In 1914, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis--the founders of Vorticism--undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence...
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Author:Jefferson, MargoSummary:Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a...
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Social scientists' autobiographies can yield insight into personal commitments to research agendas and the very project of social science itself. But despite the long history of life writing, sociologists have tended to view the...
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Author:Colombo, John RobertSummary:Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in the country. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary...
- Author:Abós, AlvaroSummary:
Buenos Aires lleva adheridos, como la humedad, la melancolía o el tango, los signos de su vida literaria. Este libro es un registro de esos signos, presentes en el Palermo compadrito de Borges, en el Flores Romántico de Fernández...
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Author:Compton, WaydeSummary:These varied essays explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a. "passing"), the subjectivity of black writers in the unblack Pacific northwest, the failure of urban renewal, black and Asian comedy as a counterweight to...
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Author:Haberman, ArthurSummary:The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style “low, dishonest.” That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After the optimism of the nineteenth...
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