Charles Eliot Norton Lectures – serie
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Six Drawing Lessons
Inbunden, 2014
343 kr
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“A beautiful and necessary book...as brisk as it is insightful.”—Choice South Africa’s most celebrated artist on art, colonialism, and studio practice.Over the last three decades, the visual artist William Kentridge has garnered international acclaim for his work across media including drawing, …
To Save and to Destroy
Writing as an Other
Inbunden, 2025
253 kr
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Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet …
Witness of Poetry
Häftad, 1984
324 kr
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“A classic for our time.”—Saturday ReviewThe Nobel Prize–winning writer on poetry as testimony to the upheavals of the twentieth century.For many years, Polish émigré Czeslaw Milosz’s poetry was relatively unknown outside of Eastern Europe. While his 1953 anticommunist tract The Captive Mind had …
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
Av Umberto Eco
Inbunden, 2025
235 kr
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“Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.” —The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond of pointing out that all writing is narrative. He published his famed debut novel The Name of the Rose …
Space, Time and Architecture
The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition
Häftad, 2008
494 kr
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"The standard work on the development of modern architecture."—Walter Gropius"Giedion’s accomplishment remains unmatched."—José Luis SertSigfried Giedion was an unlikely candidate for the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry at Harvard. Trained as a mechanical engineer and an art historian, …
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Av John Cage
1990
2813 kr
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Without doubt the most influential American composer of the last half century, John Cage has had an enormous impact not only on music but on art, literature, the performing arts, and aesthetic thought in general. His insistent exploration of “nonintention” and his fruitful merging of Western and …
Romantic Generation
Häftad, 1998
308 kr
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“A magnum opus.”—George Steiner, New Yorker“Grippingly, even excitingly, readable.”—Edward Said, London Review of BooksWhat Charles Rosen’s National Book Award–winning The Classical Style did for the music of the Classical period, this volume brilliantly does for the Romantic Era. An exhilarating …
Lessons of the Masters
Häftad, 2005
324 kr
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“Trenchant and moving.”—Robert Boyers, Los Angeles TimesThe inexhaustible man of letters directs his critical gaze at his own profession—teaching.When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of “mastery,” with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal …
Bathers, Bodies, Beauty
The Visceral Eye
Inbunden, 2006
317 kr
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A leading feminist art historian on the nude body, from impressionism to postmodernism.To some viewers, Renoir’s Great Bathers is the very picture of female sensuality and beauty. To others, the sentimentalized, sexualized prettiness of the image embodies a whole tradition of masculine mastery and …
Remembering the Future
Inbunden, 2006
430 kr
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How one of the foremost experimental composers of the twentieth century approaches his métier. Music is never confined to a single moment. Compositions play with our expectations of the future; musical notes are recorded on a page to be revived by future performers; and old compositions are …
Children of the Mire
Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde, New and Enlarged Edition
Av Octavio Paz
Häftad, 1991
362 kr
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“An instant classic.”—Calvin Bedient, New RepublicMexico’s greatest modern poet reflects upon the twilight of modernity.If Octavio Paz was “one of the greatest poets that the Spanish-language world has ever produced,” as Mario Vargas Llosa once said, he was also an astoundingly erudite critic. …
Compelling Image
Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting
Av James Cahill
Inbunden, 1982
2400 kr
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Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award“A book of immense breadth...With its profundity and richness...this book is one no serious student of Chinese art can afford to be without.”—Ellen Johnston Laing, Ars OrientalisThe definitive study of the evolution of Chinese painting during the …
Shape of Content
Av Ben Shahn
Inbunden, 2025
210 kr
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“The clearest, most forceful statement on art by an artist of our time that I have read.” —Frank Getlein, New RepublicAn illustrated guide to artistic creation from one of the twentieth century’s most provocative and expressive painters.Can art be taught? For the celebrated activist-painter Ben …
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Inbunden, 2025
204 kr
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Timeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism.In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a speaker. Invited to deliver the prestigious Norton Lectures, he …
Other Traditions
Av John Ashbery
Inbunden, 2025
235 kr
