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Hardcover:

9781594205750 | Penguin Pr, September 4, 2014, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780143127642 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 2, 2015), cover price $16.00

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Hardcover:

9781620401071 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, August 20, 2013, cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9781620406427 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, August 12, 2014), cover price $16.00

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Product Description: After graduating from college in 1974, Mark Edmundson leaves Vermont to seek his destiny—a quest he knows involves rock and roll and America's high court of mischief and ambition, New York City. Shepherded by a carousing, Marx-quoting friend, he moves into a grungy apartment and embarks on a dream career lugging amps for rock's biggest stars: the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and the Allman Brothers...read more

Hardcover:

9780061713477 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, May 4, 2010), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: "I was at a point of crossing in my life then—a liminal moment, as the anthropologists like to say.

Paperback:

9780061713491 | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 10, 2011), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: After graduating from college in 1974, Mark Edmundson leaves Vermont to seek his destiny—a quest he knows involves rock and roll and America's high court of mischief and ambition, New York City.

Miscellaneous:

9780061998003 | Harpercollins, May 4, 2010, cover price $11.99

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An account of the final two years in the life of Sigmund Freud and their legacy describes how, in 1938, the elderly, ailing, Jewish Freud was rescued from Nazi-occupied Vienna and brought to London, where he finally found acclaim for his achievements, battled terminal cancer, and wrote his most provocative book, Moses and Monotheism.

Hardcover:

9781582345376 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 18, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An account of the final two years in the life of Sigmund Freud and their legacy describes how, in 1938, the elderly, ailing, Jewish Freud was rescued from Nazi-occupied Vienna and brought to London, where he finally found acclaim for his achievements, battled terminal cancer, and wrote his most provocative book, Moses and Monotheism.

Paperback:

9781596914308 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 16, 2008), cover price $16.00

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In this book Mark Edmundson reverses the usual practice of using Freud to analyze literary texts. Instead, he reads Freud by analogy with major imaginative writers for whom the figuring and refiguring of the self is a central activity. His readings expose a dialectic between the therapeutic Freud and Freud the sublime author and challenge the normative role of psychoanalysis both in society and in literary criticism. Edmundson begins by comparing the Oedipal passage in The Interpretation of Dreams with works of Sophocles and Shakespeare. He reads Freud's "On Narcissism" through the lens of Eve's Narcissus scene in Paradise Lost; considers the papers on therapeutic technique against Wordsworth's Prelude and major lyrics; and places the ethos of "Mourning and Melancholia" in contrast to the American "refusal to mourn" that informs Emerson's essays. The readings show that even as Freud is representing general human limits, he is frequently reinventing himself symbolically in ways that defy his own normative standards. Edmundson asks, then, whether Freud's self-creating drive, or that exemplified by any of the "literary" authors in the study, can serve as an example of useful resistance against the tendencies that normative psychoanalysis reinforces within society.

Hardcover:

9780691068688 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: In this book Mark Edmundson reverses the usual practice of using Freud to analyze literary texts.

Paperback:

9780226184616 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $23.00

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Traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which, with the help of Marie Bonaparte, he was at last rescued from Vienna and brought safely to London, where he was honoured and feted as he ever had been during his long, controversial life.

Hardcover:

9780747586074 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, August 6, 2007, cover price $33.70 | About this edition: Traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which, with the help of Marie Bonaparte, he was at last rescued from Vienna and brought safely to London, where he was honoured and feted as he ever had been during his long, controversial life.

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A scholar and author of Teacher: The One Who Made a Difference argues that questions about the uses of literature are essential to a literary education and that reading not for only training and education, but also for pleasure, can change students' lives for the better. Reprint.

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9781582346083 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 5, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Argues that questions about the uses of literature are essential to a literary education and that reading not for only training and education, but also for pleasure, can change students' lives for the better.

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A scholar and author of Teacher: The One Who Made a Difference argues that questions about the uses of literature are essential to a literary education and that reading not for only training and education, but also for pleasure, can change students' lives for the better. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781582344256 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 20, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Argues that questions about the uses of literature are essential to a literary education and that reading not for only training and education, but also for pleasure, can change students' lives for the better.

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An award-winning scholar celebrates the role of one aloof but exceptional high-school teacher in transforming his life in a tough, working-class town near Boston, describing how educator Frank Lears's unconventional approach to teaching turned his life--and his school--upside down. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780375504075 | Random House Inc, August 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: An award-winning scholar celebrates the role of one aloof but exceptional high-school teacher in transforming his life in a tough, working-class town near Boston.

Paperback:

9780375708541 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An award-winning scholar celebrates the role of one aloof but exceptional high-school teacher in transforming his life in a tough, working-class town near Boston, describing how educator Frank Lears's unconventional approach to teaching turned his life--and his school--upside down.

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Product Description: Once we've terrified ourselves reading Anne Rice or Stephen King, watching Halloween or following the O. J. Simpson trial, we can rely on the comfort of our inner child or Robert Bly's bongos, an angel, or even a crystal. In a brilliant assessment of American culture on the eve of the millennium, Mark Edmundson asks why we're determined to be haunted, courting the Gothic at every turn--and, at the same time, committed to escape through any new scheme for ready-made transcendence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780674874848 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Once we've terrified ourselves reading Anne Rice or Stephen King, watching Halloween or following the O.

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Product Description: This timely book focuses on theory's relations to literary art. It argues that the institutionalization of literary theory, particularly in American universities, has led to an intellectual sterility in which the actual power and scope of literature are overlooked...read more

Hardcover:

9780521410939 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This timely book focuses on theory's relations to literary art.

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Product Description: In recent years, liberal education has come under attack by such figures as Allan Bloom, Dinesh D'Souza, David Lehman, and others, who have criticized the growing radicalization of the American university. Now, some of the most distinguished, controversial, and articulate members of the academic profession address the broader educational issues at stake...read more
By Mark Edmundson (editor)

Paperback:

9780140170788 | Penguin USA, February 1, 1993, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In recent years, liberal education has come under attack by such figures as Allan Bloom, Dinesh D'Souza, David Lehman, and others, who have criticized the growing radicalization of the American university.

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