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The Portable Henry James (Penguin Classics)

Henry James wrote with an imperial splendor of fashion, even if his matters have been American innocents or ecu sophisticates, incandescent girls or their energetic suitors. His omniscient eye took within the surfaces of towns, the nuances of speech, gown, and demeanour, and, primarily, the microscopic interactions, hesitancies, betrayals, and self-betrayals which are the real substance of relationships.

Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals

This e-book is a serious advent to Finnegans Wake and its genesis. in addition to providing a survey of serious, scholarly and theoretical ways to Joyce's masterpiece, it analyses intimately the compositional improvement of yes key passages which describe the artist (Shem) and his venture; the river-mother (ALP) and her 'first kiss'; the Oedipal capturing of the common father (HCE) by means of the priestly son (Shaun); and the bewitching and curious daughter (Issy).

Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics

Within the illustrious and richly documented background of yank jazz, no determine has been extra arguable than the jazz critic. Jazz critics could be respected or reviled—often both—but they need to no longer be overlooked. And whereas the culture of jazz has been lined from likely each attitude, no one has ever became the pen again on itself to chronicle the numerous writers who've helped outline how we take heed to and the way we comprehend jazz.

Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859-1920 (Language, Discourse, Society)

Starting with a common definition of Decadence as whilst person components flourish on the price of the entire, Regenia Gagnier - a number one cultural historian of overdue nineteenth-century Britain - exhibits the whole diversity of meanings of individualism on the top of its promise.