Francesca Lia Block

Another beautifully magical coming of age tale from the master of the genre Francesca Lia Block. Walks the delicate balance beam between magic and modernism as always with perfection. 
Excellent condition, read once, typical shelf wear. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Jealous of her perfect mother and ignored by her artist father, Echo seeks attention and healing from a variety of people living in beautiful Los Angeles. Reprint.

Echo

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Knut Hamsun

George Egerton

Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading 

Iowa

Hunger

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Music, Fashion, and Modernism

Explores the relationship between music and fashion, charting the importance of these arts to the rise of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on the emergence of the movement known as Neoclassicism, this book demonstrates the importance of the linked endeavors of composition and couture to modernist thought.

Classic Chic

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#intellectualhistory #modernism #historical

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Alabama

Politics and Culture

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.

"Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."
-- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review

"Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument."
-- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic

"A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review

"Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books

"A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing."
-- Newsweek

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

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Unread copy of a wide ranging look at this author’s life and work. #gulfcoast #womenspoetry #modernism

Pennsylvania

On the Life and Work of an American Master

Poetry. Women's Studies. "Crapsey's selected poetry reads as the lost ligament between the essaying narratives of the nineteenth century and the spare, imagist experiments of the twentieth. Like Rilke, she belonged to neither world, though she mapped her poetic lineage back to the Romantics, specifically the doomed, dark February of John Keats in Rome. As the likes of Carl Sandburg praised her, she innovated forms based on Japanese haiku and tanka while Pound conjured up his metro apparitions. She is no voice of the old world nor the new."--David Keplinger




"Adelaide Crapsey was a visionary poet whose innovative approaches to form laid the groundwork for modernist poetics. Her 5-line cinquains bristle, breathlessly compressed, wriggling and alive. Though her spare, evocative, poems paved the way for the imagists, her work is also undeniably fresh and strange and contemporary, as when she addresses her failing lung, calling it a "freak I cannot pardon." In this Unsung Masters anthology, Crapsey--a vital, game-changing poet--finally takes her place in literary history."--Hadara Bar-Nadav




"It is high time contemporary literary scholars attended to the poetic voice of Adelaide Crapsey, a neglected New York literary treasure, whose verse at once illuminates and complicates the spirit of the fin de siècle and modernist literary movements in America. Molberg and Bancroft have compiled a collection of Crapsey's work poised to advance our understanding of the female experience of pain, loss, and courage in America. What an appropriate moment to reintroduce Crapsey, given our overdue contemporary evolution, wherein the world is--we hope--finally learning what it means to listen to, hear, and even value the unique female experience."--Ashley E. Reis

Adelaide Crapsey

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#paperback #fiction #dashiellhammett #detective #detectivestories #mysteries #mystery #pulpfiction #literature #modernism 

California

When a hard-fighting detective arrives in Personville and finds that his client has been murdered, he decides to investigate local gangland activities

Red Harvest

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#paperback #postmodern #modernism 189 pages, very tiny book in comparison to a normal paperback novel 

Arizona

A Graphic Guide

Explains the idea of postmodernism in graphic novel format, a concept that has been used to define the cultural condition of the world.

Introducing Postmodernism

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Virginia Woolf

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.

As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.

Washington

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions. To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.

To the Lighthouse

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#paperback #art #modernism #coffeetable #colorplates #picasso #muesum #modernart

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Earl Horter and His Collection

Mad for Modernism

Bob Brown

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

In 1930, Bob Brown predicted that the printed book was bound for obsolescence. The time has come, he insisted, "to rid the reader of the cumbersome book." He invented a machine that would allow one to read books and any text extremely fast and in a hyper-abbreviated form. He called these abbreviated texts, with em-dashes replacing words, "readies." He envisioned sending the condensed texts through wireless networks. The Readies, describes these eponymously named abbreviated texts and his plans for a reading machine, but since he printed only 150 copies, the volume is practically unknown outside of a small circle of scholars. With this new edition, Craig Saper hopes to introduce Bob Brown's Roving Eye Press books to a new generation of readers.

