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  • Late Modernist Style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas

    by P. Fifield ...
    Series series New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
    Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms.Oscar Wilde's only novel tells the story of Dorian Gray, a vain man so obsessed with his hedonistic lifestyle he is willing to sell his soul. Ensuring that a portrait of himself will age while he remains youthful, Dorian pursues a life of debauchery, but his actions soon ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

    by Hendrik Groen ...
    Translated by Hester Velmans ...
    Series Book 1 - Hendrik Groen
    In this #1 international bestseller, an old man who is young at heart proves that life doesn't stop once you enter a nursing home, perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove.Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is elderly. But at age 83 and one quarter, this feisty curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted geraniums, exasperated by the indignities of aging, Hendrik has ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

    by Todd Kontje ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Mann (1875–1955) is not only one of the leading German novelists of the twentieth century, but also one of the few to transcend national and language boundaries to achieve major stature in the English-speaking world. Famous from the time that he published his first novel in 1901, Mann became an iconic figure, seen as the living embodiment of German national culture. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Bourgeois

    Between History and Literature

    by Franco Moretti ...
    "I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today?Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery of individual portraits is entwined around the analysis of specific keywords – such as ‘useful’ and ‘earnest’, ‘efficiency’ ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Nancy Cunard

    Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

    by Lois Gordon ...
    Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history."Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel

    Edited by Malcolm V. Jones, Robin Feuer Miller ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film

    by Matthew Boswell ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900

    Edited by Brian H. Murray, Mary Henes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Georg Trakl's Poetry

    Toward a Union of Opposites

    by Richard Detsch ...
    The chaotic mixture of elements in Trakl's poems is more apparent than real, this book argues, thus challenging the "Orphic" view of Walther Killy and his followers. A dream of unity—one of the most ancient dreams in human history—is in fact reflected in all of Trakl's work.The recurring themes in Trakl's poetry are brought into focus through Dr. Detsch's literary, psychological, and philosophical ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Lyotard Reframed

    Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

    by Graham Jones ...
    Series series Contemporary Thinkers Reframed
    Lyotard's claims concerning the postmodern have often been misunderstood or misrepresented. Lyotard Reframed provides an analysis of Lyotard's most influential writings on the postmodern alongside a detailed commentary on his broader philosophy, demonstrating and clarifying his work's ongoing relevance to creative endeavour and debates concerning the value and significance of the visual arts. It ... Read more

    $19.99 USD