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  • Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe
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    Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe

    Edward Alexander

    This pioneering effort links history and personality by pairing intellectual friends, most notably Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe, but also Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, D. H. Lawrence and...
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  • The Rise of the New York Intellectuals The Rise of the New York Intellectuals
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    The Rise of the New York Intellectuals

    Terry A. Cooney

    Cosmopolitan visionsTerry A. Cooney traces the evolution of the Partisan Review-often considered to be the most influential little magazine ever published in America-during its formative years,...
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    E.M. Forster

    Lionel Trilling

    "The modern novel in its most cogent and permanent form"??this has been the achievement of E. M. Forster; his masterpiece,A Passage to India, belongs with perhaps three or four other works in English...
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  • Richard Wright's Black Boy
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    Richard Wright's Black Boy

    This casebook gathers together the most important critical responses to Richard Wright's autobiography. It includes a 1945 interview with Richard Wright, contemporary reviews of Black Boy written by...
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  • The Intellectual American The Intellectual American
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    The Intellectual American

    Eric B. Olsen

    In his first collection of essays, author and educator Eric B. Olsen offers the reader a wide range of analytical thought and cultural criticism. The book opens by examining the history of film in...
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  • Kafka's the Castle and the Critical Imagination
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    Kafka's the Castle and the Critical Imagination

    Stephen D. Dowden

    Survey of the criticism devoted to Kafka's The Castle, his final novel.Kafka's final, unfinished novel, The Castle, remains one of the most celebrated yet most impenetrable masterpieces of modernist...
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    American Historical Explanations

    Gene Wise

    American Historical Explanations was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from...
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  • Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts
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    Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts

    Daniel T. O'Hara

    Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts: Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir, by Daniel T. O'Hara, acknowledges that the modern conception of literary genius is probably most...
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  • Performing the Literary Interview Performing the Literary Interview
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    Performing the Literary Interview

    John Rodden

    When authors are interviewed about their books or themselves, much more is going on than a simple conversation. The interview becomes a performance space for authorial orchestration and...
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  • This Thing We Call Literature
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    This Thing We Call Literature

    In his fourth book of essays, acclaimed cultural critic Arthur Krystal surveys the world of letters in its academic, literary, and populist incarnations--just to make sure those divisions still apply...
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  • Accented America
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    Accented America

    American literary works written in the heyday of modernism between the 1890s and 1940s were playfully, painfully, and ambivalently engaged with language politics. The immigrant waves of the period...
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  • 1984
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    1984

    George Orwell

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the...
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  • Jane Austen and the War of Ideas
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    Jane Austen and the War of Ideas

    Interest in Jane Austen has never been greater, but it is revitalized by the advent of feminist literary history. In a substantial new introduction Marilyn Butler places this book, which was first...
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  • Romanticism/Judaica
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    Romanticism/Judaica

    Sheila A. Spector

    The twelve essays in Romanticism/Judaica explore the four major cultural strands that have converged from the French Revolution to the present. The first section, Nationalism and Diasporeanism,...
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  • Write like a Man
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    Write like a Man

    Ronnie Grinberg

    How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York's combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics...
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  • Migration and Residential Mobility Migration and Residential Mobility
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    Migration and Residential Mobility

    Martin Cadwallader

    Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West's basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey...
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  • Confessions of a Secular Jew Confessions of a Secular Jew
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    Confessions of a Secular Jew

    Eugene Goodheart

    What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly...
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  • Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film
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    Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film

    Timothy B. Cochran

    Musical Sincerity and Transcendence in Film focuses on the ways filmmakers treat music reflexively-that is, draw attention to what it is and what it can do. Examining a wide range of movies from...
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  • Of G-Men and Eggheads
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    Of G-Men and Eggheads

    Rodden, John

    A forgotten Cold War witch hunt .Spy romances of Cold War counter-espionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing Communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow...
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    When Men Were the Only Models We Had

    Carolyn G. Heilbrun

    When Men Were the Only Models We HadMy Teachers Fadiman, Barzun, TrillingCarolyn G. Heilbrun"Heilbrun's engaging memoir evokes a bygone era of intellectual life, when clarity of language and exacting...
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  • March 4, anniversary edition
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    March 4, anniversary edition

    Scientists debate the role of scientific research in the military-industrial complex and consider the complicity of academic science in American wars.On March 4, 1969, MIT faculty and students joined...
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  • The Unexamined Orwell The Unexamined Orwell
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    The Unexamined Orwell

    John Rodden

    The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy...
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  • Critical Crossings Critical Crossings
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    Critical Crossings

    Neil Jumonville

    The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual...
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  • The Errant Art of Moby-Dick
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    The Errant Art of Moby-Dick

    William V. Spanos

    In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of Americaundefined;s most distinguished critics reexamines Melvilleundefined;s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and...
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    Prodigal Sons

    "A herd of independent minds," Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics like Lionel...
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  • OUT OF WHAT CHAOS OUT OF WHAT CHAOS
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    OUT OF WHAT CHAOS

    Lee Oser

    Set on the West Coast during Bush II's first term, Out of What Chaos showcases the escapades of Rex and The Brains as they settle into the Portland rock scene, record their first CD, and tour from...
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