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  • 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

  • Creative Cognition and the Cultural Panorama of Twentieth-Century Spain

    by C. Gala ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This multidisciplinary study focuses on the creative state as the nucleus of the work of numerous poets, artists, and philosophers from twentieth-century Spain. Beginning with cognitive science, Gala explores the mental processes and structures that underline creative thinking, for poets like José María Hinojosa, Clara Janés, and Jorge Guillén. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Series Book 59 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.”—The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond of pointing out that all writing is narrative. He published his famed debut novel The Name of the Rose when he was forty-eight years old, yet he believed that everything he had written to that point—from ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture

    Edited by Eva Kolinsky, Wilfried van der Will ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    One of the most intriguing questions of our time is how some of the masterpieces of modernity originated in a country in which personal liberty and democracy were slow to emerge. This Companion provides an authoritative account of modern German culture since the onset of industrialisation, the rise of mass society and the nation state. Newly written and researched by experts in their respective ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Decadence, Degeneration, and the End

    Studies in the European Fin de Siècle

    by Marja Härmänmaa, Christopher Nissen ...
    Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire

    Edited by Nicholas Cronk ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire œuvre. Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and made him a figurehead for a certain style of ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Gospel of Matthew

    A Hypertextual Commentary

    by Bartosz Adamczewski ...
    Series Book 16 - European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions
    This monograph presents an entirely new solution to the synoptic problem. It demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles functioned as the structure-giving hypotext for the Gospel of Matthew. Accordingly, the Gospel of Matthew is a reworking of not only the Gospel of Luke, but also, in a strictly sequential way, of the Acts of the Apostles. This strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • New Crops, Old Fields

    Reimagining Irish Folklore

    Edited by Conor Caldwell, Eamon Byers ...
    Series Book 80 - Reimagining Ireland
    From our homes to our houses of government, from our schoolyards to our stadia, from our galleries to our gable walls, folklore is not only preserved but continues to be reimagined in all aspects of everyday life in Ireland. In the twenty-first century, the traditions of Irish folklore are engaged in a constant process of regeneration, where the old and the new, the oral, the textual and the ... Read more

    $63.09 USD

  • Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community

    Strange Fraternity

    by Dr Kaoru Yamamoto ...
    Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts of Community uses Conrad's phrase 'strange fraternity' from The Rover as a starting point for an exploration of the concept of community in his writing, including his neglected vignettes and later stories. Drawing on the work of continental thinkers including Jacques Derrida, Jean Luc-Nancy and Hannah Arendt, Yamamoto offers original readings of Heart of ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Ends of Enlightenment

    by John Bender ...
    Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and an orientation to the world. Ways of probing experience and knowledge in the novel and in the ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Shakespeare in Transition

    Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic

    by M. Kostihová ...
    Series series Performance Interventions
    Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's 'cultural capital' has been evoked in the reinvention of a post-communist nation against a backdrop of political tensions surrounding the ascendance of Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union. ... Read more

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  • The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion

    Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists

    by Geoffrey A. Baker ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences of the avant-garde experimentalism versus critical realism debates from the twentieth century, Geoffrey A. Baker highlights the often violent ... Read more

    $80.09 USD