Why Dylan Matters
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A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017 ‘At last an expert classicist gets to grips...
Sharp
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Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion,...
J.M. Coetzee: Two Screenplays: Waiting for the Barbarians and in the Heart of the Country
J.M. Coetzee and Hermann Wittenberg
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J.M. Coetzee's screenplay versions of In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians are...
Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History
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John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative...
Apollinaire and the Great War, 1914-18
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A major literary figure in pre-war Paris, Guillaume Apollinaire volunteered for war in 1914, trained...
American Guides: The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture
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In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were...
Becoming John Updike: Critical Reception, 1958-2010
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When John Updike died in 2009, tributes from the literary establishment were immediate and fulsome....
Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman
Dennis M. Weiss, Amy D. Propen and Colbey Emmerson Reid
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Though the progress of technology continually pushes life toward virtual existence, the last decade...
Ovid's Erotic Poems: Amores and Ars Amatoria
Publius Ovidius Naso, Len Krisak and Sarah Ruden
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The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is...
Page to Stage: The Craft of Adaptation
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Theatre exists because of the human need to tell our stories. The process of literary adaptation...