Random books from asquonk's library
Waves (New Directions Paperbook) by Bei Dao
The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program And Organizational Structure
Photography of the 20th Century (TASCHEN Icons Series) by Museum Ludwig Cologne
History of Japanese Literature: The Years of Isolation (History of Japanese Literature) by Shuichi Kato
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Paul Celan
Translations from the Chinese, by Tr. Waley Arthur
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise
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About my library The books are just what I'm interested in, really. It started out as mostly poetry and fiction. Five years or so ago I spent a lot of time reading Walter Benjamin, and started becoming interested in philosophy. Nowadays I mostly read labour and economic history.
Some of the books are my wife's.
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You at the library to your private watch list and then you can click on the connect icon (?) and it will take you to a new page, where you can view the latest books added to that library. Hope this helps.
Have fun on your trip to Europe. I forgot to ask you, are you going to visit Shakespeare & Co.?
posted by deandac at 11:51 am (EST) on May 5, 2008
posted by matthing at 3:44 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2007
posted by chaisevide at 6:36 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2007
Applied outside of literature defamiliarity is a great description of how, for example, consumerism works. To me the ipod and microsoft are good examples of it at work.
I am guessing you have read Terry Eagleton, in particular his Literary Theory - An Intorudction? It has a bit about Schklovsky and defamiliarity in the first chapter. But really, I am only interested in the history of the 1900-1930. I was studying a particular work of Japanese literature (Palm-of-the-Hand Stories) that fell into this period.
posted by signature103 at 4:25 pm (EST) on Feb 11, 2007
We also attended the Oakland Museum's exhibit of the Matthews and enjoyed her work a little more than his. The furniture was also very beautiful. J loves the arts & crafts movement.
posted by deandac at 1:03 pm (EST) on Jan 10, 2007
There may be a number of items in my library not specifically marked Zhou (the big jade book by Jessica Rawson, for example), so feel free to poke around and explore all the tags such as Chinese history and Chinese art--if I forget to tag a book Zhou it will at least have one of those two tags.
Is there a particular part of the Zhou you like? Spring and Autumn I find interesting historically but really like the bronze art from the Warring States period.
posted by liao at 4:52 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2006
I enjoyed browsing your catalog. You have a wonderful (and quite eclectic) collection of poetry! There are quite a few volumes I'll be adding to my Library Thing wish list once that promised feature is up and running.
Kind regards and happy reading,
Marie Therese
posted by marietherese at 5:44 pm (EST) on Sep 14, 2006