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"A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books...
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"From "the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world" (Vanity Fair) comes 100 personal, thought-provoking essays of the life-changing books she wouldn't want you to miss--beautifully illustrated throughout"--
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A collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir selected from three decades of the author's contributions to the London review of books. Subjects include Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia (where she lived for four years in the 1980s), the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, and Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher...
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Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature. What shaped the mind of this great thinker? Jason Baxter argues that Lewis was deeply formed not only by the words of Scripture...
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"From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers-from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched...
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"This collection of graphic reviews, illustrated prose, and visualized poetics addressing the last century of American poetry establishes the roots of Terrance Hayes's poetic influences and reconstructs modes of poetic engagement, demonstrating what makes a poem both move and be moving and illustrating how drawing itself can be a kind of critical, poetic discourse"--
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Un vicio, una fiebre, una neurosis que se inicia en la infancia y prospera: así se presenta en este libro la lectura, como una experiencia radical, intensa. Hace falta desdoblarse, verse a sí mismo bajo la perspectiva de una tercera persona, para describir las obsesiones que conforman el identikit del lector Alan Pauls: su adn, esa ley del deseo irrefrenable que funda la continuidad (no la escisión) entre vida y arte. Un paso más allá del lector...
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Póngale usted el título que quiera es una obra con al menos dos libros. En las páginas impares, el reto de empezar cada poema con el mismo verso nos descubre frente a un espejo donde somos la posibilidad que no fuimos: empezar por desconocernos, por querer ser otro, por ser ese otro y hablar con las plantas, por escribir los poemas que nos pasan, por ver el humo de las naves quemadas... en cada poema, un itinerario situacional y afectivo nos anticipa...
13) Libros chiquitos
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Hay en este libro un elogio sigiloso de lo mínimo. Y también de lo nuevo, de la actualidad, de lo reciente. No se trata de una exaltación de las grandes bibliotecas ni de los vates modernos sino de una íntima historia de inclinación por la poesía, por los llamados géneros menores y por los lectores pequeños en edad, como los propios nietos. En este libro que se abre a la historia personal de los afectos y a la vez reflexiona sobre el lenguaje...
14) Ascua de Luna
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Manuel Benítez comparte con nosotros en este magnífico libro, Ascua de luna, sus pulsiones temáticas universales con el colorido visual que le otorga su doble vocación: la del pintor y la del escritor. Su lenguaje -tal como en su prosa y en sus lienzos- es plástico, vitalista y profundamente metafórico. Personificaciones y homofonías tales como: La vida no se apaga si la llama de Dios te llama. Nunca creí que la madera tuviera tanta fuerza/...
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"W.H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD, distinguished professor and author Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the great writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present. Today we are battling too much information, a society changing at lightning speed, algorithms aimed at shaping our every move,...
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"On February 6, 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Naming itself "The Sisterhood," the group would meet over the next two years to discuss the future of Black literary feminism, how to promote and publicize their work, and the everyday pressures and challenges of being a Black woman writer. This network of individuals, which would also come to include Audre...
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"When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843, he likely had no idea that the story and its main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, would remain so popular nearly two centuries later. Today, readers still find themselves entertained by the story of a grumpy, selfish man who becomes a holiday hero after he learns generosity through the help of three spirits in Victorian-era England. Whether a Dickens fan or someone in love with all things "Christmas,"...
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"From the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they've been used over the centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems. We treasure our greatest poetry, Brad Leithauser reminds us in these pages, "not for its what but its how." In chapters on everything from iambic pentameter to how stanzas are put together to "rhyme and the way we really talk," Leithauser...
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