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  • Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context

    by Muireann Maguire ...
    Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian literature as symbolic capital for international readers, in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and political leverage in the so-called ‘World Republic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Translating Great Russian Literature

    The Penguin Russian Classics

    by Cathy McAteer ...
    Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of which reputation resonates right up to the present day. Through an analysis of the individuals involved ... Read more

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  • In Defence of History

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    "A lucid, muscular, and often sly reflection" on the worth and purpose of historical scholarship by the award-winning author of The Third Reich Trilogy ( Kirkus).In this volume, the renowned historian Richard J. Evans offers a fervent and deeply insightful defense of his craft and its importance to civilization. At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault, Evans shows ... Read more

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  • The Murder of Professor Schlick

    The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

    by David Edmonds ...
    From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Russian Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Catriona Kelly ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either through the texts themselves, or encountering them in the cinema, or opera. Rather than a conventional chronology of Russian literature, the book will explore the place and importance of literature of all sorts in Russian culture. How and when did a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • When Reason Goes on Holiday

    Philosophers in Politics

    by Neven Sesardic ...
    Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usually inject a dose of rationality in these discussions, right?Wrong. This book gives a lot of examples showing the unexpected level of political irrationality among leading contemporary philosophers. The body of the book presents a detailed analysis of extreme ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein

    by Edward Kanterian ...
    Series Book 13 - Critical Lives
    Ludwig Wittgenstein, writes noted scholar Edward Kanterian, was a ‘philosopher’s philosopher’. He was one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy and is regarded as the greatest philosophical genius since Immanuel Kant. In this book, Kanterian traces the complex relationship between the philosopher’s life, his work and his time. The author describes Wittgenstein’s eventful life, his numerous ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Auden Generation

    by Samuel Hynes ...
    This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell

    A Reassessment

    by Stephen Ingle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between politics and literature and in adversarial (two party) politics, especially in the UK. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Modernism

    by Peter Childs ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Modernist movements radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and their effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution.In this fully updated, expanded, and revised third edition, charting modernism in its global and local contexts, Peter Childs:details the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

    Edited by Morag Shiach ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. No one technique or style defines a novel as modernist. Instead, these essays explain the formal innovations, stylistic preferences and thematic concerns ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

    Edited by Stan Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden ... Read more

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