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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography
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Roger Shattuck
An examination of the meaning of moral responsibility in literature and our everyday lives suggests that we live in a violated world that dismisses taboos.
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Mount Analogue
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Rene Daumal, Roger Shattuck (Translator)
A voyage to an unknown island and the ascent of a symbolic mountain serve as the narrative touchstone for this novel of spiritual inquiry. The members of the expedition are knowledge-seeking artists and scholars who slowly begin to grasp the hidden meaning of their journey to Analogue.
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The World I Live in
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Helen Keller, Roger Shattuck (Editor)
Keller's sequel to her autobiography presents a striking word-picture of her reality--an evocative, inspirational, and deeply moving account of an extraordinary woman's keenest impressions.
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Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts
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With "Candor and Perversion", Roger Shattuck has written the most complete assessment of the poxes that threaten our Western literary heritage. With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component, and, faced with an academic world shattered by theory, laments how extra-literary ...
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Proust's Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time
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Roger Shattuck
For many years, Roger Shattuck has been mesmerised by one write. First came "Proust's Binoculars", a short, brilliant study published in 1964. Then came "Marcel Proust", commissioned by Frank Kermode for the Modern Masters series, which won the National Book Ward in 1974. A series of essays, lectures and reviews followed. Now, like Richard Ellmann ...
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Banquet Years
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Roger Shattuck
Portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism.
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The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator), Roger Shattuck (Foreword by)
One of the great literary figures of the modern age, French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) probes the precarious mental and erotic nuances of love, the frail mysteries of time passing and time past in highly original, surprising tales.
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The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron
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The Forbidden Experiment
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Roger Shattuck, Douglas Keith Candland (Designer)
Just before dawn on January 9, 1800, a mysterious creature emerged from a forest in southern France. Although he was human in form and walked upright, his habits were those of a young male animal. He was wearing only a tattered shirt, but did not seem troubled by the cold. Showing no modesty about his nakedness, he ate greedily, seizing roasted ...
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The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature & the Arts
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Roger Shattuck
Essays on art, literature, and culture by the author of the Banguet Years.
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The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic
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Helen Keller, Roger Shattuck (Editor), Dorothy Hermann
THE STORY OF HELEN KELLER, who triumphed over deafness and blindness and became "a symbol of the indomitable human spirit," is now considered one of the "hundred most important books of the twentieth century" (New York Public Library). Yet the astonishing original version, first published in 1903, has been out of print for many years. In this, ...
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Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire
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Guillaume Apollinaire, Roger Shattuck (Translator)
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Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918
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LeRoy C Breunig (Editor), Roger Shattuck (Preface by), Susan Rubin Suleiman (Translator)
Edited by LeRoy C. Breunig. With a new preface by Roger Shattuck.
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Proust's Binoculars: A Study of Memory, Time and Recognition in a la Recherche Du Temps Perdu
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Roger Shattuck
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Marcel Proust
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Innocent Eye
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Roger Shattuck
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Henri Rousseau
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Proust.
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Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire
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Roger Shattuck (Translator)
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Forbiddn Expermnt
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Nights as Day, Days as Night
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Professor Michel Leiris, Richard Sieburth (Translator), Roger Shattuck (Introduction by)
"Nights as Day" is a diary of over 100 short dreams composed over the course of four decades. As the title implies, the texts in this volume pursue an extended pun on the porous demarcation between waking and dreaming. By transcribing the events of his daily life as if they were episodes in an ongoing dream,and by recording his dreams as if they ...
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
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Roger Shattuck
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Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
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Alfred Jarry, Simon Watson Taylor (Translator), Roger Shattuck (Introduction by)
Alfred Jarry's most important, and most influential, novel.
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Occasions
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Paul Valéry, Roger Shattuck, Frederick Brown
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Selected Works of Alfred Jarry: Ubu Cuckolded, Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, ......
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Alfred Jarry, Simon W Taylor (Editor), Roger Shattuck (Editor)
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