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"There are few people in the world who have more opportunity for getting close to the hot interesting things of one’s ti......more
There are three wars in the mind and in the art of William Faulkner--the American Civil War, World War I, and World War ......more
Over the course of his brief career, Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) became an important critical voice for African American sc......more
Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking mono......more
This is a remarkable collection of letters covering nearly four decades of correspondence between two of the South’s for......more
This is a marvelously interesting collection of letters written over a period of thirty years by members of the Thomas A......more
Since the 1960s, William Faulkner, Mississippi’s most famous author, has been recognized as a central figure of internat......more
This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rur......more
Throughout the war years of the 1940s there were enormous outpourings of correspondence from all parts of the United Sta......more
Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also ......more
Contributions by Robert Hamblin, Panthea Reid Broughton, James B. Carothers, Louis Daniel Brodsky, Ellen Douglas, Charle......more
It began in the 1930s in a powerful and elegant literature arising from a seemingly improbable place, the rural, agraria......more
The essays in this volume are indicative of the scope of international scholarship concerning the works of William Faulk......more
The international reputation and pervasive influence of William Faulkner upon world literature is the subject of the pap......more
In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as "the only really authentic regio......more
Winner of the Ohioana Library’s 2008 Ohio Legacy Citation 2014-2015 Choose to Read Ohio selection "A good place to be fr......more
The Artist as Citizen is a compilation of Joseph W. Polisi’s articles and speeches from his two-decade tenure as preside......more
2005 - Best Book Translation Prize - New England Council of Latin American Studies Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo ......more
While Father is Away reveals the intimate story of a British-American s role in the American Civil War. William Bradbury......more
The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincin......more
In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1......more
With essays by Edwin T. Arnold, J. Douglas Canfield, Christine Chollier, George Guillemin, Dianne C. Luce, Jacqueline Sc......more
This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- ......more
These thirteen essays reflect Dunsmore’s broad experience as a poet, student of native literature, and teacher. They tak......more
For the past half century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cu......more
At last it’s available again, and in paperback, the book that Charlotte Capers’ hosts of readers have been urging back i......more
Collected essays from a symposium held in April 1974, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this volume an......more
This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813-68) and his circle......more
"It’s probably his age that makes the worrying worse. But he can’t help picking up on every detail that ruins his day, s......more
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Readers and scholars of Jewish, American, and Hebrew literature and cultural history, as well as those interested in poe......more
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It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a w......more
One of America s most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth ce......more
Aphra Behn s novel Oroonoko (1688) is one of the most widely studied works of seventeenth-century literature, because of......more
Continuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pieti......more
This critical anthology of writings by Carlos Monsiváis represents a foundational set of texts by an exceptional (yet u......more
Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson in Iran is the first full-length study......more
Written by one of the most prominent thinkers in sound studies, Amplifications presents a perspective on sound narrated ......more
Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in ......more
In African studies, the "Echeruoan ideal" is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a......more
This unique collection of essays, accompanied by videos, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and per......more
Essays and poems that offer insight into what it means to be a young Jewish woman today. Young Jewish women engage in al......more
Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. R......more
Anarchism is Not Enough is a manifesto against systematic thinking, a difficult book by a famously difficult writer. For......more
For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although......more
Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, Fran ois Rabelais s irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and......more
Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin America’s greatest writers and a major literary figure of the......more
The mauve life and times of Edmund Gosse glow warmly in these letters, delightful to even the most casual reader, engros......more
This book is volume two of the writings of David Sissons, who first established his academic career as a political scien......more
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The Korean Kid is the story of Jim Kichenside and the Australian pilots who took to the skies in the â ~forgotten war’ o......more
This early work is a collection of Alcott’s letters, journals, and notes. Published a year after Alcott’s death, this is......more
Written with characteristic verve, Quotation Marks considers, among other subjects, how we depend upon the most quotable......more
Stephen Sondheim is arguably the most important writer for the American musical stage today, the equivalent in his field......more
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Notes On The Bribri Of Costa Rica is a book written by Alanson Skinner in 1920. The book provides a detailed account of ......more
On The Laying Out, Planting, And Managing Of Cemeteries: And On The Improvement Of Churchyards (1843) is a comprehensive......more
Curiosa Mathematica, Part 2: Pillow Problems Thought Out During Wakeful Hours is a book written by Charles L. Dodgson, b......more
""Live And Grow Young"" is a self-help book authored by Arthur Edward Stilwell. The book aims to help readers achieve a ......more
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In this expanded edition of Randall Jarrell s letters, his widow, Mary, has added letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, ......more
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National Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor’s Choice Priz......more
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no b......more
Among the world’s major literary traditions, Arabic poetry is perhaps unique in that the theme of the hunt runs in a con......more
Through her Letters written to Friends, to her opponents: priests, magistrates, politicians, including the king, Elizabe......more
John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies, first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the nature......more
This book presents the first comprehensive and authoritative collection of Emerson’s writings against slavery and the su......more
St. Boniface, the early eighth-century English cleric who became known as "Apostle to the Germans," was an important age......more