Paglia, Camille
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.03 PAGWeinstein, Arnold L.
Contents: Itinerary : morning to noon -- The uses of innocence -- The lessons of experience -- Love -- Falling in love -- Love gone wrong : the story of abuse -- Familial sacrifice : kindermord -- Systemwide sacrifice : children and the nightmare of history -- The wild child -- Growing all the way up -- Itinerary : noon to night -- Fathers undone -- Exiting the stage -- The old in love -- Postsexual --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93354 WEIUpdike, John.
Summary: John Updike's sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up, under the heading "General Considerations," books, poker, cars, and the American libido. The last, informal section of Due Considerations assembles more or less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 UPDSummary: "From the longest-running, most trusted book review in America comes a celebration of The New York Times Book Review, including reviews, essays, and interviews, showcasing the best, worst, funniest, strangest, and influential literary coverage since its beginnings in 1896"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.1 NEWGass, William H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D.R. Godine 1979
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 GASWilson, Edmund
Summary: The first part of a two-volume collection of essays by a forefront American critic and social chronicler includes pieces written during the 1920s and 1930s and includes "Axel's Castle," "The Shores of Light," and an assortment of previously uncollected reviews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.52 WILWilson, Edmund
Summary: A second volume of a two-part collection of essays and reviews by the literary critic features pieces from the 1930s and 1940s, including "The Triple Thinkers," "The Wound and the Bow," and "Classics and Commercials."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.52 WILSaid, Edward W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2000
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Summary: "The Outside Thing argues for the significance of literary and affective romance in shaping the work of three major modern lesbian writers: Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 ROCThorburn, David
Contents: Part 1. Lecture 1: Road map--modernism and moral ambiguity -- Lecture 2: How to read fiction--Joyce's "An encounter" -- Lecture 3: Defining modernism--Monet's cathedral -- Lecture 4: Defining modernism--beyond impressionism -- Lecture 5: "The man who would be king"--imperial fools -- Lecture 6: "Heart of darkness"--Europe's Kurtz -- Lecture 7: "Heart of darkness"--the drama of the telling --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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Sontag, Susan
Summary: With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 SONAlgren, Nelson
Contents: Who lost an American? Originally published: New York: Macmillan, 1963 - Notes from a sea diary. Originally published: New York: Putnam, 1965.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5203 ALGConrad, Barnaby
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.23 CONMann, Charles C.
Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016