New York, United States: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2016. -. -. Paperback. In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defence of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had..... More
London, United Kingdom: FABER & FABER, 2015. -. First edition, second printing. Hardback. In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and..... More
Baltimore, MD, United States: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1991. -. 2nd Revised edition. Paperback. The biggest stumbling block facing any prospective reader of "Finnegans Wake" is the book itself, with its thousands of words of Joyce's inventions, derived from nearly every foreign language imaginable and from a host of other..... More
New York, United States: WW Norton & Co, 2009. 16 pages of color illustrations. -. Paperback. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time..... More
New York, United States: WW Norton & Co, 2018. 16 pages of color illustrations. Reprint. Paperback. One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect..... More
United States: Yale University Press, 41502. Hardback. What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment, and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these..... More
New York, United States: Syracuse University Press, 1996. English Edition. Reprint. Paperback. For years, William York Tindall's Guide has been one of the valuable ways to approach the difficult writing and complex language of Joyce's ""Finnegans Wake"". Over a period of 40 years, Tindall studied, instructed and, most importantly, learned..... More
