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  • Haunted narratives

    Life Writing in an Age of Trauma

    Edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, Therese Steffen ...
    Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting presence of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

    by Nabil Matar ...
    During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the "Barbary Corsairs" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Stalking Nabokov

    by Brian Boyd ...
    At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991). This collection features essays written by Boyd since completing the biography, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Modernist Papers

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity .The Modernist Papers is a tour de froce of anlysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lacan and the Limits of Language

    by Charles Shepherdson ...
    "Stages refreshing encounters between Lacanian psychoanalysis and its others: Kristeva, Heidegger, Derrida, or Foucault, to name just a few thinkers." —Ewa Ziarek, author of An Ethics of DissensusThis book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel

    From 1800 to the Present

    Edited by Timothy Unwin ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Rethinking the New Medievalism

    Edited by R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Küpper, Jeanette Patterson ...
    Twenty years after Stephen Nichols transformed the study of medieval literature, leaders in the field pay tribute to his work and expand on it.In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term "new medievalism" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Mannerist Fiction

    Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon

    by William Donoghue ...
    In Mannerist Fiction, William Donoghue re-conceptualizes the history of formalism in western literature. Rather than presuming that literary experimentation with form – distorting space and time – began in the twentieth century with Modernism, Donoghue identifies the age of Copernicus as the crucible for the first experiments in spatial de-formation, which appeared in mannerist painting and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Voices of the Headland

    Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey

    by Alan J. Malnar ...
    Series Book 126 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey explores the image of the raptor in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Emanating from the continent’s end of the American West, Jeffers’ poetic eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, and other birds of prey symbolize the compelling presence and voice of nature, a pantheistic universe of beauty and splendor, death and destruction. It is the ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • The Prose and Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein

    by Sheldon Gilman ...
    A Prussian Jew, killed in the second month of the First World War at the ageof 25, 18 years before his father died, apparently of natural causes, and 28years before his mother and two of his siblings were killed by the Nazis,Lichtenstein left no overtly autobiographical writings. Some of his poemsclearly reflect his own painful experiences, both as a civilian and asoldier, and the figure of Kuno ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Legacies of Romanticism

    Literature, Culture, Aesthetics

    Edited by Carmen Casaliggi, Paul March-Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Romanticism
    This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture.The authors consider the changing notion of Romanticism, looking at the diversity of its writers, the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD