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Susan Cheever
When All the Men Wore Hats

A sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever, as told by his eldest daughter.The Stories of John Cheever ,…

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Kir Kuiken
Adrift on the Earth

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and contem…

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Ishion Hutchinson
Fugitive Tilts

Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut.InFugitive Tilts , the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns to pr…

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Molly Geidel
Theory of the Counterinsurgent Girl

Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory

Argues that hegemonic Western cultural and military strategies have moved away from 'saving' women to 'empowering' girls, and traces the rise to dominance of the figure of the agential girl, analyzing how…

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Helen Vendler
Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia PlathHelen Vendler was our grea…

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Mark McGivern
Tolkien's Hidden Pictures

"Despite the plethora of scholarship and commentary on Tolkien's fiction, I make the case that our felt experience of The Lord of the Rings has yet to be coherently understood and that such coherence…

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Susan Cheever
When All the Men Wore Hats

A sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever, as told by his eldest daughter.The Stories of John Cheever ,…

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Unsettling Extinction

Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities

Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge work on species extinction from a wide variety of perspectives acr…

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Brad Kent
Censorship and the Irish Writer

Censorship affected the careers of many Irish writers and transformed the trajectory of modern Irish literature. Although some authors were reluctant to defend themselves and their art, others strenuously…

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Clive James
Poetry Notebook - Reflections on the Intensity of Language

Since its initial publication, Poetry Notebook has become a must-read for any lover of poetry. Somewhat of an iconoclast, Clive James gets to the heart of truths about poetry not always addressed, "s…

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Ailbhe Darcy
Virtuosity

Elements in Poetry and Poetics

This Element examines how contemporary poets reimagine virtuosity as a mode of poetic performance. It sees virtuosity not as a fixed attribute but a strategic choice - one a poet may enter at specific mom…

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Jamaica Kincaid
Putting Myself Together

Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayMy ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now ca…

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Hugo Frey, Jan Baetens
The Look of the 1960s

World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series

How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics.

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Molly Geidel
Theory of the Counterinsurgent Girl

Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory

Argues that hegemonic Western cultural and military strategies have moved away from 'saving' women to 'empowering' girls, and traces the rise to dominance of the figure of the agential girl, analyzing how…

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Michele Filgate
What My Father and I Don't Talk About

What We Don't Talk About

A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, this "moving and deeply relatable" (Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country) collectio…

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Joel Childers
The Historical Poem

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story of its precursors. For eighteenth-century and Romantic thinkers, these were poems from dista…

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Padma Rangarajan
Insurgent Fictions

How empire shaped the language--and politics--of terror."Terrorism" is often treated as a modern problem, rooted in late nineteenth-century anarchism or contemporary global conflict.Insurgent Fi…

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William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Oxford World's Classics

'I have had a most rare vision.'A Midsummer Night's Dream evokes images of fairies, dreams, changeling children, and actors being transformed into asses. But is the play as ethereal as these associations …

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Daniel Heller-Roazen
Far Calls

"Moving from the divinatory rituals of the ancient world to Freud and Lacan, from Homer and Augustine to Edgar Allan Poe and Mallarmâe, the Surrealists, Yeats, and Proust, Far Calls explores the pers…

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Northrop Frye
Fearful Symmetry

Princeton Classics

The landmark book that situates Blake's poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readersSince it was first published, Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry has e…

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