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Who Reads Poetry
50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, Poetry magazine since 2005 has published a column called “The View From Here,” which has invited readers “from outside the world of poetry” to describe what has...
by Sarah Kay
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay’s exploration of French and Latin bestiaries offers fresh insight into how this prominent...
by Robert Pack
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
from “Clayfeld’s Farewell Epistle to Bob Pack”
Beneath this mellow harvest moon,
I can still picture you—a boy content
just fishing with his father from a ledge
above a foaming stream. The flailing trout
you caught is packed in gleaming ice;
the pink stripe all along...
Feral
Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
To be an environmentalist early in the twenty-first century is always to be defending, arguing, acknowledging the hurdles we face in our efforts to protect wild places and fight climate change. But let’s be honest: hedging has never inspired anyone.
So what if we stopped hedging? What if we grounded...
by Mark Halliday
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces—time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion—win victories over us each day. We all “know” this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained—in family life, in romance, in work, in citizenship....
Adventure, Mystery, and Romance
Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In this first general theory for the analysis of popular literary formulas, John G. Cawelti reveals the artistry that underlies the best in formulaic literature. Cawelti discusses such seemingly diverse works as Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Dorothy Sayers's The Nine Tailors, and Owen Wister's The Virginian...
Living Liberalism
Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people than property, and on opinion rather than interest....
by Michael Taussig
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
*Beauty and the Beast *begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction....
by Vincent Goossaert, David A. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious...
Learning to Look
A Handbook for the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Sometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look."
This handy guide to the visual arts is designed to provide a...
The Cooking of History
How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides...
Chromatic Algorithms
Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
These days, we take for granted that our computer screens—and even our phones—will show us images in vibrant full color. Digital color is a fundamental part of how we use our devices, but we never give a thought to how it is produced or how it came about.
Chromatic Algorithms...
A Place That Matters Yet
John Gubbins's MuseumAfrica in the Postcolonial World
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
A Place That Matters Yet unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg’s MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. Sara Byala, in examining...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose...