The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination 1590300068, 9781590300060

Massage and the Writer: Essays on Asian Massage

A "fascinating portrait" (Kirkus Reviews) of the world's first philosopher of massage. There is no more s

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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 9780300252972

"A feminist classic."—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review “A pivotal book, one of those after which

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The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays 9780231512510

More than three hundred years before the advent of psychoanalysis, Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) embarked on a remarka

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The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind 9780674060944

We began as savages, and savagery has served us well—it got us where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in pl

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The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audience and Interpretation [Course Book ed.] 9781400857111

A reader may be in" a text as a character is in a novel, but also as one is in a train of thought--both possessing

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Once upon a Time in the West: Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination 9780228018292

Essential reading for end times from one of Canada’s most original thinkers. Western civilization is over. So begins J

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The Aryeh Kaplan Reader: The Gift He Left Behind : Collected Essays on Jewish Themes from the Noted Writer and Thinker (Artscroll Mesorah Series) [1st ed.] 0899061737, 9780899061733

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The Power in the Writer: Collected Essays on Culture, Democracy and Development in Africa [1 ed.] 9789956717965, 9789956558377

The book examines the creative industries of Cameroon and Africa and makes bold the cultural triumphant assertion that A

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The necessary angel: essays on reality and the imagination [Unabridged] 9780307790668, 0307790665

In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of

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Embracing Mind: The Zen Talks of Kobun Chino Otogawa 9780998537412

Kobun Chino Otogawa was an instrumental figure in the transmission of Zen to America and it's evolution within our

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