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  • Freedom and Confinement in Modernity

    Kafka's Cages

    Edited by A. Kordela, D. Vardoulakis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity instead. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edited by Nicholas Saul ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Texture of Culture

    An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory

    by A. Semenenko ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In this introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most innovative theorists of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman, offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy by conceptualizing his ideas in modern context and presenting them as a useful tool of cultural analysis. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel

    Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne

    by Przemysław Uściński ...
    Series Book 22 - Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
    Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the insane by mocking, distorting and deconstructing multiple discourses, genres, modes and methods of representation. This book traces ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Early Modern Women in Conversation

    by K. Larson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders

    by N. Pireddu ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Dante

    Edited by Rachel Jacoff ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This 2007 second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Dante is designed to provide an accessible introduction to Dante for students, teachers and general readers. The volume was fully updated and includes three new essays on Dante's works. The suggestions for further reading now include secondary works and translations as well as online resources. The essays cover Dante's early works and their ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas

    by P. Fifield ...
    Series series New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
    Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Amorous Restoration

    Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France

    by Andrew J. Counter ...
    When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they lived at a historical turning point, a transitional moment whose outcome, though still uncertain, would transform the French way of life- ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Performing the 'New' Europe

    Identities, Feelings and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest

    Edited by K. Fricker, M. Gluhovic ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This fascinating and lively volume makes the case that the Eurovision Song Contest is an arena for European identification in which both national solidarity and participation in a European identity are confirmed, and a site where cultural struggles over the meanings, frontiers and limits of Europe are enacted. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic

    Essays on the Aesthetics, Literature, and Politics of Transatlantic Cultures

    Edited by Tania Gentic, Francisco LaRubia-Prado ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches, the volume encourages debate on whether the critical lens of imperialism often invoked to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Motherhood in Literature and Culture

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe

    Edited by Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, Abigail Lee Six ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, and it considers how such representations affect the ways in which different individuals and groups negotiate ... Read more

    $63.99 USD