Hi Richard,
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

I'm so excited to see you are a librarian who enjoys Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (and that you have a rare copy of a book I've been looking for). I'm a librarian in New York City, working in Chinatown. Is there any way to get you (or pay for you) to make a copy of Random Possession for me? Let me know. I look forward to looking through your library! :) -Matthew

posted by matthing at 3:44 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2007

I/m happy to see someone else reading Giroux.

posted by chaisevide at 6:36 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2007

Yes, defamiliarization as an expression of literary styling isn't all that exciting. But I think as a description of literature (with modification) it was quite good. The problem is that Schlovsky places art on some pedestal when it really is just another medium of coomunication. So, yes, the "making strange" of something gives it power. But what Schklovsky failed to see was that the defamiliarized work becomes familiar over time and so loses its power. So something new "made strange" must necessarily replace it in order to continue this defamiliarizing project.

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

My introduction to Kertesz was a small book I purchased called On reading. It was about people reading. It definitely peaked my interest in his work, but my favorite photographer is, as cliche as it sounds, Dorothea Lange. Especially after having read The grapes of wrath. Her work just took another dimension.

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

Thanks for your comment. I have some more Zhou books not yet entered because they're in Chinese and that's a pain if I want to get a nice Library of Congress-looking entry for them. But they will go in.

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

Glad to "meet" you too, asquonk! Thank you very much for the recommendation of Tamura Ryuichi. His work was previously unknown to me, but after researching him a bit, I have put his book on my Amazon wish list. (I found this article especially interesting: http://www.alsopreview.com/columns/foley... You may want to read it if you haven't seen it before.)

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