Category - Literary Criticism
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Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Sterling A. Brown’s poetry and aesthetics are central to a proper understanding of African American art and politics of the early twentieth centu...
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Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...
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Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness so...
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The Other Synaesthesia
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This book investigates synaesthesia in philosophy and literature, from Aristotle to Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Luc Nancy and beyond. Its central ...
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfuln...
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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet w...
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One-Way Street: And Other Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writingWalter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and...
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What We See When We Read
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, fr...
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