“susan stewart”

From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. By examining specific cases in which representation is delimited by the la... More

Susan Stewart plumbs human history in an attempt to articulate the way language, memory, and art join in evoking consciousness. "The Forest" is about violence and memory: the violence we do to our surroundings and to ourselves; and the propensity of the human mind to exploit and rationalize in its l... More

Winner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in the category of poetry. In her long-awaited fourth book of poetry, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of c... More

"Red Rover" is both the name of a children's game and a formless spirit, a god of release and permission, called upon in the course of that game. The "red rover" is also a thread of desire, and a clue to the forces of love and antipathy that shape our fate. In her most innovative work to date, award... More

From a "comic strip" papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, "nonsense" texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of "making sense" from which they are derived. Examining palindromes, children's rhymes, puns, anag... More

The greatest deterrent to a good life is fear. Anxiety traps far too many of us in lifestyles, jobs and relationships that are mundane and unfulfilling, while causing our self-esteem and self-confidence to suffer. In "Navigating Through Fear," family therapist Susan Stewart takes you along with her ... More

Add a repertoire of machine-sewing techniques to your quiltmaking skills The exquisite details of heirloom sewing enter the realm of quiltmaking. This marvelous pairing will appeal to heirloom sewing enthusiasts and quilters alike Details of fabric selection, preparation, and care are provided, al... More

A book that deals with the resolution of conflict across the legal, social and political spectrum by means of alternative methods to confrontation and conflict and adversarial approaches.... More

Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the... More