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| Foreword | |
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| Inteliectual Craftsmanship | |
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| Nineteen Theses on Literature | |
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| Perplexing Lessons: Is There a Core Tradition in the Humanities? | |
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| American Education Against Itself | |
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| Education: Higher and Lower | |
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| How to Read a Book | |
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| The Spiritual in Art | |
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| How We Think at the Movies | |
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| Life Before Language: Nathalie Sarraute | |
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| Second Thoughts on a Wooden Horse: Michel Foucault | |
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| Art at First Sight | |
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| Radical Skepticism and How We Got Here | |
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| From The Swiss Family Robinson to Narratus Interruptus | |
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| Teaching the Unteachable: Kipling, Proust, Nietzsche and Co. | |
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| The Alibi of Art | |
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| A Critic's Job of Work | |
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| Tracking the Avant-Garde in France | |
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| The Social Institutions of Modern Art | |
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| Manet, the Missing Link | |
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| Unlikely Pen Pals: George Sand and Gustave Flaubert | |
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| Sara Bernhardt, the Sacred Monster | |
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| Yuppies Along the Seine: The Impressionists | |
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| Living by Words: Mallarme | |
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| The Present Place of Futurism | |
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| Early Picasso: Mailer's Version | |
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| Captions or Illustrations?: Braque's Handbook | |
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| The Story of Hans/Jean/Kaspar Arp | |
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| Cocteau, Native Son of Paris | |
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| Confidence Man: Marcel Duchamp | |
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| The Last Cause (An Experimental Play) | |
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| From Aestheticism to Fascism | |
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| America, Africa, and Elsewhere | |
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| An American Roman-Fleuve: The Beulah Quintet | |
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| "The Great American Thing": O'Keefee and Stieglitz | |
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| Candor and Perversion: Man Ray | |
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| Born-Again African: Leopold Senghor | |
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| A Masterpiece from Senegal | |
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| Blank and White: Illuminating Octavio Paz | |
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| Arthur Miller's Account of Himself | |
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| Naipaul on the American South | |
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| A Poet's Stories: W. S. Merwin | |
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| Quantum Tales: Renata Adler | |
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| Scandal and Stereotypes on Broadway: The New Puritanism | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |