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  • The Chapter

    A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

    by Nicholas Dames ...
    Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismShortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyA history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to todayWhy do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Amnesiac Selves

    Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870

    by Nicholas Dames ...
    With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, Amnesiac Selves shows that the Victorian novel bears no such secure relation to memory, and, in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Think in Public

    A Public Books Reader

    by Judith Butler, Fred Turner, Lilly Irani, Stacey Balkan, Imani Perry, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Nathan Connolly, Matthew Engelke, Philip Gorski, Kim Phillips-Fein, Max Holleran, Najwa al-Qattan, Jeremy Adelman, Destin Jenkins, Andrew Perrin, Kieran Setiya, Shannon Mattern, Jill Lepore, Suzy Hansen, James Vernon, Lynn French, Salamishah Tillet, Matthew Clair, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Plotz, Christopher Schaberg, Eli Rosenblatt, Barbara Cassin, Rebecca Falkoff, Haruo Shirane, Karl Ashoka Britto, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Marah Gubar, Anne E. Fernald, Namwali Serpell, Tess McNulty, Mark McGurl, Nicholas Dames, Jan Mieszkowski, Karen Dunak, Daegan Miller, John R. McNeill ...
    Series series Public Books Series
    Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Physiology of the Novel

    Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction

    by Nicholas Dames ...
    How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in the ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

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  • After Babel

    Aspects of Language and Translation

    by George Steiner ...
    "A brilliant work . . . A dazzling meditation on the very nature of language itself" from the world-renowned scholar and author of The Poetry of Thought ( Kirkus Reviews).In his classic work, literary critic and scholar George Steiner tackles what he considers the Babel "problem": Why, over the course of history, have humans developed thousands of different languages when the social, material, and ... Read more

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  • Two Cultures?

    The Significance of C. P. Snow

    by F. R. Leavis ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as cultural criticism. The edition will enable new generations of readers to understand what was at stake in the dispute and to appreciate the enduring relevance of Leavis's attack on the goal of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Gutenberg Galaxy

    by Marshall McLuhan ...
    The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before.Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since, predicting as he did the dramatic technological innovations that have fundamentally changed how we ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Susan Sellers ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Women and Romance

    The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel

    by Laurie Langbauer ...
    Series series Reading Women Writing
    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues ... Read more

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  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    "An award-winning translator describes and defends his profession. . . . Ultimately illuminating, even transformative." — Kirkus Reviews"Dazzingly inventive." — New York Times Book Review , A Notable Book of the Year"A richly original cultural history." — The Economist , A Book ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Theorists of the Modernist Novel

    James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf

    by Deborah Parsons ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention to their work on:forms of realismcharacters and consciousnessgender and the noveltime and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD