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    Animal Claim

    Tobias Menely
    €32.50

    During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of an...

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    One Kind of Everything

    Dan Chiasson
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    "One Kind of Everything" elucidates the uses of autobiography and constructions of personhood in American poetry since World War II, with helpful r...

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    Animal Claim

    Tobias Menely
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    During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of an...

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    Brush and the Pen

    Dario Gamboni
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    French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew...

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    Romantic Things

    Mary Jacobus
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    Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. Lyric poetry is especially concerned with things and their re...

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    Pitch of Poetry

    Charles Bernstein
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    Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voic...

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    Conflagration of Community

    J. Hillis Miller
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    "After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric." "The Conflagration of Community" challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aest...

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    Enlightenment

    Dan Edelstein
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    What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edel...

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    Queering the Underworld

    Scott Herring
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    At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without...

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    Pitch of Poetry

    Charles Bernstein
    €94.99

    Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voic...

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    Queering the Underworld

    Scott Herring
    €92.99

    At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without...

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    Earth on Show

    Ralph O'Connor
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    At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology - and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history - was widely dismissed as d...

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    Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns

    The University of Chicago Press
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    In "Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns", highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings new life to the words of Hesiod and the world of...

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    Citizen-Saints

    Julia Reinhard Lupton
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    Who is a citizen? What is a person? Who is my neighbor? These fundamental questions about group membership and social formation have been posed rep...

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    Impersonality

    Sharon Cameron
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    Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impe...

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    Enlightenment

    Dan Edelstein
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    What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edel...

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    Comics & Media

    The University of Chicago Press
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    The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success - and that new prominence has ...

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    Poor Tom

    Simon Palfrey
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    One of the most memorable and affecting Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. He has long been celebrated for his faithfulness in the fac...

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    Local Transcendence

    Alan Liu
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    Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today's society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most loc...

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    Shylock Is Shakespeare

    Kenneth Gross
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    Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for a loan to his antisemitic tormentor...

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    Attack of the Difficult Poems

    Charles Bernstein
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    Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In...

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    Palace of Books

    Roger Grenier
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    For decades, Roger Grenier has been charming readers with compact, erudite books that draw elegant connections between our lives and our love of th...

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    Dreaming in Books

    Andrew Piper
    €26.50

    At the turn of the nineteenth century, publishing houses in London, New York, Paris, Stuttgart, and Berlin produced books in ever greater numbers. ...

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    How Poems Think

    Reginald Gibbons
    €92.99

    To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry'...

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