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"Poems, where I come from," writes Robert Bringhurst, "are spoken to be written and written to be spoken. "The Tree of Meaning" is a book of critical ... More

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In this entertaining and stimulating essay, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western ... More

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How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been manipulated to circumvent the truth at high levels or charged with vulgarity ... More

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A collection of romantic writings from the author of 'The Prophet'. The treasury includes Gibran's 'Mirrors of the Soul', 'The Wisdom of Kahlil ... More

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For the first time in English, "Camus at Combat" presents all of Camus' World War II resistance and early postwar writings published in "Combat," the ... More

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From Bauhaus to Dada, from Virginia Woolf to John Dos Passos, the Modernist movement revolutionized the way we perceive, portray, and participate in ... More

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Montaigne (1533-1592), the personification of philosophical calm, had to struggle to become the wise Renaissance humanist we know. His balanced ... More

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Twenty-one of the worlds greatest writers contemplate art and politics that is in this collection replete with both lyrical beauty and ethical depth.

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The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown's new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays ... More

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Consisting of three interconnected essays, this book sets Jin's own work and life alongside those of other literary exiles, creating a conversation ... More

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In books lauded as brilliant, exhilarating and profound, Roberto Calasso has revealed the unexpected intersections of ancient and modern through ... More

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For more than 50 years, Leslie Fiedler played a pivotal role in the development of American literary culture. Despite his often unacknowledged ... More

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Six Memos for the Millennium is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: ... More

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Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one ... More

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The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities is a collection of essays aimed at expanding the concepts of "ghost" and ... More

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Walter Benjamin is now regarded as one of the greatest literary critics of the 20th century. An outsider in Hitler's Europe, he chose an infamously ... More

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Despite his often-unacknowledged influence, academics, intellectuals, and the general audience in America and abroad still read Leslie Fiedler's work ... More

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