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The Tooth That Nibbles at the Soul

Essays on Music and Poetry

By Marshall Brown

The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown’s new and previously published writings on literature and music. These essays engage questions that are central to the development of literature, music, and the...

Reading for Form

By Susan J. Wolfson, Marshall Brown

Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can...

The Linguistics of Lying And Other Essays

By Harald Weinrich, Jane K. Brown, and Marshall Brown

Can language hide thoughts? This question, posed by the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1965 as the topic of its first essay competition, was taken up by the philologist Harald Weinrich, with far-ranging...