Author: Hillis J. Miller
Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literatu ... |
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Author: Hillis Miller
Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literatu ... |
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Author: Umberto Eco
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante's Paradiso is followed by one on th ... |
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Author: Van Wyck Brooks
This Address Was Delivered At The Inauguration Of Dr. George N. Shuster As President Of Hunter College. New York, October 10th, 1940. |
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Author: Van Wyck Brooks
This Address Was Delivered At The Inauguration Of Dr. George N. Shuster As President Of Hunter College. New York, October 10th, 1940. |
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Author: Cicero
In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inqui ... |
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Aristotle's Concept of Place
Author: Benjamin Morison
On Location is the first book in English exclusively devoted to a highly significant doctrine in the history of philosophy and science-Aristotle's account of place in the Physics. The central question which Aristotle aim ... |
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Author: Catherine March
Title: "On London Stones." [A novel.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding ove ... |
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Author: Blanche D'Alpuget
MUP's new series "Little Books on Big Themes" pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with some of the big themes in life: rage, experience, longing and ecstasy. Each author's 10,000-word take on a chosen ... |
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Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Author: Susan Stewart
Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of "On Longing," a fascinating analysis of the ways in ... |
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Poems
Author: Edward Hirsch
Now in paper, the fifth collection from the poet whom Harold Bloom hails as "utterly fresh, canonical, and necessary". The poems -- some in the author's own voice, others in the voices of a gallery of historical figures ... |
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Aspects of a Single Theme
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
2012 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Ortega y Gasset's influence was considerable, not only because many sympathized with his philosop ... |
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Haiku of Basho
Author: Basho Matsuo
Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Ea ... |
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Author: Patrick Suskind
In this inspiring meditation, Patrick S-skind considers the two great forces of human existence. He draws on scenes as varied as a young couple having oral sex while stuck in traffic, and an elderly Thomas Mann tumbling ... |
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Inspirations
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Author: Multiple Contributors
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolut ... |
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Author: August Dow
A collection of poems on subjects ranging (as the title states) from love, death, time, global warming, obcene phone calls, to "other things," written as the author zig zags through his life's experiences. |
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Author: August Dow
A collection of poems on subjects ranging (as the title states) from love, death, time, global warming, obcene phone calls, to "other things," written as the author zig zags through his life's experiences. |
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Author: Anne Summers
This series pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with some of the big themes in life. Australia has always prided itself on its luckiness. In this book, Anne Summers thinks on this characteristic, and e ... |
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