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Speech act theory has taught us "how to do things with words." Arresting Language turns its attention in the opposite direction―toward the surprising things that language can undo and leave undone. In the eight essays of this volume, arresting lang...

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Excerpt from A Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 of 2: In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, Explained in Their Different Meanings, and Authorized by the Names of the Writers in Whose Works They Are FoundItis not to be doubted...

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Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the t...

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This study suggests that Hugo von Hofmannsthal's early interest in the works of the French Symbolists had an inhibiting effect on his own poetry and contributed to the famous "Chandos crisis" in 1902....

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Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by David Young. Cover art by the author's wife, Gisele Celan-Lestrange. "Celan's English language readers, and readers to come, will be deeply grateful for this new translation of his second book....

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Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic t...

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Song of the Simple Truth (Canción de la verdad sencilla) is the first bilingual edition of Julia de Burgos' complete poems. Numbering more than 200, these poems form a literary landmark—the first time her poems have appeared in a complete edition...

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Excerpt from A Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 of 2: In Which the Words Are Deduced From Their Originals, Explained in Their Different Meanings, and Authorized by the Names of the Writers in Whose Works They Are FoundLamb. [14026, Gothick ...

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In Snowy Tower, Dr. Martin Shaw continues his trilogy of works on the relationship between myth, wilderness, and a culture of wildness. In this second book, he gives a telling of the Grail epic Parzival. Claiming it as a great trickster story of medi...

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Jeanne Lohmann's new poetry collection celebrates the season of harvest, and the approach of year’s end; but the poems are also about the literary harvest of a poet who has garnered respect and admiration for her remarkable use of words. These...

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Excerpt from The Language and Sentiment of FlowersAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten ...

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The Secret Language of Women by A.M. Juster, recipient of the 2002 Richard Wilbur Award, is a remarkably versatile collection of finely crafted poems and translations. Equually adept at satires, lyrics, epigrams and narratives, Juster meticulously cr...

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Poetic Language is a book that has been in the making for almost 18 years. It is a collection of poems about love, family, social issues and the pure passion of poetic expression. This book embodies the very soul and personal conflicts of myself....

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Lyric poetry blossomed in 19th-century Germany under the fertilizing influence of Romanticism with its focus on the primacy of the imagination, worship of nature and childhood, dreaminess and nostalgia and preoccupation with thoughts of night and dea...

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In this land of Milk & Honey, poems flow. Contemporary, Jewish, lesbian poets address an array of experiences relationships between and among women, family relationships, politics, solitude, ethical responsibilities, history, solidarity, and communit...

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“Ok murky in alter all end, unpredictable day, with rainshine any degree night, the sun kin warm and hot. Enough stone or other jugs lineup of whatever is In Through Out That’s light as much as known Differences evanesce Like, where and/or what o...

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Excerpt from Language of FlowersBuckbean Bud of White Rose Bugloss Bulrush Bundle of Reeds, with their Panicles 111 usic. Burdock Inzportunz'ty. Touc/z me not. Buttercup (kingcup) [ngratitude. Clzildislzness. Butterfly Orchis Gaiety. Butterfly Weed...

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Recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jian Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) ranks among the foremost Spanish poets. The early influences of German Romanticism and French Symbolism led Jiménez to the development of his unique voice, and he b...