Books from Yale University Press
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Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature
By James A. W. HeffernanThe one and only occasion on which Proust and Joyce were thus corralled to meet turned out to be hardly a meeting ofminds. Arriving well after midnight and shabbily dressed (he apologized for having no evening clothes), Joyce appeared ...
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Dead Souls
By Nikolai GogolLong out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls.
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The Belgian Essays
By Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Sue Lonoff de Cuevas... lui qui a conduit Israël , esclave racheté à travers le desert , le voit établi dans son Canaan tant désiré ; il voit sa prosperité sous le roi - berger , sa gloire sous le superbe Salomon : Rheoboam vient la hâche à la main et fend ...
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The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell
By Andrew MarvellBut I suppose you spoke figuratively, and by robbing of Orchards, you un- derstood Baldwins-Garden;869 and by Lampooning the Court, you meant three-Crane-Court;870 and you might have enlarged with Bonds Stables871 and the Pall-mall;872 ...
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Lancashire: Liverpool and the Southwest
By Nikolaus Pevsner, Richard Pollard, Joseph SharplesThe PRESBYTERY , of three bays and brick , was a house formerly owned by the Gerards of Garswood New Hall ( see p . ... The interior is small , simple , and drunken as a result of mining subsidence ; nothing is perpendicular .
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Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul
By Richard B. HaysThis book investigates Paul's appropriation of Scripture from a perspective based on recent literary-critical studies of intertextuality."--Amazon.com.
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Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20th Century
By National Gallery of Art, Dorothy M. Kosinski, Henry MooreKassel, Geimany, 1 80 Documenta II exhibition. Kassel. Germany, 25, t8l Documents, 27 Dogon female figure, 55 Dogon Mother Masks. 49, 51 n. 29 Don Giovanni. 212 Drapery or shroud, theme of. 28, 1 45 Druet, Eugene. 292 Duality.
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Painting & the Market in Early Modern Antwerp
By Elizabeth A. HonigI received nothing but kindness at the museums I visited but would like to mention the Louvre , the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm , the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Kassel , the Wallraf - Richartz - Museum in Cologne ...
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Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanization
By Elizabeth Harvey, Professor of Psychology Elizabeth HarveyOn women's agricultural training schools run by the Reifensteiner Verband , see Ortrud Wörner - Heil , Frauenschulen auf dem Lande . Reifensteiner Verband ( 1897–1997 ) ( Kassel , 1997 ) . 87. Änne Sprengel , ' Ländliche Siedlungspflege ...
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Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere
By Erik Ryding, Rebecca PechefskyThe incident took place in October,when Walter was reunited with the Concertgebouw Orchestra,and the work in question was Richard Strauss's Don Juan—a favorite of both Mahler and Walter,and usually a surefire crowd-pleaser.
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Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
By Rebecca Maura LemovThis book is testimony to the fact that Kaplan's vision was datacentric and that he was in his modest way a pioneer of “big data,” although not in the sense of blind aggregation. It can be argued that Lévi-Strauss viewed all of American ...
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Nietzsche's Orphans: Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire
By Rebecca MitchellSimilarly, in response to a survey by a St. Petersburg newspaper regarding the possibility that music could harm its listeners (a query inspired by the Russian premiere of Richard Strauss's Elektra at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1913), ...
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Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus
By Rebecca Ruth GouldSee Claude Lévi-Strauss, La pensée sauvage (Paris: Plon, 1962), which elaborates a literary anthropological methodology kindred to the one pursued in this book. 15. Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (New York: Farrar, ...
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Survivors in Mexico
By Rebecca WestSince we have displeased the gods by conduct which seems to us reasonable , we can perhaps please them by doing what is , according to our standards , unreasonable ; and now we have achieved magic . Levi - Strauss has said that ...
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Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History
By Stephen D. KingCombining historical analysis with current affairs, economist Stephen D. King provides a provocative and engaging account of why globalization is being rejected, what a world ruled by rival states with conflicting aims might look like, and ...
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When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence
By Stephen D. King"It is alarmingly difficult to disagree with Stephen King.
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Finding Common Ground: Governance and Natural Resources in the American West
By Christina M. Cromley, Ronald D. Brunner, Christine H. ColburnQuoted in Lisa Jones, “Howdy, Resort, Westerners Neighbor!Asa Last Start Talking to Each Other,” High Country News28(May13, 1996). 63.PatrickMoore, quoted in John Elvin,“AGreen Activist Changes Colors,” Insight on the News(Oct.14, ...
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Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil
By Jerome CharynThe studio helped her hire ]erry Geisler, movieland's most prominent criminal lawyer, who would defend Cheryl Crane, Lana Turner's teenage daughter, after she stabbed to death Lana's longtime mobster boyfriend, ]ohnny Stompanato.
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Poussin and France: Painting, Humanism, and the Politics of Style
By Todd Olson, Nicolas PoussinYet , even in those patches of systematically repeated brushstrokes , as in the left - hand side of Landscape with Diogenes , the plenitude of those discrete marks is disciplined in order to emphasize above all a sustained practice .
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Imagining Black America
By Michael WayneEugene Genovese notes, “Those who might have formed an elite status group on the plantations constituted only a small minority of the total number of house slaves. Five percent of the total of adult slaves or 20 percent of the total ...