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“An entertaining and shrewd little book … Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur.” —Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the lesser-known writers who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work.John Ashbery was the …
This Craft of Verse
Av Jorge Luis Borges, Calin-Andrei Mihailescu
Inbunden, 2025
235 kr
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“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” —Steven Poole, The GuardianSix incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries.For more than thirty years, Jorge Luis Borges’s Norton Lectures went unpublished. Recorded at Harvard …
Genesis of Secrecy
On the Interpretation of Narrative
Häftad, 1980
414 kr
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“Brilliant…this book should encourage more literary critics to pick up their Bibles.”—Howard Eiland, Partisan ReviewThe celebrated critic deciphers the cryptic passages and concealed meanings in literature sacred and profane. In a passage from the Gospel of Mark that has spawned more exegetical …
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six nonlectures
Häftad, 1991
362 kr
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“Marvelously unconventional...a credo of intense individualism.”—AtlanticA brilliantly eccentric autobiography from one of the most widely read poets of the twentieth century. “Let me cordially warn you, at the opening of these socalled lectures, that I haven’t the remotest intention of posing as a …
In Defence of the Imagination
Häftad, 1984
362 kr
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“Learned, lucid, fearless, and funny.”—New YorkerA spirited indictment of overinterpretation from the grand dame of English literary criticism.“Minds, like doors and mouths, are made to shut as well as to open,” quips Helen Gardner in her 1979–1980 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. A vigorous and …
Ruin the Sacred Truths
Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
Av Harold Bloom
Häftad, 1991
383 kr
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“[Bloom] is the Satan of criticism...he is heroic even in those passages in which we are permitted to suspect that he may be a charlatan.”—Dennis Donoghue, New York Review of BooksThe most prodigious literary mind of his generation on the transcendent acts of self-creation that define the Western …
Secular Scripture
A Study of the Structure of Romance
Häftad, 1978
414 kr
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“The most sophisticated study of popular culture, considered on a world scale, that we have yet had.”—New RepublicThe acclaimed author of Anatomy of Criticism on the role of romance as a literary genre in Western culture. At a time when literary criticism was dominated by close reading of …
Sincerity and Authenticity
Häftad, 1973
304 kr
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“A powerful diagram of the moral life from Shakespeare to the present...a book crowded with insights.”—Geoffrey Hartman, New York TimesOne of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics traces the idea of the self across five hundred years of Western cultural history.“One cannot both be …
Unanswered Question
Six Talks at Harvard
Häftad, 1981
405 kr
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“A summation of his beliefs about music as he looked into the final quarter of the 20th century...Bernstein’s talks still seem surprisingly fresh. But words were nearly as much Bernstein’s métier as music.”—New York Times Six in-depth lessons on the language of music from the legendary, Grammy …
Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England
Av T. S. Eliot
Häftad, 1986
324 kr
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The elder statesman of literary modernism traces the reciprocal relationship between poet and critic. No individual did more to shape the trajectory of twentieth-century criticism than T. S. Eliot. A self-described “classicist,” his repudiation of the Romantic era’s emphasis on subjectivity and …
Working Space
Av Frank Stella
Häftad, 1986
273 kr
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“A bombshell...this is a book that explodes many received ideas about abstraction...[It] is certainly one of the most remarkable books ever written on the subject. What makes it so remarkable, of course, is that Stella is unquestionably the most celebrated abstract painter of his …
Origin of Others
Inbunden, 2017
259 kr
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“The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison’s accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world.” —Nell Irvin Painter, New RepublicAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, …
Other Traditions
Av John Ashbery
Häftad, 2001
187 kr
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One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading "in order to get started" when writing, poets he turns to as "a poetic jump-start for times when the batteries have run down." Among those whom John Ashbery reads at such times are John …
This Craft of Verse
Av Jorge Luis Borges, Calin-Andrei Mihailescu
Häftad, 2002
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318 kr
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Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinths himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967–1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only …
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Häftad, 1970
438 kr
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One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the …
