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  • Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defence of Poetry by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defence of Poetry

    This timely book focuses on theory's relations to literary art. It argues that the institutionalization of literary theory, particularly in American universities, has led to an intellectual sterility in which the actual power and scope of literature are overlooked. The book demands to be...
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  • Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic

    Once we've terrified ourselves reading Anne Rice or Stephen King, watching Halloween or following the O. J. Simpson trial, we can rely on the comfort of our inner child or Robert Bly's bongos, an angel, or even a crystal. In a brilliant assessment of...
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  • Pocket Hole Joinery by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Pocket Hole Joinery

    A quick and easy way to do more woodworking. Pocket hole joinery techniques simplify woodworking.Forbeginners and master craftsmen, the pocket hole joiner has become a favorite woodworking technique because it is easy to master and the tooling guarantees a strong joint every time. Pocket...
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  • Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy

    In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood. Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don't. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself....
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  • Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference

    In 1969, Mark Edmundson was a typical high school senior in working-class Medford, Massachusetts. He loved football, disdained schoolwork, and seemed headed for a factory job in his hometown--until a maverick philosophy teacher turned his life around. When Frank Lears, a small, nervous man...
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  • The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World

    How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum for cruelty and...
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  • The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll

    "Hilarious, harrowing, and ultimately inspiring.... Truly, there is something arresting and wonderful on every page." -- Michael Pollan "With sentences that sometimes astonish" (Matthew Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft), celebrated cultural critic Mark Edmundson has written a hip and hilarious coming-of-age memoir...
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  • Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud

    When most critics were using Freudian theories to study literature, Mark Edmundson read Freud's writings as literature alongside the works of poets grappling with the heady issues of desire, narcissism, and grief. Towards Reading Freud weighs the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary...
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  • Why Read? by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Why Read?

    -A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 (or so) non-fiction title 2004 In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in...
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  • Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education

    Mark Edmundson's essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives.A renowned professor of English at...
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  • Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why It Matters by Edmundson, Mark
    Mark Edmundson

    Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why It Matters

    From one of America's great professors, author of Why Teach? and Why Read?--an inspiring exploration of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes. Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their...
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