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  • Modernism and Subjectivity
    Adam Meehan
    In Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject, Adam Meehan argues that theories of subjectivity coming out of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and adjacent late--twentieth--century intellectual traditions had already been articulated in modernist fiction before 1945. Offering a bold new genealogy for literary modernism, Meehan finds vers...
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    56,63 €

  • The Forms of Informal Empire
    Jessie Reeder
    Spanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Bolivia to Chile declared their independence. But soon another empire exerted control over the region through markets and trade dealings--Britain. Merchants, developers, and politicians seized on the opportunity to bring the newly independent nations under the swa...
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    47,20 €

  • Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene
    Catherine Nicholson
    The four-hundred-year story of readers’ struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies'I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer’s fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?' The plaint of an anonymous reader in 1712 sounds with endearing frankness a note of consternation that resonates thr...
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    45,77 €

  • Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene
    Catherine Nicholson
    The four-hundred-year story of readers’ struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies'I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer’s fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?' The plaint of an anonymous reader in 1712 sounds with endearing frankness a note of consternation that resonates thr...
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    163,38 €

  • Humor, Psyche, and Society
    Arthur Asa Berger
    It is the age-old saying that “laughter is the best medicine”. Scientific research has substantiated the claim made by this proverb by verifying the positive effects it has on both our mind and body, but what is it about a good joke, comic, or sitcom that makes us laugh?Humor, Psyche and Society is a compilation of Berger’s previously published articles and new chapters on the ...
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    56,25 €

  • Southern Hyperboles
    Michał Choiński
    In Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration, Michal Choiński confronts the often paradoxical and excessive elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative modes and representation strategies in works produced from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. With renewed attention to renderings of the gothic and grotesque, Choiński argues that modernist...
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    63,13 €

  • Stories and the Brain
    Paul B Armstrong
    How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.Armstrong argues that the ways in which stories order events in time, imitate actions, and relate ...
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    47,28 €

  • The Last Utopians
    Michael Robertson
    The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayIn this lively literary history, Michael Robertson introduces readers to a vital strain of utopianism that seized the imaginations of four American and British writers during an extraordinary period of literary and soc...
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    30,46 €

  • Falling Short
    Aleksandar Stevic
    A paradox haunts the bildungsroman: few protagonists successfully complete the process of maturation and socialization that ostensibly defines the form. From the despondent endings of Dickens's Great Expectations and Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel to the suicide of Balzac's Lucien de Rubempré and the demise of Eliot's Maggie and Tom Tulliver, the ninet...
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    82,56 €

  • Falling Short
    Aleksandar Stevic
    A paradox haunts the bildungsroman: few protagonists successfully complete the process of maturation and socialization that ostensibly defines the form. From the despondent endings of Dickens's Great Expectations and Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel to the suicide of Balzac's Lucien de Rubempré and the demise of Eliot's Maggie and Tom Tulliver, the ninet...
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    44,71 €

  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition
    Thomas C Foster / Thomas C. Foster
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    16,98 €

  • Classics in Film and Fiction
    This book negotiates the notion of a ’classic’ in film and fiction, exploring the growing interface and the blurring of boundaries between literature and film. Taking the problematic term ’classic’ as its focus, the contributors consider both canonical literary and film texts, questioning whether classic status in one domain transfers it to another. Classics in Film and Fiction...
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    42,14 €

  • Figural Realism
    Hayden White
    Originally published in 1998. In his earlier books such as Tropics of Discourse and The Content of the Form, Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In Figural Realism, White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. 'Histo...
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    40,94 €

  • Melodies Unheard
    Anthony Hecht
    Originally published in 2003. The fruit of a lifetime's reading and thinking about literature, its delights and its responsibilities, this book by acclaimed poet and critic Anthony Hecht explores the mysteries of poetry, offering profound insight into poetic form, meter, rhyme, and meaning. Ranging from Renaissance to contemporary poets, Hecht considers the work of Shakespe...
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    60,14 €

  • The Cryptographic Imagination
    Shawn James Rosenheim
    Originally published in 1996. In The Cryptographic Imagination, Shawn Rosenheim uses the writings of Edgar Allan Poe to pose a set of questions pertaining to literary genre, cultural modernity, and technology. Rosenheim argues that Poe's cryptographic writing--his essays on cryptography and the short stories that grew out of them--requires that we rethink the relation of po...
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    60,30 €

  • Cultivation and Catastrophe
    Sonya Posmentier
    At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of black environmental w...
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    40,64 €

  • Muthupechi / முத்துப்பேச்சி
    Afzal Razvi
    The 'Muthuppechi' is a complicated book. There are some problems with how we understand this. As an author, I tell my readers that when you read this book, where we are travelling will be less visible. Suddenly there will be some twists. In some places, the sense of understanding is very limited. Usually, this will look like sailing in the sea or ocean. Overall, it travels thro...
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    26,69 €

  • The Fictional Minds of Modernism
    Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
    Challenging the notion that modernism is marked by an 'inward turn' - a configuration of the individual as distinct from the world - this collection delineates the relationship between the mind and material and social systems, rethinking our understanding of modernism’s representation of cognitive and affective processes.Through analysis of a variety of international novels, sh...
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    154,33 €

  • Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World
    Henning Trüper
    Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World examines the philology of orientalism. It discusses how European (and in particular German) orientalism has influenced the modern understanding of how language accesses reality and offers a critical reinterpretation of orientalism, ontology and modernity.This book pushes an innovative focus on the global history o...
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    160,24 €

  • Communication Across Cultures
    Basil Hatim / Basil Prof. Hatim
    A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters. ...
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    127,73 €

  • Communication Across Cultures
    Basil Hatim / Basil Prof. Hatim
    A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters. ...
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    46,70 €

  • Después de la página en blanco
    Miguel Aguerralde
    Bienvenido. El libro que tienes en tus manos es un pequeño manual que recorre con sencillez los procesos de escritura, edición y publicación de un texto. Quizá te apetezca empezar a escribir, pero no sabes cómo, o hayas terminado tu primer manuscrito y no tengas claras las opciones que se te presentan a partir de ahora. Para todo eso pretende servir esta guía.Además de una refl...
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    12,50 €

  • The Metaphoric Structure of Paradise Lost
    Jackson I Cope
    Originally published in 1962. The rise of "metaphoric" criticism is a reaction against a previous critical preoccupation with psychology and time. Milton spatialized time, thoroughly mastering a metaphoric technique. Professor Cope, after discussing the influences that shaped Milton's aesthetic, systematically examines the structural components of Paradise Lost--light, dark...
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    41,06 €

  • Youth, University, and Democracy
    Gottfried Dietze
    Originally published in 1970. This book examines whether Weber's approach has a greater humanizing value than has been conceded by his opponents and will attempt to demonstrate the humanistic mission of the University and its usefulness for youth and democracy. ...
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    41,32 €

  • The Big Somewhere
    Steven Powell
    James Ellroy’s identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, in 1958, Ellroy’s early life played a large role in shaping his obsessions with murder, the criminal underworld of L.A. and the redemptive power of the feminine. Ellroy’s...
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    55,11 €

  • Afropolitan Literature as World Literature
    James Hodapp
    African literature has never been more visible than it is today. Whereas Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o defined a golden generation of African writers in the 20th century, a new generation of 'Afropolitan' writers including Chimamanda Adichie, Teju Cole, Taiye Selasi, and NoViolet Bulawayo have taken the world by storm by snatching up prestigious awards and ...
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    173,92 €

  • The Emergence of Literature
    Jacob Bittner
    The Emergence of Literatureis an extension and reworking of a series of significant propositions in philosophy and literary theory: Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s examination of the concept of the literary absolute; Martin Heidegger’s destruction and Giorgio Agamben’s archaeology of the metaphysics of will; Maurice Blanchot’s delimitation of the space of literatu...
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    173,89 €

  • Nom de Plume
    Carmela Ciuraru
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    15,92 €

  • Introducing English Studies
    Tamara F. O’Callaghan / Tonya Krouse
    From literary studies to digital humanities, Introducing English Studies is a complete introduction to the many fields and sub-disciplines of English studies for majors starting out in the subject for the first time. The book covers topics including:· history of English language and linguistics· literature and literary criticism· cinema and new media Studies· composition and rh...
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    114,89 €

  • Legacies of the Sublime
    Christopher Kitson
    Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ...
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    42,06 €


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