Jacob Siefring Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Alice in Wonderland
Lewis CarrollJacob SiefringIn 1945 Aldous Huxley was commissioned by Walt Disney to write a script based on Alice in Wonderland and the life of Lewis Carroll. I suppose it exists somewhere?!
Hardcover, 2018
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Walter Benn MichaelsJacob Siefring@KarlSteel in « The Trouble with Diversity » Walter Benn Michaels makes the point that the reason we should defend our culture isn’t because it’s superior to another, but because it’s *Ours*. it’s an important distinction I think.
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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
Mike JayJacob SiefringAt the Public Domain Review, an excerpt from Mike Jay’s new book ‘Psychonauts’— here, on Jean Lorrain, Maupassant, & the adoption of chloroform & ether in fin-de-siècle France. https://t.co/PsyNFJhYmd
Hardcover, 2023
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Melville: The Making of the Poet
Hershel ParkerJacob Siefringi won’t be seeking out Hershel Parker’s “Kraken edition” of Melville’s PIERRE, but I enjoyed a quick glance at Maurice Sendak’s lascivious illustrations appearing therein https://t.co/p48xAl9BpH
Hardcover, 2008
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Finnegans Wakes: Tales of Translation
Patrick O'NeillJacob Siefringa nice writeup by @MAOrthofer of “Finnegans Wakes” by Patrick O'Neill—a scholarly survey & discussion of the 16 extant translations of FW https://t.co/AyllCbZ5Ls
Hardcover, 2022
$80.00$55.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Gebir
Walter Savage LandorJacob SiefringA 10pp introduction to Walter Savage Landor’s early epic poems, 1795–1803 (Gebir, Crysaor, & The Phocæans). https://t.co/uQ52d1mva1 https://t.co/0GJs1u9zQg
Paperback, 2015
$14.90$7.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
Marshall BermanJacob Siefring@bleakhousing don’t think anyone’s mentioned Marshall Berman’s “All That Is Solid Melts Into Air”—quite good
Paperback, 1988
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Lewis CarrollJacob SiefringIn 1945 Aldous Huxley was commissioned by Walt Disney to write a script based on Alice in Wonderland and the life of Lewis Carroll. I suppose it exists somewhere?!
Paperback, 2015
$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910
Herbert F. TuckerJacob Siefring@ecourtem I enjoyed what Herbert Tucker had to say abt « Sordello » in his book EPIC (2008), a monumental survey of British epic poetry in C19
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Works
James ThomsonJacob SiefringJoin us this Friday, as we discuss the lives & works of James Thomson & Tankersley Young. Topics addressed: difficulties of biographical research; reputation vs. reality; difficulties of making, & preserving, a poetic legacy. https://t.co/cxAGIx6Nab
Hardcover, 2016
$33.95$16.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book