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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “casey nelson blake”
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  • Growing Up Absurd

    Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

    by Susan Sontag, Paul Goodman ...
    Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book’s surprise success established him as one of America’s most unusual and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Beloved Community

    The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford

    by Casey Nelson Blake ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    The “Young American” critics — Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford — are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village “Little Renaissance” of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • At the Center

    American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century

    by Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus, Howard Brick ...
    Series series American Thought and Culture
    At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of “American culture”? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Stigma

    Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

    by Erving Goffman ...
    From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person’s feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society calls “normal.”Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Turner House

    by Angela Flournoy ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA New York Times Notable Book • An Amazon Top 100 Editors' Pick of the YearNamed a Best Book of the Year by O, The Oprah Magazine • Entertainment Weekly • NPR • Essence • Men’s Journal • Buzzfeed • Bustle • Time Out • Denver Post • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • BookPage • Literary Hub • K... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Queen of the Tearling

    A Novel

    by Erika Johansen ...
    Series Book 1 - Queen of the Tearling, The
    “Call it *The Hunger Games of Thrones*. Erika Johansen’s debut novel is a genre mashup: medieval fantasy meets dystopian future. . . . The setting, combined with Johansen’s deft hand with character and plotting, really does work. . . . An addictive and enjoyable adventure. . . . The Tear is just as easy to get sucked into as Westeros or Hogwarts or Panem.” —USA Today**Magic, adventure, mystery, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • On Being Blue

    A Philosophical Inquiry

    by William H. Gass ...
    On Being Blue is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do.Gass writes:Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • I Love You More Than You Know

    Essays

    by Jonathan Ames ...
    "Utterly delightful" essays from the creator of the HBO's Bored to Death reveal intimate details of his life as a famously neurotic New York writer ( Brendan Halpin, Los Angeles Times) .Jonathan Ames has drawn comparisons across the literary spectrum, from David Sedaris to F. Scott Fitzgerald to P.G. Wodehouse, and his books, as well as his abilities as a performer, have made him a favorite on the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The H.D. Book

    by Robert Duncan ...
    Series Book 1 - The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan
    This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive and unique quest to arrive at a poetics that would fuel Duncan’s great work in the 1970s. A ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Arthur Miller's America

    Theater and Culture in a Time of Change

    Edited by Enoch Brater ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theaterArthur Miller's America collects new writing by leading international critics and scholars that considers the dramatic world of icon, activist, and playwright Arthur Miller's theater as it reflects the changing moral equations of his time. Written on the occasion of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Close Listening

    Poetry and the Performed Word

    Edited by Charles Bernstein ...
    Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. This volume, featuring work by critics and poets such as ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945

    Edited by Jennifer Ashton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD