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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michelle witen”
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  • Modernism in Wonderland

    Legacies of Lewis Carroll

    Edited by John D. Morgenstern, Dr Michelle Witen ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    Retracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll's fictions, this book demonstrates the full extent of Carroll's legacy in literary modernism. Testing the authority of language and mediation through extensive word-play and genre-bending, the Alice books undoubtedly prefigure literary modernism at its upmost ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Space

    Theatrical Explorations of the Spatial Paradigm

    Edited by Ina Habermann, Michelle Witen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection offers an overview of the ways in which space has become relevant to the study of Shakespearean drama and theatre. It distinguishes various facets of space, such as structural aspects of dramatic composition, performance space and the evocation of place, linguistic, social and gendered spaces, early modern geographies, and the impact of theatrical mobility on cultural exchange and ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • James Joyce and Absolute Music

    by Dr Michelle Witen ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    Drawing on draft manuscripts and other archival material, James Joyce and Absolute Music, explores Joyce's deep engagement with musical structure, and his participation in the growing modernist discourse surrounding 19th-century musical forms. Michelle Witen examines Joyce's claim of having structured the “Sirens” episode of his masterpiece, Ulysses, as a fuga per canonem, and his changing musical ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Hard Times (Illustrated by Harry French + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

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  • The Deep Zoo

    Essays

    by Rikki Ducornet ...
    Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep ... Read more

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  • Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres

    Edited by Karin Aijmer, Diana Lewis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based contrastive research including more languages, more genres and different types of corpora. This is the first special issue of the Yearbook of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Long Life

    by Helen Small ...
    The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee. Helen Small argues that if we want to understand ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The End of the World

    Contemporary Philosophy and Art

    Edited by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback, Susanna Lindberg ...
    Series series Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
    The 'end of the world' opens up philosophical questions concerning the very notion of the world, which is a fundamental element of all existential, phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophy. Is the 'end of the world' for us 'somebody's' death (the end of 'being-in-the-world') or the extinction of many or of all (the end of the world itself)? Is the erosion of the 'world' a phenomenon that does ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Joyce's Love Stories

    by Christopher DeVault ...
    In his comprehensive study of love in James Joyce's writings, Christopher DeVault suggests that a love ethic persists throughout Joyce's works. DeVault uses Martin Buber's distinction between the true love for others and the narcissistic desire for oneself to frame his discussion, showing that Joyce frequently ties his characters' personal and political pursuits to their ability to affirm both ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Women and Murder in Early Modern News Pamphlets and Broadside Ballads, 1573-1697

    Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women, Series III, Part One, Volume 7

    by Randall Martin ...
    Series Book 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women Series III
    As voyeuristic and prurient as today's tabloid newspapers, early modern crime pamphlets and broadside ballads about women murderers tell of furtive love affairs and domestic poisonings, of battered wives who kill their abusive husbands, and of troubled mothers who murder their children. On first acquaintance, many pamphlets leave an impression of shallow sensationalism yoked to idealised ... Read more

    $233.99 USD