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Studies in Romance Languages eBook Series

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  • Lorca's Poet in New York

    The Fall into Consciousness

    by Betty Jean Craige ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    Written in 1929–1930, when Federico García Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,"a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe"—an an estrangement graphically delineated in the dissonant, violent imagery which the poet derives from the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Lorca's Poet in New York

    The Fall into Consciousness

    by Betty Jean Craige ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    Written in 1929–1930, when Federico García Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,"a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe"—an an estrangement graphically delineated in the dissonant, violent imagery which the poet derives from the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Flash of the Spirit

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  • I Swear I Saw This

    Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own

    by Michael Taussig ...
    I Swear I Saw This records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig’s reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006—as well as its caption, “I swear I saw this”—Taussig considers the fieldwork notebook as a type of modernist literature and the place where writers and other creators first ... Read more

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  • Aztec Thought and Culture

    A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind

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    For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the formulation of complex religious doctrines, systems of education, and diverse political and social organization.The rich documentation concerning ... Read more

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  • The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    A selection of prose by “Portugal’s greatest writer of the twentieth century . . . as addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino” (The Washington Post Book World).Building on the wonderful Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems, which was acclaimed by Booklist as “a beautiful one-volume course in the soul of the twentieth century,” translator Richard Zenith has now edited and translated ... Read more

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  • Packing My Library

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    by Alberto Manguel ...
    A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all librariesIn June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000†‘volume personal library, choosing which ... Read more

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  • The Jaguar that Roams the Mind

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    by Robert Tindall ...
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    by Anaïs Nin ...
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