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  • Melville’s Philosophies

    Edited by Professor Branka Arsic, Dr. K. L. Evans ...
    Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Documentary Film

    by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay, Noël Carroll, Stanley Cavell, Gregory Currie, William Day, Keith Dromm, K. L. Evans, Michael Fried, Elan Gamaker0, Dan Geva1, Tom Gunning2, Werner Herzog3, Selmin Kara4, Scott MacDonald5, Bill Nichols6, Claudia Pederson7, V. F. Perkins8, Vivian Sobchack9, Lars von Trier0, Thomas Vinterberg1, Charles Warren2, Bernadette Wegenstein3, Linda Williams4, Mieke Bal5, Karen D. Hoffman6, Jennifer L. McMahon7, Patricia R. Zimmermann8, Erika9, David LaRocca1, :Prof. Carl Plantinga3, William Rothman4 ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen studies, cognitive cultural studies, narratology, philosophy, poetics, politics, and political ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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    Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

    by Harold Bloom ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • On Poets and Others

    Translated by Michael Schmidt ...
    by Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • Multilingualism and Modernity

    Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature

    by Laura Lonsdale ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the conventional bounds of modernism to become emblematic of the modern age. The book explores the confluence of multilingualism and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Excursions with Thoreau

    Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

    by Professor Edward F. Mooney ...
    Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious.Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Shock and Awe

    American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, providing a fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary. Spanos insists that Twain identifies with his protagonist, particularly in his defining use of the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Fifty Years after Faulkner

    Edited by Jay Watson, Ann J. Abadie ...
    Series series Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series
    Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Michael P. Bibler, Deborah Clarke, David A. Davis, David M. Earle, Jason D. Fichtel, Elizabeth Fielder, Joseph Fruscione, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Patrick E. Horn, Cheryl Lester, Jessica Martell, Sharon Monteith, Richard C. Moreland, Alan Nadel, Julie Beth Napolin, François Pitavy, Ramón Saldívar, Hortense J. Spillers, Terrell L. Tebbetts, Zackary Vernon, Randall ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence

    by Jessica Hooten Wilson ...
    Series series Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
    Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence, Jessica Hooten Wilson details the long career of Walker Percy. Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and ... Read more

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  • The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma

    by Dr Meera Atkinson ...
    The first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and financial crisis, climate change, epidemics of family violence, violence toward women, addiction, neo-colonialism, continuing racial and religious conflict. While traumas involving large-scale or historical violence are widely represented in trauma theory, familial ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Hemispheric Imaginations

    North American Fictions of Latin America

    by Helmbrecht Breinig ...
    What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? ... Read more

    $7.19 USD