The Readies

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Thornton Wilder

Bought used, so once loved before me. A great read for modernist lovers!

A Play

A timeless statement about human foibles...and human endurance, The Skin of Our Teeth is Thornton Wilder's brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning play, with an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder.

Time magazine called The Skin of Our Teeth "a sort of Hellzapoppin' with brains," as it broke from established theatrical conventions and walked off with the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama.

Combining farce, burlesque, and satire (among other styles), Thornton Wilder departs from his studied use of nostalgia and sentiment in Our Town to have an Eternal Family narrowly escape one disaster after another, from ancient times to the present. Meet George and Maggie Antrobus (married only 5,000 years); their two children, Gladys and Henry (perfect in every way!); and their maid, Sabina (the ageless vamp) as they overcome ice, flood, and war--by the skin of their teeth.

Witty, clever, and provocative, The Skin of Our Teeth showcases Wilder's storytelling genius and his extraordinary talents at delving deep into the human psyche.

The Skin of Our Teeth

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Trade paperback, some cover wear. Has pen underlineing / scribbles throughout.  In good shape otherwise.

Michigan

First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression." As influential as his verse, T.S. Eliot's criticism also exerted a transformative effect on twentieth-century letter, and this new edition of The Waste Land and Other Writings includes a selection of Eliot's most important essays. In her new Introduction, Mary Karr dispels some of the myths of the great poem's inaccessibility and sheds fresh light on the ways in which "The Waste Land" illuminates contemporary experience. From the Hardcover edition.

The Waste Land and Other Writings

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#paperback #arttheory #artanddesign #artschool #artcriticism #visualart #modernism #anthology

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

A Source Book by Artists and Critics

Gathers interviews, articles, letters, and manifestos dealing with Postimpressionism, symbolism, fauvism, Expressionism, and cubism

Theories of Modern Art

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Rebecca Walsh

Georgia

Rebecca Walsh connects a range of American modernist poets to the work of well known American geographers such as Ellsworth Huntington and Ellen Churchill Semple, as well as to the National Geographic magazine. This book considers the role of academic and popular forms of geography in shaping the experimental poetic modernism of Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, and H.D.

The Geopoetics of Modernism

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Louisiana

JAMES JOYCE A Portrait Of the Artist As a Young Man 1975 Vintage PB Viking Press

Hart Crane

Vintage copy, no writing/highlighting on pages. 
Mild shelf wear on covers. Spine is strong and intact. I purchased this book for a college course in American Poetry. 

Begun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity."

The Bridge

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Jonathan Phillips

Literary Movement: Modernism
ISBN: 9781400065806
Book Title: Holy Warriors : a Modern History of the Crusades
Author: Jonathan Phillips
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2010
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Genre: Religion, History
Topic: Christian Church / History, Military / General, Middle East / General, Europe / Medieval
Item Length: 9.6in.
Item Height: 1.2in.
Item Width: 6.3in.
Item Weight: 27.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 464 Pages

Missouri

A Modern History of the Crusades

From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players--knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes--from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today's wars. Starting with Pope Urban II's emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by the First Crusade, Phillips traces the centuries-long conflict between two of the world's great faiths. Using songs, sermons, narratives, and letters of the period, he reveals how the success of the First Crusade inspired generations of kings to campaign for their own vainglory and set down a marker for the knights of Europe, men who increasingly blurred the boundaries between chivalry and crusading. In the Muslim world, early attempts to call a jihad fell upon deaf ears until the charisma of the Sultan Saladin brought the struggle to a climax. Yet the story that emerges has other dimensions--as never before, Phillips incorporates the holy wars within the story of medieval Christendom and Islam and shines new light on many truces, alliances, and diplomatic efforts that have been forgotten over the centuries. Holy Warriors also discusses how the term "crusade" survived into the modern era and how its redefinition through romantic literature and the drive for colonial empires during the nineteenth century gave it an energy and a resonance that persisted down to the alliance between Franco and the Church during the Spanish Civil War and right up to George W. Bush's pious "war on terror." Elegantly written, compulsively readable, and full of stunning new portraits of unforgettable real-life figures--from Richard the Lionhearted to Melisende, the formidable crusader queen of Jerusalem--Holy Warriors is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval Europe, as well as for those seeking to understand the history of religious conflict.

