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This is a collection of previously published essays on late medieval and early modern literature. Most of the essays are from the last twenty years, and some are very recent, though space is also found for some earlier classics. The collection pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period: they are selected for their excellence and importance, whether in themselves or as representatives of an influential critical approach, and not for their adherence to any one school of interpretation.
This unique anthology, the first of its kind in fifty years, gathers together all of Melville's tales, as well as a judiciously edited array of his prose poems, literary criticism, letters, lectures, and poetry. Through few realize it today, poetry was Melville's abiding passion; yet his poetry has never received the recognition it deserves, until now.
Loosely based on the real life of a turn-of-the-century icon and charlatan, The Real McCoy introduces a character like no other in recent contemporary fiction. "Kid" McCoy was a man of many talents and faces: championship boxer, jewel thief, scam artist, and one of the most married men in America. Unfolding against the tumultuous backdrop of history, his story becomes a fascinating mirror of the times as he becomes a legend and a symbol of all that's true in America. An audacious and unforgettable novel about identity, illusion, and the accomplishment of lifelong love, The Real McCoy is bound to become another literary sensation from Darin Strauss.
In this enchanting retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his deep knowledge of the subject with an original storytelling style. Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of Uranus, the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods, the wily ruses of Prometheus and Zeus, and the creation of Pandora, the first woman. His narrative takes readers from the Trojan War to the voyage of Odysseus, from the story of Dionysus to the terrible destiny of Oedipus to Perseus's confrontation with the Gorgons. Jean-Pierre Vernant has devoted himself to the study of Greek mythology. In recounting these tales, he unravels for us their multiple meanings and brings to life the beloved figures of legend whose narratives lie at the origin of our civilization.
Left with a small fortune by her parents and the cryptic advice, "it would do to find a passion," the narrator of this mesmerizing novel longs for a child. She conceives her son, Paul, through a loveless one-night stand, and when he's born she surrounds him with a magical world for two; filled with art, games, and bottomless devotion; and she calls him pet names, such as "Birdie" and "Loverboy." She loves him as a mother loves her only child, but soon life beyond their world begins to beckon the school-age Paul, threatening to change everything.
The stories of Alexander Gerschenkron; his great escapes, his vivid wit, his feuds, his flirtations, and his supremely cultured mind; are the stuff of legend. |
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The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar's people: the Zelandonii.
It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both Court and country and whose life, as The Wall Street Journal said, "reads like an early history of the United States." Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn an elegant portrait of this remarkable man.
Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to Walt Whitman's imagination of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposing to heal national ills, the poet was trying to temper his own inner conflicts as well. Integrating biography and criticism, Pollak employs a loosely chronological organization to describe the poet's multifaceted "faith in sex." Drawing on his early fiction, journalism, letters, and notebook entries, she shows how in spite of his personal ambivalence about sustained erotic intimacy, Whitman came to imagine himself as "the phallic choice of America."
In this groundbreaking and stimulating book, Tricia Guild, the most innovative decorator of her age, turns her attention to life in town. The central theme is her town house in London's Holland Park, which superbly illustrates her new definition of modernity.
As a boy growing up in Detroit, Birkerts always felt deeply divided between the claims of his family's Latvian heritage and the seductions of his adopted culture. His struggle to find his own path thrust him up against the myths of his origins; the turbulent lives of his grandparents, whose artistic ambitions played out against a backdrop of revolution and war; as well as into the excesses of the 1960s counterculture. He provides a moving saga of love and loss on the way to finding his own artistic vocation. The chronicle of a writer's painful, and comic, coming-of-age, My Sky Blue Trades is also a vivid portrait of our postwar era, from the tranquilized '50s to the present.
Seeing in the Dark is a poetic love letter to the skies and a stirring report on the revolution now sweeping amateur astronomy, in which backyard stargazers linked globally by the Internet are exploring deep space and making discoveries worthy of the professionals. Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers, recounting his lifelong experiences as an enthralled stargazer, and capturing the exquisite experience when ancient starlight strikes the eye and incites the mind. |
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Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader
Tales Poems and Other Writings
The Real McCoy
The Universe, The Gods, and Men
Loverboy
The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World
The Shelters of Stone
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
The Erotic Whitman
Tricia Guild in Town: Contemporary Design for Urban Living
My Sky Blue Trades
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