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  • The Plague Years

    Reflecting on Pandemics

    Edited by Michael Titlestad, Karl van Wyk, Grace A. Musila ...
    The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of the COVID-19 and other pandemics. These are placed alongside poetry and short fiction written in the first two years of quarantine or isolation. This range expresses the intellectual and imaginative struggle and ingenuity entailed in coming to terms with the rampant spread of disease ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth

    by Michael Titlestad ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of two centuries and their legacies. Michael Titlestad points to a range of narrative conventions, literary tropes and questions ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

    Edited by Michael Titlestad, David Watson ...
    The world keeps turning to apocalypticism. Time is imagined as proceeding ineluctably to a catastrophic, perhaps revelatory conclusion. Even when evacuated of distinctly religious content, a broadly ecclesial structure persists in conceptions of our precarious life and our collective journey to an inevitable fate—the extinction of the human species. It is commonly believed that we are propelled ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Mistress’s Dog

    Short Stories (1996 - 2010)

    by David Medalie ...
    The Mistress’s Dog is an engaging collection of twelve short stories by David Medalie, including two award winners – ‘Recognition’ and ‘The Mistress’s Dog’ – and a Foreword and afterword by Michael Titlestad.Deft, subtle and nuanced, Medalie’s stories show an accomplished and mature writer at his best. Their focus is the lived experience of people: ostensibly uneventful lives into which the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Global Perspectives on the United States

    Pro-Americanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Discourses Between

    by Jane C Desmond, Andrzej Antoszek, Sophia Balakian, Zsófia Bán, Sabine Bröck, Ian Condry, Kate Delaney, Virginia R. Dominguez, Ira Dworkin0, Richard Ellis1, Guillermo Ibarra2, Seyed Mohammad Marandi3, Giorgio Mariani4, Ana Mauad5, Loes Nas6, Edward Schatz7, Manar Shorbagy8, Kristin Solli9, Amy Spellacy0, Michael Titlestad1 ...
    Series series Global Studies of the United States
    This daring collaborative effort showcases dialogues between international scholars engaged with the United States from abroad. The writers investigate the analytic methods and choices that label certain talk, images, behaviors, and allusions as "American" and how to read the data on such material. The editors present the essays in pairs that overlap in theme or region. Each author subsequently ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    by Suzannah Lipscomb, Helen Carr ...
    This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and emerging voices, this is the history book we need NOW.WHAT ... Read more

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  • How to Be Good

    by Nick Hornby ...
    A wise and hilarious novel morality and what it means to be a "goof person" from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Just Like you, Funny Girl and High Fidelity.A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a woman who, confronted by her husband’s sudden and extreme spiritual conversion, is forced to learn “how to be good”—whatever that means, and for better ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Bookworm

    A Memoir of Childhood Reading

    by Lucy Mangan ...
    **A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Wonderland to Narnia.When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.**She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She ... Read more

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  • At the Hairdresser's

    by Anita Brookner ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is a poignant novella from Anita Brookner.'I rather hope I shall die at the hairdresser's, for they are bound to know what to do. At least that is what I tell myself.'Solitude is a familiar burden for Elizabeth Warner. She lives in a ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

    Essays

    by Jenny Diski ...
    Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise' Emilia Clarke'She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be' New YorkerJenny Diski was a fearless writer, for w... ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing brings together specialists from anthropology, history, literary and cultural studies to offer a broad and vibrant introduction to travel writing in English between 1500 and the present. This comprehensive introduction to the subject features specially commissioned contributions, including six essays surveying the period's travel writing; a further six ... Read more

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  • The Triumph of Human Empire

    Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

    by Rosalind Williams ...
    In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Bacon's make-believe ... Read more

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