Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For the second edition, Bloom offers an introduction which explains the genesis of his thinking and the subsequent influence of the book on literary criticism of the past twenty years. [via]
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As You Like Itby William Shakespeare, Peter ReynoldsISBN 014077145X (0-14-077145-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Aubrey's Brief Livesby Oliver Lawson DickISBN 0140430792 (0-14-043079-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aubrey's Brief Lives'Book summary:A series of pen sketches of eminent people of the 17th century. [via]
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Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeareby Theodor MeronISBN 0195144066 (0-19-514406-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Brief Lives: ; Together With, an Apparatus for the Lives of Our English Mathematical Writers ; And, the Life of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesburyby John Aubrey, John Buchanan-BrownISBN 0140435891 (0-14-043589-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Charles Dickensby John LucasISBN 0140772529 (0-14-077252-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Dickens'Book summary:This study of five major novels by Dickens looks at the tensions between the "private" and "public" aspect of his work. [via]
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The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literatureby Gilbert HighetISBN 0195002067 (0-19-500206-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Classics Reclassified: Biography and Notes by Anthony Bonner, With an Introduction by William Carlos Williams for Scientific Accuracy by the U.by Richard Willard ArmourISBN 0070022577 (0-07-002257-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Coming of Age in the Milky Wayby Timothy FerrisISBN 0060535954 (0-06-053595-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming of Age in the Milky Way'Book summary:From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it. From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds us, those who study the universe have had to struggle against political and religious preconceptions. They have included some of the most charismatic, courageous, and idiosyncratic thinkers of all time. In Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris uses his unique blend of rigorous research and captivating narrative skill to draw us into the lives and minds of these extraordinary figures, creating a landmark work of scientific history.
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Death of the Foxby George P. GarrettISBN 0156252333 (0-15-625233-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of the Fox'Book summary:A meticulous re-creation of Elizabethan England that forms a trilogy with The Succession and Entered from the Sun. Here the author delves into the story of Sir Walter Ralegh's fall from favor for alleged conspiracy against James I. Garrett transports the reader to a world of cunning, intrigue, and colorful abundance.[via]More editions of Death of the Fox:
Discoveries and Reviews: From Renaissance to Restorationby A. L. RowseISBN 0064960099 (0-06-496009-9)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companionby Patrick Gerard Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, Garrett A. SullivanISBN 0195153871 (0-19-515387-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Essays in Shakespearean Criticismby James L. Calderwood, Harold E. ToliverISBN 0132836556 (0-13-283655-6)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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Essential Shakespeareby Ted HughesISBN 0060887958 (0-06-088795-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Shakespeare'Book summary:From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates:
Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . .
Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely private; like Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she is the great poet of inwardness, of the indefinable region of the soul in which we are, in a sense, all alone.
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Eyre Affairby Jasper FfordeISBN 0142001805 (0-14-200180-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Fables of Identity Studies in Poetic Mythologyby Northrop FryeISBN 0156297302 (0-15-629730-2)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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The Faerie Pathby Frewin JonesISBN 0060871024 (0-06-087102-4)
Hardcover, Eos
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Four Tragediesby William ShakespeareISBN 0140434585 (0-14-043458-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Friendly Shakespeareby Norrie EpsteinISBN 0140138862 (0-14-013886-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hamlet, Revengeby Michael InnesISBN 0140114971 (0-14-011497-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet, Revenge'Book summary:The murder was planned, deliberately, and at obvious risk, to take place bang in the middle of a private performance of Hamlet. Behind the scenes are thirty-one suspects, twenty-seven more in the select and distinguished audience. "Suspicions", said Appleby, "crowd thick and fast upon us". [via]
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Henry Vby William Shakespeare, A. R. HumphreysISBN 0140707085 (0-14-070708-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry V'Book summary:Shakespeare's immutable history of Henry's victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From a wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Ironically these qualities are brought to the fore by the realities of war. Written at the end of the life of Elizabeth I, "Henry V" told the British people that with strong leadership, they had little to fear at a time of uncertainty. [via]
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History Play: The Lies and Afterlife of Christopher Marloweby Rodney BoltISBN 0007121237 (0-00-712123-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Hot Gates and Other Occasional Piecesby William GoldingISBN 0156421801 (0-15-642180-1)
Softcover, Bookthrift Co
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Improvising Shakespeare: Reading for the Stageby Thomas S. TurgeonISBN 0070655227 (0-07-065522-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Introducing Shakespeareby D. SalianiISBN 0176066101 (0-17-606610-1)
Softcover, Cengage Learning College
