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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Conversations with Albert Murray" was edited by Roberta S. Maguire, and published in 1993 by the University Press of Mississippi. This is the First Edition, Paperback format, published simultaneously with the hardcover format. On the Wikipedia page devoted to him it says ||> Albert L. Murray (May 12, 1916 - August 18, 2013) was an American literary and music critic, novelist, essayist, and biographer. His books include The "Omni-Americans" (an anthology of Murray's writings on Race), "South to a Very Old Place", and "Stomping the Blues".<|| This book consists of numerous interviews, conversations, and think pieces on Albert Murray, who was, in his life, one of the most important and influential Black American intellectuals. CONTENTS : ** Waging War on social Science - Hollie I. West ** A Conversation with Al Murray - Fred Beauford ** Taking a Leaf: A Talk with Albert Murray - Marvin Gelfand ** Albert Murray : Riffing It - Beverly Grunwald ** Albert Murray Talks the Blues ** Albert Murray: Up Tempo, or "The Velocity of Celebration" - Beverly Bateman ** To Hear Another Language - Alvin Ailey, James Baldwin, Romare Bearden, and Albert Murray ** The Book, Like the Man, is Deliberately Reserved - Robert C. Trussell ** A Jazz Jam with a Pen - Joe Cohen ** Jazz Rules Life of Basie Biographer - Robert Becker ** Talking with Albert Murray : A Hero and the Blues - Gene Seymour ** An Interview with Albert Murray, Author of "The Spyglass Tree" - John Seigenthaler ** Honor for a Writer Who Puts Blues in His Words - Stephan Salisbury ** The Unsquarest Person Duke Ellington Ever Met - Mark Feeney ** Albert Murray on Stage : An Interview - Louis Edwards ** The Soloist : Albert Murray's Blues People - Joe Wood ** An Intellectual Godfather to Two Generations of Writers, Thinkers, and Artists - Tom Piazza ** Murray, a Great Black Hope at 79, Stomps on Literary Establishment - Michael J. Agovino ** The Omni - American - Tony Scherman ** Albert Murray : Extensions and Elaborations - Roberta S. Maguire SERIES : Literary Conversations Series SERIES EDITOR : Peggy Whitman Prenshaw TITLE : Conversations with Albert Murray EDITOR : Roberta S. Maguire IMPRINT : University Press of Mississippi PLACE : Jackson, Mississippi DATE : (1997) EDITION : First Edition, Paperback Format (Issued simultaneously with the hardcover format) DETAILS : Trade paperback; contains an Introduction, a Chronology, and an Index; [xvi] + 167 pages; approximately 6" x 9", photo-pictorial, glossy wraps, glued. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Spine has no creasing; surface rub is mild - covers are still glossy; slight yawn to front cover (likely pressing will alleviate this); text-block edges clean. BINDING -- Tight INTERIOR --Leaves with pp 31 - 36 have a slight crimp on the fore-edge (thumb print?) - else the interior is clean and free of marking.

TITLE : From Dante to Garcia Marquez - Studies in Romance Language and Linguistics - Presented to Anson C. Piper By Former Students, Colleagues & Friends. EDITORS : Gene H. Bell-Villada et al IMPRINT : Williams College PLACE : Williamstown, Massachusetts DATE : 1987 EDITION : 1st Edition PHYSICAL DETAILS : Hardcover; frontispiece is a photograph of Professor Piper; has a Foreword, bibliographical sketches of contributors; biographical sketch & bibliography for Piper; [xxii] + 412 pages; 6" x 9", dark blue cloth cover; title, etc. stamped in silver on spine and front board; pictorial dust-jacket CONTENTS : * Acknowledgments * Tabula Gratulatoria * Foreword * Anson C. Piper - Man, Teacher, Scholar * Dante and the Latin Origin of the Romance Languages - by Anthoy Nicastro * Frustrated Lovers' Farewells in the Early Iberian Theatre - by Robert L. Hathaway * The Conquistadors and the 16th Century Spanish Concept of the Ideal Soldier - August J. Aquila * Cervantes and the Frames of his "Entremeses" - by Benigno Sanchez-Eppler * Emerging Realism: Love and Cash in "La Ilustre Fregona" - by Javier Herrero * Contesting the Custom of the Country: Cervantes and Fletcher - by Diana de Armas Wilson * La relación formal entre "la Fábula del hombre" de Luis Vives y "El gran teatro del mundo" de Calderón - by Louis C. Pérez * Two Satires, in Green (1784) and in Red (1796) - by Monroe Z. Hafter * Physiognomics in Romantic Spain - by Lee Fontanella * The Adamastor and the Spirit-Spout: Echoes of Camoens in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" - by Alexandrino Eusébio Serverino * Les figures phoniques de "Dorica castra" et d'adnomination dans les "Fleurs du mal" - by George Pistorius * A Realist's Exploitation of Romanticism : Pereda's "De tal palo, tal astilla" - by Theodore A. Sackett * Apuntes sobre la caracterización de Rosario y Pepe Rey en "Doña Perfecta" - by Antonio Giménez * The Gardens in Nineteenth Century Spanish Fiction: "La de Bringas" - by Robert M. Jackson * The Use of Participial Clauses in Zola's "La Debacle" - by Grover E. Marshall * Verdi's "Spanish" Operas - by Irwin Shainman * Doña Bárbara Soledad, relato umbilical - by Eduardo Gónzalez * "Palmes! .": Fetishes of Origin in the Postsymbolist Robinsonade - by Emily S. Apter * The Place of the Reader in a Poetics of the Novel - by Inge Crosman Wimmers * La trampa del antisistema: La picaresca del autor en "Les Caves du Vatican" - by Joan Ramon Resina * Lorenzo Varela, un poeta de la España del éxodo y del llanto - by Antonio Sánchez Barbudo * More About the Metaphor of Cruelty: An Essay Composed to Please Antonin Artaud - by John K. Savacool * The Structure of Personal Power: Politics and the Hispanic Novel - by Russell O. Salmon * Valéry and Ponge: Rheuminations - by Robert L. Mitchell * Sound and Silence in Samuel Beckett's "En attendant Godot" - by J. H. Matthews * Avatars of the Feminine in Laye, Senghor and Diop - by Eileen Julien * The Fabulous World of J. M. G. Le Clézio - by Germaine Brée * Femme Bâtarde / Femme Ecrivain Légitime: la Dichotomie Figurale de "La Bâtarde" de Violette Leduc - by Camille Laparra * "Oublieuse Mémoire": Prolégomènes d'étude de la récurrence dans la fiction de Robert Pinget - by Robert M. Henkels * Trasposición y subversión en "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes": de Gabriel García Márquez - by Jorge Yviricu * Banana Strike and Military Massacre : "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and What Happened in 1928 - by Gene H. Bell-Villada CONDITION - BOOK : NEAR FINE - JACKET : VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR : Near-negligible signs of handling BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : Clean and free of marking DUST-JACKET : Crimping to top edge - creasing to paper at same; creasing to front spine fold; surface rub is mild, but there are a few minute spots (or scuffs); rear panel has surface rumpling, else clean.