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Bug: A Play
This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-con...
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Femme du Monde: Poems
These are poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliche, fiercely signifying in an age of raging...
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Fire on Water / Porgess and The Abyss
It occurred to me why I was able to forgive the Italians, but never the Germans. Was it because the Italians never slept on mattresses stuffed with...
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Child of a Turbulent Century
Victor Erlich was born in 1914, at the threshold of what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova called "the real twentieth century," in...
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Miss Julie
As all the great dramatists since the Greek tragedians have known, class and gender roles continue to remain the two fundamental determinants of the...
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Style and Time
Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity--the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its...
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The Philosophy of Claude Lefort
From the beginning the French philosopher Claude Lefort has set himself the task of interpreting the political life of modern society-and over time...
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Child of a Turbulent Century
Victor Erlich was born in 1914, at the threshold of what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova called "the real twentieth century," in...
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Addressing Levinas
At a time of great and increasing interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this volume draws readers into what Levinas described as "philosophy...
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The Concise Köchel
It's All Hallows' Eve, and the Motherwell sisters, Lili and Cecile, have invited their musicologist patrons, the Brunswick sisters, to attend...
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The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil
In this elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration, the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the "war on terror" are...
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Heidegger and Plato - Toward Dialogue
For Martin Heidegger the "fall" of philosophy into metaphysics begins with Plato. Thus, the relationship between the two philosophers is...
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Aesthetics of Alienation
This provocative work takes issue with the idea that Socialist Realism was mainly the creation of party leaders and was imposed from above on the...
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Purple Heart and The Infidel: Two Plays
In Purple Heart, Carla, a Vietnam War widow deep in drink and depression, is living with a troubled son and her controlling mother. One day a...
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How to Quiet a Vampire - A Sotie
How to Quiet a Vampire is a study of terror and intellect in the tradition of Joseph Heller and George Steiner. Published to acclaim in 1977, this...
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Re Verse: Essays on Poetry and Poets
David R. Slavitt will tell you that he does not believe in literary criticism so much as in "remarks," which are more portable and, often,...
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Deciding What’s News
25th Anniversary Edition
For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and...
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The Dishwashers
Haplessly determined to have his own miserable authority vindicated, chief dishwasher Dressler presides over the steam-choked basement of an up-scale...
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The Black Seasons
When six-year-old Michal Glowinski first heard the adults around him speak of the ghetto, he understood only that the word was connected with...
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Alliance, Illinois
In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, each of the 222 poems in this...
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Living by Stories
Following on two previous collections--Write It on Your Heart and Nature Power--Talonbooks is pleased to announce the release of this third volume of...
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Requiem for the Living (Vol.36 of the GLAS Series)
"Maybe time in itself does not exist at all, and there exists instead only a spider's web of endless histories and tales tracing patterns in...
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Time Driven
Elaborating the fundamental concept of Trieb, or drive, Freud outlines two basic types of conflict that at once disturb and organize mental life: the...
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