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A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Worksby Jacques Barzun, Michael MurrayISBN 0060935421 (0-06-093542-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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King Henry VIby Edward BurnsISBN 0174434936 (0-17-443493-6)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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King Henry VIby Ron KnowlesISBN 0174434944 (0-17-443494-4)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Henry VI'Book summary:This edition celebrates "King Henry VI Part 2" as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its focus on the relationship between divine justice and sin. An extensive discussion of performance history traces the play's progress on stage from abridgement and adaptation to full historical epic. A survey of criticism discusses the wide range of responses provoked by the play's handling of its historical theme, and concludes by focusing on the element of burlesque in the attempted social revolution portrayed. [via]
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The Long Farewellby Michael InnesISBN 0060805757 (0-06-080575-7)
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Alex Nino, Arthur Byron Cover, Tony Leonard TamaiISBN 0142404098 (0-14-240409-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Makers of Romeby PlutarchISBN 0140441581 (0-14-044158-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Makers of Rome'Book summary:These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's "Roman Lives", they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history, such as soldierly Marcellus, eloquent Cato and cautious Fabius. Here too are vivid portraits of ambitious, hot-tempered Coriolanus; objective, principled Brutus and open-hearted Mark Anthony, who would later be brought to life by Shakespeare. In recounting the lives of these great leaders, Plutarch also explores the problems of statecraft and power and illustrates the Roman people's genius for political compromise, which led to their mastery of the ancient world. [via]
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, A.D. Melville, E.J. KenneyISBN 019283472X (0-19-283472-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:The first English translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, "Golding's Metamorphoses" (1567) decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser and the character of English Renaissance writing. Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This robustly vernacular version adds a Christian moral framework, clarifies obscurities and gives an English flavour to the rustic settings, thus making readily available to later writers a treasure-trove of comic, eerie and erotic tales. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0192510339 (0-19-251033-9)
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Metamorphosesby Peter Forbes, David Raeburn, Denis FeeneyISBN 014044789X (0-14-044789-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphoses'Book summary:[via]Ovids sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformationoften as a result of love or lustwhere men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.
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The Metamorphoses of Ovidby Allen MandelbaumISBN 0156001268 (0-15-600126-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid'Book summary:Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a writer when The Metamorphoses was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus Caesar, and the emperor banished the poet to what is now Romania. Augustus may have taken exception to the poet's turn to the impolite realm of the body--or he may have objected to a rumored affair between Ovid and the emperor's nymphomaniacal daughter Julia, who figures so prominently in Robert Graves's Claudius novels. The poet who had declared Rome to be his only home could have found no worse punishment than exile, but no amount of pleading could sway Augustus, and Ovid died on the shores of the Black Sea a decade later. Full of veiled political and historical references, The Metamorphoses lived on to become a permanent fixture in the canon of European literature. In Allen Mandelbaum's hands, it lives on for a new generation. [via]
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translationby Ovid, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0151705291 (0-15-170529-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translation'Book summary:Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a writer when The Metamorphoses was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus Caesar, and the emperor banished the poet to what is now Romania. Augustus may have taken exception to the poet's turn to the impolite realm of the body--or he may have objected to a rumored affair between Ovid and the emperor's nymphomaniacal daughter Julia, who figures so prominently in Robert Graves's Claudius novels. The poet who had declared Rome to be his only home could have found no worse punishment than exile, but no amount of pleading could sway Augustus, and Ovid died on the shores of the Black Sea a decade later. Full of veiled political and historical references, The Metamorphoses lived on to become a permanent fixture in the canon of European literature. In Allen Mandelbaum's hands, it lives on for a new generation. [via]
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The Metaphysical Poetsby Helen GardnerISBN 014042038X (0-14-042038-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Modern Shakespearean Criticism: Essays on Style, Dramaturgy and the Major Playsby Alvin B. KernanISBN 0155633759 (0-15-563375-9)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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An Oxford Anthology of Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Stanley WellsISBN 0192822403 (0-19-282240-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stageby Jonathan Bate, Russell JacksonISBN 0192802135 (0-19-280213-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage'Book summary:The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage is a chronological series of information-packed essays written by actors, writers and academics including Judi Dench, Robert Smallwood and Michael Dobson. It's a thoughtful book, which details the multifarious ways in which Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic plays have been interpreted during their 400-year life.
