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The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous(...)
Clairvoyant of the small: life of Robert Walser
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The great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser lived eccentrically on the fringes of society, shocking his Berlin friends by enrolling in butler school and later developing an urban-nomad lifestyle in the Swiss capital, Bern, before checking himself into a psychiatric clinic. A connoisseur of power differentials, his pronounced interest in everything inconspicuous and modest — social outcasts and artists as well as the impoverished, marginalized, and forgotten — prompted W. G. Sebald to dub him 'a clairvoyant of the small.' He was long believed an outsider by conviction, but Susan Bernofsky presents a more nuanced view in this biography. Setting Walser in the context of early twentieth century European history, she provides illuminating analysis of his extraordinary life and work.
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The craft of poetry
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How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms—all through her own original verse. Each poem exemplifies an aspect of poetic craft—but read together they suggest how poetry can evoke a whole community and its way of life in myriad ways.
The craft of poetry
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How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms—all through her own original verse. Each poem exemplifies an aspect of poetic craft—but read together they suggest how poetry can evoke a whole community and its way of life in myriad ways.
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The masterplan : a novel
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When asked to design the capital of a young African republic, Rodrigo Tomás sees the opportunity of a lifetime. Eager to outshine his famous father he accepts, but he soon discovers that not all is what it seems… Chronicling the trajectory of an architect craving recognition, 'The Masterplan' delivers a fictional reconstruction of an architectural dream blown to dust by(...)
The masterplan : a novel
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When asked to design the capital of a young African republic, Rodrigo Tomás sees the opportunity of a lifetime. Eager to outshine his famous father he accepts, but he soon discovers that not all is what it seems… Chronicling the trajectory of an architect craving recognition, 'The Masterplan' delivers a fictional reconstruction of an architectural dream blown to dust by bigger forces. A personal story comes to reveal a larger story – of an emerging nation’s struggle with colonial residue, the growing Chinese influence in Africa and the fraught workings of a global real estate market.
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Le 6 avril 1909, l’exporateur blanc Robert Peary a conduit une expédition qui, pour la première fois, a atteint le pôle Nord en traîneau à chiens. Dès son retour, il suscite la polémique avec Frederick Cook, un autre explorateur qui, lui aussi affirmait avoir atteint le pôle nord, le 21 avril 1908. La controverse sera tranchée par le congrès des États-Unis, qui fait(...)
Journal d’un explorateur noir au pôle Nord
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Le 6 avril 1909, l’exporateur blanc Robert Peary a conduit une expédition qui, pour la première fois, a atteint le pôle Nord en traîneau à chiens. Dès son retour, il suscite la polémique avec Frederick Cook, un autre explorateur qui, lui aussi affirmait avoir atteint le pôle nord, le 21 avril 1908. La controverse sera tranchée par le congrès des États-Unis, qui fait officiellement de Peary le premier vainqueur du pôle Nord. Mais l’histoire est tout autre, car ni Cook, ni Peary ne furent les premiers à fouler le sol du « toit du monde ». Matthew Henson est né en 1866 dans l’état du Maryland et décède en 1955 à New York. Fils d’esclaves, après avoir passé plusieurs années à Baltimore, une ville « noire », il fut l’accompagnateur de Peary lors de sept expéditions dans l’Arctique, y compris lors de l’expédition de 1908-1909 qui a atteint le pôle Nord géographique le 6 avril 1909. Après bien des débats, il a été établi que Matthew Henson a bel et bien été le premier homme à atteindre le pôle Nord en 1909. Il faudra attendre 1988 pour que Henson soit officiellement reconnu comme étant le premier à avoir atteint le toit du monde, et l’année 2000 pour qu’il soit récipiendaire de la médaille Hubbard, décernée à titre posthume, une récompense remise par la National Geographic Society pour des distinctions dans les domaines de l’exploration, de la découverte et de la recherche. Pourquoi cette reconnaissance tardive? Pourquoi, pendant longtemps, Peary reçut seul tous les honneurs, alors que la présence de Matthew fut occultée (quand il est cité, il est réduit à n’être qu’un porteur)? Pourquoi Peary, à son retour du pôle Nord, fut nommé à des postes prestigieux, alors qu’Henson devint gardien de parking? Parce que Henson était noir, et les préjugés racistes de l’époque firent douter qu’un Afro-Américain ait pu vivre dans le froid polaire…
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Suppose a sentence
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In ''Suppose a sentence,'' Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called ''a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,'' has written a sequel of sorts to ''Essayism,'' turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan(...)
Suppose a sentence
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In ''Suppose a sentence,'' Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called ''a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,'' has written a sequel of sorts to ''Essayism,'' turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion—this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, ''Suppose a sentence'' is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social(...)
Wapke
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'Wapke' – « demain » en langue atikamekw – est le premier recueil de nouvelles d'anticipation autochtone publié au Québec. Quatorze auteurs de nations et d'horizons multiples se projettent dans l'avenir par le biais de la fiction, abordant des thèmes sociaux, politiques et environnementaux d'actualité. Sous la direction de Michel Jean, 'Wapke' offre un commentaire social souvent saisissant où se dessine l'espoir d'un changement.
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''The disassembled dictionary'' is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. ''Non-territorial'' consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun,(...)
Disassembled dictionary: “Non-territorial”
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''The disassembled dictionary'' is a growing series of books that each, in various ways, discusses a particular word. ''Non-territorial'' consists of texts by Yoko Andersson Yamano, Rachel Armstrong, Ylva Björnberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Jörg Heiser, Rolf Hughes, Ronald Jones, Lundahl & Seitl, Petra Malm, Aldy Milliken, David Neuman, Aleksander Perski, Tessa Praun, Theodor Ringborg, Robert Stasinski and Alessandra Di Pisa, and Liv Stoltz.
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels,(...)
Canon/Archive: Studies in quantative formalism
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For the past seven years, the Stanford Literary Lab, founded by Franco Moretti and Matthew Jockers, has been a leading site of literary scholarship aided by computers and algorithmic methods. This landmark volume gathers the collective research of the group and its most remarkable experiments. From seemingly ineffable matters such as the "loudness" of thousands of novels, the geographic distribution of emotions, the nature of a sentence and a paragraph, and the evolution of bureaucratic doublespeak, descriptions emerge. The Stanford Literary Lab lets the computers provide new insights for questions from the deep tradition of two centuries of literary inquiry. Rather than, like the rest of us, letting the computers lead. The results are adventurous, witty, challenging, profound. The old questions can finally get new answers—as the prelude to new big questions. "Canon/Archive" is the fulfillment and further development of "distant reading," adding a rare, full-length monument to the piecemeal progress of the digital humanities. No student, teacher, or inquisitive reader of literature will want to be without this book—just as no one interested in the new data-attentive methods in history, criticism, and the social sciences can afford to evade its summons.
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust(...)
The flowers of evil / Les fleurs du mal
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On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.
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Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to(...)
Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
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