David Levering Lewis

Laurence Goldstein

David Lanier Lewis

Looks at the impact of the automobile on American folkways

The Automobile and American Culture

"This is the first work to survey the myths created by the modern literary imagination about technology." -- Herbert Sussman ..". succeeds admirably, fascinatingly on all counts... " -- American Literature ..". a landmark in the study of literary and technological history." -- NMAH ..". fascinating... a welcome addition to the growing scholarship about the impact of technology on the modern imagination." -- Journal of Modern Literature Annual Review This book chronicles precisely how the flying machine helped to create two kinds of apocalyptic modes in modern literature.

The Flying Machine and Modern Literature

Reflective essays on women's appearance by anthropologists, poets, psychologists, artists, and historians. -- Back cover.

Figures, Styles, Speculations

The Female Body

Ira Konigsberg

Lively essays, interviews, fiction, and poetry that focus on America's favorite subject--the movies.

Texts, Receptions, Exposures

The Movies

Andrew Brennan

Max Deutsch

Joe Y.F. Lau

A coleção Conceitos-Chave em Filosofia é uma série de introduções concisas, acessíveis e interessantes às idéias centrais e aos temas encontrados no estudo da filosofia. Traduzidos por especialistas, estes livros, escritos especialmente para atender às necessidades dos leitores em formação, expõem idéias fascinantes, embora algumas vezes difíceis. A série é feita para fornecer uma base sólida em filosofia e cada livro é também o companheiro ideal para estudos ulteriores. O conhecimento da lógica é fundamental para o estudo da filosofia. Este livro, estimulante e completo, oferece uma explicação clara e explora os temas centrais e questões examinadas quando se estuda lógica.

Conceitos-Chave em Filosofia

Lógica

Robert Chrisman

This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden’s growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century’s most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed “Middle Passage” and “Frederick Douglass.” The essays illuminate the themes and techniques that established Hayden as a modernist writer with affinities to T. S. Eliot, Federico Garcia Lorca, and W. B. Yeats, as well as to traditions of African-American writings that include such figures as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry is the first and only book to collect significant essays on this distinguished poet. Covering sixty years of commentary, book reviews, essays, and Hayden’s own published materials, this volume is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the poet’s vision of experience, artistry, and influence. The book includes forty different works that examine the life and poetry of Hayden, the first African-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the post now called Poet Laureate) and to receive the Grand Prix de la Poesie at the First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal, in 1966.

Essays on the Poetry

Robert Hayden

Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about sites as different as Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice beaches, the freeways, downtown, South Central and East L.A. Laurence Goldstein presents original commentary on six decades of poets who have contributed to the iconography and poetics of Los Angeles literature, including Elizabeth Alexander, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dorothy Barresi, Victoria Chang, Wanda Coleman, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, James Harms, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Garrett Hongo, Suzanne Lummis, Paul Monette, Harryette Mullen, Carol Muske-Dukes, Frederick Seidel, Gary Soto, Timothy Steele, Diane Wakoski, Derek Walcott, and Charles Harper Webb. Forty poems are reproduced in their entirety. One chapter is devoted to Charles Bukowski, the celebrity face of the city’s poetry. Other chapters discuss the ways that poets explore “Interiors” and “Exteriors” throughout the cityscape. Goldstein also provides ample connections to the novels, films, art, and politics of Southern California. In clear prose, Poetry Los Angeles examines the strategies by which poets make significant places meaningful and memorable to readers of every region of the U.S. and elsewhere.

Reading the Essential Poems of the City

Poetry Los Angeles

Riddance from the Sixties

A look at the poetry of one of America’s most populous and fascinating cities, with poems spanning from 1942 to 2012

Nicholas Delbanco

Based on material that first appeared as a two-volume issue of Michigan quarterly review. Distinguished writers of fiction discuss the creative process and the direction of American fiction in original essays, interviews, memoirs, and short fiction. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Short Stories & Essays on the Narrative

Writers and Their Craft

Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but little prior knowledge of, philosophy, the books open up fascinating, yet sometimes difficult ideas. The series builds to give a solid grounding in philosophy and each book is also ideal as a companion to further study. An understanding of logic is fundamental to the study of philosophy. This stimulating and thorough guidebook offers clear explanation and exploration of the central issues and questions addressed when studying logic. The topics covered include: Reason and unreason; Proving a point; Entailment; Truth; The logic of components of speech and language. An invaluable resource for those studying logic for the first time, this text provides a sound grasp of a fascinating, but often complex - and even daunting - component of philosophy.

Logic: Key Concepts in Philosophy

A timely and engaging exploration of cinema's influence on verse--a treat for poetry lovers and film buffs alike

A Critical History

The American Poet at the Movies

One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art.

The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature

Ruins and Empire

Reader in the Department of Philosophy Laurence Goldstein

" --Journal of Modern Literature Annual ReviewThis book chronicles precisely how the flying machine helped to create two kinds of apocalyptic modes in modern literature.

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