Literature
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Anne Savarese
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Ben Tate
Senior Editor, Humanities (Europe)
Literature at 快色直播 encompasses literary criticism, history, biography, and reference; primary works by notable writers; poetry, in English and in translation; and occasional works on writing, research, and teaching. The list includes studies of literature in English and in other languages around the world, and puts literary research and ideas in conversation with other disciplines, from philosophy to the arts.
From landmark works of criticism to new translations of classic works, literary biographies to folk and fairy tales, the list represents enduring contributions to literary study and promotes knowledge and understanding of literature in all its forms.
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Sontag, Dylan and the oxymoron American sophistication
The title of my new book鈥擜merican Sophistication鈥攏ames a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron.
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Did James Joyce鈥檚 Christmas dinner scene actually take place?
The Christmas dinner scene in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" has become shorthand, or cultural signifier, for family harmony disrupted by politics.
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Selling the Great 快色直播
There is some wordless knowledge in these books, some sense of integrity and some understanding of the universe, that is conveyed by exposing yourself to what Matthew Arnold called 鈥渢he best which has been thought and said鈥�.
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Laura B. McGrath on Middlemen
Chronicling the story of literary agents in the United States from the 1950s to today, in Middlemen, Laura McGrath uncovers their critical role in the making of American literature.
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On the page
鈥淭his is perhaps the greatest accomplishment of poetry: to descend, to fall, to break, to know that in writing and reading we become one again.鈥�
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