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Marianne Moore, 1932–1936 Passionate Collaborations PLEASE SEND ME: RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY ELS Passionate Collaborations: A-Quiver with Significance: □ #100: Pied Piper of Lovers ($25) Learning to Live with Gertrude Stein Marianne Moore, 1932–1936 □ #99: Panic Spring ($25) Through Words of Others: Karin Cope Edited and with an Introduction □ #98: A-Quiver with Significance ($22) Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism by Heather Cass White [not for sale in the UK] 2008 Stephen Collis 2008 □ #97: Hölderlin and the Question of the Father ($22) In pursuing Susan Howe’s own writing “through words” of □ #96: We Are Like Fire ($22) her literary predecessors, Collis ranges deep in and beyond By exploring – through □ #95: Through Words of Others ($18) the American archive’s wilderness, catching sight of various phenomenologically □ #94: Identifying the Remains ($18) elusive quarry: Charles Olson and Herman Melville; Emily and psychoanalytically □ #93: Passionate Collaborations ($40) Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe, and inflected lenses – the This book Special Offer: order #98 and receive #93 for $15 extra Margaret Fuller; Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, James role of readerly affects gathers together (no extra for shipping) Clarence Mangan and William Shakespeare. 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Schulze, Pennsylvania State University we have come to suppose it is in ours. P.O. Box 3070 — Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University editor of Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924 Victoria, B.C. V8W 3W1 FOR COPYRIGHT REASONS THIS EDITION IS NOT FOR SALE IN THE UK Canada Pied Piper of Lovers Panic Spring Hölderlin and the Question of the Father We Are Like Fire: Lawrence Durrell Charles Norden [Lawrence Durrell] Jean Laplanche Waiblinger and Hesse on Hölderlin Edited and with an Introduction Edited by James Gifford Introduction by Rainer Nägele Edited and translated by Eric Miller by James Gifford 2008 Introduction by Richard Pine 2008 Edited and translated by Luke Carson 2008 2008 Afterword by James A. Brigham Afterword by James A. Brigham Durrell’s first novel, First published in 1937, “First published in French Friedrich Hölderlin Pied Piper of Lovers, traces two years after Durrell in 1961, Jean Laplanche’s (1770-1843) won the love Walsh Clifton’s Anglo- took up residence on the Hölderlin and the Question and care of his younger Indian childhood and his Greek island Kerkyra, of the Father remains the contemporary, the struggles to negotiate Panic Spring breaks with single most important rebellious writer Wilhelm a life between “mother” the realist tradition in study of the relationship Waiblinger (1804-1830), India and “father” 1930s novels and shows between the poet’s who gave this love England. The trauma of the young author’s first literary production and durable expression in his leaving India for an alien attempts to extend High the profound psychic 1823 novel Phaëthon. This home propels the novel’s Modernist innovations distress to which he story preserves among concerns with colonial in rural and personal eventually succumbed. its pages several of life and its wounds, landscapes. Unavailable By following Lacan’s Hölderlin’s most famous transitioning from an for seven decades, this hypothesis concerning verse fragments from idyllic rural world to new edition of Panic Spring the etiology of psychotic the period when he was London and Bloomsbury shows Durrell’s emerging illness – the theory of the considered mad – a verdict in the 1920s. Pied Piper of passion for Mediterranean foreclosure of the paternal Waiblinger scrupulously Lovers draws keenly from life and the Greek world as signifier – Laplanche is contests in his 1831 essay Durrell’s own life and well as his first attempts able to situate Hölderlin’s “Friedrich Hölderlin’s Life, charts the emotional to articulate a political- poetry at the place where Poetry and Madness.” experiences that would aesthetic direction in modernity the writer Waiblinger in turn drive the rest of his distinct from his peers, is compelled to struggle attracted the astringent career. For
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