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  • Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces
    The educational turn in linguistic and semiotic landscapes studies is advanced through this volume’s broad and detailed analyses. Empirical examinations of interconnections among language, signs, space and practices combine with action research on mobilising linguistic landscapes as pedagogical resources to address scholars and practitioners alike. ...
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    193,92 €

  • Toward a Sacramental Poetics
    Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature.What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from a strictly secular one? This volume develops the theory of 'sacramental poetics' ad...
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    84,92 €

  • Shifts
    Zsuzsa Hetényi
    The book includes interpretations that offer an alternative reading of Nabokov’s texts, looking for the inner connections of the writer’s oeuvre, in the microstructures of motifs, nodes, and patterns. The concept of the erotext, combining the bliss of the textual and the sexual detaches analyses from reading literature as a copy of life. Nabokov’s paths of initiation lead the r...
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    40,30 €

  • Continental Theory Buffalo
    Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May ’68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency. ...
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    42,03 €

  • Continental Theory Buffalo
    Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May ’68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency. ...
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    121,73 €

  • Elements of Criticism
    Henry Home Lord Kames
    Elements of Criticism (1762) is a philosophical work by Henry Home, Lord Kames. Published at the height of his career as a leading legal and cultural figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, Elements of Criticism has been credited as a crucial academic work in the development of modern English literary studies. 'The science of criticism tends to improve the heart not less than the...
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    23,26 €

  • Making Liberalism New
    Ian Afflerbach
    A revisionist history of American liberalism, from the Great Depression to the Cold War. In Making Liberalism New, Ian Afflerbach traces the rise, revision, and fall of a modern liberalism in the United States, establishing this intellectual culture as distinct from classical predecessors as well as the neoliberalism that came to power by century’s end. Drawing on a diverse ar...
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    47,03 €

  • Obsolete Empire
    Philip Tsang
    Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In The Obsolete Empire, Philip Tsang brings together an unusual constellation of writers--Henry James, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, ...
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    47,11 €

  • Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind
    Joshua Gang
    What might behaviorism, that debunked school of psychology, tell us about literature? If inanimate objects such as novels or poems have no mental properties of their own, then why do we talk about them as if they do? Why do we perceive the minds of characters, narrators, and speakers as if they were comparable to our own? In Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind, J...
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    47,48 €

  • Luminous presence
    Alexandra Parsons
    Luminous presence: Derek Jarman’s life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Much of Jarman’s powerful, imaginative response to HIV/AIDS can be found in his remarkable books, which Alexandra Parsons argues were critical in changing the cultural terms of queer representation in the 1980s and 1990s. ...
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    147,26 €

  • Understanding Nonverbal Communication
    Marcel Danesi
    The human body is a primary source of meaning-making, with the body conveying over two-thirds of our messages. But how can we understand these physical communicative cues? How are they being expressed and exploited in new media and multimodal online and mobile interaction?Offering an in-depth guide to help you investigate and understand real and virtual nonverbal communication ...
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    160,80 €

  • The Ruse of Repair
    Patricia Stuelke
    Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuel...
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    138,22 €

  • The Ruse of Repair
    Patricia Stuelke
    Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuel...
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    36,36 €

  • Transmodal Communications
    This book explores transmodal communications, particularly those that are technologically-mediated and transglobal. Using examples and data analyses from a project that digitally connects youth to share their lives across global communities, authors offer new theorizations, approaches and understandings for semiotics, meaning-making and relations. ...
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    48,13 €

  • Transmodal Communications
    This book explores transmodal communications, particularly those that are technologically-mediated and transglobal. Using examples and data analyses from a project that digitally connects youth to share their lives across global communities, authors offer new theorizations, approaches and understandings for semiotics, meaning-making and relations. ...
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    169,74 €

  • The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making
    David Parkin
    This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking. ...
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    62,80 €

  • The Transformative Materiality of Meaning-Making
    David Parkin
    This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in eastern Africa. It gives an overview of developments since the 1960s in the anthropology of language use and how these have influenced the author’s thinking. ...
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    180,86 €

  • Humour, subjectivity and world politics
    Alister Wedderburn
    What can a turn to humour offer International Relations? This book suggests that a focus on comic practice can illuminate the relationship between global politics, culture and the everyday. It odders a theoretically rich examination of humour’s contribution to the making and unmaking of subjectivity, identity and community at a range of empirical sites. ...
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    145,24 €

  • Estranging the Novel
    Katarzyna Bartoszyńska
    For centuries, the standard account of the development of the novel focused on the rise of realism in English literature. Studies of early novels connected the form to various aspects of British life across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the burgeoning middle class, the growth of individualism, and the emergence of democracy and the nation-state. But as the ...
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    47,57 €

  • Automatic
    Timothy Wientzen
    The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced citizens to automatons capable of interacting with the world in only the most reflexive ways. In Automatic, Timothy Wientzen as...
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    47,28 €

  • From Mimesis to Interculturalism
    Graham Ley / Graham Prof. Ley
    From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed critique of theatrical theory from its origins in Greek antiquity to the present day. ...
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    41,60 €

  • Fracture Feminism
    David Sigler
    Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time. ...
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    121,51 €

  • In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 2
    Marcel Proust
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    32,53 €

  • Fragments, Genius and Madness
    Elisa Segnini
    At the turn of the nineteenth century, as inquiries about degeneration shaped medical, sociological and anthropological discourses, masks flourished as portraits, ornaments, and disguises. This comparative study explores tales that revolve around masks and mask-making in relation to nineteenth-century thought, offering innovative readings of fictional and dramatic works by Max ...
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    133,01 €

  • Spatial Plots
    Marzia Beltrami
    In discussions about plot, causality and chronology are sometimes held out as the only possible organising principles. And yet readers often transmute fragmented writings, parallel storylines, or tales within tales into a meaningful whole. Other patterns play a role in guiding our attention and, as Beltrami suggests, they invite us to make sense of narratives as spaces to be ex...
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    132,97 €

  • Contemporary French Poetry
    Daisy Sainsbury
    Over the last forty years, contemporary French poetry has been living in a state of crisis. Pronounced dead - or worse, irrelevant - it has sought to reassert its value, define its current specificity, and delineate its difference from the poetic practices of the past. But what are the defining contours of poetry today, given the sheer variety of practices that make up the cont...
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    133,01 €

  • Theodor Fontane
    Brian Tucker
    What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious, when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty, trust, and sincerity? Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane’s works, this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible...
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    160,77 €

  • Narratives Crossing Borders
    Which is the identity of a traveler who is constantly on the move between cultures and languages? What happens with stories when they are transmitted from one place to another, when they are retold, remade, translated and re-translated? What happens with the scholars themselves, when they try to grapple with the kaleidoscopic diversity of human expression in a constantly changi...
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    18,58 €

  • Decolonizing Memory
    Jill Jarvis
    The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830-1962) is such that only aesthetic works have been able to register its enduring effects. In Decolonizing Memory Jill Jarvis examines the power of literature to provide what demographic data, historical facts, and legal trials have not in terms of attesting to and accounting for this...
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    35,22 €

  • Occupying Memory
    Trevor Hoag
    Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical in order to account for their capacity to seize one’s life. Rather than viewing memory as granting direct access to the past and being readily accessible or pliant to human will, Trevor Hoag exposes how the past is a rhetorical production and that trauma and mourning shatter delusions of sovere...
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    54,41 €


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