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  • Regard for the Other

    Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde

    by E.S. Burt ...
    Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to write its death. The I-dominated ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • The Gothic Wanderer

    From Transgression to Redemption; Gothic Literature from 1794 - present

    by Tyler R. Tichelaar ...
    The Gothic Wanderer Rises Eternal in Popular LiteratureFrom the horrors of sixteenth century Italian castles to twenty-first century plagues, from the French Revolution to the liberation of Libya, Tyler R. Tichelaar takes readers on far more than a journey through literary history. The Gothic Wanderer is an exploration of man's deepest fears, his efforts to rise above them for the last two ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund

    A Memoir of Interwar Poland

    by Bernard Goldstein, Marvin S. Zuckerman ...
    Series series Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
    Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different view of life in prewar Poland than the one usually portrayed. As such, the book offers a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Literature of Al-Andalus

    Edited by María Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Michael Sells ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
    The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the Christian conquest when Arabic continued to be widely used. The volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture including ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • The Novel in German since 1990

    Edited by Stuart Taberner ...
    Diversity is one of the defining characteristics of contemporary German-language literature, not just in terms of the variety of authors writing in German today, but also in relation to theme, form, technique and style. However, common themes emerge: the Nazi past, transnationalism, globalisation, migration, religion and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and identity. This book presents the novel ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Why is English Literature?

    Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century

    by T. Bonfiglio ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Irony and the Discourse of Modernity

    by Ernst Behler ...
    Behler discusses the current state of thought on modernity and postmodernity, detailing the intellectual problems to be faced and examining the positions of such central figures in the debate as Lyotard, Habermas, Rorty, and Derrida. He finds that beyond the “limits of communication,” further discussion must be carried out through irony.The historical rise of the concept of modernity is examined ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature

    Edited by Serina Patterson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix «be-» in Prose Texts

    A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency

    by Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska ...
    Series Book 50 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    This book offers the first comprehensive study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs combining the prefix «be-» with a preposition, an adverb or a numeral recorded in prose texts. Six best established lexemes, i.e., «before, beyond, behind, beneath, between» and«betwixt»are analysed. The investigated aspects include the semantics of the prepositions and adverbs, their dialectal and textual ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Arbitrary Power

    Romanticism, Language, Politics

    by William Keach ...
    Series series Literature in History
    This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of ... Read more

    $70.59 USD

  • Listening to Trauma

    Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience

    Interviews and intimate photographic portraits of witnesses to the collective and cultural significance of trauma.This new collection from Cathy Caruth features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Crossing the boundaries of discipline and profession, Caruth’s subjects include literary ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race

    Black Female Trickster’s Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature

    by Yomna Saber ...
    Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules’ breakers, crude creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the canon is replete with tricksters who throw dust in the eyes of their dupes and end up victoriously. But what if the trickster is African American? And a ... Read more

    $52.89 USD