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Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
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Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self

Автор: Robinson Marilynne
Серия: The Terry Lectures Series
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought — science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her...
The Deep Zoo
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The Deep Zoo

Автор: Дюкорне Рикки
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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Included in Library Journal’s "25 Key Indie Fiction Titles, Fall 2014-Winter 2015". Within the writer's life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early...
Yonder: Essays
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Yonder: Essays

Автор: Хустведт Сири
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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Sparkling essays on a variety of subjects-literature, art, popular culture, autobiography-by a renowned young American novelist. In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical...
A Plea for Eros: Essays
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A Plea for Eros: Essays

Автор: Хустведт Сири
Язык: английский
Год: 2005
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From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers. Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing, or the novel, Hustvedt's...
Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila
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Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

Автор: Кристева Юлия
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, "Teresa, My Love" follows Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed...
Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo
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Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo

Автор: Maso Carole
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Beauty is Convulsive is a biographical meditation on one of the twentieth century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907–1954). At the age of nineteen, Kahlo's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit...