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  • Pleasures of Benthamism Pleasures of Benthamism
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    Pleasures of Benthamism

    This book offers a fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly understood traditions of Utilitarianism and political economy in their bearing for Victorian literature and culture. It treats...
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    Silhouettes in the Night

    The silhouettes are trying to put together an image of the world they live in; they are writers, journalists, reporters (but also mercenaries, even spies if necessary) and what they find is not too...
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  • Making the Void Fruitful Making the Void Fruitful
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    Making the Void Fruitful

    Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats-widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century-this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane...
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  • Quadrille Quadrille
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    Quadrille

    4 x 4The first words were footprints of the wind in our ears.Sometimes we cried with earache.We wrapped our heads in animal-skins.Our cries were feral in the dark.We packed dried berries and pieces...
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  • Brute Meaning Brute Meaning
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    Brute Meaning

    The essays collected in this volume trace the evolution over a period of thirty years of a critical approach resembling what would now be described as the ‘new materialism’. These essays...
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    Invisible Fences

    For all its recent popularity among poets and critics, prose poetry continues to raise more questions than it answers. How have prose poems been identified as such, and why have similar works been...
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    The Case for Spirit Photography The Case for Spirit Photography
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    The Case for Spirit Photography

    "Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carr "Every Writer owes something to Holmes." -T.S. EliotWhile the controversy of Psychic Photography was...
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    New Apologists for Poetry

    The New Apologists for Poetry was first published in 1956. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from...
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  • Oxford Book of Friendship
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    Oxford Book of Friendship

    Thoreau said that the honourable institution of friendship is `older than Hindostan and the Chinese Empire'. Much older in fact, for it originated with Adam, who soon desired the `rational delight'...
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  • Preparing for War, Stumbling to Peace Preparing for War, Stumbling to Peace
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    Preparing for War, Stumbling to Peace

    This monograph discusses planning for the post-conflict phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. More specifically, it examines whether a disparate focus on war-fighting operations during the planning and...
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  • Protest and Reform Protest and Reform
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    Protest and Reform

    The social novel in nineteenth-century Britain has been considered the effort of a predominantly male canon of writers. In this ground-breaking study, originally published in 1985, Joseph Kestner...
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  • American and European Literary Imagination American and European Literary Imagination
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    American and European Literary Imagination

    Western culture is composed of a subtle and complex mixture of influences: religious, philosophical, linguistic, political, social, and sociological. American culture is a particular strain, but...
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    Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity

    During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual and cultural history was often denigrated for its alleged elitist and canonical nature. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Enriched...
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  • The conquests and triumphs of grace The conquests and triumphs of grace
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    The conquests and triumphs of grace

    Title: The conquests and triumphs of grace : being a brief narrative of the success which the Gospel hath had among the Indians of Martha's Vineyard (and the places adjacent) in...
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  • The Whole Song
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    The Whole Song

    With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Great Depression, and World War II, Vincent Ferrini lived as a people's poet crying out for an end to exploitation and organized greed...
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  • Epitaphs for the Journey Epitaphs for the Journey
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    Epitaphs for the Journey

    In Epitaphs for the Journey: New, Selected and Revised Poems, Paul Mariani revisits forty years of writing poems, including revising many of his earlier lyrics, to shape his latest volume into a life...
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  • The Whole Song
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    The Whole Song

    With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Great Depression, and World War II, Vincent Ferrini lived as a people's poet crying out for an end to exploitation and organized greed...
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  • Bleak Houses
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    Bleak Houses

    undefinedProfessor Surridge exhibits a clear and persuasive historical sense as well as sensitivity to the novels and stories. I believe this study will have lasting value because of its careful...
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  • Consuming Russia
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    Consuming Russia

    With the collapse of the Soviet empire in the late 1980s, the Russian social landscape has undergone its most dramatic changes since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, turning the once bland and...
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  • A biographical dictionary A biographical dictionary
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    A biographical dictionary

    Title: A biographical dictionary : containing a brief account of the first settlers, and other eminent characters among the magistrates, ministers, literary and worthy men, in New-England.<br...
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  • Inside Early Music
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    Inside Early Music

    The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top...
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  • Yeats's Legacies Yeats's Legacies
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    Yeats's Legacies

    The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through...
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  • The Aeneid The Aeneid
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    The Aeneid

    "In the whole of European literature there is no poet who can furnish the texts for a more significant variety of discourse than Virgil. [He] symbolizes so much in the history of Europe, and...
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  • The New York Quarterly, Number 64 The New York Quarterly, Number 64
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    The New York Quarterly, Number 64

    Since its founding in 1969 by William Packard, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of a unique and fervent cross-section of contemporary American poetry...
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    Dear Los Angeles
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    Dear Los Angeles

    A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some...
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  • The Money Trail
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    The Money Trail

    Elmer L. Irey, the first chief of the Special Intelligence Unit at the Treasury Department, was the twentieth century?s greatest law enforcement figure. He accomplished what J. Edgar Hoover wouldn?t...
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  • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Awono Nineteen Ways of Looking at Awono
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    Nineteen Ways of Looking at Awono

    This unique anthology centres around a poem by award-winning Cameroonian writer, Jean-Claude Awono - Le Poème de Yambacongo - and nineteen very distinct translations of that poem from across the...
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    Hologlyphs II

    "S.K. Yeatts' Hologlyphs II: Afterlight is a luminous book of poems that seem to be gathered from the estuary of his senses...It is a book that deserves to be read again and again." --Robert René...
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  • Endless Journey Endless Journey
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    Endless Journey

    Jim Hanson's Endless Journey is at once a travelogue and guidebook of trips down "Cinderella paths" and rivers both roaring and calm, along train tracks and online. In his poems, Hanson brings us...
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  • Writing the Irish West
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    Writing the Irish West

    In recent decades, a large and well-regarded volume of creative work has emerged from the West of Ireland, written by residents of the region, by those raised in West of Ireland families outside the...
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  • Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry
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    Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry

    Australian poetry is popularly conceived as a tradition founded by the wry, secular and stoic strains of its late-nineteenth-century bush balladeers Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Lawson and 'Banjo'...
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  • War-Time Silhouettes War-Time Silhouettes
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    War-Time Silhouettes

    Stephen Hudson (1868 - 29 October 1944) is a pseudonym of the British novelist and translator Sydney Schiff, whose work was published in the 1910s, '20s, and '30s. With a substantial income from his...
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  • Ageless Wisdom Ageless Wisdom
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    Ageless Wisdom

    In almost every book we read, we find those few passages of wisdom, which stand up, stand out, and demand to be noticed; "One simile, that solitary shines in the dry desert of a thousand lines" as...
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