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  • 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 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • The Little Crystalline Seed
    Iddo Dickmann
    Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics. ...
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    41,93 €

  • Announcements
    Kristina Mendicino
    Walter Benjamin claimed that the notion of novelty took on unprecedented importance with the growth of high capitalism in the nineteenth century. In this book, Kristina Mendicino analyzes a selection of canonical texts that reflect profound concern with novelty and its apparent contrary, the eternal return of the same, including Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Baudelaire’s ...
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    126,92 €

  • Arthashatra
    Kautalilya
    Arthasástra is made as a compendium of almost all the Arthasástras, which, in view of acquisition and maintenance of the earth, have been composed by ancient teachers.This book is basically a collection of shlokas which have been written in prose. It is divided into 15 different sections for the better understanding of the readers. It suggests that there are certain things that...
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    34,92 €

  • A History of Icelandic Literature
    Stefan Einarsson
    Stefán Einarsson covers almost a thousand years of Icelandic literature in tracing the influence of the sagas and eddic poems. The book begins with background on Icelandic literature, outlining its literary roots in Scandinavia. Following this, Einarsson provides a thorough survey of Icelandic literature through the 1950s. ...
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    66,24 €

  • Subjective Criticism
    David Bleich
    The meaning and objectives of literature, argues David Bleich, are created by the reader, who depends on community consensus to validate his or her judgements. Bleich proposes that the study of English be consciously reoriented from a knowledge-finding to a knowledge-making enterprise. This involves a new explanation of language acquisition in childhood, a psychologically disci...
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    60,14 €

  • The Semantics of Metaphor
    Samuel R Levin
    Originally publihsed in 1977. This book presents a theory for the metaphoric construal of deviant sentences. The theory has two aspects. The first relates to metaphor considered as a productive process of language and describes the mechanisms that operate in its semantic interpretation.This part of the theory is presented in chapters III and IV. The second aspect bears on metap...
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    41,12 €

  • Foucault’s theatres
    This book opens up innovative ways of reading philosophy ’theatrically’, contributing to a new articulation of theatre and its relation to critical thought. ...
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    145,02 €

  • Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture
    Clint Burnham
    Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? is both an introduction to the work of Slavoj Žižek and an investigation into how his work can be used to think about the digital present.Clint Burnham uniquely combines the German idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxist materialism found in Žižek’s thought to understand how the Internet, social and new media, and digital cultural f...
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    57,68 €

  • Off the Page
    Tom Lavazzi
    OFF THE PAGE blends lyric, theoretic/philosophic, autobiographical, and documentary forms of writing, and then plays on these forms in the arrangement, structure, and visual appearance of the text while also extending this textual performance 'off the page' into multimedia mise en scène. The book's approach to literary and cultural criticism is based on a synthesis ...
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    101,04 €


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