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Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetr

English | July 12, 2012 | ISBN: 0199791023 | 208 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Theoretical accounts of modern American poetry often regard literary texts as the expression of a subjectivity irremediably fractured by the dividing practices of power. In Changing Subjects, Srikanth Reddy seeks to redress...
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Doubled Flowering

English | Oct. 1, 1997 | ISBN: 0937804711 | 179 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Poetry. Literary Criticism. Asian American Studies. The materials of the Japanese poet Araki Yasusada (1907-1972) were published in Grand Street, CONJUNCTIONS, Abiko Quarterly, FIRST INTENSITY, Stand and The American Poetry Review.  Download:...
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Erosion

English | May 21, 1983 | ISBN: 0691065705 | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Jorie Graham is the author of twelve collections of poems. Her poetry, widely translated, has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the Forward Prize (UK), and the...
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The Death of Comedy

English | ISBN: 0674006437, 067401247X | 2001 | 604 Pages | PDF | 2 MB In a grand tour of comic theatre over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century BC Susarion, through...
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The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga

English | May 24, 2007 | ISBN: 0824830784 | 313 Pages | PDF | 2 MB One of Japan’s most renowned intellectuals, Motoori Noringa (1730-1801) is perhaps best known for his notion of mono no aware, a detailed description of the workings of emotions as the precondition for...
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

English | Feb. 17, 2001 | ISBN: 0393320979 | 162 Pages | EPUB | 1 MB Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and,...
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Emily Dickinson and Philosophy

English | Aug. 19, 2013 | ISBN: 1107029414 | 278 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Emily Dickinson’s poetry is deeply philosophical. Recognizing that conventional language limited her thought and writing, Dickinson created new poetic forms to pursue the moral and intellectual issues that mattered most to her....
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Gabriel Marcel’s Perspectives on The Broken World

English | Aug. 1998 | ISBN: 087462617X | 242 Pages | PDF | 1 MB This volume presents Marcel’s four-act play, The Broken World, followed by his essay Concrete Approaches to Investigating the Ontological Mystery, with commentaries by Henri Gouhier and Marcel Belay, and a companion essay by...
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Love and Death in Goethe

English | 22 Nov. 2004 | ISBN: 1571133003 | 347 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Goethe, in association with his younger Romantic compatriots the Schlegels, Novalis, Fichte, and Schelling, struggled with the subject-object dichotomy, and tried to bridge the gap between self and other, consciousness and nature. ...
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