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  • Middlebrow Literary Cultures

    The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960

    Edited by E. Brown, M. Grover ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Campoamor, Spain, and the World

    by Ronald Hilton ...
    Series series Heritage
    Like the fame of Pardo-Bazán, the reputation of Campoamor has suffered a rapid decline. The renown of the poet was flimsier and more ephermal than that of Spain's most notable woman writer. It contained more enthusiasm and less respect. Most of his prose works and many of his dramas died young, whereas Dõna Emilia's infinitely more copious production was uniformly living and vigorous . The ... Read more

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  • The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947

    by S. Ercolino ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity. ... Read more

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  • Tasso's art and afterlives

    The Gerusalemme liberata in England

    by Jason Lawrence ...
    This interdisciplinary study examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death to the end of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the lasting impact of his once famous poem Gerusalemme liberata across a spectrum of arts, it aims to stimulate a revival of interest in a neglected poetic masterpiece ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Conrad

    Paradoxes of Empire

    by Terry Collits ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’, are highly significant for the field of post-colonial studies.Drawing on many years of research and a rich body of ... Read more

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  • Joseph Conrad Today

    by Kieron O'Hara ...
    Series Book 46 - Societas
    This book argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad’s work speaks directly to us in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad’s scepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping our history are important tools for understanding the political world in which we live. He is prepared to face a future where progress is not inevitable, ... Read more

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  • Integration of the Self and Awareness (ISA) in Learning and Teaching

    A case study of French adult students learning English the Silent Way

    by Patricia Benstein ...
    The successful acquisition of a second or foreign language requires focus, motivation, and positive feedback. This case study of French adult students of English illustrates that Gattegno’s Silent Way is more than a teaching methodology. It is a science of education that integrates the self and awareness in the learning and teaching processes. This integration facilitates the personal evolution of ... Read more

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  • Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England

    by D. McInnis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment

    Edited by Daniel Brewer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age of reason' of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, is marked by attempts to place knowledge on new foundations. The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment brings together essays by leading ... Read more

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  • The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment

    by Anton M. Matytsin ...
    Enlightenment confidence in the power of human reason was earned by grappling with the challenge of philosophical skepticism.The ancient Greek philosophy of Pyrrhonian skepticism spread across a wide spectrum of disciplines in the 1600s, casting a shadow over the European learned world. The early modern skeptics expressed doubt concerning the existence of an objective reality independent of human ... Read more

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  • Portrait Stories

    by Michal Peled Ginsburg ...
    What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer ... Read more

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