John Cage
John Cage
Edge of Irony
Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss...
Unoriginal Genius
In "Unoriginal Genius" Marjorie Perloff explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and eve...
Differentiell poetik
”Nu när det långa 1900-talet är bakom oss och många av våra heliga texter har blivit möjliga att omvärdera, samtidigt som nya texter fyller fältet, är det lägligt att rikta uppmärksamhet mot det som Marcel Duchamp kallade det infratunna.” Så beskriver Marjorie Perloff impulsen till vad hon kallar en differentiell läsning, en läsning som fokuserar (den poetiska) textens minimala materiella skillnader utan att bortse från en större estetisk och sociokulturell kontext. Detta är ett läsmodus som Per
Radical Artifice
This text considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the "Donahue" talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are re...
Futurist Moment
Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating consi...
Frank O'Hara
Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts - poems, journals, essays, and letters - as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perloff presents Frank O'Hara as one of the central poets of the postwar period and an important crit...
Infrathin
The "infrathin" was Marcel Duchamp's playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. "Eat&...
Wittgenstein's Ladder
Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittge...
Unoriginal Genius
What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information - a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, 'originality' begins to tak...
Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound
Sound - one of the central elements of poetry - finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental ...
Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus, Global Edition
Support your students' knowledge of modern microeconomics from theory to practice. Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus, 5th Edition, Global Edition remains the premiere microeconomics text to marry formal theory with robust, thor...
Concrete Poetry
Now available in paperback, Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of concrete poetry in many years. Selective yet wide-ranging, this anthology re-evaluates the movement, singling out its most distinctive and influential w...
Microeconomics, Global Edition
A market-leading text, Microeconomics presents economic theory in the context of real, data-driven examples, and then helps you develop your intuition through hallmark Solved Problems. The text places emphasis on modern theories...
Concrete Poetry
Concrete Poetry: A 21st-century Anthology is the first overview of concrete poetry in many years. Selective yet wide-ranging, this anthology re-evaluates the movement, singling out its most distinctive and influential works. Nancy Perloff, curator...
Pinter and Stoppard
Pinter and Stoppard
Dynamics of Political Communication
The third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the functioning of democracy in an age of partisanship, social media, and ...
Dynamics of News
This new and highly readable textbook by Richard M. Perloff introduces students to the complex world of contemporary news and its theoretical underpinnings, engaging with debates and ethical quandaries. The book takes readers on a concept-guided t...
I Died for Beauty
Dorothy Wrinch, a complicated and ultimately tragic figure, is remembered today for her much publicized feud with Linus Pauling over the shape of proteins, known as "the cyclol controversy." Pauling emerged victorious and is now seen as ...
Night Eaters Vol.3
The final volume of the epic horror graphic novel, from award winning duo of Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda - the creative team behind the New York Times bestselling series Monstress! Milly and Billy will come into the fullness of their powers, and ...
Quasicrystals and Geometry
Quasicrystals and Geometry brings together for the first time the many strands of contemporary research in quasicrystal geometry and weaves them into a coherent whole. The author describes the historical and scientific context of this work, and ca...
Microeconomics: Theory and Applications with Calculus, Global Edition
For courses in microeconomics. Exploring Microeconomics: Formal Theory and Practical Problems Significantly revised and updated with new real-world examples, exercises, and applications, this Fourth Edition of...
Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective
The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare that women's rights to be human rights, and bring gender iss...
Return to Nisa
The story of two women-one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist-this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of a ...
Community-based Learning and Social Movements
The rise of Far Right populism poses major challenges for communities, exacerbating divisions, hate speech and hate crime. This book shows how communities and social justice movements can effectively tackle these issues, working together to mitiga...
