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  • Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life

    James Joyce and the Renaissance Magus

    by Tom Absher ...
    Series Book 134 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. This book makes a useful contribution to literary studies of Joyce’s work as well as introductory cultural studies of the Hermetic ... Read more

    $102.49 USD

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  • I Saw Water

    An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings

    by Ithell Colquhoun, Richard Shillitoe, Mark S. Morrisson ...
    Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) is remembered today as a surrealist artist, writer, and occultist. Although her paintings hang in a number of public collections and her gothic novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) remains in print, critical responses to her work have been severely constrained by the limited availability of her art and writings. The publication of her second novel, I Saw Water—presented ... Read more

    $43.19 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

    $102.49 USD

  • Balzac’s Cane

    Edited by Marta L. Wilkinson ...
    Series Book 250 - Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures
    Balzac’s Cane is an English translation of Delphine de Girardin’s 1836 novella, La Canne de M. de Balzac, which centers around a protagonist named Tancred Dorimont, a brilliant young man plagued by his devastating good looks. In a social context in which appearance is everything, it seems for several chapters that beauty will break, rather than make, this young man’s fortune. One evening as ... Read more

    $102.49 USD

  • «Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)

    by Lillian Brise ...
    Series Book 119 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
    This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed by Anna Wierzbicka and her collaborators. The claims of adequacy of NSM in its present form for ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Biological Discourses

    The Language of Science and Literature Around 1900

    Edited by Robert Craig, Ina Linge ...
    Series Book 27 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
    The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebrations of 2009 added to this tradition, inspiring a variety of new publications on the cultural reception of Darwin and Darwinism. With a fresh scope that includes but also reaches beyond the «Darwinian ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • A Mandala of Words

    Cultural Realities in the Poems of Ashok Vajpeyi

    by Renata Czekalska, Barbara Michalak-Pikulska ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies in East Asian Literatures and Cultures
    This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet who – while searching for the principle of unity with the world – causes language to become an extension of existence. The author ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • McLuhan and Symbolist Communication

    The Shock of Dislocation

    by Andrea Lombardinilo ...
    Series Book 9 - Interdisciplinary Communication Studies
    With an interview with Derrick de Kerckhove.Symbolism as a parataxis, as a «jazz of the intellect»: this is the starting point of this research, inspired by a socio-literary interpretation of Marshall McLuhan’s mediology and developed from a diachronic and exegetic perspective. According to the Canadian sociologist, the footsteps that led to this electric era can be traced through the study of ... Read more

    $80.39 USD

  • Towards Turkish American Literature

    Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey

    by Barbara Buchenau, Elena Furlanetto ...
    Series Book 10 - Interamericana
    The author expands the definition of Turkish American literature beyond fiction written by Americans of Turkish descent to incorporate texts that literally ‘commute’ between two national spheres. This segment of Turkish American literature transcends established paradigms of immigrant life-writing, as it includes works by Turkish authors who do not qualify as American permanent residents and were ... Read more

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  • Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840

    Edited by Amy Culley, Anna M. Fitzer ...
    Series series Chawton Studies in Scholarly Editing
    This edited volume is the first to reflect on the theory and practice of editing women’s writing of the 18th century. The list of contributors includes experts on the fiction, drama, poetry, life-writing, diaries and correspondence of familiar and lesser known women, including Jane Austen, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood and Mary Robinson. Contributions examine the demands of editing female ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ideologies and Forms of Leisure and Recreation in Victorian Manchester

    by Beata Kiersnowska ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
    This book analyses certain ideologies which governed the middle class’ hegemonic approach to leisure in Victorian Manchester. The study presents different forms of leisure, recreation and entertainment in the city. The author also examines the reasons for the support and financial involvement of Manchester bourgeoisie and its municipal authorities in their development. The analysis covers a wide ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism

    Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy

    by Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez, María José Álvarez-Faedo ...
    Series Book 16 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
    Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture, especially Japanese aesthetics, bore on Western intellectuals, Modernist literary writers and artists from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD