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    MAD Files, The: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America’s Brain!

    David Mikics

    Celebrate America's zaniest and most subversive magazine in 26 essays and comix from all-star contributors, including Roz Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and Grady Hendrix.

    Before?SNL and the wise-guy sarcasm of Letterman…

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    Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art

    David Mikics

    A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize-winning author turned life into art.

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    Slow Reading in a Hurried Age

    David Mikics

    Reading, David Mikics says, should not be drudgery, and not mere information-gathering or escape either, but a way to live life at a higher pitch. Slow Reading in a Hurried…

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    The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche

    David Mikics

    The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual’s wish…

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    A New Handbook of Literary Terms

    David Mikics

    A guide to words and concepts that students of literature needs to know. It includes definitions that sketch the derivation and history of each term, including explanations of verse forms…

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    Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

    David Mikics

    A biography of Derrida that provides the full-scale appraisal of his career, his influence, and his philosophical roots. It defines his crucial importance as the ambassador of ‘theory’, the phenomenon…

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    Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker

    David Mikics

    Stanley Kubrick revolutionized Hollywood with movies like Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, and electrified audiences with The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. David Mikics takes…

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    The Art of the Sonnet

    Stephanie Burt,David Mikics

    Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. This title collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and…

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    The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon

    Harold Bloom

    America’s foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Walt Whitman to Ralph Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and more.

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    The Annotated Emerson

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Emerson remains one of America’s least understood writers, having spawned neither school nor follower. Those wishing to discover or reacquaint themselves with Emerson’s writings but who have not known where…

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