Performance is ephemeral by definition. That's why we need educatespeculation or eye-witness accounts of it. A review in The Spectator for example describes Irving's 1879 Shylock having "cold slow smiles just parting the lips and touching their curves as light touches metal". The 18th-century paintings of Garrick and co playing Richard III or Romeo or the romantic interpretations by Kemble and Kean in the 19th century don't look like anything that either we or Shakespeare would recognise either.
But it's probably the sections in The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on the Stage dealing with the 19th and 20th centuries which are the most interesting. Consider the role of actor managers or the influence of Ibsen and Brecht. Then, of course, there were two wars and, eventually, that extraordinary 1970 A Midsummer Night's Dream, which Peter Brook directed at Stratford and triggered a whole new urge to go back to the text and let it speak. There's certainly plenty in this entertaining and informative book both for students and theatregoers. Susan Elkin [via]
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Passnotes: The Merchant of Veniceby MillsonISBN 0140770194 (0-14-077019-4)
Softcover, Penguin Uk
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The Portable Coleridgeby Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ivor A. RichardsISBN 014015048X (0-14-015048-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Portable Coleridge'Book summary:[via]Chronically impoverished, tormented by self-doubt and a crippling addiction to opium, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) still managed to become one of the most versatile and influential forces of English romanticism.
The Portable Coleridge faithfully represents all facets of this complex, haunted genius, including his poems, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Christabel," "Kubla Khan," and "Dejection"; letters to friends and colleagues such as Robert Southey and William Godwin; selections from Notebooks and Table Talk; political and philisophical writings; literary criticism; and extensive excerpts from Biographia Literaria, in which Coleridge interweaves aesthetics, metaphysics, and disarmingly candid autobiography. Edited and with an introduction by the critic I.A. Richards, this voulme vastly expands our understanding of a writer of visionary insight and protean range.
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Preludeby William Wordsworth, J.C. MaxwellISBN 0140801057 (0-14-080105-7)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Prelude: A Parallel Textby William Wordsworth, J.C. MaxwellISBN 0140422145 (0-14-042214-5)
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The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mindby William Wordsworth, Ernest De SelincourtISBN 019281074X (0-19-281074-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850)by William Wordsworth, Jonathan WordsworthISBN 0140433694 (0-14-043369-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Pretty Thingsby Sarra ManningISBN 0142405396 (0-14-240539-6)
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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marloweby Charles NichollISBN 0151759812 (0-15-175981-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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The Romantics on Shakespeareby Jonathan BateISBN 0140530215 (0-14-053021-5)
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Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Billy Aronson, Lars Hokanson, Frances Cichetti, Kathryn YinglingISBN 0061064157 (0-06-106415-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia Woolf, Susan Gubar, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030411 (0-15-603041-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. [via]
The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decadesby Sally BeaumanISBN 0192122096 (0-19-212209-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice and a Mixture of Frailtiesby Robertson DaviesISBN 014015910X (0-14-015910-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Science of Discworld IIby Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack S. CohenISBN 0091882737 (0-09-188273-7)
Hardcover, Ebury
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Science of Discworld II'Book summary:Like its predecessor, The Science of Discworld II contains a short Discworld fantasy by Terry Pratchett whose chapters alternate with popular science commentary from Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
In the Discworld strand, the bickering Unseen University wizards revisit their accidental creation Roundworld--that astonishing place where there's no magic. Our world, in fact. But it's being influenced by elves (bad news in the Pratchett cosmos), who bring superstition and irrational terrors to evolving humanity. They feed on fear.
This is the cue for Stewart and Cohen to develop their ideas of stories as a shaping power in the evolution of human intelligence. Whether they're called spells, memes, creeds, theorems, artworks or lies, satisfying stories are Roundworld's equivalent of Discworld magic. It's just that it all happens in our heads: "headology" as top witch Granny Weatherwax puts it.
Struggling to make Roundworld history come out right despite elvish interference, the wizards entangle themselves in complications of time travel and must eventually beg advice from Granny. To encourage a rational attitude to facts, it seems, Roundworld needs transcendent fictions--represented, in narrative shorthand, by the works of one William Shakespeare. The trick is to make sure he gets born...
