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  • Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic

    A Study in Form, History, and Culture

    by Wanlin Li ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, "global ambiguity," and examines the important cultural work it performs in the nineteenth-century history of the genre.The author defines "global ambiguity" as occurring in texts whose internal evidence supports equally ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

    by Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
    From Plato to Freud to ecocriticism, the book illustrates dozens of stimulating-and sometimes notoriously complex-perspectives for approaching literature and film. The book offers authoritative, clear, and easy-to-follow explanations of theories that range from established classics to the controversies of current theory. Each chapter offers a conversational, step-by-step explanation of a single ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • To Show and to Tell

    The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

    by Phillip Lopate ...
    Series series An Essential Guide for Writers
    A long-awaited and illuminating book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate—celebrated essayist, professor of writing at Columbia University, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay.Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as “one of our best personal essayists” (Dallas Morning News).Here, combining more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ugly Feelings

    by Sianne Ngai ...
    Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Cities of Words

    Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this distance step by practical step is the philosophical project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his exploratory path. Situated at the intersection ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Fictions of Authority

    Women Writers and Narrative Voice

    by Susan Sniader Lanser ...
    Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, ... Read more

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  • Compassion

    The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

    Edited by Lauren Berlant ...
    Series series Essays from the English Institute
    In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how "being compassionate" is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes place in scenes that are anxious, volatile, surprising, and even contradictory. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A Life with Mary Shelley

    by Barbara Johnson ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies," one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Dialectic of Freedom

    by Maxine Greene ...
    Series series John Dewey Lecture Series
    Special 2018 EditionFrom the new Introduction by Michelle Fine**,** Graduate Center, CUNY :"Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'"In The Dialectic of Freedom, Maxine Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, d... ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Technique of the Novel - A Handbook on the Craft of the Long Narrative

    by Thomas H. Uzzell ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Henry James in Context

    Edited by David McWhirter ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Long misread as a novelist conspicuously lacking in historical consciousness, Henry James has often been viewed as detached from, and uninterested in, the social, political, and material realities of his time. As this volume demonstrates, however, James was acutely responsive not only to his era's changing attitudes toward gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity, but also to changing conditions of ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • How Novels Think

    The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900

    by Nancy Armstrong ...
    Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social order to grant the exceptional person a place commensurate with his or her individual worth. Once the novel had created this figure, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD