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“eric p levy”

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  • Detaining Time

    Temporal Resistance in Literature from Shakespeare to McEwan

    by Eric P. Levy ...
    Detaining Time is the first book to investigate the representation of time in literature in terms of the project to reconceptualize time, so that its movement no longer threatens security. Focusing on the nature, consequences, and resolution of resistance to temporal passage, Eric P. Levy offers detailed and probing close readings, enriched by thorough yet engaging explication and application of ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • All Things Considered

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    All Things Considered G. K. Chesterton - All Things Considered by G. K. Chesterton is a collection of essays dealing with various topics, such as human nature, current affairs, science and religion. It is a highly entertaining and insightful compilation of musings on a wide variety of topics. All Things Considered is a collection of essays about odds-and-ends of the era. His first essay is on the ... Read more

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  • Castaway Tales

    From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi

    by Christopher Palmer ...
    A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the presentEver since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes ... Read more

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  • The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace

    Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

    by Professor Adam S. Miller ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is the first book to explore key religious themes - from boredom to addiction, and distraction – in the work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary novelists.In a series of short, topic-focussed chapters, the bookjoins a selection of key scenes from Wallace's novels Infinite Jest and The Pale King with clear explanations of how they contribute ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Cloud of Nothingness

    The Negative Way in Nagarjuna and John of the Cross

    by C. D. Sebastian ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores ‘nothingness’, the negative way found in Buddhist and Christian traditions, with a focused and comparative approach. It examines the works of Nagarjuna (c. 150 CE), a Buddhist monk, philosopher and one of the greatest thinkers of classical India, and those of John of the Cross (1542-1591), a Carmelite monk, outstanding Spanish poet, and one of the greatest mystical theologians. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Roberto Bolaño as World Literature

    Edited by Professor Nicholas Birns, Professor Juan E. De Castro ...
    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century. But this anthology also shows how Roberto Bolaño's participation in ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper

    An English Genre and Discourse

    by Richard Terry ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern English Literature
    Mock-heroic is the exemplary genre of the English Augustan era: it is one of the few genres that the Augustans invented themselves, and it stands in a symbolic relation to a culture still reverential of the grandeurs of the classical past and uneasy about its ability to emulate them. Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper shows the protean nature of mock-epic at this time. It recounts the rise of mock ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Philosophical Walking Tour with C. S. Lewis

    Why it Did Not Include Rome

    by Professor Stewart Goetz ...
    Although it has been almost seventy years since Time declared C.S. Lewis one of the world's most influential spokespersons for Christianity and fifty years since Lewis's death, his influence remains just as great if not greater today.While much has been written on Lewis and his work, virtually nothing has been written from a philosophical perspective on his views of happiness, pleasure, pain, and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art

    Studies in Scatology

    Edited by Jeff Persels, Russell Ganim ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus - unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the relative academic neglect of the copious and ubiquitous scatological rhetoric of Early Modern Europe, here ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Reimagining the Transatlantic, 1780-1890

    by Joselyn M. Almeida ...
    In her thought-provoking study of Britain's relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean during the Romantic and Victorian periods, Joselyn M. Almeida makes a compelling case for extending the critical boundaries of current transatlantic and circumatlantic scholarship. She proposes the pan-Atlantic as a critical model that encompasses Britain's relationship to the non-Anglophone Americas ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660–1714

    Political Pornography and Prostitution

    by Melissa M. Mowry ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution to a provocative interdisciplinary conversation about an important and influential sub genre: seventeenth-century political pornography. This book further advances our understanding of pornography's importance in seventeenth-century England by extending its investigation beyond the realm of cultural rhetoric into the realm of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture

    Edited by Sharon Ouditt ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    This lively and intellectually vigorous conspectus of studies approaches the subject of exile from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The contributions to this volume give due attention to the twentieth century migratory phenomena, theorised by Edward Said, Julia Kristeva and Salman Rushdie. They also show that the discourse and experience of exile is not the stuff of modernity alone. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD