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  • Rethinking Sexuality

    Foucault and Classical Antiquity

    Edited by David H.J. Larmour, Paul Allen Miller, Charles Platter ...
    In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times, and yet until now it has remained under-explored and insufficiently analyzed. By bringing together the historical knowledge, ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Russian Literature and the Classics

    Edited by Peter I. Barta, David H. J. Larmour, Paul Allen Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature
    Russian Literature and the Classics attempts to fill a gap. To date there has been no book-length, systematic study of the impact of antiquity on Russian literature and culture. While by no means claiming to offer a comprehensive approach, the authors focus on various aspects of the influence which the Classics have had on Russian literature at particularly significant junctures - the beginning of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov's Prose

    Edited by David H. J. Larmour ...
    Series series Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature
    The prose writings of Vladimir Nabokov form one of the most intriguing oeuvres of the twentieth century. His novels, which include Despair, Lolita and Pale Fire, have been celebrated for their stylistic artistry, their formal complexity, and their unique treatment of themes of memory, exile, loss, and desire.This collection of essays offers readings of several novels as well as discussions of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Nabokov's Women

    The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads

    by Marie Bouchet, Matthew Roth, Lara Delage-Toriel, Olga Voronina, Alisa Zhulina, Elena Sommers, Sofia Ahlberg, Julian W. Connolly, David Larmour, David Rampton, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney ...
    Nabokov’s Women: The Silent Sisterhood of Textual Nomads is the first book-length study to focus on Nabokov’s relationship with his heroines. Essays by distinguished Nabokov scholars explore the multilayered and nomadic nature of Nabokov’s women: their voice and voicelessness, their absentness, the paradigm of power and sacrifice within which they are situated, the paradox of their unattainability ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Arena of Satire

    Juvenal's Search for Rome

    by David H. J. Larmour ...
    Series series Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
    In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal’s satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the second-century Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the satirist’s art.The enduring attraction of Juvenal’s satires is twofold: they not only introduce the character of the “angry satirist” but also offer ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Russian Literature

    by Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Ilya Vinitsky ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. The medieval period, as well as the brilliant tradition of Russian lyric poetry ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Evil in Modern Thought

    An Alternative History of Philosophy

    by Susan Neiman, Susan Neiman ...
    A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorismEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • We Philologists (Mobi Classics)

    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,J. M. Kennedy (Translator) ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

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  • The Roots of Romanticism

    Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A brilliant brief account of romanticism and its influence from one of the most important philosophers and intellectual historians of the twentieth centuryIn The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history. Brilliant, fresh, immediate, and eloquent, these celebrated Mellon Lectures are a ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Language and Silence

    Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

    by George Steiner ...
    The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. "A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves" ( The New York Times Book Review).Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have ... Read more

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  • What Nietzsche Really Said

    by Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins ...
    Series series What They Really Said
    What Nietzsche Really Said gives us a lucid overview -- both informative and entertaining -- of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.Friedrich Nietzsche's aggressive independence, flamboyance, sarcasm, and celebration of strength have struck responsive chords in contemporary culture. More people than ever are reading and discussing his writings. But Nietzsche's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Twilight of the Idols

    by Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the old truth is coming to an end...' Nietzsche intended Twilight of the Idols to serve as a short introduction to his philosophy, and as a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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