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The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays

By: Joan Acocella

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The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays

By: Joan Acocella

A collection of the New Yorker critic’s finest essays, which examine the books that reveal and record our world. Joan Acocella was “one of our finest cultural critics” (Edward Hirsch), and she had the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it—its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it springs. In her hands, arts criticism was a celebration and an investigation, and her essays pulse with unadulterated enthusiasm. As Kathryn Harrison wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “Hers is a vision that allows art its mystery but not its pretensions, to which she is acutely sensitive. What better instincts could a critic have?” The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays gathers twenty-four essays from the final decade and a half of Acocella’s career, as well as an introduction that frames her simple preoccupations: “life and art.” In agile, inspired prose, she moves from J. R. R. Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf to the life of Richard Pryor, from surveying profanity to untangling the book of Job. Her appetite (and reading list) knew no bounds. This collection is a joy and a revelation, a library in itself, and Acocella is our dream companion among its shelves. Includes 25 black-and-white images

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374608105

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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints

Essays

By: Joan Acocella

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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints

Essays

By: Joan Acocella

Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband’s suicide, dictated the witty and classic How to Cook a Wolf; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints is indispensable reading on the making of art—and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.

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Vintage

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0307275760

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9780307275769

28 Artists & 2 Saints

By: Joan Acocella

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28 Artists & 2 Saints

By: Joan Acocella

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Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism

By: Joan Ross Acocella

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Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism

By: Joan Ross Acocella

Defending Willa Cather against historical and critical distortions, the author argues that Cather's central vision was a tragic vision of the human condition rather than a firm political agenda.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803210469

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28 Artists & 2 Saints

By: Joan Acocella

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By: Joan Acocella

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The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays

By: Joan Acocella

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Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism

By: Joan Ross Acocella

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By: Joan Ross Acocella

Defending Willa Cather against historical and critical distortions, the author argues that Cather's central vision was a tragic vision of the human condition rather than a firm political agenda.

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Mark Morris

By: Joan Ross Acocella

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Mark Morris

By: Joan Ross Acocella

Mark Morris emerged in the 1980s as America's most exciting young choreographer. Two decades later, his position remains unchallenged. Morris was born in Seattle in 1956. His Mark Morris Dance Group began performing in New York in 1980. By the mid-eighties, PBS had aired an hour-long special on him, and his work was being presented by America's foremost ballet companies. Morris's dances are a mix of traditionalism and radicalism. They unabashedly address the great themes--love, grief, loneliness, religion, community--yet they are also lighthearted, irreverent, and scabrous. Joan Acocella's probing portrait is the first book on this brilliant and controversial artist. Written with Morris's cooperation, it describes how he has lived and how he turns life--and music and narrative--into dance. Including 78 photographs, Mark Morris provides an ideal introduction to the life and work of one of America's leading artists.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819567310

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The Dance

A Handbook for the Appreciation of the Choreographic Experience

By: Joan Cass

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The Dance

A Handbook for the Appreciation of the Choreographic Experience

By: Joan Cass

In dance, the choreographer creates, the dancer performs and the viewer observes. This work is a handbook for the viewer. By presenting historical and artistic perspectives of dance, dance events are made more approachable and appreciation for the art form is heightened. The choreographic components of body language, content, structure, music, design and interpretation are included. Also discussed is the development of critical reaction over time. Examples are drawn from Western theatrical dance and worldwide cultural variations. Terms are explained throughout the text, and an extensive bibliography gives sources in print and on tape for further study. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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McFarland

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0786422319

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Mark Morris

By: Joan Ross Acocella

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By: Joan Ross Acocella

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Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology E-Book

By: Daniel M. Albert,Joan W. Miller,Dimitri T. Azar,Barbara A. Blodi

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Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology E-Book

