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"Denby sat in on a tenth-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year, and visited other schools. He read all the stories, poems, plays, and novels that the kids were reading, and creates an impassioned portrait of charismatic teachers at work, classroom dramas large and small, and fresh and inspiring encounters with the books themselves. Lit Up is a dramatic narrative that traces awkward and baffled beginnings...
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"There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and rancor these days than immigration. In [this book], the renowned author Suketu Mehta offers a reality-based polemic that vitally clarifies the debate. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the globe, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. As he explains, the West...
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"Picking up where Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the impact of new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting Carrion's essays on these vital cultural spaces, as well as interviews with the writers who love them, Against Amazon is equal parts a history of books and bookshops, a reader's autobiography, a travelogue, a love letter--and, urgently, a manifesto against the corrosive pressures of late capitalism."--...
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In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans--all of which were suppressed...
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"One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2020" "Finalist for the PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers" "Shortlisted for the Parnassus Prize, Memoria College" Scott Newstok is professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College. A parent and an award-winning teacher, he is the author of Quoting Death in Early Modern England and the editor of several other books....
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"Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret these events. Offering a critical theory for the critically endangered, Joshua Schuster...
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While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America's Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin's works.
The scholars in this collection represent a range...
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Explores the science and creative process behind Poe's cosmological treatise.
Silver Winner for Philosophy, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
In 1848, almost a year and a half before Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty, his book Eureka was published. In it, he weaved together his scientific speculations about the universe with his own literary theory, theology, and philosophy of science. Although Poe himself considered it to be...
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Explores the existential significance of literacy.
Winner of the 2017 American Educational Research Association's Division B Outstanding Book Award
Literary of the Other stages a bold psychoanalytic investigation into the existential significance of literacy. Featuring a dazzling array of novel artifacts and events, the book situates literacy in the internal fictive worlds of the self and other. This approach is designed to encourage teachers...
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¿Es la formación una deuda que todo humano ha de saldar por el hecho de ser humano? ¿ Quién es el recaudador de la deuda? ¿ La propia esencia del hombre, Dios, la cultura o alguna de sus manifestaciones como la guerra, el capital o el colectivo organizado? La novela de formación, modelo narrativo empleado con notable frecuencia en la literatura alemana, intenta contestar a todas estas preguntas a lo largo de su compleja historia. Todas sus respuestas...
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"When Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure with disgust and reverence. The film--in which a group of teenagers meet a gruesome fate when they stumble upon a ramshackle farmhouse of psychotic killers--was banned in several countries and was pulled from many American theaters after complaints of its violence. Despite the mixed reception from critics, it was enormously...
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"Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, argued that jointly strategizing...
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A partir de un marco científico, histórico y filosófico, el autor plantea un diálogo entre la complejidad y la biosemiótica acentuando la importancia de la semiosis como un componente substancial de la vida, en tanto los signos, su significado e interpretación existen en todos los sistemas vivos. Asimismo, asevera que la biosemiótica es una ciencia compleja, pues no solo permite interpretar las señales de índole humana y no humana,...
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A thought-provoking examination of the complex teacher-student relationship, from one of the great minds of the modern literary world Based on George Steiner's extensive experience as a teacher, Lessons of the Masters is a passionate examination of the "profession of the professor." He writes about what empowers one person to teach another, and explores the complexities and nuances of this bond. From the charismatic master to the loving disciple,...
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Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of non-modern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to...
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In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century through our current moment, her interdisciplinary treatment of climate change at once rethinks time and illustrates that the time for climate action is now.
Climate Change, Interrupted argues that linear, progress-inflected temporalities are not adequate to a crisis that defies their...
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Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams's effort to bring criticism to a wider public. How to Be an Intellectual profiles a number of critics, drawing on a unique series of interviews that give...
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Though the question of life (whether bios or zōē) is not the explicit focus of any Platonic dialogue, it is, this book argues, an absolutely central and structuring question for all of Plato's thought, and perhaps especially for his ontology. This is nowhere more evident than in the Statesman, where the central myth of the two ages sketches out not only two models of time and governance but two very different kinds and valences of life and being....
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Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music theory of the eighteenth century. During that time the affects-or passions, as they were also called-formed a vital component of a mimetic model of the arts. Eighteenth-century critics held that artworks imitated or copied the natural world in order to produce copies of the affects in their beholders. But music caused a problem for such...
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