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42) Macbeth
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A team of six eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original--and including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, and introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used--the new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students,...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho?the first woman writer in literary history?were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written on crumbling papyrus or carved on broken pottery buried...
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
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319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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From the epic of Gilgamesh, almost two thousand years BCE, to the modern fantasys of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, authors have created fictional realms that have captivated audiences. Miller has guided a team of writers to unlock the mysteries and meanings of nearly 100 fantastical and awe-inspiring lands. The essays explore the contemporary events and circumstances that influenced each work, and examine how elements...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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xix, 311 pages ; 24 cm
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Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day, the book gives an opinionated, eye-opening overview of 20th century popular music--offering a portrait not just of an era but of a writer wrestling with the American...
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In this mischievous book, a #3 bestseller in France that's racking up press coverage and rights sales around the world, literature professor Bayard contends that in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the book's place in our culture
47) Aja
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
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1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Vivid portrait of the making of Steely Dan's 1977 jazz-rock album Aja. Includes archival footage, newly recorded performances and interviews with Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, producer Gary Katz, songwriter Ian Dury and the session musicians involved in the recording.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 226 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Description
In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit's End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for...
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HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 304 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"Poetry demands more from readers--intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually--than other literary forms. Most of us started out loving poetry because it filled our beloved children's books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But reading poetry doesn't need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Anything Goes stages a grand revue of the musical from the 1920s through the 1970s, narrated in Ethan Mordden's famously witty, scholarly, and conversational style.
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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xiii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits become something more-iconic recordings that not only inspire a generation but also change the direction of music. In Anatomy of 55 More Songs, based on his column for the Wall Street Journal, music journalist and historian Marc Myers tells the story behind fifty-five rock, pop, R&B, country, and soul-gospel hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded...
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"The History of Sketch Comedy will appeal to all kinds of comedy fans as well as fans of Keegan-Michael Key. With epic personal tangents and hilarious asides, their story takes you on an illuminating look at all facets of comedy from the stock characters of commedia del arte in the 16th century, to the rise of vaudeville and burlesque, the golden age of television comedy, the influence of the most well-known comedy schools, and ascension of comedy...
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DK
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations (colour), portraits ; 29 cm
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Go on a musical journey around the world in this children's introduction. Discover the power of music and be inspired by cultures from all over the world with this extensive children's guide. This book is the perfect introduction for young readers to the world of music and celebrates music from every continent! Children can find out how instruments are made and played, and learn about the fascinating lives and achievements of great composers and musicians,...
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