David Mikics is the Moores Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Houston. He is the author, most recently, of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, and his writing has appeared in Tablet, the New Republic, and the New York Times.
5 Ebooks by David Mikics
Mikics David Mikics: New Handbook of Literary Terms
A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics’s definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and …
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€31.33
Mikics David Mikics: Who Was Jacques Derrida?
Who Was Jacques Derrida? is the first intellectual biography of Derrida, the first full-scale appraisal of his career, his influence, and his philosophical roots. It is also the first attempt …
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€34.97
David Mikics: Slow Reading in a Hurried Age
Reading, David Mikics says, should not be drudgery, and not mere information-gathering or escape either, but a way to live life at a higher pitch. Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide …
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€26.16
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Illustrated Emerson
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American essayist and poet. One of the young nation’s first recognized public intellectuals, h …
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English
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€4.99
David Mikics: Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art
A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art.
Saul Bellow was the most lauded American writer of the twentieth century—the winner of the N …
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€24.99
