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  • Michael Ondaatje

    by Lee Spinks ...
    Series series Contemporary World Writers
    Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje’s entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje’s beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, drawing attention to the various contexts and intertexts ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    by Lee Spinks ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    It is difficult to imagine a world without common sense, the distinction between truth and falsehood, the belief in some form of morality or an agreement that we are all human. But Friedrich Nietzsche did imagine such a world, and his work has become a crucial point of departure for contemporary critical theory and debate. This volume introduces this key thinker to students of literary and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    An Inquiry into the Value of Work

    by Matthew B. Crawford ...
    **A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands“This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving.” —Richard Sennett, author of The Craftsman**Called “the sleeper hit of the publishing season” by The Boston Globe, Shop Class as ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Translation as Discovery and Other essays on Indian Literature in English Translation

    by Sujit Mukherjee ...
    The wide-ranging essays presented in this book deal more with the practical than with the theoretical aspects of translation. The emphasis throughout is on the element of discovery inherent in the making as well as in the reading of translations. The author states that translation is necessary to any developed literary culture, and argues that translation into English has made it possible for an ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Culinary Fictions

    Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture

    by Anita Mannur ...
    For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted. Culinary Fictions provides food for thought as it considers the metaphors literature, film, and TV shows use to describe Indians abroad. When an immigrant mother in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake combines Rice ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Wisdom of Gibran

    by Philosophical Library, Joseph Sheban ...
    Series series Wisdom
    An A-to-Z guide to the mystic poet's maxims and aphorismsAn early twentieth-century Lebanese-American writer, Khalil Gibran instilled his poetry and art with his experiences in both the East and West. This selection of quotes, maxims, and aphorisms is drawn from such poems as "Secrets of the Heart," "Spirits Rebellious," and "Broken Wings," as well as from his autobiography and essays. Gibran's ... Read more

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  • Principles of Philosophy

    by René Descartes ...
    Principles of Philosophy was written in Latin by René Descartes. Published in 1644, it was intended to replace Aristotle's philosophy and traditional Scholastic Philosophy. This volume contains a letter of the author to the French translator of the Principles of Philosophy serving for a Preface and a letter to the most serene princess, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Frederick, King of Bohemia, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Stereotype

    South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

    by Mrinalini Chakravorty ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML)

    Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2017)

    by Harle Rob ...
    International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) Volume 7 Number 1 (January 2017)ISSN 2231-6248.Highlights includeTransgressive Gender Discourse in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe’ by Seema Bansal Somani & Rohit PhutelaThe Poetic Art and Vision of Wole Soyinka by C. RamyaDisplacement and Morality in Sunetra Gupta’s The Memories of Rain by Ruby Vaneesa and S. Ayyappa RajaA Feminist Analysis of ... Read more

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  • Riddles of Belonging

    India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession

    by Christi A. Merrill ...
    Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at what traditions often keep hidden-whether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought sex change.Herself a skilled translator, Merrill uses these examples to investigate the expectation that translated work ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • The Devil in Modern Philosophy

    by Ernest Gellner ...
    The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America. ... Read more

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  • Star of Love

    by Christopher G. Moore ...
    This story is one of sixteen stories from CHAIRS.In Star of Love Christopher G. Moore and Barney Rosset spend an afternoon in Patpong discussing literature and authors. They discuss how literary destiny would have changed had Henry Miller gone to Bangkok rather than Paris. Tropic of Cancer would have been a different book. In this memorable encounter, the question of chance and randomness are in ... Read more

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