By: Daniel M. Albert,Joan W. Miller,Dimitri T. Azar,Barbara A. Blodi

Inside the 3rd edition of this esteemed masterwork, hundreds of the most distinguished authorities from around the world provide today's best answers to every question that arises in your practice. They deliver in-depth guidance on new diagnostic approaches, operative technique, and treatment option, as well as cogent explanations of every new scientific concept and its clinical importance. With its new streamlined, more user-friendly, full-color format, this 3rd edition makes reference much faster, easier, and more versatile. More than ever, it's the source you need to efficiently and confidently overcome any clinical challenge you may face. Comprehensive, authoritative, and richly illustrated coverage of every scientific and clinical principle in ophthalmology ensures that you will always be able to find the guidance you need to diagnose and manage your patients' ocular problems and meet today's standards of care. Updates include completely new sections on "Refractive Surgery" and "Ethics and Professionalism"... an updated and expanded "Geneitcs" section... an updated "Retina" section featuring OCT imaging and new drug therapies for macular degeneration... and many other important new developments that affect your patient care. A streamlined format and a new, more user-friendly full-color design - with many at-a-glance summary tables, algorithms, boxes, diagrams, and thousands of phenomenal color illustrations - allows you to locate the assistance you need more rapidly than ever.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437721117

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9781437721119

Late Work

A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading

By: Joan Frank

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Late Work

A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading

By: Joan Frank

Useful for writers at any stage of development, Late Work offers a seasoned artist's thinking through the exploration of issues, paradoxes, and crises of faith.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826364209

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9780826364203

"We Met in Paris"

Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

By: Joan E Howard

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"We Met in Paris"

Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

By: Joan E Howard

Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar, however. This work shows Frick as a person of substance in her own right, and paints a portrait of both women that is at once intimate and scrupulously documented. It contains a great deal of new information that will disrupt long-held beliefs about Yourcenar and may even shock some of her scholars and fans.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826274048

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9780826274045

Dictionary of American History

Supplement

By: Robert H. Ferrell,Joan Hoff

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Dictionary of American History

Supplement

By: Robert H. Ferrell,Joan Hoff

In 757 articles, of which 469 are on new topics, this supplement attempts to cover recent monumental changes in American civilization from the impact of foreign affairs, through domestic political events, Supreme Court decisions, medical and scientific discoveries, social changes, popular cultural evolution, and religious developments.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

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0684195798

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9780684195797

Psychology of Adjustment and Human Relationships

By: James F. Calhoun,Joan Ross Acocella

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Psychology of Adjustment and Human Relationships

By: James F. Calhoun,Joan Ross Acocella

Combining the principles of scientific psychology with applications, this text helps your students examine their ways of thinking and behaving. It allows a student to analyze the interaction within self, others, and work. Each section of the test introduces students to the psychological concepts governing behavior, drawing from clinical, social, experimental, developmental, applied, and ecological psychology from empirical foundations. And each section then offers self-change techniques which enable them to apply this information to their own lives. -- from http://books.google.com (Sep. 29, 2011).

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0075577380

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9780075577386

Mark Morris' L'allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato

A Celebration

By: Joan Ross Acocella,Wendy Lesser,Alastair Macaulay

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Mark Morris' L'allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato

A Celebration

By: Joan Ross Acocella,Wendy Lesser,Alastair Macaulay

Celebrates and commemorates this extraordinary artictic achievement. Each of the dance's thirty-two sections in represented by the section of the libretto to which it is set, photographs taken at many live performances and final dress rehearsals over a period of thirteen years, and comments by critics, Morris himself, and his dancers.

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0709069111

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9780709069119

The Art of Joan Brown

By: Karen Tsujimoto,Jacquelynn Baas,Joan Brown,University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum,Oakland Museum of California

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The Art of Joan Brown

By: Karen Tsujimoto,Jacquelynn Baas,Joan Brown,University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum,Oakland Museum of California

Examines the California artist's life and work, offering reproductions of many of her pieces

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Univ of California Press

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0520214692

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9780520214699

Confessions of Joan the Tall

By: Joan Cusack Handler

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Confessions of Joan the Tall

By: Joan Cusack Handler

Freedom and awakening of an adolescent, Bronx bred, Irish Catholic girl

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258

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UPNE

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1933880376

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9781933880372

Conversations with Joan Crawford

By: Roy Newquist,Joan Crawford

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Conversations with Joan Crawford

By: Roy Newquist,Joan Crawford

Interviews with Joan Crawford provide insight into her views on her career, films, four husbands, lovers, leading men, children, and loneliness during her final years

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Berkley Publishing Group

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0425050467

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9780425050460

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