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  • Or Orwell

    Writing and Democratic Socialism

    by Alex Woloch ...
    There have been many studies of George Orwell’s life and work, but nothing quite like this book by Alex Woloch—an exuberant, revisionary account of Orwell’s writing.“Good prose is like a window-pane,” Orwell famously avers. But what kind of literary criticism is possible, face-to-face with Orwell’s plain-style prose? Too often this style has been either dismissed by a seemingly more savvy critical ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Whose Freud?

    The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture

     One hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture-and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding genius of modernity, to others the author of its symptomatic illnesses. The current position of psychoanalysis is very much at issue. Is it still valid as a theory of the mind? Have its therapeutic ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The One vs. the Many

    Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel

    by Alex Woloch ...
    Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative theory.Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Or Orwell

    Writing and Democratic Socialism

    by Alex Woloch ...
    There have been many studies of George Orwell’s life and work, but nothing quite like this book by Alex Woloch—an exuberant, revisionary account of Orwell’s writing.“Good prose is like a window-pane,” Orwell famously avers. But what kind of literary criticism is possible, face-to-face with Orwell’s plain-style prose? Too often this style has been either dismissed by a seemingly more savvy critical ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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  • Continental Philosophy

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    The Significance of C. P. Snow

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