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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
by Clive James

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Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism. Echoing Edward Said's belief that Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism, the renowned critic Clive James... (read more)

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Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books
by Slavoj Zizek

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Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Ži... (read more)

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How Fiction Works How Fiction Works
by James Wood

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What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging... (read more)

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Imagined Communities Reflections Rev Edition Imagined Communities Reflections Rev Edition
by Benedict Anderson

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What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality – the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation –... (read more)

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Metaphors We Live by Metaphors We Live by
by George Lakoff

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conversion in... (read more)

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The Brontë Myth The Brontë Myth
by Lucasta Miller

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Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without a book or play or monograph or film about the Brontës. Each generation has reimagined Charlotte, Emily, and Anne in ways that reflect changing visions — of the role of the woman writer or of... (read more)

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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems
by Camille Paglia

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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems is destined to become a landmark. In it, America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some... (read more)

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How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Harvest Book) How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Harvest Book)
by Umberto Eco

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In these “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays (Atlantic Monthly), “the Andy Rooney of academia” (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33... (read more)

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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by Melanie Rehak

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In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Tied up by the villains, she managed to free herself and bring them to justice - all while... (read more)

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Mythologies Mythologies
by Roland Barthes

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"Ý"Mythologies"¨ illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys... (read more)

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Postmodernism for Beginners Postmodernism for Beginners
by Jim Powell

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Although no one knows exactly what postmodernism is, "Postmodernism for Beginners" gives a perfectly clear explanation of the subject. Author Jim Powell describes postmodernism as a series of "maps" that helps people find their way through a changing... (read more)

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Ten Poems to Change Your Life Ten Poems to Change Your Life
by Roger Housden

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This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can... (read more)

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Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds
by Harold Bloom

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In a monumental achievement of scholarship, America's preeminent literary critic presents an unprecedented celebration of one hundred of the most creative literary minds in history. What is genius? It is the trait, says Harold Bloom, of standing both... (read more)

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Violence and the Sacred Violence and the Sacred
by Rene Girard

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This brilliant study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony.... (read more)

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The Outsider The Outsider
by Colin Wilson

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The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mindset. First published 30 years ago, it illuminated the struggle of those who seek not only the transformation of the Self, but of society as a whole.... (read more)

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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
by Thomas Lynch

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A poet and funeral director continues to examine the relationship between the "literary and mortuary" arts in essays speaking to the existentials: between being human and ceasing to be, between birth and death, we are bodies in motion and at rest.... (read more)

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Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
by Umberto Eco

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The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In this series of provocative, passionate, and witty essays... (read more)

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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by Toni Morrison

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Beloved and "Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American... (read more)

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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
by Roland Barthes

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This is a book best read immediately after the end of an intimate relationship. Devoid of sentimentality, it is a meditation of a lover when alone. Written in fragments, the overriding theme is that the lover, I, never absolutely, truly sees the beloved,... (read more)

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More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
by George Lakoff

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"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool... (read more)

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