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  • The Aesthetics of Democracy

    Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy

    by Craig Carson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers an original and interdisciplinary interpretation of the relation between aesthetics and modern liberal democracy, uniting the fields of art theory with the democratic political philosophy and modern liberal economic theory. The central argument of the books offers an explanation of the theoretical limitations of the contemporary discourse concerning “political art,” while at the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Great War And Modern Memory

    by Paul Fussell ...
    The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

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  • The Novel After Theory

    by Judith Ryan ...
    Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the practice of writing. Studying this phenomenon provides fresh insight into the recent development of the novel and the persistence of modern theory ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Metamorphoses of Lucretia

    Three Eighteenth-Century Reinterpretations of the Myth: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    by Anna Livia Frassetto ...
    The virtuous Roman matron Lucretia killed herself in 509 b. C. Her death is considered the cause of the Roman revolt against the Tarquins and the mainspring of the passage from the monarchic to the republican age. It is a myth about private and public dimensions: it tells about woman and revolution. Its themes, permanent features and variations are infinite. The metamorphoses of Lucretia are ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Setting Plato Straight

    Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance

    by Todd W. Reeser ...
    When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars—most of them Catholic—read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced with a fundamental problem: how to be faithful to the text yet not propagate pederasty or homosexuality ... Read more

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  • The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature

    From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque

    Edited by J. A. Garrido Ardila ...
    Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its major contribution to literary history, as one of the founding forms of the modern novel, the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • American Georgics

    Economy and Environment in Early American Literature

    by Timothy Sweet ...
    In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with the natural environment, Timothy Sweet identifies a distinct literary mode he calls the American ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres

    Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony

    Edited by Jacomien Prins, Maude Vanhaelen ...
    Series series Warwick Series in the Humanities
    This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates concerning the relationship between music, philosophy, and science, and challenges the view that Renaissance discussions on cosmic harmony are ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Inter-American Literary History

    Six Critical Periods

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series Book 11 - Interamericana
    Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.As a contribution to this field, this book brings together the literatures and literary histories of English and French Canada, the United States, Spanish America, the ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction, 1789–2013

    by Hannah Thompson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that the most interesting depictions of blindness in French fiction are those which call into question and ultimately undermine the prevailing myths and stereotypes of blindness which dominate Western thought. Rather than seeing blindness as an affliction, a tragedy or even a fate worse than death, the authors examined in this study celebrate blindness for its own sake. For them ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic

    Darwinian Essays on Literature

    by M. Wainwright ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Postcolonial Epic

    From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh

    by Sneharika Roy ...
    Series series Literary Cultures of the Global South
    This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh’s South Asian saga, the Ibis trilogy.The work focuses on the epic genre’s rich ... Read more

    $62.99 USD