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  • Figures of Reality

    A Perspective on the Poetic Imagination

    by Roger Cardinal ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Figures of Reality (1981) may be described as a polemic against those who feel poetry to be remote from normal life – an abstruse and empty game. The author argues from a contrary perspective, shared by many poets in the Romantic and Surrealist tradition, in which poetry is viewed as being vitally related to our awareness of reality. This penetrating discourse on the roots of poetry in the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sensibility and Creation

    Studies in Twentieth-Century French Poetry

    Edited by Roger Cardinal ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Sensibility and Creation (1977) comprises a dozen critical studies by different contributors on a selection of major French poets of the twentieth century. These range from poets of long-established reputation, such as Paul Valéry, Pierre Reverdy, Saint-John Perse and Paul Eluard, to contemporary poets such as Yves Bonnefoy and Jacques Dupin. The guiding theme is that of the characteristic ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Bishop of the Barrio: The Life of Bishop Alphonse Gallegos, OAR

    by John Oldfield, OAR, with a foreword by Bishop Francis A. Quinn and an afterword from Cardinal Roger Mahony ...
    Traces the life of this saintly man who worked with farmworkers throughout California. ... Read more

    $8.70 USD

  • To Reconcile God's People: Our Ministry and Mission

    by Writings of Cardinal Roger Mahony, Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Michael Downey ...
    A collection of writings of Cardinal Roger Mahony that covers a range of topics. What they have in common is a concern for ministry to meet the needs of the local hurch in Los Angeles. He focuses on priestly ministry and identity, and broadens to include attention to the ministry of lay persons, deacons, women, and bishops. ... Read more

    $13.55 USD

  • The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash

    by Roger Cardinal ...
    Paul Nash (1889–1946) has long been admired as one of the outstanding English landscape painters of the 20th century. Nash had a deep affinity for Southern England – his favourite subjects were locations such as the rolling downland near Swanage, the gaunt coastline at Dymchurch, the enigmatic stone circles at Avebury, and the twin hills in Oxfordshire known as the Wittenham Clumps, which became ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Cultures of Collecting

    Edited by Roger Cardinal, John Elsner ...
    Series series Critical Views
    with essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, Jaś Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie.This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also on ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • The Poetics of Space

    by Gaston Bachelard ...
    Translated by Maria Jolas ...
    A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin ClassicsSince its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. This lyrical journey takes as its premise ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems and Other Verse

    by E.H. Blackmore, A. M. Blackmore, Stéphane Mallarmé ...
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    'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly influenced the course of modern poetry - in English as well as in French. In both form and content, ... Read more

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  • Illuminations

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    by Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...
    Translated by Henry Zohn ...
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  • Dix raisons (possibles) à la tristesse de pensée

    by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, George Steiner ...
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  • After Babel

    Aspects of Language and Translation

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