K M Patten: 3 books

To change the world? Or to just see it through, as unscathed and untraumatized as possible? For Patten, the latter was impossible; the former, a reluctant task. He claims to have seen the worse in Mankind, this with the endless stream of inmates who return to their concrete hell, time after...

This book examines the vast range of human experience with British and American literature, from the publishing industry to film adaptations to literary puzzles. Our experience with literature is more than what we read; it is also how we read, how literature is produced and the eternal puzzles it creates.

This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...