Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
$22.95 Add to cartTimeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism.
In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Stravinsky, Igor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674302435
- Language: English
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
$22.95 Read more“Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.”
One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco was fond of p
—The Atlantic- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 067430246X
- Language: English
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This Craft of Verse
$22.95 Add to cart“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” –Steven Poole, The Guardian
Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries.- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674302451
- Language: English
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The Shape of Content
$22.95 Add to cart“The clearest, most forceful statement on art by an artist of our time that I have read.” –Frank Getlein, New Republic
An illustrated guide to artistic creation from one of the twentieth century’s mo- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Shahn, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674302427
- Language: English
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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
$26.95 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive poli
- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0674298179
- Language: English
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The Origin of Others
$22.95 Add to cartAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belo
- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures #56
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0674976452
- Language: English
