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“christopher nissen”

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  • 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

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  • Where Have You Been?

    Selected Essays

    by Michael Hofmann ...
    An adventure with a roving genius of literary criticismMichael Hofmann—poet, translator, and intellectual vagabond—has established himself as one of the keenest critics of contemporary literature. Safely nestled between the covers of Where Have You Been?, he offers a hand to guide us and an encouraging whisper in our ear, leading us on a trip through what to read, how to think, and why to like. ... Read more

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  • Theaters of Justice

    Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo

    by Yasco Horsman ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study begins with the widely publicized, historic trials of three Nazi war criminals, Eichmann, Barbie, and Priebke, whose explicit goal was not only to ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Dante: De vulgari eloquentia

    by Dante, Steven Botterill ...
    Series Book 5 - Cambridge Medieval Classics
    De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Humanist Comedy

    by Alexander Welsh ...
    For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film

    Crossroads Visions

    by Jesse Barker ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past. The works privilege sensation, movement, and emotion—rather than identity—as the core elements of existential experience. However, the works also problematize notions of ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Lycanthropy in German Literature

    by Peter Arnds ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Lycanthropy in German Literature argues that as a symbol of both power and parasitism, the human wolf of the Germanic Middle Ages is iconic to the representation of the persecution of undesirables in the German cultural imagination from the early modern age to the post-war literary scene. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

    by Corinne Saunders, David Fuller ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • John Kemble’s Gibraltar Journal

    The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831

    by E. Nye ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The summer of 1830 stirred revolutionary desires in young hearts across Europe. More than a generation of war and political instability had failed to dampen the fervor still felt from the French Revolution. In England the Cambridge Apostles took up the cause of the Spanish émigrés so movingly visible in London where they had sought refuge from the tyranny of Ferdinand VII and his suppression of ... Read more

    $49.49 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

  • On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum

    Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world’s population has been transformed into a society of refugees and émigrés seeking –indeed, demanding– an alternative way of political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World War II—and especially after 9/11— it constitutes a series of genealogical chapters that trace the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature

    New Interdisciplinary Directions

    Edited by Andrea Selleri, Philip Gaydon ...
    This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature. It features essays from internationally renowned and emerging philosophers and literary scholars, challenging readers to join them in taking seriously the notion of interdisciplinary study and forging forward in new and exciting directions of thought.It identifies that literary studies and the philosophy ... Read more

    $89.09 USD