The racy exposition of the non-fiction chapters covers plenty of ground, including astrology, cargo cults, phase spaces, information theory, and the evolution of species, art, science and religion, all reflecting the human tendency not to let facts spoil a good story. Meanwhile the Discworld chapters--though sometimes disappointingly short--are fast and funny, climaxing with much unscripted action at the first night of a famous play. The Science of Discworld II is ultimately entertaining and genuinely thought-provoking, as expected from this team. Laugh and learn! --David Langford [via]
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The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasmsby Ron RosenbaumISBN 0060934468 (0-06-093446-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Selected Non-Fictionsby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 0140290117 (0-14-029011-7)
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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 and Operaby Gary SchmidgallISBN 019506450X (0-19-506450-X)
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Shakespeare and the Revolution of the Times: Perspectives and Commentariesby Harry LevinISBN 0195023625 (0-19-502362-5)
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Shakespeare Criticism, 1935-1960;: Selected with an Introductionby Anne RidlerISBN 0192810820 (0-19-281082-0)
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Shakespeare on Loveby Michael KerriganISBN 0140424377 (0-14-042437-7)
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Shakespeare on Management: Wise Business Counsel from the Bardby Jay M. ShafritzISBN 0066620376 (0-06-662037-6)
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Shakespeare: The Comedies A Collection of Critical Essaysby Kenneth MuirISBN 0138076936 (0-13-807693-6)
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Shakespeare's Early Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essaysby Mark RoseISBN 0130355445 (0-13-035544-5)
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Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard II to Henry V, the Making of a Kingby C.W.R.D. MoseleyISBN 0140771468 (0-14-077146-8)
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Shakespeare's Middle Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essaysby David YoungISBN 013807884X (0-13-807884-X)
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A Short Guide to Shakespeare.by Sylvan BarnetISBN 0156818000 (0-15-681800-0)
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The Spanish Tragedyby Thomas Kyd, Thomas Wynne RossISBN 0050015680 (0-05-001568-0)
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Speak What We Feel : Not What We Ought to Sayby Frederick BuechnerISBN 006251752X (0-06-251752-X)
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Speak What We Feel Not What We Ought to Say: Reflections on Literature and Faithby Frederick BuechnerISBN 0062517538 (0-06-251753-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speak What We Feel Not What We Ought to Say: Reflections on Literature and Faith'Book summary:Great literature is like a spiritual informant, helping readers derive meaning out of the best of times and the worst of times. In Speak What We Feel, novelist and preacher Frederick Buechner pays homage to the worst of times, examining the life and writings of four esteemed writers and how they each came to terms with despair on the page. The title, Speak What We Feel, alludes to the bravery of William Shakespeare, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Mark Twain, and G.K. Chesterton--all of whom opened the veins to their hearts and let their emotions bleed upon the page. "Vein-opening writers are putting not just themselves into their books, but themselves at their nakedest and most vulnerable," writes Buechner. Not all writers do it all the time, he notes, and many writers never do it at all. "But for the four writers these pages are about, each did it at least once, and that is the most important single thing they have in common."
Writers who are fascinated with the process of creativity will find these essays particularly satisfying, especially the musings on Mark Twain, in which Buechner explains the internal angst that brought Huck Finn to life. Be warned that readers will probably glean more pleasure from this lovingly rendered (but occasionally dry) book if they already possess an appreciation and familiarity with the works of the writers. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Story of Englishby Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeilISBN 0140154051 (0-14-015405-1)
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Swearing and Perjury in Shakespeare's Playsby Frances A. ShirleyISBN 004822040X (0-04-822040-X)
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A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeareby Rene GirardISBN 0195053397 (0-19-505339-7)
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This Must Be Loveby Tui SutherlandISBN 006056475X (0-06-056475-X)
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This Stage-Play World: English Literature and Its Background, 1580-1625by Julia BriggsISBN 0192891340 (0-19-289134-0)
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This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625by Julia BriggsISBN 019289286X (0-19-289286-X)
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Three Jacobean Tragediesby Gamini SalgadoISBN 0140430067 (0-14-043006-7)
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Three Revenge Tragediesby Cyril TourneurISBN 0141441240 (0-14-144124-0)
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Three Roman Playsby William Shakespeare, Emrys Jones, Norman SandersISBN 0140434615 (0-14-043461-5)
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A Time of Giftsby Patrick Leigh FermorISBN 0140049479 (0-14-004947-9)
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Twentieth Century Interpretations of Coriolanus: A Collection of Critical Essaysby James Emerson PhillipsISBN 0131726765 (0-13-172676-5)
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The Two Noble Kinsmenby William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Lois PotterISBN 0174434626 (0-17-443462-6)
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William Shakespeare: Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Richard WilsonISBN 0140772650 (0-14-077265-0)
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