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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david brauner”
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  • Howard Jacobson

    by David Brauner, Daniel Lea ...
    Series series Contemporary British Novelists
    This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson’s novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction. Focusing on the themes of comedy, masculinity and Jewishness, the book emphasises the richness and diversity of Jacobson ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction

    Edited by David Brauner ...
    Series series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

    $190.99 USD

  • Roth after Eighty

    Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination

    by David Brauner, Alex Calder, Amy Gelbart, Aurélie Guillain, Patrick Hayes, Catherine Morley, Ira Nadel, Adam Zachary Newton, Mark Shechner, Debra Shostak, Claudia Franziska Brühwiler ...
    Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth’s retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy.This collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way. Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars in the field of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Philip Roth

    by David Brauner ...
    Series series Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
    This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author alongside a number of his contemporaries, and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer who constantly reinvents himself in surprising ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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    The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and a succinct account of the early stages of the Roman occupation, nearly fatally undermined ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome

    Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

    by Christopher Pelling, Maria Wyke ...
    Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Maxine Hong Kingston

    by Helena Grice ...
    Series series Contemporary World Writers
    Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular -- and controversial -- writers in the Asian American literary tradition. In this volume Grice traces Kingston's development as a writer and cultural activist through both ethnic and feminist discourses, investigating her novels, occasional writings and her two-book 'life ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fire Alarm

    Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'

    by Michael Lowy ...
    Translated by Chris Turner ...
    This illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopherRevolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism—Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an “unclassifiable” philosopher. His essay “On the Concept of History” was written in a state of urgency, as he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Chinese Festivals - Ancient China Life, Myth and Art | Children's Ancient History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Festivals give life to any society. They reflect the way of life, myth and art. In this ancient history book for kids, we’re going to dive into some of the most celebrated Chinese festivals. It is hoped that through this book, children will see festivals as more than just parties and colors. They’re also reflections of cultures too. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Selections from Ovid Amores II

    An Edition for Intermediate Students

    Series series Bloomsbury Classical Languages
    This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Ovid's Amores. Poems2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.10, 2.12 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately limited number of poems, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the interest of Ovid's other work ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors

    Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800

    by Jonathan Karam Skaff ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • How Strange the Change

    Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms

    by Marc Caplan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    In this book, Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of nineteenth-century Yiddish literature and twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them. These literatures were created under imperial regimes that brought ... Read more

    $67.49 USD