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Last Stops of the Night Journey
Av Milo de Angelis, Susan Stewart
Häftad, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
230 kr
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Glimmering meditations on time, memory, imprisonment, human connection, life and death by the preeminent Italian language poet, Milo De Angelis An arrow hits a grape and carries it through the air, a hand untangles a knot, a voice emerges from a stone to speak about life. In his poems, Milo De …
Ruins Lesson
Meaning and Material in Western Culture
Häftad, 2021
298 kr
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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and …
Poetry's Nature
Four Lectures
Inbunden, 2025
419 kr
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How is poetry a living art? This is the question at the heart of Poetry's Nature. Although it is common to speak of "nature poetry," Stewart contends that the essential nature of poetry is bound up with the natural world: by looking to nature, we can better understand poetry and, in turn, our own …
Columbarium
Häftad, 2005
185 kr
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In Columbarium, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of century forms, or books of one hundred pages, Columbarium expresses the bond between the living and the dead …
Bramble
Inbunden, 2026
229 kr
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A finalist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry, this seventh collection by acclaimed poet Susan Stewart offers a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature. In the biblical book of Judges, the bramble is a figure of destructive leadership, thwarting the lives of trees. In ballads and …
Poetry's Nature
Four Lectures
E-bok, 2025
338 kr
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How is poetry a living art? This is the question at the heart of Poetry''s Nature . Although it is common to speak of "nature poetry," Stewart contends that the essential nature of poetry is bound up with the natural world: by looking to nature, we can better understand poetry and, in turn, our own …
Poetry's Nature
Four Lectures
E-bok, 2025
338 kr
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How is poetry a living art? This is the question at the heart of Poetry''s Nature . Although it is common to speak of "nature poetry," Stewart contends that the essential nature of poetry is bound up with the natural world: by looking to nature, we can better understand poetry and, in turn, our own …
Crimes of Writing
Problems in the Containment of Representation
Inbunden, 1992
3021 kr
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Crimes of Writings examines questions surrounding subjectivity, authenticity, and writing. First, Stewart examines cases of forgery, literary imposture, pornography and graffiti, and the development, from the early eighteenth century onward, of the laws articulating such crimes. Second, she uses …
Crimes of Writing
Problems in the Containment of Representation
E-bok, 1991
1687 kr
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From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this pioneering book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of "crimes of writing"--the …
Poet's Freedom
A Notebook on Making
E-bok, 2011
697 kr
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Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award–winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in The Poet’s Freedom . Through a series of evocative essays, she not …
Poet's Freedom
A Notebook on Making
Häftad, 2011
323 kr
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Why do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? The MacArthur Award-winning poet and critic Susan Stewart ponders these questions in "The Poet's Freedom". Through a series of evocative essays, she …
Forest
Inbunden, 1995
1414 kr
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Susan Stewart plumbs human history in an attempt to articulate the way language, memory, and art join in evoking consciousness. The Forest is about violence and memory: the violence we do to our surroundings and to ourselves; and the propensity of the human mind to exploit and rationalize in its …
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
Häftad, 2002
470 kr
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What is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making experience and suffering understood by others? With Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, Susan Stewart traces the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the …
Columbarium
Inbunden, 2003
274 kr
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Winner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in the category of poetry.In her long-awaited fourth book of poetry, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of …
Columbarium
E-bok, 2005
392 kr
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Winner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in the category of poetry. In her long-awaited fourth book of poetry, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of …
Open Studio
Essays on Art and Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2005
854 kr
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Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range of references, Stewart's fresh and …
Open Studio
Essays on Art and Aesthetics
Häftad, 2005
349 kr
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Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators, art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range of references, Stewart's fresh and …
Red Rover
Häftad, 2011
205 kr
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Red Rover is both the name of a children's game and a formless spirit, a god of release and permission, called upon in the course of that game. The "red rover" is also a thread of desire, and a clue to the forces of love and antipathy that shape our fate. In her most innovative work to date, …
Marriages, Families, and Relationships
Making Choices in a Diverse Society
Av Mary Ann Lamanna, Agnes Riedmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
1249 kr
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Lamanna/Riedmann/Stewart's bestselling MARRIAGES, FAMILIES, AND RELATIONSHIPS: MAKING CHOICES IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 14th edition, emphasizes a theme that is especially relevant in our modern and global world: making choices in a diverse society. Combining various theoretical perspectives with …
Marriages, Families, and Relationships
Making Choices in a Diverse Society
Av Mary Ann Lamanna, Agnes Riedmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1249 kr
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Lamanna/Riedmann/Stewart's bestselling MARRIAGES, FAMILIES, AND RELATIONSHIPS: MAKING CHOICES IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY, 15th Edition, emphasizes making choices in an increasingly diverse society. Combining various theoretical perspectives with current and relevant examples, the text helps students …
Flying Solo
Single Women in Midlife
Av Carol M. Anderson, Susan Stewart
Häftad, 1995
300 kr
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Unmarried at 40—could there be anything worse? Our culture dictates that women who have failed to catch or hold the golden ring of marriage are destined to be deprived and depressed, perhaps even dangerous. Add the burden of age and you have a woman headed for disaster. Not necessarily so, say the …
Democracy Promotion and the 'Colour Revolutions'
Inbunden, 2012
2510 kr
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This book reviews the interplay between domestic contexts and democracy promotion efforts in selected countries of the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans. The idea behind the six case studies is twofold. In the three cases where ‘colour revolutions’ occurred (Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine), the …
Beginner's Reference Guide To Aromatherapy and Herbs
Av Susan Stewart, Vicki Ambrosio
Häftad, 2011
277 kr
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Yellow Stars and Ice
Häftad, 1981
544 kr
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From a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden": Gihon, that compasseth the whole land At the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were surprised by a constellation of drought or endless …
Yellow Stars and Ice
E-bok, 2020
460 kr
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From a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden": Gihon, that compasseth the whole land At the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were surprised by a constellation of drought or endless …
Hive
Poems
Häftad, 2008
364 kr
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The Hive, Susan Stewart’s second collection of poetry, brings together new work into three sections that telescope out from private speech to the public and more deeply historical language of the witness. Recurring poems explore the possibilities of language as ceremony while others are rewritings …
On Longing
Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Häftad, 1992
328 kr
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Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of …
On Longing
Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
E-bok, 1992
506 kr
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Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing , a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of …
Design and the Question of History
Av Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1898 kr
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Design and the Question of History
Av Tony Fry, Clive Dilnot m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
414 kr
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Design and the Question of History is not a work of Design History. Rather, it is a mixture of mediation, advocacy and polemic that takes seriously the directive force of design as an historical actor in and upon the world. Understanding design as a shaper of worlds within which the political, …
