The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period
Herbert Batt and Sheldon Zitner
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The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and...
Scream: The Tyson Tapes
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Michael Gerard Tyson grew up in almost indescribable poverty in the ghettos of Brooklyn....
W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory: Living Pictures
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W.J.T. Mitchell-one of the founders of visual studies-has been at the forefront of many disciplines...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated As I Lay Dying in Books
Oct 25, 2017 (Updated Oct 25, 2017)
It begins with the death and burial of Addie Bundren, the matriarch of the family. Members of the family narrate the story of carting the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her relatives. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power.
The narrative, told from each character's perspective, yet often about the same event, left the reader to interpret the underlying motive or conflict of feelings within the Bundren family. It is intriguing but requires careful reading of the dense prose.
Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated Crocodile in Books
Jun 21, 2019
The relationship between the protagonist and the her friends is brilliant. The language, the vernacular, all make this novel as real as if you were right back to your own childhood, with words that I had long forgotten and which came back to me in laughter. I enjoyed the honesty of childhood, the realism of childhood relationships, the subtle way that situations are dealt with. I just loved it.
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
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Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the...
Living Modern: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors
Phyllis Richardson and Richard Powers
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Understanding modern as much more than modernist, Living Modern is all about clean lines, elegant...
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
Stephen Shore, Lynne Tillman and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen
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Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shores legendary Uncommon Places has influenced a generation...
Walker Evans
David Campany, Clement Cheroux, Svetlana Alpers and Anne Bertrand
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Walker Evans was one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. His focus on...
Roll Deep: Poems
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In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of...