Listening to Reading

Listening to ReadingContends that "experimental" writingfrom Mallarme, Stein, and Cage to contemporary poets of the eighties and ninetiescan teach us much about how we write and read both poetry and criticism. Listening to Reading presents two different kinds of writing about poetry "critical analysis" and "performance" both of which pay particular attention to sound, shape, and the relation of sound shape to meaning. It offers a critical and performative presentation of

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is a canonical documentary on the Holocaust-and in film history

illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere'

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Tells the remarkable story of Charles Dickens' relationship with his sister-in-law

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