Holy Warriors

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Cynthia Saltzman

The story of one of vanGogh’s most famous paintings 

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At a star-studded auction in 1990, a painting was sold for the record-breaking price of $82.5 million. That painting, Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, has seemed to countless admirers to portray our times as "something bright in spite of its inevitable griefs." This fascinating book reconstructs the painting's journey and becomes a rich story of modernist art and the forces behind the art market. Masterfully evoked are the lives of the thirteen extraordinary people who owned the painting and shaped its history: avant-garde European collectors, pioneering dealers in Paris and Berlin, a brilliant medievalist who acquired it for one of Germany's great museums, and a member of the Nazi elite who sold it after it had been confiscated as a work of "degenerate art." Remarkable and riveting, The Portrait of Dr. Gachet illuminates, in dramatic detail, the dynamics of the art market and of culture in our time.

The Portrait of Dr. Gachet

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#hardcover #art #modernism #theory #culture 

Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, as well as their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. By treating artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists "as if they were all members of a loosely constituted and quarrelsome political party,” he creates a vastly entertaining framework in which to unravel the mysteries of the "postmodern condition” from the politicizing of museum culture to the cult of the politically correct.

 

Postmodernism

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David Damrosch

Haruo Shirane

Jane Tylus

Pauline Yu

Page DuBois

April Alliston

Marshall Brown

Sabry Hafez

Ursula K. Heise

Djelal Kadir

David L. Pike

Sheldon Pollock

Bruce Robbins

￼The Longman Anthology Presents a fresh and diverse range of the worlds great literature distinguish team of editors has developed engaging introductions, informative notes and glosses, scores of maps And illustrations and a wealth of supporting material to illuminate the works included here and connect them across regions and periods.
This is a “Boxed Review Copy”
 #literature #WorldLiterature #Anthology #fiction #JamesJoyce #FranzKafka #SamuelBeckett #indigenousculture #modernism #poetry

Twentieth Century

This volume samples a broad range of literature from the ancient world. It offers extensive selections from The Bible, The Book of Songs, The Mahabharata, The Ramayana, and Virgil's Aenid, as well as seven longer works in their entirety, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey .

The Longman Anthology of World Literature

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Some slight signs of wear (aging paper), but otherwise in excellent condition. 

North Carolina

English

Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism

Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours--is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise. Five Faces of Modernity attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as classicism, baroque, romanticism, realism, or symbolism and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity.

Five Faces of Modernity

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New Jersey

The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" ("The Literary Review of Canada"), Rites of Spring""is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins.
Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and the aftermath of World War I--from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet "Le Sacre du Printemps "in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point...for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places." In this extraordinary book, Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, and such events as Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the publication of the first modern bestseller, All Quiet on the Western Front. Rites of Spring""is a remarkable and rare work, a cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past and toward our future.

Rites of Spring

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David Ayers

Mississippi

A Short Introduction

This short introduction to Modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature.

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 * Provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary Modernism.
   
 * Covers both established works and those that have only recently come to critical attention.
   
 * Includes detailed discussion of major authors, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens and H.D.

Modernism

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Good Condition paperback with one exception: creased front cover - please see included photos.

#thedemiseofinhuman #afrocentricity #modernism #postmodernism

Afrocentricity, Modernism, and Postmodernism

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.



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Francesca Lia Block

Echo

Knut Hamsun; George Egerton

Hunger

Mary E. Davis

Classic Chic

Carl E. Schorske

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

Jenny Molberg (Editor); Christian Bancroft (Editor)

Adelaide Crapsey

Dashiell Hammett