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Showing 1 - 12 of 14 results for “mark edmundson”
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  • Why Read?

    The Uses and Abuses of Literature for Life

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and inspiring, this is a groundbreaking book written with the elegance and power to change the way we teach and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll

    A Memoir

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    "Hilarious, harrowing, and ultimately inspiring.... Truly, there is something arresting and wonderful on every page."— Michael Pollan"With sentences that sometimes astonish" (Matthew Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft), celebrated cultural critic Mark Edmundson has written a hip and hilarious coming-of-age memoir about one man's miscues and false starts as he enters the world after ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Heart of the Humanities

    Reading, Writing, Teaching

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    From one of America's great professors, a collection of works exploring the importance of reading, writing, and teaching well, for anyone invested in the future of the humanities.In his series of books Why Read?, Why Teach?, and Why Write? Edmundson, a renowned professor of English at the University of Virginia, explored the vital worldly roles of reading, teaching, and writing, earning a vocal ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Why Write?

    A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Matters

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    **From one of America's great professors, author of Why Teach? and Why Read?--an inspiring exploration of the importance of writing well, for creators, educators, students, and anyone who writes.Why write when it sometimes feels that so few people really read--read as if their lives might be changed by what they're reading? Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Song of Ourselves

    Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman’s journey toward egalitarian selfhood.Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don’t. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself.Esteemed cultural and literary thinker Mark Edmundson offers a bold reading of the 1855 poem, included here in its entirety. He finds in the poem ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Why Teach?

    In Defense of a Real Education

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    Mark Edmundson's essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives.A renowned professor of English at the University of Virginia, Edmundson has felt firsthand the pressure on colleges to churn out a productive, high-caliber ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Guilt

    The Super-Ego in the Online World

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    How Freud’s concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital ageCancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum for cruelty and judgment? Can a whole culture become mentally ill? How do we understand and respond to this problem?Mark Edmundson views contemporary ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Beyond the Pleasure Principle

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Self and Soul

    A Defense of Ideals

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    An ARTery Best Book of the YearAn Art of Manliness Best Book of the YearIn a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. Self and Soul is an impassioned effort to defend the values of the Soul.“An impassioned critique ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Why Football Matters

    My Education in the Game

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its menFootball teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic beauty and physical excellence. But football damages young bodies and minds, sometimes permanently. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Death of Sigmund Freud

    The Legacy of His Last Days

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    When Hitler invaded Austria in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud was among the 175,000 Viennese Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Though Freud was near the end of his life-eighty-one years old, battling cancer of the jaw-and Hitler's rise on the world stage was just beginning, the fates of these two historical giants were nonetheless intertwined. In this gripping and revelatory historical narrative, Mark ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume I: Virginia

    by Casey Clabough, Adrian Blevins, Mr. Greg Bottoms, Michael P. Branch, Kelly Cherry, Michael Chitwood, Mark Edmundson, Margaret Gibson, John Pineda0, Lucinda Roy1, Matthew Vollmer2, Tom Wolfe3 ...
    Series Book 1 - The Best Creative Nonfiction of the South
    Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions. Most, if not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD