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BEOWULF är det nordliga Europas äldsta bevarade episka diktverk. Den titellösa texten återfinns i en handskrift tillkommen - sannolikt i ett kloster - omkring år 1000. Dess språk är fornengelska, angelsaxiska. Handskriften är ställvis skadad efter...

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"Allt trä murknar. Allt glas spricker. All metall skärvas. All sten förvittrar. Allt förflyktigas. Allt förtonar, allt skingras, allt svinner i det slukande, skylande, svinner i det avgrundsdjupa där allt döljs, förklingar. Allt blir ett, bringas ...

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From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Rome-each a work of art, both a monument to the past-and on how love and loss shape places and spaces. Here we encounter a writer ...

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Derek Jarman's Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love. "For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions." -Derek Jarman Originally released as a feature film in 1993...

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Master sculptor Auguste Rodin's illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame. In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the fa...

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Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author. Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual arts, there is no accessible edition or se...

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Anna Lisa Wärnlöfs klassiska böcker om Pella samlas här för första gången i en volym: Pellas bok, Pellas andra bok, Pella i praktiken och Lennerboms. Boken inleds med ett nyskrivet förord av Paulina Helgeson.

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Arno Schmidt (1914-1979), en av den tyska efterkrigslitteraturens mest udda figurer, var en särling som stakade ut helt egna labyrintiska stigar i det bokliga landskapet. Med sina formexperiment, litterära referenser, skruvade framtidsskildringar ...

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"VAD SÖKER NI? Språk som tecknar rummets tillkomst och upplösning. Språk som tvingar skeenden som hela tiden upphör som hela tiden blir till. (Nattens slut och början.) En fras återkommer. Inte en igenkännbar rytm. Men en inspelning som hela tiden...

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Most known for her bold and darkly painted portraits, Brooks was revolutionary in her feminist renderings of women in resistance. Openly queer, she challenged conceptions of gender and sexuality in her art, which also served as her refuge. While m...

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In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the Im...

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In this exploration of contemporary photography, David Levi Strauss questions the concept that "seeing is believing." Identifying a recent shift in the dominance of photography, Strauss looks at the power of the medium in the age of Photoshop, sma...

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H.D.'s poetry continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of writings introduces H.D.'s compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process. While H.D. is...

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An intimate and unique collection of the work of John Ashbery-a prolific poet and art critic-pairing poetry and art writings with playlists of music from his personal library. This book places poetry by Ashbery (1927-2017), gathered from his later...

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In his introduction to Charles Baudelaire's Salon of 1846, the renowned art historian Michael Fried presents a new take on the French poet and critic's ideas on art, criticism, romanticism, and the paintings of Delacroix. Charles Baudelaire, consi...

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This seminal 1929 surrealist novel by the painter Giorgio de Chirico merges the realms of dream and reality. In the artist's only novel, de Chirico invites the reader into a world where language, time, space, and meaning are fluid, highlighting th...

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The Wallflower Avant-Garde argues for the importance of a strain of modernist formalism based in ekphrasis, the literary imitation of the visual arts. Often associated with a conservative aesthetic of wholeness, permanence, and autonomy, ekphrasti...

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The Wallflower Avant-Garde highlights a strain of formalism visible in both modernist literature and contemporary queer studies, drawing attention to an aesthetic that is as quiet and quirky as it is queer. In studies of Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barn...

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The Wallflower Avant-Garde highlights a strain of formalism visible in both modernist literature and contemporary queer studies, drawing attention to an aesthetic that is as quiet and quirky as it is queer. In studies of Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barn...

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Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority o...

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We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to ...

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We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to ...

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By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it...

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By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it...

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This book by one of the preeminent Virgil scholars of our day is the first comprehensive study of ekphrasis in Virgil's final masterpiece, the Aeneid. Virgil uses ekphrasis-a self-contained aside that generates a pause in the narrative to describe...

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This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture, while advancing that field into the arena of the museum. Turning to contemporary poems about the visual arts that fore...

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Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks. Stephen Ch...

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Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea of the past in the period, specifically how it w...

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