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Publisher
Released by PBS]
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The blues is a seven-part documentary film series exploring the evolution of the blues, featuring rare archival performance footage of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon... et al., also including over 100 newly-filmed performances by contemporary artists such as B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Beck... et al. singing classic blues songs.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the brilliantly witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings, a history of humorfrom fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memesthat tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world. For millennia of human history, the future belonged to the strong. To the parent who could kill the most animals with sticks and to the child who could survive the winter or the...
Author
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Explores the evolution, theories, principles, and practice of comedy, as well as the psychological, philosophical, and even theological underpinnings of humor, coming to the conclusion that (spoiler alert!) Comedy is God"--bn.com.
45) On Bowie
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fans,"--NoveList.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1028
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Dating from 1910 and subtitled ""An attempt to Define Somewhat the Charm of the Pre-Renaissance Literature of Latin Europe"," The Spirit of Romance is one of the key books in Ezra Pound's revaluation of literary tradition.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate the merriest season of the year with award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski's collection of the 100 most popular and beloved holiday songs of all time. 'Tis the season! Break out the eggnog, hang the mistletoe, blast those Christmas songs, and settle down in your favorite armchair with this beautifully illustrated volume exploring well-known and lesser-known behind-the-scenes stories of the 100 most cherished holiday songs...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Professor Weinstein presents eighty-four lectures on the great classics of American literature, showing how such authors as Irving, Poe, Thoreau, Hemingway, and Faulkner bring the past to life, changing as each generation steps forward to interpret it anew.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on twelve American writers--including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Hart Crane--a renowned American literary critic discusses the greatest authors of American literature whose works make up what he calls the American sublime.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With his customary wit, delightfully lucid prose style and wide-ranging knowledge, Clive James explains the difference between the innocuous stuff so prevalent today and a real poem: the latter being a work of unity that insists on being heard entire and threatens never to leave the memory. A committed formalist and an astute commentator, James examines the poems and legacies of a panorama of twentieth-century poets, from Hart Crane to Ezra Pound,...
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