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Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, ...
Cary WolfeIn Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, ...
Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
Cary WolfeBringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics.
Colorado Keys: A Cary Wolfe Novel Book One
Tom HuckabeeI was happy to be pulled from it by the call. “Cary, this is Paul. How are you doing?” the familiar voice came through the phone. “Paul, how the hell are you?” “I need a favor. Can you get to Aspen?
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Sherry MonahanThe railroad soon reached Cary, and in 1868, Frank saw the opportunity to start a new venture and built a hotel, which served meals and provided accommodations to train passengers. Cary was incorporated in 1871.
What is Posthumanism?
Cary WolfeIn What Is Posthumanism? he carefully distinguishes posthumanism from transhumanism (the biotechnological enhancement of human beings) and narrow definitions of the posthuman as the hoped-for transcendence of materiality.
The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson
Cary WolfeThe main purpose of the book is to demonstrate that any form of individualism that is modelled on the logic and structure of private property will always reproduce the very contradictions and alienations that it set out to criticise and to ...
The High Himalaya
Art Wolfe-- The new book by Art Wolfe, internationally acclaimed nature photographer -- Intimate interviews with world-renowned climbers Ed Viesturs, Doug Scott, and Reinhold Messner -- 160 stunning full-color photographs Art Wolfe has achieved what ...
Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics ...
Cary WolfeUnique in its collation of major theorists rarely considered together, Critical Environments incorporates detailed discussions of the work of Richard Rorty, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Cavell, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Niklas ...
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader
Peter WrightThis new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New ...
Emerson's Transatlantic Romanticism
D. GreenhamArsić, Branka. On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson. Harvard: Harvard UP, 2011. Print. —— and Cary Wolfe eds. ... Cavell, Stanley. The Senses of Walden ( Expanded Edition).San Francisco:North Point,1981. Print. —— In Questofthe Ordinary: ...
The Lost Boy: A Novella
Thomas WolfeGrover Gant, a young boy who died of typhoid fever at the turn of the century, is portrayed through the eyes of family members Thomas Wolfe's The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood.
The Longest Cave
Roger W. Brucker... Gary F. Wischmeyer, Michael A. Wolfe, Douglas Arthur Wolfe, Nancy Wolfe, Thomas Edward Wright, Herbert E., Jr. Wright, Richard F. Wykes, Robert A. Yarnell, Jean Black Yarnell, Richard A. Yasney, Barbara J. Yoder, Diane Kathleen Zeller, ...
The Good Child's River
Thomas WolfeThe work was based loosely on the early life of New York stage and costume designer Aline Bernstein, with whom Wolfe
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas WolfeThis new edition includes an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian. Wolfe's second novel, Of Time and the River, continuing the story of Eugene Gant, is also now available in Penguin Classics.
The Right Stuff
Tom WolfeIt is this, the inner life of the astronauts, that Tom Wolfe describes with his almost uncanny emapthetic powers, that made this book a classic.
Conversations with Tom Wolfe
Dorothy McInnis ScuraGathers interviews with Tom Wolfe from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments
Thomas Wolfe and the Politics of Modernism
Shawn HollidayThis book combats the academic and critical inertia that currently surrounds Wolfe by exploring his complex relationship to modernism.
A Man in Full
Tom WolfeTom Wolfe was the razor sharp chronicler of the 1980s and now boldly turns to dissect greed-obsessed America on the cusp of the millenium.
Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Markus Zusak' The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief.
1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British ...
Cary OwtramAfter being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway Colonel Cary Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps.
Hooking Up
Tom WolfeAlso included in this collection are some of his most classic and enduring pieces of journalism, and 'Ambush at Fort Bragg', his fiercely satirical novella about sting TV. Funny, often savagely so, hard-hitting, wise, Wolfe remains a unique ...
Finding Bix: The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend
Brendan WolfeThis is where Finding Bix begins: in Wolfe's good-faith attempt to get the facts right.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom WolfeLong considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live ...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom WolfeThe Bonfire of the Vanities is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties. This exuberant novel cemented Wolfe's reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age.
My Other Loneliness: Letters of Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein
Preview" That time continues to live, however, in these letters and in the books that both Wolfe and Mrs. Bernstein wrote about their relationship.
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