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  • Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe

    Islam in German Culture

    by B. Weber ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Education of Henry Adams

    Annotated

    by Henry Adams ...
    Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

    by Todd Kontje ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Mann (1875–1955) is not only one of the leading German novelists of the twentieth century, but also one of the few to transcend national and language boundaries to achieve major stature in the English-speaking world. Famous from the time that he published his first novel in 1901, Mann became an iconic figure, seen as the living embodiment of German national culture. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Bourgeois

    Between History and Literature

    by Franco Moretti ...
    "I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today?Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery of individual portraits is entwined around the analysis of specific keywords – such as ‘useful’ and ‘earnest’, ‘efficiency’ ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Homoerotics of Orientalism

    by Joseph Boone ...
    One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism.To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Transgressive Fiction

    The New Satiric Tradition

    by R. Mookerjee ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • 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

  • Poetry, Physics, and Painting in Twentieth-Century Spain

    by C. Gala ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book reads the work of Salinas, Guillén, Larrea, Diego, Alberti, Méndez, and Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and with the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics. Gala advances traditional criticism by considering these artists in the broader cultural context of Spain, Europe, and European Modernism. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio’s Decameron

    by V. Ferme ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within and outside of the framework, this book unearths the complications and trickery surrounding gender and death in Boccaccio's world and culture. ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance

    by Elizabeth Spiller ...
    Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a culture in which learning about the world and its human boundaries came increasingly through reading, one place ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Reading Conrad

    by J. Hillis Miller ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    For half a century, J. Hillis Miller has been a premier figure in English and comparative literature, influencing and leading the direction of literary studies. What is less well-known is that he has been equally influential in Conrad studies with his work on nihilism, language, and narrative in Joseph Conrad’s fiction. Returning to Conrad at different stages of his long career—reading and ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    This collection of essays provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Contributions focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume provides information and analysis on such topics as regionalism, the growth of a national language, social and political cultures, the role of intellectuals, the Church, the left, feminism, the separatist ... Read more

    $35.29 USD