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“michael lemahieu”

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  • Wittgenstein and Modernism

    Edited by Michael LeMahieu, Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé ...
    Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy “ought really to be written only as a form of poetry,” and he even described the Tractatus as “philosophical and, at the same time, literary.” But few books have really followed up on these claims, and fewer still have focused on their relation to the special literary and artistic period in which Wittgenstein worked. This book offers the first ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • Wrinkled Deep in Time

    Aging in Shakespeare

    by Maurice Charney ...
    Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "Wrinkled deep in time" is how the queen describes herself in Antony and Cleopatra, and at the end of King Lear, there is a tragic sense that both the king and Gloucester have ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Kafka

    Edited by Julian Preece ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Franz Kafka's writing has had a wide-reaching influence on European literature, culture and thought. The Cambridge Companion to Kafka, offers a comprehensive account of his life and work, providing a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist. Contributions cover all the key texts, and discuss Kafka's writing in a variety of critical contexts such as feminism, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Doppelganger

    Literature's Philosophy

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said

    Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative literary studies, and the humanities in general. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Teaching the Early Modern Period

    Edited by D. Conroy, D. Clarke ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture

    Women’s Fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s

    by Emma Sterry ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres. In the modern era, the single woman was both celebrated and derided for refusing to conform to societal expectations regarding femininity and sexuality. The different versions of single ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Joseph Conrad Among the Anarchists

    Nineteenth Century Terrorism and The Secret Agent

    by David Mulry ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This booklooks at the inception, composition, and 1907 publication of The Secret Agent, one of Joseph Conrad’s most highly regarded political novels and a core text of literary modernism. David Mulry examines the development and revisions of the novel through the stages of the holograph manuscript, first as a short story, then as a serialized sensation fiction in Ridgway’s Militant Weekly for the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature

    by Jeremy Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    Shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize 2016Shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2015When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Jews

    by James Shapiro ...
    First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling foreign Jews in Ireland, Shapiro's work delves deeply into the cultural insecurities of Elizabethans while illuminating ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde

    Painting in Paris, 1890-1915

    by Marilynn Strasser Olson ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children’s literature and culture in the Golden Age. The ideas explored by artists such as Florence Upton, Henri Rousseau, Sir William Nicholson, Paula ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Victorian Unfinished Novels

    The Imperfect Page

    by S. Tomaiuolo ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD